So I was like, Maybe, so my conscience feels good, let me try to find an address for Anita and send her a little check. And it’ll be a joke, like, “Anita, I just bought these shirts, I feel bad about it, here’s $50.” Then I started thinking, Wouldn’t it be great to design a line of Anita Baker tees and present the line andre 3000 sober to Anita? Yeah, shitty heat-transfer shirts.Right, it feels like this big piece of wood on your chest. So it’s like, “Man, this clearly has to be bootleg.” I felt bad about it, because it’s like, I know Anita ain’t got shit to do with these shirts. Trapped.Yeah, and it started to bleed over into my normal life.
The-Dream Serenaded On The Main Stage
- Now, 17 years after becoming a solo act, André is gearing up to share some new music.
- “So when you look up at the sky in these times, there’ll be this larger globe of bluish, still bright but bluish because it’s cooler. It’s kind of like this whole album and this whole direction is a new world for me.”
- I don’t like it at all because, yeah, it’s art.
You gotta understand, I’ve only written one check in my life. When I was 17, they still had checkbooks, and my mom taught me how to write a check and do my balance. So I had one check on my balance, and then OutKast took off.
Rappers Who Are Drug-Free
J. Cole is a prime example of using the glamorization of drug use to fuel the commercial side of music. He raps about drug use to relate to a specific market but says in his personal life it’s really not for him. The secret reality of OutKast is that while Big Boi was “street,” and you guys were marketed as “the player and the poet,” he’s always been super on it.Big Boi is smart as fuck. When you watch early OutKast videos, Big Boi’s the leader.
- We also actually have an album of affirmations as well, but that’ll come out later.
- “I tried pretty much every drug there was to try, except for heroin and crack. I was out there.” Although he lives a sober lifestyle today, he doesn’t consider drinking as a sin.
- In March, Future and Metro Boomin jointly released another No.1 album, We Don’t Trust You.
- Read on for some of the ways that 1994’s debut records demonstrated what was happening in rap at the time, and showed us the way forward.
- Just naturally, as I grew as a person, I just would figure out how to not let stuff bother me.
The Love Below
“I don’t do drugs. Period.” Joe Budden proclaimed in a 2013 interview with ThisIs50.com. “Some people can function [with drugs], I’m just dysfunctional and self-destructive,” the Slaughterhouse rapper explained. In his past, Budden has struggled with an addiction to MDMA.
- I don’t want to meet anybody’s parents.
- Names such as the Notorious B.I.G., who grew up with Jay-Z, as well as Nipsey Hussle were shared on screen as DJ D-Nice and Doug E. Fresh paid respect to the legions of rappers who passed before hip-hop’s 50th.
- Yeah, I mean, a curse can also be a gift.
Everything We Know About André 3000’s New Album ‘New Blue Sun’
