Pharrell offers hope to André 3000 rapping once more: “He’s going to be back”

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André 3000 has just lately turned his consideration away from hip-hop in favour of the jazz area, because of his love for enjoying the flute. Regardless of his lack of output as a rapper as of late, Pharrell believes he’ll return to hip-hop as soon as once more when the time is correct.

Throughout a current interview with GQ, the Virginia rapper known as Three Stacks one of many biggest rappers of all time and claimed he simply wants “time” to get again to spitting once more. In actual fact, he thinks he’ll return higher than ever earlier than.

“He’s going to be back,” he mentioned. “That feeling finds you—you can’t run from it. He not running, he just saying he not going to force it. What you love about him was when he was compelled. It’ll be back. And when it does, he’s going to come in hot.”

Pharrell collaborated with André 3000 on ‘Rollinem 7’s’ in 2017 for his N.E.R.D album NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES. The collaboration nearly didn’t occur because of 3000 disliking his unique verse; though the producer understood the place he was coming from, he “didn’t give a shit.” He then got here again with one other verse, which is what we hear within the remaining model.

André 3000 launched his debut solo album, New Blue Solar, in November 2023, which served as an instrumental undertaking. The album just lately gained recognition from the Grammys, being nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Best Alternative Jazz Album’ forward of the 2025 ceremony.

The Atlanta rapper is so conscious of followers wanting a hip-hop album from him that he named the album’s opening monitor ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album however This Is Actually the Manner the Wind Blew Me This Time’. Talking to GQ, André 3000 defined that writing raps doesn’t come naturally to him anymore because of feeling like he doesn’t have something fascinating to say.

“I get beats all the time. I try to write all the time. But rap is not what comes,” he mentioned. “Even now people think, ‘Oh, man, he’s just sitting on raps,’ or, ‘He’s just holding these raps hostage.’ I ain’t got no raps like that. Sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about in that way. I’m 48 years old. And not to say that age is a thing that dictates what you rap about, but in a way it does.”

The look forward to a brand new Andre 3000 album continues.

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