André 3000

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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André 3000 is one of the greatest rappers to ever grace a microphone. He is, of course, one half of the Grammy winning rap group Outkast. Between the years of 1995 and 2006, he and his partner Big Boi released some of the most iconic rap records of all time. Late last year André released an album called New Blue Sun. It's an ambient spiritual jazz record where André plays the flute. He just kicked off a Fall tour in support of the album. We are beyond thrilled to have André 3000 join us on the show to talk about his recent album. He also gets into where he currently stands on rapping. Plus, he shares with us what his time working in the fashion world was like.

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0:22.0	and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullsey High. I'm Jesse Thorne. The 1995 Source Awards were held in New York City at the Paramount Theater.
0:46.2	They were The Big Awards in Hip Hop.
0:49.3	It was an intense scene.
0:51.3	Tensions were simmering between the East Coast and the West Coast.
0:54.0	Snoop Dog, one best solo artist, the Wu Tang Clan, one best group.
0:59.0	Best new solo artist went to the notorious BIG who beat out Warren G.
1:05.2	But when the Best New Group Award was announced,
1:08.5	it wasn't a New York Act or won from LA. It was Outcast from Atlanta, Georgia. As they walked up to the podium, the booze
1:18.2	were loud enough that you could hear them on the TV broadcast. The two of them stepped up to the microphone and Big Boy
1:25.6	deferred to his partner, Andre. But it's like this though. I'm tired of folks, you know what I'm saying?
1:34.0	Then we closed mind the folks, you know what I'm saying?
1:35.7	It's like we got a demo tape it on nobody to hear,
1:37.7	but it's like this the South got something to say,
1:39.3	that's all I got to say.
1:40.8	It was a moment that changed hip-hop forever. It essentially moved the center of
1:45.4	rap from Los Angeles and New York City to the ATL where it's remained ever since and
1:51.1	it launched two high school friends into the hip-hop firmament.
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