![]() ![]() Even 50 years in, hip-hop is still no country for old men. He granted a lineage of ATLiens permission to run amok with melodic, sing-songy rhyme styles that would earn them the same early derision and eventual mass following he'd gained.Īging gracefully is not a luxury afforded most rappers. Like Coltrane reaching for new heights, he mastered rap's rigidity, pushed it past its limits and eventually reconfigured the entire landscape alongside Big Boi. Even without a solo rap album in his catalog, he's consistently ranked among the greatest of all time. ![]() The painstaking standard André 3000 set may have made it harder to entertain himself in the years post-OutKast, but so has the thought of chasing his tail. In place of lyrics, he offers eight provocative song titles, the first of which almost reads like a lowkey apology, with a wink of irony: "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time." What he does do is play flute, and plenty of it - contrabass flute, Mayan flutes, bamboo flutes - along with other digital wind instruments. André doesn't sing on this joint, either. One thing it is not, however, is a rap record: No bars, no beats, no sub-bass. 17 - is a stunning 87-minute mind-bender, minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent. For the first time in over 17 years, André 3000 is releasing an album of new music. ![]()
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