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André 3000’s new album drops on Friday, 17 years since Outkast break-up.
This Friday marks the release of André 3000’s latest solo album. He has revealed that plays the flute on eight of the tracks on the album, New Blue Sun.
Ahead of its release, NPR conducted an interview with the OutKast member, and they disclosed that the album has a duration of 87 minutes, with a track named “I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time.”
He also disclosed the meaning behind the album title:
“Double, maybe triple. New Blue Sun, for me, it means … Right now, if you look up in the sky, the sun that we’ve been living under for ages, even the Egyptian times, it’s the same sun. And it’s this kind of whitish, light, brightish kind of yellow. When people draw it or paint it, it’s usually this whitish or yellowish kind of sun. And unfortunately, that sun is gonna burn out. At some point, that sun will die just like all stars.
And New Blue Sun, for me, was like, I guess in a sci-fi way, the next world or the next beings will be under a bluer, cooler burning sun. It will burn cooler, but it will be larger.”
Andre 3000
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With the release of this album, André 3000 releases his first solo album and body of work since the 2006 OutKast project, Idlewild.
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