![]() ![]() “Sometimes I don’t even remember what cities we performed in.” At some point, the duo stopped playing shows, and then they stopped putting out records. What happened to him and Big Boi is still mostly a blur. He thinks warmly about the early days of the group and has more complicated, harder to express thoughts about its pinnacle. Right before OutKast, I was supposed to go to art school.”Īndré is compulsively honest, and eager to talk about just about anything OutKast is the one subject that occasionally leaves him short of words. ![]() “I’m almost going back and digging up something that I kind of abandoned before. In some ways, it was OutKast, in retrospect, that was the aberration in André 3000’s life, he says. So if that’s sculpting, if that’s actually physical artwork, painting, designing instruments, that’s where I’m at right now.” “I’d like to make things that when I’m dead and gone 3,000 years from now, people may dig up and find. Having built one immortal legacy with OutKast, he’s begun to think about others. He is planning a store called A Myriad of Pyramids, which will sell clothes and artwork. Increasingly, André says after we’ve gone back inside, this is what he’s up to: doing anything but making rap music. This turns out to be the logo of the workwear brand he is developing, which he has decided to call From Now On, They Will Have No Choice But to Call Us The Ants. On his overalls is a small drawing that he did of ants spiraling around a flute. In the laundromat, after his clothes are loaded in the washing machine, he hefts his flute, invites me to come hear him play it in the California sun, and so I spend a dazzling 15 minutes outside in an alley, listening to the quiet rush of nearby traffic and the hollow, playful sound of André finding his way through something new. But it is awesome, in any number of expected and unexpected ways, to spend time around the guy. ![]()
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