Andre 3000 Thinks He’s Gotten Too Old To Rap

[Super Future Luther King Jr.]

Scust at some of yalls mindset regarding Hip Hop music and CULTURE. This is a lifestyle brehs. Why the fucc can't we be 42 and continue to be a successful Hip Hop musician? Oh wait, that's right, we can smh. Only fuccin genre of music in the world where artists feel pressured to bow out

And fucc Andre Benjamin for never putting out a proper solo and for being completely fine with no more Kast albums ever again. Fucc that

Scust

 

[Jean Jacket]

Dre is kinda a self fulfilling prophecy.


He's honest about his insecurity, and wants to release an album based on passion and truth.


This is code for "I want you to be interested, and ready for my ascension into another creative realm".

Him and Badu have some unreleased shyt somewhere ready to shock the house.

 

[ADP]

he was more or less done with rapping before he hit 30 so this isn't exactly shocking coming from him

sports analogies need to take a break or a timeout though

 

[Mag149]

When you're erroneously placed in hiphop's top ten rankings after never putting out a solo RAP album,guess he feels his work is done

Yo every time I ask somebody why is he a top ten rapper I never get a straight answer.

 

[Nick Barnes]

When you're erroneously placed in hiphop's top ten rankings after never putting out a solo RAP album,guess he feels his work is done

3K top 5 DOA.

 

[Billy Ocean]

shyt crazy and puts limits on a culture that's just now getting to an age where there are older acts that can put out music still.

It's art and age can't limit creativity.

Absolutely. That's what kills me with this dude and his apologists. One of the reasons that many people, of ALL walks of life and age range, don't respect Hip Hop music and it's artists is because people that consume the music, create the music and call themselves fans of the music place limitations on it and it's elder artists. Andre a clown for continually acting like it's embarrassing to be an older rapper. Shout out to veterans like Fat Joe who continues to reinvent himself and his music and always seem super excited, and proud, to play a part in the culture amongst his peers and with younger artists.

And yes...I don't care what anyone says...dude was scared to drop a solo.

 

[Cadillac]

And I totally understand that but the boxing analogy of the older you get the slower you get, I don't like that. You're not boxing you're rapping and best believe one is much less physically intensive and harmful than the other. To say you are too old to compete is low key shytting on rappers his age or older. If he was applying this to just him then cool but the "I don't care who you are" part, ok, now you are saying this applies to everybody.

Yeah that comment doesnt look right him applying his insecurity on others and it makes him wrong as Jay dropped 4:44 which is really good and some verses on there are better than any verse spat by the mainstream group(Drake, Cole, Kendrick and sean)

hell ATCQ released arguably the best LP of 2016

but he could also mean in terms of the sound, production, flow,etc. which I could see, but still dont fully agree on. but he is somewhat right

 

[Pete Wrigley]

And this guy is in people's top 10 of all time.

That's a fukkin' joke

 

[Love Sosa]

Y'all mad at him but what old rappers modern music do y'all listen to besides Jay z and nas

And even then, most people don't judge it as just regular music. They judge it as "oh they were in they prime when I was younger and their new shyt isn't terrible but.."

Hip hop is still a very young genre, a LOT of which is based around youth and image.

Besides Jay's new album and maybe tribes last year I just haven't seen much of it

 

[ball15life]

And I totally understand that but the boxing analogy of the older you get the slower you get, I don't like that. You're not boxing you're rapping and best believe one is much less physically intensive and harmful than the other. To say you are too old to compete is low key shytting on rappers his age or older. If he was applying this to just him then cool but the "I don't care who you are" part, ok, now you are saying this applies to everybody.

He's equating it to a sport. Which is why he said it's a hobby. It's not his true life anymore. Substitute boxing for basketball or football. He's saying he doesn't wanna be Wizards MJ or Broncos Manning...flashes of greatness but clearly past his prime

 

[FlyRy]

Y'all still gonna fall for the 11th annual "andre 3000 solo album coming next year" headline in 2018

 

[Edub]

On the low low....Erykah Badu ended this nikka too

 

[Sauce Dab]

Damn some of y'all in here must be in y'all 40's still trying to make it as a rapper because some of y'all are in here typing while wiping away tears

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Why some of y'all acting like this is a rule he's decreeing? Dude doesn't wanna rap anymore


shyt I don't wanna be doing IT when I'm 40 . Doesn't mean other people shouldn't

 

[Doobie Doo]

He's equating it to a sport. Which is why he said it's a hobby. It's not his true life anymore. Substitute boxing for basketball or football. He's saying he doesn't wanna be Wizards MJ or Broncos Manning...flashes of greatness but clearly past his prime

That's the problem, rapping is not a sport. There is no Wizards MJ, a nikka fell off cuz they ain't hungry no more. 40+ year old rappers are CURRENTLY competing in the rap game as we speak. Jay had a recent number one, Tribe, De La all have had #1 albums in the past year. Rick Ross is around Andre's age, he is currently in regular rotation right now. Older rappers are competing right now against younger ones. There is no rap version of 2016 Kobe, a nikka that still wants to compete and is physically unable to.