“I’d Like to Put Out Some Kind of Music Project”
André 3000 i Outkast har under det senaste årtiondet varit saktfärdig med att göra en comeback till musikscenen. Återföreningen med Big Boi för en Outkast-turné verkar av allt att döma inte resulterat i ny musik från Atlanta-duon och istället har André 3000 fortsatt arbeta på andra projekt. Senast i raden av roller framför kameran, efter hans omtalade Jimi Hendrix-gestaltning, är medverkan i TV-serien “American Crime”.
I en ny intervju till Billboards januari-nummer berättar André närmare om skådespeleriet i nya TV-serien “American Crime” samt hur samarbetet med ex-frun Erykah Badu kom till. Han ger även öppning för att det kan komma ny musik, men vill inte ange några närmare detaljer eller datum. Se citat nedan!
Om rollen i TV-serien “American Crime”:
Billboard: You play a married architect, which is a new kind of role for you.
“It was fun because it was like an exercise in being able to be outside of myself. I’ve never been married. Of course, I have an 18-year-old kid now, so there were parallels, like the issues of being in a black family or a black person having a black kid in a private school. In real life, I always feel like an oddball going to my kid’s school because I’m a musician; I’m not the normal dad. So to be able to play one is fun to me.”
Billboard: How did your “Hello” duet with Erykah Badu, from her recent mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone, come together?
“Our son Seven and I were trying to figure out songs that could help her — songs that were related to the subject of the mixtape: phones. We came across [The Isley Brothers’ 1974 cover of Todd Rundgren’s] “Hello, It’s Me.” Ron Isley repeats the phrase “hello, hello” as if he was answering the phone. I told Erykah, “You should make this into a new song and get somebody to rap on it.” She was like, “Well, you should rap on it!” I’m happy it happened. It was a great reunion, because I don’t think people have heard a song from us in ages.”
Om att spela in ny musik:
Billboard: Have you had time to work on music lately?
“I still get time to think about music. [Shooting TV and film projects] is not so bad — it kind of puts you in the place where you’re fiending to do music. I’ve been holding [back] for a long time, so now I’m really interested in figuring out some type of music to do. I’m always recording.”
Can you say what you’re working on or with whom?
“I can’t say that I have a target right now. I’ve gotten in trouble before for saying when or what is coming, so I like to just kind of let it be. I’d like to put out some kind of music project, but we’ll see.”
What music are you listening to now?
“I always listen to a lot of jazz, a lot of Thelonious Monk. The new Kid Cudi album [Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven] is awesome to me. That’s kind of like the most recent thing that I think is really great. But other than that I’ve kind of just been working in the studio and listening to what I’m doing.”
