D (2:23)

Well, thank you. And it's funny you say that it is kind of, you know, like a creative add because it's. Have to keep myself excited in a way. You know, I have to kind of keep myself alive. So, you know, I always kind of start things saying, oh, this would be cool. You know, I seldom start anything and say, oh, man, this would. This would make great money, you know, so it's like just ideas. You just try them out and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. It's all about trying it, you know. Whose idea was it to go and put class of 3000 as a live show? This was the Alliance Theater. That's awesome. You know, they were looking for something to put on stage for their kids and they felt like it was a perfect marriage, you know, the show took place in Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta. It was about music. And of course, you know, music education and just the arts in school, you know, it's kind of dying out right now. They just felt like it was a perfect thing to do. So they contacted Cartoon Network and got me involved. Is amazing.

C (3:17)

It's a great concept, you know. You know, people are going to be curious what's going on with you and outkast because people love to say that the band's not happening anymore, that you guys are done. So why don't you set the record straight?

D (3:27)

Well, right now we're concentrating on. On what? Always record music, man. Right now we're concentrating on these solo albums. And maybe there will be another outcast. We really don't know. It's all about, you know, how do you feel at the time, to be honest. And, you know, we're kind of getting up there in age. I know I'm only 33 when it comes to. When it comes to music, that's like a. Like a hip hop uncle. But it's like, you know, you're always trying to keep yourself excited. So right now I'm just concentrating on, you know, what I feel that's really important. And so I have songs that I really feel like, you know, people need to hear. And Big Boy has songs that he feels like people need to hear right now. And, you know, I go by the studio and check Big Boy out all the time and see what's going on, you know. So it's always, you know, a love kind of thing. But I think, you know, people have to just, you know, realize that it's almost like you growing up in the same house with a brother and eventually, you know, you have to go out and get your own house and family, you know. And I think a Lot of times, because people have seen you together, together for so long. You know, it may seem odd if you go out and, you know, do your own thing, but, you know, I welcome it all. But it's all. It's all good music, man. And then, you know, hopefully we. Another outcast album.

C (4:44)

I want to be totally clear on something here. So you're saying you're open to an outcast album, but there's always the chance that that's never going to happen again.

D (4:52)

Yeah, it's always. It's always. I might not even put out an album. You just. You really don't know. It all depends on how you feel. You know, when we started it, it was just something that, you know, we love to do out of high school. You know, it was never like, you know, okay, we got to do this or we got to do that. You know, it's just however you feel at the time.

C (5:09)

Does quote, unquote, outcast. Just feel like a muscle that's already been flexed to you and you're just ready to start working out? I mean, in a different way now?

D (5:16)

No, because I just feel like if we have something to say, it was always if you have something to say. That's why, I mean, if you look at the Outkast history, we never, like, just, you know, put out, you know, two out, two, three albums a year or anything like that. It was always like, okay, let's do this album, okay? We feel like we got these songs. We feel like we got something to present. Let's do it. You know, it was never, like, you know, contractual. We gotta do two, three albums a year. Okay, let's go ahead and just try to make it, you know, it was always like, okay, what do you have to say right now? What do you wanna present right now? So, you know, I don't wanna, you know, just feed people some mess, you know, so it's always, always open, you know.

E (5:57)

Well, Andre, I love your feature on the John Legend greenlight song. I wanna know how about how that came about, you working with John Legend.

D (6:05)

Really, it was a blessing because the song was done. You know, John had done his part. You know, he sang the Give me the green light part. And the producer of the song, who actually is from Atlanta, he was in the studio and he let me hear the song, and I was like, oh, man, this is something totally different for John. And I felt like it was, you know, such a departure from what he. From what he would. What he's known to do, you know, from just sitting behind the piano. And, you know, singing these great songs. It was kind of like an up beat jam, and I like the song. And so I said, hey, I got something for it. And so he said, yeah, sure, come on in. And so I put down, you know, my little bridge part and then put down, you know, the little lyric rap part, and it just turned out to be what it is now.

C (6:52)

So you did not freestyle that?

D (6:55)

I freestyled the end of it, the tail end.

C (6:57)

I want to play this for you guys. If you don't know what you can.

D (7:00)

If you can hear, it kind of goes. I think it starts when I don't remember. So y' all get to asking people about lyrics, and they like what you do when you're in the studio. You have prepared pieces, and it's supposed to end, but you, like, you're excited, so you just kind of keep going and you just make up stuff. So you can kind of tell when it starts to freestyle because, you know, the rhythm pattern is kind of just, you know, more primitive, and you just kind of just throwing, like, words out, and it starts to sound like a freestyle. And then I just let them know, hey, that was just a freestyle. So, no, the whole thing is not a freestyle. So, you know, I'm not gonna sit up here and act like I made up the whole thing completely. A lot of people will do that, but I ain't gonna lie to you like that. Then the next question would be, okay, freestyle something for us right now. As good as that go. Oh, man, I could not do that too early. This is what's funny. What's funny is I'm not even a great freestyle. Like. Like big boy now. Big boy will freestyle you all day long. But I'm more of a writer, to be honest. And when I did that, it was more just like a having fun kind of thing.

C (8:09)

It's a brilliant piece of the song. And this is the clip that he's talking about. This is the John Legend song. But Andre starts to steal the show here.

F (8:17)

So I went hard like Medusa staring at me. I told her, let's go, let's blow this lame factory. She said, what kind of girl do you think that I are? The kind that you meet in a bar, you think you can get whatever you want. Cause you some kind of star. No, I'm a comic. I just want you, woman hey, if I were you, it'd be would be me that I go home with three the one and only One thing you ain't considered I heard you when you told your girl Ooh we can get it. Admit it, you did it. Let's hop a cab and split it. I'm kidding. We both going to where you living? I got you giggling like a piglet. Oh, that's the ticket. I hope you're more like Anita Bakers than Robert Gibbons. No, I don't know that.

C (8:56)

We all tried spontaneously freestyling on the show one day and we all came up with about two lines and that was. It was the worst 10 minutes of radio we've ever done in our lives.

D (9:06)

The first one was hard.

C (9:06)

The first line, it's brutal. Well, we appreciate your time and we're gonna link on up to the Alliance Theater and we urge you guys to go check out class of 3,000. It's Andre Benji, and we're keeping it here in Atlanta. All right, man.

D (9:19)

Appreciate it. So contact the Alliance Theater to get tickets and come on out. Bring the kids. They'll really enjoy it.

C (9:25)

Yeah, I mean, and I've got kids and I'm always sort of at a loss on weekends what to do with them. There's only. You can only go to Monkey Joe's so many times, you know, and you're sort of like searching for things to do. This is the place that's gonna be now for the next couple of weeks at Alliance Theater. That's right.

D (9:40)

That's right. So we're giving you a little time to take a nap.

C (9:46)

All right, Andre, thanks a lot, man.

D (9:47)

All right, take care, man. Thank you.

C (9:49)

You're on the Birch show.

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