André 3000 Announces Debut Solo Album “New Blue Sun”

FILE – This Nov. 13, 2012 file photo shows musician and actor Andre Benjamin, better known as Andre 3000, during a promotional event for Gillette in New York. Benjamin will star as rock legend Jimi Hendrix in the film, “All is By My Side,” set for release in 2013. Andre 3000’s mother Sharon Benjamin-Hodo passed away in her sleep early Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at her home in Rex, Ga., a representative for the rapper said Wednesday. She was 58. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

Fans will finally get the André 3000 solo album they’ve been pleading for for years this week, sort of. Three Stacks will release “New Blue Sun” on Friday (November 17).

André 3000 will release his debut solo album, New Blue Sun, Friday, November 17.

New Blue Sun is entirely instrumental featuring woodwinds. No rapping.

First song title: "I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time." pic.twitter.com/s1i5BPd9dX

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) November 14, 2023

It’s an instrumental record, which NPR calls

a stunning 87-minute mind-bender, minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent.

Interestingly, the opening track is called ‘I Really Wanted To Make A Rap Album, But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time.’

ANDRÉ 3000
NEW BLUE SUN
NOVEMBER 17TH pic.twitter.com/mwXHzPjIhY

— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) November 14, 2023

André warned,

I don’t want to troll people. I don’t want people to think, Oh, this André 3000 album is coming! And you play it and like, Oh man, no verses,” “So even actually on the packaging, you’ll see it says, “Warning: no bars.”

What do you think of an André 3000 album with no bars?

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