DrunkerThanAMotherfucker
All Star
His two most popular songs of all-time are Hey Ya' and Ms. Jackson, two songs where he wasn't really flexing any lyrical dexterity when it came down to pure bars. Andre wasn't born to be a rapper - it happened to be something he did en route to pursuing his true passions in R&B and Funk.
But in the same vein as artists like Prince, George Clinton, and Jimi, I think Andre deserves props for the way he bent genres to create defining popular music. The fact that his most defining contributions to hip-hop are relatively buried in Outkast's discography is proof that rapping was a part-time gig for Mr. 3 Stacks.
Also - I get the irony that he doesn't have any solo material and has a legitimate claim for GOAT status, but I think the irony adds to the mystique. This dude was a full-time rapper for less than a decade, start to finish.
He was a savant, and I often wonder what he could have delivered on a solo level when he was dialed-in at his peak. But like other greats, perhaps his non-linear thought patterns and laissez faire approach to committing to his craft afforded him the creative space to deliver the legendary music we all know today.
Andre is the rap game Barry Sanders. If you were there, you were lucky to get a front-row seat. But it was gone as quickly as it arrived. And we often wonder what could have been, but sometimes it's nice seeing your heroes go out on top.
But in the same vein as artists like Prince, George Clinton, and Jimi, I think Andre deserves props for the way he bent genres to create defining popular music. The fact that his most defining contributions to hip-hop are relatively buried in Outkast's discography is proof that rapping was a part-time gig for Mr. 3 Stacks.
Also - I get the irony that he doesn't have any solo material and has a legitimate claim for GOAT status, but I think the irony adds to the mystique. This dude was a full-time rapper for less than a decade, start to finish.
He was a savant, and I often wonder what he could have delivered on a solo level when he was dialed-in at his peak. But like other greats, perhaps his non-linear thought patterns and laissez faire approach to committing to his craft afforded him the creative space to deliver the legendary music we all know today.
Andre is the rap game Barry Sanders. If you were there, you were lucky to get a front-row seat. But it was gone as quickly as it arrived. And we often wonder what could have been, but sometimes it's nice seeing your heroes go out on top.
