Matthew Shipp says Andre 3000's 7 Piano Sketches is “complete and utter crap

[Ziploc]

You can hear that it's basically doodling on a piano. I'm all for creative expression but this was not about the integrity of his musical output and someone should tell him that. The fact that we hold him in high regard as a rapper doesn't translate into him putting chrome on a turd, looking pensive while doing it and calling it art. It was absolutely bad musicianship. Releasing this and him being Cerebral 6000 while making excuses isn't a pass for a turd with paint on it.

 

[The_Sheff]

It is arrogance and i can see why hes mad

Andre is a look at me motherfukker if i ever saw one

Guy says he wants to get away from spotlight

Yet playing flute in street like a homeless vagrant.

Releases an album of sketches he made on his iphone… but wont rap cause “hes too old”. When his style was never in style, got on for being mature. Now would be the time. But no. Because he knows if its wack his aura will suffer. Yet does this shyt because he knows its a safe bet to look artsy.

Hes too old to not know he looks ridicukous. Everytbing with him is a show. Makes an album of pianos and goes to met gala with piano on his back and releases it same day. Literally demo one offs he made in 20 min. Its a slap in the face to people who work everyday at skills to be whi they are rhat he gets to just walk into that world and be a star.

Hes cosplaying as a “artist”

It’s a show to you because most people can’t comprehend a life where someone just does what they want without a care for how others will feel about it.

“Because I wanted to” is an invalid answer for why an individual does something for the majority of the public. Because nobody can just do something simply because they wanted to right?

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Nikka sound like a hater

Critique is fine, but there's a way to do it without tearing someone down

Not like Andre was being arrogant and disrespectful to other jazz pianists. He never made the project out to be more than what it is. Him having fun on the piano playing whatever came to mind

True. I mean, the nikka coulda at least tore 3k down with class.


All I got from this is the nikka has an aggressively low emotional IQ

 

[Big Blue]

I agree to a level. Andre is not a good musician and is now hopping around different instruments despite not being able to play any of them well. What is being termed improvisation is him learning on the job and just like with the flutes he can't play the actual shyt. Or replay it. The flute album I was willing to see as just expression and he got help from musicians to flesh it out and tour it. But he was the worst part of that tour. he stank on stage. Now he's badly playing the piano as well? That's kind of too much.

This.. he's making a mockery of music tbh

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Now people are going to act like they know who this man is. Oh well, get that shine my guy

Btw I liked the flute album more than this one

 

[tuckgod]

I was mad he made it, now I wanna spin it all day, find this dork and slap the fukk out him.

 

[Dad]

my wife and I went to see Andre last year at Kennedy Center. The sound man was working his ass off while André played “unreleased music” from his new project


That nikkas is a fraud but I respect the hustle

 

[B86]

That's because you're a bytch ass punk concerned about what other people are doing.

You like it, don't like it, who cares.

Dre's statement, perfect.

I've never seen straight people suck dikk the way they do over anything Andre 3000 and now Kendrick. Yall are weird as fukk, just like 3k

 

[Bondye Vodou]

So lil B's jazz album >>> 3 stack’s?

 

[Bugzbunny129]

It’s a show to you because most people can’t comprehend a life where someone just does what they want without a care for how others will feel about it.

“Because I wanted to” is an invalid answer for why an individual does something for the majority of the public. Because nobody can just do something simply because they wanted to right?

He can do whtever he wants. Idgaf.

But lets not pretend this aint what it is

A vanity project. One that came with an outfit to the METGALA. What a rebel against society….

Following him like hipsters in bk like the piped piper but wont rap to or even look at a paying audience. Says hes old. Doesnt wanna look wack. Then does old wack shyt anyway. Why? Because his status stays intact.

You wanna put out releases like your special, without the knowledge, half assed, with no prep or even follow through… and sell it as an album and becoming a touring artist off it… prepare to get critiqued like everyone else.

 

[Diunx]

So was that fukking awful flute album

 

[vino]

He’s right. It’s amateur hour with that piano. Sound like someone learning how to play the piano.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Now people are going to act like they know who this man is. Oh well, get that shine my guy

Btw I liked the flute album more than this one

The flute album other musicians played around his sketches. And they were the best parts.

 

[boogers]

this is what happens when you crawl up your own ass and get so high huffing your own fart gas that you listen to all those people who called you a genius and now you think that translates to other genres and it doesnt

this reeks of pretentiousness. dummies who dont listen to or know the first thing about jazz will praise this if theyre already a 3k fan

guy on youtube really said "if you dont listen to thelonious monk this isnt for you"

dude doesnt know the first thing about harmony or form lol. parts of it sound like the piano is drunk. you cant just slam a bunch of dissonant chords together, it doesnt make sense

now dumbass youtube reactors are 'reacting' to it and they dont know the first thing about jazz

this is somehow worse than when wayne played guitar. at least wayne knew that shyt was horrible. 3k isnt even strung out. this just sucks!

 

[ObsidianDev]

I haven't seen this degree of written hatred in the jazz world since I stumbled across a few essays written by the late jazz critic Stanley Crouch who was infamous for shytting on people relentlessly