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

[Miggs]

So he can't express himself unless he meets some sort of baseline proficiency?

People post music everyday without being professionals or experienced

At the end of the day, it's his music performed to a level satisfactory to himself. He chose to share it with the world and the word can listen if they chose

I heard the first couple tracks and wasn't blown away but it wasn't offensively bad to me

Like, "Oh, this is cool" and moved on

Dude ain't harming anybody with this album. And with all the shyt going on in the music industry, his piano skills ain't hurting nobody either way

He can do whatever he wants and the public can also ridicule him all they want when he tries to push lazy assed bullshyt as artistic....

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

He can do whatever he wants and the public can also ridicule him all they want when he tries to push lazy assed bullshyt as artistic....

Criticism is perfectly fine but critique the art not the person

Otherwise it just seems bitter and mean spirited. Do you have the same animosity for musicians like captain beefhart or John cage?

 

[keond]

Dude is right. 3000 could have kept that shyt to himself. It’s bad. Like really bad.

3000 keeps trying to do things that he is at best mediocre (acting, flute, piano etc) while refusing to do what he really excels at.

Very few people are able to play multiple instruments professionally and he’s not one of them. He is not even high school recital proficient.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Saying it's bad is fine but acting like he's being an a$$hole or disrespecting other people is the most obnoxious shyt I've read in a while from him and yall



So you're not allowed to make anything unless you in the top 5% otherwise you're disrespecting people? He didn't force ANYONE to listen to it.

So outkast should've never made demos when they were still learning how to rap because it was disrespectful to rappers who were already better than them? This logic makes no damn sense


Ain't no way you nikkas who feel like this ever made a damn thing in your lives, if you did you'd know NOBODY starts off immediately amazing at something and telling someone they can't put their stuff out because they aren't complete masters at it yet is nonsense and art was NEVER like that, y'all tryna carry his rap expectations over to him playing instruments and it doesn't make any sense, y'all should've never held this projects even remotely to the same standards you would a rap project from him.

By that logic if any of y'all do make art you wouldn't be allowed to put it out because y'all ain't masters and have no accolades to back up your prowess at that level. Nonsense.

Y'all just hate that he's doing what he wants and gets more attention from it, but he's not the one causing that, y'all are, just ignore his instrumental stuff the same way Kanye is being ignored right now, it's that simple dude is learning how to play instruments and already told y'all this is what he wants to do, how can y'all be so bitter

Why did you quote me?

I’m on Dre’s side lol. He’s just doing what he wants to do. People are choosing to trash his shyt like it really matters. Whoever the dude is that had shyt to say can say what he wants. I just think he’s wasting his time.. also people are sharing his opinion because they’re mad at Dre. You’d hate his rap album in 2025 and he knows this.. it’s why he’s doing what he want to do

 

[swampfox]

I mean, he did have a trash bag

 

[⠀X ⠀]

It can’t be worse than that flute shít.

 

[Whatupdoe?]

Thats why people don't like these artsy fartsy ass nikkas.

Whats wrong with just saying it wasn't for him.

Even old heads trying to go viral these days.

He just being the mad pianist.... tellem why you mad og.

 

[315]

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

Wasn’t too long ago Quincy Jones shyt all over the Beatles, the goddamn Beatles. Jazz nikkas don’t give a fukk lmao

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Finally put this overrated hack in his place

 

[CrushedGroove]

I'm gonna sample the whole album just to give 3 stacks mo stacks

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Even Jazz musicians want 3 Stacks to get in the booth . Enough of this pompus ass trying to run away from his true calling:

• Tried to be a Actor and that flopped
• Did a flute album and became a meme
• Possibily the best part of that god awful Dondra album
• The Love Below continues to birth rappers and artists

STOP RUNNING AWAY FROM WHOM YOU TRULY ARE....A RAPPER

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I'm gonna sample the whole album just to give 3 stacks mo stacks

I may have to visit them jawns and give it the eucalyptus gumbo

 

[Silver Surfer]

This is what happens when someone is gassed for years

 

[Doobie Doo]

Criticism is perfectly fine but critique the art not the person

Otherwise it just seems bitter and mean spirited. Do you have the same animosity for musicians like captain beefhart or John cage?

Were nikkas nice to Vanilla Ice, Iggy Azaliea and the slew of other culture vultures who exploited Hiphop for personal gain?

Best believe if Andre 3000 makes 6 or 7 figures off his "Sketches" He would throw it back in everyone's face how even his bullchit is profitable

 

[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

Because the flute album had other musicians playing too doing the heavy lifting or that one would be just as bad