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André 3000 Brings ‘New Blue Sun’ to ‘Colbert’ With ‘That Night in Hawaii When I Turned Into a Panther…’

André 3000 performed 'That Night in Hawaii When I Turned Into a Panther…' from his flute album 'New Blue Sun' on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.'

The rapper surprised listeners late last year when he announced that his first proper studio album in nearly two decades — and his long-awaited solo debut — wouldn’t feature any rapping at all. I don’t know the details of how it happened, but my face contorted, and my body started making noises, like, ‘grrrr.’ So on the song, I’m mimicking that sound.” Since OutKast stopped making music, he shifted from one-half of rap’s most commercially successful duo to the culture’s fluted vagabond, periodically giving rhyming treatises on his friends’ records.

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