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André 3000 Says He’s Continued to Make Beats and Rhymes, But Flute Is Where It’s At Right Now: ‘I Enjoy This’

André 3000 told Jimmy Fallon on Monday night (Dec. 16) that he's kept making beats and producing hip-hop songs, but flute is where his head is now.

André 3000 stopped by The Tonight Show on Monday night (Dec. 16) to chat with host Jimmy Fallon about his right-turn into the world of jazz and perform a rendition of one of the songs from his Grammy-nominated solo album New Blue Sun. Three Stacks stressed to Jimmy that despite his name being on the cover and the LP being tagged as a “solo” project, it was truly a “collective effort.” Asked to describe the vibe of the all-instrumental, no rapping album that came out in November 2023, André said it’s definitely a “very open, trusting free-form exploration.” During a 17-year hiatus from releasing music as a lead artist, André dabbled in acting and became a kind of traveling minstrel meme among fans who delighted in posting videos of the MC strolling around coffee shops and airports playing one of his many flutes.

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