Kid Cudi has sent a message to André 3000, imploring him to record a new rap album that will “save us all.”
In an episode of Complex‘s “GOAT Talk” series alongside skateboard icon Tony Hawk, the Cleveland rapper shared his desire to hear new bars from 3 Stacks.
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When asked by Hawk who the greatest rapper of all time is, Cudi wasted little time in naming the OutKast lyricist.
“He’s just the illest,” he said. “I would really love to see a rap album from him. I know he’s in a different place [but] I know he can create something that’s just so wild and feels fresh and new. He can save us all. Save us all, Dre!”
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Heaping more praise on André 3000, Cudi also named OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below as his G.O.A.T. album, describing it as “masterful” and the “template” for his debut album, 2009’s Man on the Moon: The End of Day.
Watch his comments at the 15:40 mark below.
Elsewhere in the conversation, Kid Cudi revealed that he’s actually trying to get back in the studio with André 3000, who he previously worked with on his 2016 album Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin.’
“I’m hoping to get André in the studio again soon,” he said. “Get some flute on the record and get him to spit a bar or two. André, I’ll be knocking on your door pretty soon. I’ve been watching you. I’ve been watching you close.”
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Despite Cudi’s wishes, the Atlanta legend has flip-flopped on whether or not he’ll record rap music again.
In an interview with NPR last year, 3 Stacks admitted that writing rhymes doesn’t come as naturally to him as it once did.
“I love rap music because it was a part of my youth. So I would love to be out here with everybody rapping, because it’s almost like fun and being on the playground,” he said. “I would love to be out here playing with everybody, but it’s just not happening for me.”
Referencing his instrumental album New Blue Sun, he added: “This is the realest thing that’s coming right now. Not to say that I would never do it again, but those are not the things that are coming right now. And I have to present what’s given to me at the time.”
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Months later, though, André appeared to make a U-turn and left the door open for a return to rap.
Asked in an interview with Highsnobiety if he missed rapping, he replied: “I do.”
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“I would love to make a rap album. I just think it’d be an awesome challenge to do a fire-ass album at 48 years old,” he added. “That’s probably one of the hardest things to do! I would love to do that. That’s the cool thing about my whole ride. It really is a ride.”
