That New André 3000 Album You Thought Was Being Released Isn’t

Contrary to what Killer Mike disclosed earlier this week, André 3000 isn’t dropping a solo album anytime soon.

During an interview with Big Tigger Morning Show on Thursday (June 22), Killer Mike delivered the sad news that André 3000 is not working on his second studio album. “I got a huge announcement to make…Dre ain’t finna give y’all no second album,” he admitted at the 1:35 mark at the bottom of the post. “I was stoned out my mind, playing, teasing with y’all, y’all done took the joke too serious.”

“But you know, André [is] always making music. He’s never not making music. So I got a chance to hear a lot of cool stuff,” he continued. “If you want to hear Dre though, I know where you can. It’s this album called Michael that’s out right now. There is Dre, Future, and Killer Mike.”

How Did the André 3000 New Solo Album Rumor Get Started?

Earlier this week, a video of Killer Mike’s interview on SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning surfaced online where he talked about his collaboration with Three Stacks and Future on “Scientist & Engineers” from his just-released studio album Michael. It was on that program that Mike misspoke and said that André is working on an album.

“What I’m hearing is Dre got an album coming,” he told Sway at the 22-minute mark in the video below. He then added, “Yeah, I think we fly out in a couple weeks to go listen to it.”

This news sparked celebrations across social media from OutKast fans who have been waiting patiently for years for André 3000 to release a solo studio album, to no avail. Technically, the elusive rhymer hasn’t released a full-length solo project since ‘Kast’s Grammy Award-winning album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in 2003. Ironically, rap fans are gearing up to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Atlanta group’s masterful double album this year.

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Listen to Killer Mike Explain There’s No New André 3000 Solo Album Below