How old is andre 3000 from outkast

Weeks later, they took home Grammy statues for best rap album of , and best song by a rap duo or group for "Mrs. Nearly three years went by before OutKast released another studio effort. Patton's Speakerboxxx was a more traditional rap record, and had a hit that made it onto several charts, "The Way You Move. Andre's The Love Below was the funkier record of the two.

It originally started out as a soundtrack project that Benjamin began for a film, a love story set in Paris. Though some critics faulted it for mixing too many musical styles, others commended both records for their big-picture vision.

The concept-album effort was overshadowed, however, by the massive success of "Hey Ya! Its success boosted the double-album's sales to 3. Much of the rest of Benjamin's effort was reflective. As he explained to a writer for London's Guardian newspaper, Alexis Petridis: "In hip-hop, people don't talk about their vulnerable or sensitive side a lot because they're trying to keep it real or be tough—they think it makes them look weak.

That's what the Love Below means, that bubbling-under feeling that people don't like to talk about, that dudes try to cover up with machismo.

Some OutKast fans worried that the dual-album release marked the beginning of the end for the pair, with each too apart musically now to come together again. Both Benjamin and Patton stressed, however, that they were still a team. They're just from two different perspectives. Benjamin, meanwhile, had Hollywood ambitions: he appeared in Hollywood Homicide in , and was part of an all-star cast for an adaptation of an Elmore Leonard crime novel, Be Cool, released in Both Benjamin and Patton had also teamed with an Atlanta filmmaker, Bryan Barber, to work on a musical set in a jazz club during the s.

Benjamin and Patton are both fathers. Benjamin's son with Badu, Seven Sirius, divides his time between his parents' homes. Patton has a daughter and two sons. Patton realizes that OutKast's music might reach listeners in unexpected ways, as he told Datcher in the L. Weekly interview. Once, after a concert, a fan approached him and recounted a story of not "going to class, he just wasn't feeling motivated.

He told me he listened to [ Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik 's] 'Git Up, Git Out' every morning, and that would get him out of the crib so he could go to class," Patton recalled. That makes me feel good, that we're touching people by just being ourselves and telling our own story. Ali, Lorraine. Arnold, Chuck.

Datcher, Michael. Weekly December 4, Hermes, Will. Lester, Paul. Ogunnaike, Lola. Petridis, Alexis. Samuels, Allison. His biggest alias prior to his career with Outkast was "the Feat" or Feat. He was also cast as Percival in Idlewild , released on August 26, He voiced a crow in Charlotte's Web , a movie adaptation of the children's book. As of November , he voiced "Sunny Bridges," a prize-winning musician who gives up touring to teach at his alma mater , in Class of , an animated series he produced on Cartoon Network.

Benjamin was accused by Timothy Mcgee for supposedly 'stealing' his idea of the show. He has also worked with Esthero on a promotional version of "Jungle Book" which was on a Wikked lil' grrrls sampler, but never made it to the actual album due to issues with Esthero's label, Warner Bros. Benjamin was a member of Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender 's production company A Band Apart until its close in ; he then formed his own company, Moxie Turtle.

He launched the "Benjamin Bixby" clothing line in spring of , inspired by college football circa Benjamin was arrested in Henry County, Georgia in March after being caught driving his Porsche Carrera mph in a 65 mph speed zone. Benjamin posed for a print advertising campaign by Declare Yourself , a campaign encouraging voter registration among youth for the United States presidential election.

In the ads by photographer David LaChapelle , he has his mouth gagged by a bow-tie in a symbolic function. Rap Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Big Hawk. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Origin Atlanta , Georgia , U. Categories Add category. Cancel Save. So I go on the Internet and I find this site that had shirts with photos of Anita on them.

So I bought two or three of them. Yeah, shitty heat-transfer shirts. Right, it feels like this big piece of wood on your chest. Anita was definitely not seeing a piece of the action. So I was like, Maybe, so my conscience feels good, let me try to find an address for Anita and send her a little check.

Maybe she needs some merch. Other than satisfying your guilt, what appeals to you about designing Anita Baker merch? What if Anita says no? It was just an idea.

You also have this new Tretorn collection. Where did that begin? My agent, William Morris. They try to pair who you are to the right brands. Can you break down the hood-prep thing? Yeah, it was kids that loved rap, they spiced it up and funked it out. I had a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook back then, and the shoes in there were penny loafers, Docksiders, and Tretorns. So, okay, we gotta get these Tretorns. Once it was on with Tretorn, what did you want to do?

I wanted to work with the Nylites, because those were the ones that I wore. And then, as we went through their old pictures and archives, we found a couple other styles that stood out, too.

We were trying to see how we could push it. I see a connection between the Tretorns and Benjamin Bixby, the clothing line you did [in ]. Yeah, well, Tretorns started on the tennis court and then became a street thing. Bixby was my first foray into design. To be honest, man, those were the best times of my life. At one point, I was in Hong Kong, and there was a N. And Kanye was playing it, too. I learned a lot, though. I learned that you should just do what you do the best first.

Do that one thing. What else did you learn? And I do a lot for family and friends. Part of me just wants to say, Come on, man! Put out more music! You know what I mean? What do you mean? Like, I wanted to put out my own project. And I wondered: Had he done everything he wanted to do? Do you think he died in peace? He had all these troubles the last few years. But I think we made amends, and that was a cool thing.

I do miss not being able to talk to him about him living alone and not ever being married. I think I would have gotten a lot of great insight. I think he would have told me something. I know my son looks at me like, Yeah, man, she was cool. So I know my kid sees it the same way. What was your relationship with your mom like through the years? My mom was everything. When I was small, she was like a dictator.

I understand it now, but she still went hard. And I think when a male is not there, the woman goes harder. Trying to be both parents. I would wrestle with my mom. Me and her, going at it.

I was 23 or You saw the person, not Mom. I think more parents should tell kids their shit. Did you realize that early enough to apply it to your parenting?

This is a more recent thought? Yeah, when I was around 35, my mom pulled me to the side in the kitchen. I was dating this drug-dealer guy, and he sold cocaine, and we would do cocaine, and that was like a normal thing. And the person that she ended up marrying was the guy that used to keep me when she would go do crack. Did she blurt it out because it had been gnawing at her? Yeah, but I think it was more that I triggered it, because at that time, I was doing drugs.

I think she was trying to tell me the story to help me. I saw a tennis racket in the corner of your practice space. I was mimicking her. After she told me that, I looked at her like a god.