Andre 3000 - "7 Piano Sketches"

Andre 3000

"7 Piano Sketches"

Epic

I love me some Andre 3000, he's an amazing artist, an icon bro. Now I really don't wanna be the negative guy in the room but AIN'T NOBODY TRYING TO HEAR THIS CRAP! Let me be crystal clear when I say that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE wants a piano sketch EP from Three Stacks! This is even worse than the flute records he did and they were a drag. You can def file this under ain't nobody got time for that.

Not exaggerating when I say this record sounds like I'm listening in on some piano lessons where some kid is learning chopsticks, it's rough. It's just Andre noodling around on a piano, that's it. Zero bangers. There is absolutely no time in the day when I'm gonna want to put this back on. I would just skip straight to listening to Miles Davis or Outkast.

And for the record I loved Outkast, the first three records are solid classics. I think they peaked with "Stankonia" and to be more specific "B.O.B." that song is fucking perfect, blew my mind when it came out. And I've loved a lot of Andre's post Outkast features like "Solo (reprise)" on Frank Ocean's "Blonde" album as well as the one on "Channel Orange" called "Pink Matter", "Hello" by Erykah Badu, "Kids" by A Tribe Called Quest, Young Jeezy - "I Do", Future - "Benz Friendz", Drake - "The Real Her", Kanye West - "30 Hours" and my hands down favorite... "Life of the Party" by Kanye West where he talks about his mother who passed. Shit is a heavy one. Speaking of... someone should piece together a playlist of all that shit, it would bang. DM it to me if you do.

While I do think it's cool that dude is trying new things I also think not everything needs a public release. Like unless this is him fullfilling a contract to Epic so he can get out early there is no need for this jawn to have seen a proper release cuz as fans we don't deserve this slop. Come on big dog.... you can do better.

Also gotta say that seeing dude with that big ass paino strapped to his back at the Met Gala was a bummer. Don't do that corny shit anymore either bro. I know you don't feel like rapping or whatever you're saying these days but you're one of the best ever plus everything sucks now and the world is dying so at least let us hear some verses please. Thanks!

• Travis Keller

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