Andre 3000 recently covered Crack Magazine, where he spoke about the historic Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap rivalry and claimed that he had “several” unreleased disses in the vault. However, he claims that he writes them for “good exercise” and has no intention of ever airing them.
“You have feelings,” he clarified. “If ni*as say some slick sht, lines will come to your head immediately.” He further stated that even if someone calls him out by name, the consequences of verbal abuse “simply don’t interest him.”
Speaking about the Kendrick-Drake fight, 3K said that it made him emotional. “I got a little sad, at a certain point,” he replied. “In the early days of rap fights, kids would rap against each other in parks. But it’s not just folks rapping anymore. You have people with 100 employees. You have livelihoods, empires, corporations, and transactions – all of which are at risk.”
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“If you have nothing to lose, then go for it. But if I’ve already accomplished it, I’m not sure it’s worth it anymore,” he admitted.
Given that there is no known conflict between Andre 3000 and any other rapper, Dungeon Family’s Kawan Prather dreamt about someone challenging the Outkast rapper’s pen in 2017.
“I wish someone would diss him so we could truly see it,” he reportedly told HipHopDX at the time. “No one’s ever had the audacity to do it.” Prather even mentioned 3K’s “The Whole World” verse, claiming that “[It’s] an invitation for somebody to diss him.” Listen to the verse: ‘I hope you would.'”
The only time the New Blue Sun flutist recalled another artist making a shot at him was when Prince supposedly criticized “Hey Ya.”
“I didn’t know how to take it,” Andre told Questlove during his Supreme podcast in December. “This is my hero.” He responded, ‘I like that song, ‘Hey Ya,’ guy, and I thought I was the only one that did songs in those tempos.’ This is what he said to me. I wasn’t sure if he was like, “Mmm.” “Take that, Ni**a.”
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3000 went on to say that Prince could have taken another shot at him when he called for recommendations for his next track. “I ask, ‘What do you think the next single should be?'” Then he said another Prince thing: ‘In my day, we only had one shot.’ He was basically suggesting that it doesn’t matter what you do right now. I didn’t know how to handle that either. “It’s okay, cool,” he said.
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