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Andre 3000 drops new EP following Met Gala look

Andre 3000 drops new EP following Met Gala appearance

Andre 3000 launched a shock album after stepping out on the Met Gala.

Andre 3000 on the 2025 Met Gala

The 49-year-old former OutKast rapper unveiled ‘7 Piano Sketches’ – the follow-up to 2023’s ‘New Blue Solar’ – shorty after strolling the carpet on the unique occasion, which was held on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute in Manhattan, New York. on Sunday (05.05.25), with a grand piano strapped to his again.

Andre made a publish on his Instagram account after releasing the 16-miniute file telling followers the album has “no bars” and that the “at house recordings” had been “private”.

Asserting the brand new EP on his Instagram, Andre – who had a piano strapped to his again on the purple carpet of the most important evening in trend – stated: “Warning: no bars. These piano sketches are improvisations. To conjure them up, I unfold my fingers out on the keys and randomly however with function transfer them round till I discover one thing that feels good or fascinating.

“If it feels actually good I’ll attempt to repeat it. I can not identify which notes, keys or chords that I’m taking part in. I merely just like the sound and mechanics of piano taking part in. A few of my favourite piano music composers and gamers that encourage me are Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Philip Glass, Stephen Sondheim, Joni Mitchell and Vince Guaraldi.

“These piano items weren’t recorded with the intention of presenting them in any formal option to the general public. They had been private, at-home recordings. I might typically textual content them to my household and buddies.”

The ‘So Contemporary, So Clear’ hitmaker apologised for the sound high quality as a result of many of the tracks – besides ‘Blueberries’ – had been recorded on an iPhone whereas the star was at his piano.

Andre 3000 – whose actual identify is Andre Benjamin and has a 27-year-old son referred to as Seven along with his former accomplice Erykah Badu – continued: “Pardon the sound high quality, they had been all recorded with my iPhone sitting straight on the piano or my laptop computer microphone except for ‘Blueberries’ (recorded in-studio).

“Most of those had been recorded in Texas. The home my son and I had been renting had no furnishings in any respect. Solely a piano, our beds and TV screens.”

Andre 3000 revealed the songs on the seven-track album had been recorded “nearly a decade earlier than” ‘New Blue Solar’, initially titled, ‘The Finest Worst Rap Album in Historical past’.

And Andre additionally shared an excerpt from the primary liner notes.

He added: “This assortment of songs was recorded nearly a decade earlier than ‘New Blue Solar’. The unique title for it was, ‘The Finest Worst Rap Album In Historical past’, and right here is an excerpt from the unique liner notes: ‘It’s jokingly the worst rap album in historical past as a result of there aren’t any lyrics on it in any respect. It’s the very best as a result of it’s the free-est emotionally and finest I’ve felt personally. It’s the very best as a result of it’s like a palette cleanser for me.'”

‘7 Piano Sketches’ tracklisting:

‘bluffing within the snow’

‘after which in the future you’ll …’

‘while you’re a ant and also you get up in an superior temper, about to drive your son to highschool, solely to find that you just left the lights on within the automotive final evening so your battery is drained’

‘resort foyer pianos’

‘blueberry mansions’

‘off rhythm laughter’

‘i spend all day ready for the evening’




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