Big Boi Talks Why Andre 3000 Won't Be Appearing On The New Album...

As we all know Big Boi of the infamous Outkast is scheduled to drop a solo album soon, dropping the Shutterbug Video, and getting on the promotional train. You'd expect with dropping a solo album his one and only partner in crime Andre 3000 would be on the album right? Big Boi recently sat down with GQ and gave his side of things...

When asked about Why Andre isn't on the album:

Well, basically it boils down to Jive Records. That's how they do it. Jive Records told me my album is a piece of art, and they didn't know what to do with it. So I moved it over to Def Jam. And now Jive is trying to block Dré from being on my record. We can't be on songs together now.

When asked about his frustration:

It's plain stupidity. It's stupid business and it's stupid politics. I mean, Jive Records had [Big Boi's current Def Jam single] "Shutterbug" for three years. And [new Sir Luscious leak] "General Patton" for three years. You see what I'm saying? They told me to go in and make my version of Lil' Wayne's "Lollipop"! I love that song. That was my favorite song when it came out. But how you gonna tell me to go bite another MCs style? How are you even going to open your mouth up to tell me to go and do that? That's the highest form of disrespect ever. So that's when I wanted to get off Jive. And the only honorable thing they've done is allow me to do that. So I've had nothing to do with them. Dré tried to have a talk with Jive and they said, "No, we can't. That's gonna make us look bad."

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