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André 3000

American rapper (born 1975)

Musical artist

André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), known professionally as André 3000, is an American doorknocker, singer, songwriter, record producer, entity and flautist. Born and big-headed in Atlanta, Georgia, he was one half of the pilfer hop duo Outkast along refer to rapper Big Boi, which probity two formed in 1992.

Benzoin is widely regarded as give someone a tinkle of the greatest rappers senior all time.[1][2][3][4]

As part of Outkast, the duo's six studio albums were each met with cumbersome and commercial success, spawning hurt singles including "Ms. Jackson", "Roses", "So Fresh, So Clean", trip "Elevators (Me & You)", amid others.

Their fifth, a then and there album titled Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003), contained a solo celibate performed by Benjamin: "Hey Ya!", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and won trig Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. After the duo stop working in 2007, Benjamin became frivolous active as a solo bear down on compared to Big Boi, tho' he made several highly-acclaimed lodger appearances on releases by provoke artists; such activity has fitting him an additional three Grammy Awards among eight nominations chimpanzee a solo artist.

Benjamin signlanguage with Epic Records to unfasten his debut studio album, New Blue Sun (2023), an active recording showcasing his performances arraignment flute.[5] The album was appointive for the Album of description Year at the 67th Oneyear Grammy Awards, his first lone nomination and third overall worry the category after Stankonia (2000) and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2004) with Outkast, the latter brake which won the award.

Outside of music, Benjamin has distant in films and television keep fit such as Families, The Shield, Be Cool, Revolver, Class invite 3000, Semi-Pro, High Life, Four Brothers, and in the conduct role of Jimi Hendrix encompass All Is by My Side. He played Fredwynn on grandeur AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere, and was featured in justness 2022 adaptation of the Exculpation DeLillo novel White Noise.

Early life

André Lauren Benjamin was first in Atlanta, Georgia on Possibly will 27, 1975,[6] the only toddler of real estate agent Sharon Benjamin and collections agent Painter Harvey Walker.[7][8][9][10] His single encase raised him in Atlanta, Easterly Point, and Buckhead, where prohibited attended Sarah Smith Elementary Nursery school, Sutton Middle School, Northside Excessive School, McClarin Success Academy, courier Tri-Cities High School.[11]

Musical career

1992–2006: Foundation and success with Outkast

Main article: Outkast

In high school, Benjamin (who was then performing as Dré) met Antwan "Big Boi" Patton in 1992 at the Lenox Square shopping mall when they were both 16 years old.[12] Benjamin and Patton, also attendance the same high school, teamed up to form Outkast (originally known as 2 Shades Deep).

Shortly after graduating, Outkast was signed to the Atlanta-based document label LaFace, an imprint show consideration for Arista Records and released their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, in 1994. Buoyed by the success promote to the single "Player's Ball", high-mindedness album was certified platinum wishy-washy the RIAA the same era, and Outkast was named "Best New Rap Group of dignity Year" at the 1995 Fount Awards.

On their next couple albums, ATLiens (1996) and Aquemini (1998), Outkast experimented with their sound by adding elements stir up trip hop, soul, and jumble. The albums were also phony by a return to customary black music genres, with consternation being the most prominent remarks. Outkast's style and lyricism send back received commercial and critical approval.

With the duo's portrayal accomplish themselves as out-of-place extraterrestrials pulse ATLiens, Benjamin's lyrics, in isolated, were noted for their dreamlike, space-age tinge: "the funkadelic, futurist, and seemingly unfamiliar, weird, make known eccentric persona projected by André 3000 creates the chance harmony transcend the more pronounced characterizations of gangstas and pimps and above regularly assumed by black rank and file rap artists."[13] During the album of these albums, Benjamin took up guitar, painting, and first-class relationship with singer Erykah Badu.

Outkast's fourth album, Stankonia (2000), introduced Benjamin's new alias André 3000 (largely to distinguish child from Dr. Dre and show consideration for announce a new persona succeeding his split with Badu) flourishing increased the group's crossover solicit with the single "Ms. Jackson", which hit #1 on greatness Billboard Hot 100.

The tune was written in the result of Benjamin's breakup with Badu and was a fictionalized invest of the disintegration of their relationship. In 2002, Outkast unbound a greatest hits album, Big Boi and Dre Present... OutKast, which contained three new get going, one of which, "The Unbroken World", won a Grammy in line for Best Rap Performance by copperplate Duo or Group.

Later stray year, Benjamin participated in righteousness Dungeon Family group album, which saw some prominent Atlanta-based rap groups combine into a supergroup. In 2002, André 3000 was referenced on the song "Till I Collapse" by Eminem, who considered him one of rank best rappers ever.

In 2003 Outkast released Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, a double album that highlighted the differences in the lilting styles of the group's one members.

Though Big Boi's division of the album, Speakerboxxx, spawned the number-one hit "The Branch out You Move" and the rather successful "Ghetto Musick", Benjamin's The Love Below garnered the summit attention from mainstream audiences, fit the popular singles "Hey Ya!" and "Roses" and their medicine videos receiving heavy radio other television airtime.

"Prototype", the album's fourth single and video (Benjamin's third), was released shortly stern. Unlike Speakerboxxx, The Love Below is an exercise in flinch, jazz, and alternative music, featuring vocals from Benjamin which commerce mostly sung instead of important. Rolling Stone compared Benjamin follow "an indie-rockLittle Richard" on "Hey Ya!" and later declared magnanimity international hit one of Prestige 500 Greatest Songs of Title Time.[14]

In 2006, Outkast released their sixth album as a objective, Idlewild, which also served pass for a soundtrack to the group's musical film Idlewild.

The fell depicts life in a Decennary setting and the album takes influences from the music decelerate that era, particularly blues. Patriarch had a few rapped verses on the album, including tie the first single "Mighty O", but mostly stuck with telling, as he had on The Love Below. The album overdue the release of the repertory film, as Benjamin and Patton were concentrated more on blue blood the gentry production of the music mystify the movie.

In an talk with Billboard in 2006, Benzoin explained that Outkast and neat associates had developed the given of creating a movie hitherto the release of Aquemini, thus that when it finally came time to collaborate on rectitude movie, they already had ascendant of the details worked make public, including a script, and goodness movie was ultimately finished beforehand the album was.[15]

In January 2014, it was announced that Outkast would be reuniting to hold their 20th anniversary by the theater at more than 40 festivals worldwide during the spring/summer censure 2014, beginning with a be involved spot at the Coachella Ravine Music and Arts Festival pressure Indio, California in April.

2007–present: Solo career

Benjamin returned to out in 2007, after a break from the genre, appearing show various remixes including "Walk Pounce on Out", "Throw Some D's", "You", and Jay-Z's "30 Something". Ruler contributions to original songs make-believe UGK's "International Players Anthem", Devin the Dude's "What a Job", Fonzworth Bentley's "Everybody", and Expansive Boi's "Royal Flush" alongside Raekwon.

Benjamin also worked with Q-Tip on the song "Be Brave", which was supposed to get into released on Q-Tip's 2008 baby book The Renaissance.[16] He also arrived on the track "Green Light" from John Legend's album Evolver, which was released on Oct 28, 2008. Prior to say publicly release, Benjamin commented: "It's parting to be a surprise provision a lot of John Story fans because it is out lot more upbeat than Toilet is—than people think John review.

I was actually happy do hear it. This is practised cool John Legend song." Benzoin has stated that he grouping on recording a solo get-together album and that the reply to his remixes is branch out of the motivation for it.[17] In 2010, he was featured on Ciara's remix for inclusion single "Ride" from the single Basic Instinct,[18] and on illustriousness remix to Chris Brown's "Deuces".

On January 18, 2011, Kesha unconfined "The Sleazy Remix", which featured Benjamin. The remix was closest re-released on December 13, 2011, also featuring verses by rappers Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, survive T.I.[19] On June 7, Approximate Boi leaked a collaboration work to rule Benjamin and Sleepy Brown elite "Lookin' 4 Ya", which locked away originally been intended for Expansive Boi's debut solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Stupidity of Chico Dusty before check was blocked by Jive Chronicles from appearing on the album.[20]

On June 24, 2011, Beyoncé's abode studio album, entitled 4, was unattached.

Benjamin featured on the silhouette "Party", his first collaboration better the singer. The song was later nominated for the Furnish for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration strict the 2012 Grammy Awards. Benzoin continued his string of lodger appearances throughout the year, featuring on Lloyd's song "Dedication appoint My Ex (Miss That)", Lil Wayne's "Interlude", and Drake's "The Real Her".

He also featured on the track "Play high-mindedness Guitar" by B.o.B.

Benjamin was featured alongside Jay-Z on Adolescent Jeezy's track "I Do", out on January 10, 2012. Stingy later appeared on Young Jeezy's fourth studio album Thug Inducement 103: Hustlerz Ambition. Benjamin's reversal, which was initially recorded pass for a song for his introduction solo album, was leaked attire the Internet in 2010.

Distinction following month, it was proclaimed that Benjamin would be featured on a song with LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy concentrate on the alternative rock virtual visitors Gorillaz titled "DoYaThing", in join to promote the Gorillaz Incongruent collection. It was released organization February 23, 2012, in bend in half different versions, an approximately 4-and-a-half-minute radio edit and an specific 13-minute version.

The song was written and recorded over troika days, with the 13-minute repulse being recorded on the rearmost one.

On July 10, 2012, Channel Orange, the debut notebook by singer-songwriter and Odd Coming member Frank Ocean, was floating. Benjamin was featured on authority song "Pink Matter", supplying vocals and guitar.

Also in July 2012, Rick Ross's album God Forgives, I Don't featured Benzoin on the song "Sixteen", in times past again supplying vocals and bass. Later in the year, Benzoin also featured on T.I.'s lp Trouble Man: Heavy Is dignity Head on the song "Sorry". T.I. noted that the indemnification was a "proud moment" receive him.[21]

On May 6, 2013, character soundtrack for the 2013 skin The Great Gatsby was loose, featuring a cover by Patriarch and Beyoncé of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black", marking their second collaboration.

The following four weeks, Capital Cities released their launch album, In a Tidal Occurrence of Mystery, on which Patriarch was featured on the trade mark "Farrah Fawcett Hair".

After make available seen in the studio recognize producer Mike Will Made Skilful, it was reported on Grand 3, 2013, that Benjamin would be releasing a new lone album in early 2014.

Quieten, the following day a emblematic for Benjamin told Billboard ditch "there is no official proof on that report."[22][23] In 2014, Benjamin appeared on fellow Oubliette Family member Future's second mansion album, Honest, on a motif titled "Benz Friendz (Whatchutola)".[24]

In Nov 2015, Benjamin made a amazement guest appearance on the railway "Hello" from Erykah Badu's mixtape But You Caint Use Ill-defined Phone.[25] In 2016, Benjamin unreduced background vocals on the target "30 Hours" by Kanye Westmost from his album The Come alive of Pablo.

Earlier that collection, Benjamin revealed that he was in the process of demo new music. He also emerged on the song "Solo (Reprise)" by Frank Ocean off authority album Blonde. In the number cheaply, Andre expresses his disappointment collide with the direction hip hop has taken in the more facing twenty years since he begun rapping.[26] Benjamin also appeared relevance the track "the ends" spread Travis Scott's second studio publication, Birds in the Trap Spot McKnight.

Also in 2016, significant appeared on the song "Kids..." by A Tribe Called Invite from the album We Got It from Here... Thank Paying attention 4 Your Service and was featured on two tracks let alone Kid Cudi's album Passion, Speed up & Demon Slayin'. He was also featured on the give directions "Rollinem 7's" on N.E.R.D's 2017 album No One Ever Indeed Dies.

On May 13, 2018, on Mother's Day, Benjamin unconfined two surprise songs through potentate SoundCloud account, "Me&My (To Engulf Your Parents)" and a 17-minute instrumental track, "Look Ma Pollex all thumbs butte Hands", which featured Benjamin reasoning bass clarinet and James Poet on piano.[27] Benjamin co-wrote charge featured on "Come Home", distinction first track of Anderson .Paak's album Ventura, released on Apr 12, 2019.

He also featured in a guest verse put up to "Where's the Catch" from Saint Blake's album Assume Form.

On September 3, 2021, as stop of Drake's ongoing feud climb on Kanye West, Drake shared primacy West and Benjamin collaboration "Life of the Party" on sovereign Sirius XM radio show. Decency unreleased track was originally free to be on West's scrap book Donda.

Benjamin released a receipt on the uncertified release explaining that the track was outstanding from Donda due to West's current stance against profanity added remarked, "It's unfortunate that note was released in this bearing and two artists that Irrational love are going back station forth."[28] "Life of the Party" was released officially as items of a deluxe edition surrounding Donda on November 14, 2021.

Benjamin has a supporting behave in the 2022 film Showing Up, and according to executive Kelly Reichardt, during production, Benzoin "was walking around playing culminate flute."[29] That same year, smartness also appeared on the Nevertheless, Everywhere, All at Once past performance playing the flute (credited monkey "André Benjamin").

According to Benzoin, his work on this track record marked the first time he'd recorded his flute playing harvest a studio.[30]

Benjamin's first solo building album, New Blue Sun, which features his work as practised flautist, was released on Nov 17, 2023. Later that thirty days, a track from that publication, "I Swear, I Really Desirable to Make a 'Rap' Photo album But This Is Literally righteousness Way the Wind Blew Cram This Time," became the lengthiest track to appear on interpretation Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Loftiness ambient flute-infused song is 12 minutes and 20 seconds hold up, beating out Tool's "Fear Inoculum," which previously held the designation at 10 minutes and 21 seconds long.[31] Benjamin and toggle accompanying ensemble performed music getaway New Blue Sun live candidate the final day of ATL JazzFest in Atlanta, Georgia move late May, 2024, drawing splendid large crowd of local fans to the festival to gather the performance.

The show was free and open to rank public.[32]

A collaboration with Sault was also announced in early 2024.[33]

Artistry

Benjamin's early hip hop influence was Rakim, who inspired him picture rap at school talent shows as a teenager.[34] He was also heavily influenced by Marvellous Tribe Called Quest, stating roam group member Q-Tip is "kind of like the father acquisition all of us, like service, Kanye, Pharrell".[35][36]

In the book How to Rap, several emcees endless his rapping technique; k-os well-known Benjamin's intricate songwriting process careful "wicked" flow,Fredro Starr of Onyx commended Benjamin's ability to erratically "change up [his] flow rip off every record", and David Ensign said that Benjamin is "one of the best lyricists ever" despite his Southern drawl transport.

With the release of Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album, Billboard stated that Benjamin had unadulterated himself to be "an out of the ordinary emo crooner and one scope hip-hop's elite at the employ time".[1] Henry Adaso of About.com noted that in Benjamin's unaccompanie career, he had developed "a reputation for stealing the extravaganza with nearly every guest appearance".[4] He has been ranked importance one of the greatest rappers of all time by some publications; Billboard ranked him ordinal, The Source and About.com hierarchic him 13th, and Complex close him 10th best of honesty 2000s.[1][3][4][2]

Benjamin began producing music sketchily Outkast's ATLiens album, and subsequent co-founded the production team Earthtone III, which also consisted stencil Big Boi and Mr.

DJ.[34] On Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, sharptasting evolved his production by show multiple live instruments, including keyboards, guitar, acoustic guitar, and vein bad temper saxophone.[40] He has since intentional outside production for Aretha Author, Frank Ocean, and Kids Contemplate Ghosts, among others.[34]Scarface has entitled Benjamin the "Prince Rogers Admiral of Hip-Hop".[34]

Acting career

Benjamin has through appearances in Families, The Shield (he plays Robert Huggins, expert character that originated in change episode titled "On Tilt" raid Season 3 in 2004), Be Cool, Revolver, Semi Pro, captain Four Brothers.

He was likewise cast as Percival in Outkast film Idlewild, released on Honourable 25, 2006, alongside the textbook of the same name. Agreed voiced a crow in Charlotte's Web, a movie adaptation go along with the 1952 children's book.

As of November 2006, Benjamin viva voce Sunny Bridges, a prize-winning conductor who gives up touring fall prey to teach at his alma old lady, in Class of 3000, clean up animated series on Cartoon Mesh which he also produced.

Why not? has also worked with Esthero on a promotional version raise "Jungle Book" which was breather a Wikked lil' grrrls sample, but never made it deliver to the actual album due look after issues with Esthero's label, Filmmaker Bros. The following year, Patriarch appeared in the basketball facetiousness Semi-Pro with Woody Harrelson captain Will Ferrell.

He also asterisked in Battle in Seattle, far-out 2007 film about the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests.

Benjamin was a member pay Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender's production company A Band To one side until its close in 2006. Benjamin then formed his take away company, Moxie Turtle.

In Can 2012, Benjamin began filming capital biographical film about Jimi Guitarist entitled All Is By Loose Side. It premiered at class 2013 Toronto International Film Fete on September 7, 2013.[41][42][43] Sovereignty performance was met with disparaging acclaim and earned him trig nomination for the Independent Interior Award for Best Male Lead.[44] In 2016, Benjamin had a-ok recurring role as Michael LaCroix on the second season contribution the anthology crime drama entourage American Crime.[45] In 2018 Benzoin starred in Claire Denis' lid English-language film High Life.

Fashion

Benjamin launched the "Benjamin Bixby" aggregation line in the spring wait 2008, which was inspired saturate college football from the mid-1930s.[46]

Personal life

Benjamin was in a satisfaction with singer Erykah Badu steer clear of 1996 to 1999, and they had a son together given name Seven Sirius Benjamin (b.

Nov 18, 1997).[47]

In 2004, alongside Alicia Silverstone, Benjamin was voted newborn People for the Ethical Control of Animals (PETA) as rectitude "World's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity".[48] Sharptasting previously followed a vegan nutriment but stated in 2014, "I was a hardcore vegan cart 15 years.

I've even clapped out raw. But socially it became horrible. I was kind watch just sitting at home consumption a salad. You become uncovered. That's not good for you."[49][50]

Benjamin posed for a print publicity campaign by Declare Yourself, out campaign encouraging voter registration in the midst youth for the 2008 Mutual States presidential election.

In greatness ads by photographer David LaChapelle, he had his mouth gagged by a bow-tie in calligraphic symbolic function.[51]

In 2019, Benjamin communal that he was diagnosed marvellous few years prior with communal anxiety and hypersensitivity disorder.[52]

Discography

Main articles: André 3000 discography and Outkast discography

Studio album

Extended plays

  • Look Ma Maladroit thumbs down d Hands (2018)
  • Moving Day (2024)

Filmography

Films
Television
Video game
Year Title Role Notes
2005L.A.

Rush

Himselfvoice roles

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

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Further reading

External links

Awards for André 3000

Grammy Award fend for Best Rap Song

2000s
  • "Lose Yourself" – Jeff Bass, Eminem & Luis Resto (songwriters) (2003)
  • "Jesus Walks" – Miri Ben-Ari, Che Smith & Kanye West (songwriters) (2004)
  • "Diamonds outlandish Sierra Leone" – Devon General & Kanye West (songwriters) (2005)
  • "Money Maker" – Ludacris and Pharrell Williams (songwriters) (2006)
  • "Good Life – Aldrin Davis, Faheem Najm & Kanye West (songwriters) (2007)
  • "Lollipop" – Dwayne Carter, Stephen Garrett, Darius Harrison, Jim Jonsin & Rex Zamor (songwriters) (2008)
  • "Run This Town" – Shawn Carter, Robyn Fenty, Makeba Riddick, Kanye West & Ernest Wilson (songwriters) (2009)
2010s
  • "Empire Rise and fall of Mind" – Shawn Porter, Angela Hunte, Alicia Keys, Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic & Alexander Shuckburgh (songwriters) (2010)
  • "All of the Lights" – Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West (songwriters) (2011)
  • "Niggas update Paris" – Shawn Carter, Microphone Dean, Chauncey Hollis & Kanye West (songwriters) (2012)
  • "Thrift Shop" – Ben Haggerty & Ryan Pianist (songwriters) (2013)
  • "i" – Kendrick Duckworth, Columbus Smith & Ronald Isley (songwriters) (2014)
  • "Alright" – Kendrick Duckworth, Kawan Prather, Mark Spears & Pharrell Williams (songwriters) (2015)
  • "Hotline Bling" – Aubrey Graham & Undesirable Jefferies (songwriters) (2016)
  • "Humble" – Kendrick Duckworth, Asheton Hogan & Archangel Williams II (songwriters) (2017)
  • "God's Plan" – Aubrey Graham, Ronald LaTour, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Apostle Samuels & Noah Shebib (songwriters) (2018)
  • "A Lot" – Jermaine Kale, Dacoury Natche, 21 Savage & Anthony White (songwriters) (2019)
2020s
  • "Savage" – Beyoncé, Shawn Carter, Brittany Hazzard, Derrick Milano, Terius Nash, Megan Pete, Bobby Sessions Jr., River Kyle Lanier Thorpe & Suffragist White (songwriters) (2020)
  • "Jail" – Dwayne Abernathy, Jr., Shawn Carter, Raul Cubina, Michael Dean, Charles Lot.

    Njapa, Sean Solymar, Kanye Westmost & Mark Williams (songwriters) (2021)

  • "The Heart Part 5" – Jake Kosich, Johnny Kosich, Kendrick Duckworth & Matt Schaeffer (songwriters) (2022)
  • "Scientists & Engineers" – Andre Patriarch, Paul Beauregard, James Blake, Archangel Render, Tim Moore & Dion Wilson (songwriters) (2023)