Andre 3000 Claims To Have Several Diss Tracks In The Vault

“If ni**as say some slick sh*t, lines will come to your head immediately.”

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Andre 3000 recently covered Crack Magazine where he gave his stance on the historic Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef, and revealed that he has “several” unreleased disses of his own in the vault. However, he says he writes them as “good exercise” with no intentions of them ever hitting the airwaves.

“You have feelings,” he explained. “If ni**as say some slick sh*t, lines will come to your head immediately.” He also expressed that even if someone calls him out of his name, the things that can happen once verbal disrespect has gone too far “simply don’t interest him.”

Speaking on the Kendrick-Drake beef, 3K admitted that it made him emotional. “I got a little sad, at a certain point,” he said. “In early rap battles, you had kids in the park rapping against each other. But it’s not just people rapping now. You got people with 100 employees. You have livelihoods, empires, companies, deals – all of it can be jeopardized.”

André 3000 on the Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake beef

“I got a little sad, at a certain point. In early rap battles, you had kids in the park rapping against each other. But it’s not just people rapping now.”

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“If you don’t have anything to lose, sure, go for it. But if I already made it, I’m not sure it’s even worth it any more,” he shared.

As there isn’t any known beef between Andre 3000 and any other rapper, Dungeon Family’s Kawan Prather fantasized about someone challenging the Outkast rapper’s pen in 2017.

“I wish somebody would diss him so we can really actually see it,” he reportedly told HipHopDX at the time. “No one’s ever had the audacity to do it.” Prather even brought up 3K’s “The Whole World” verse, saying that “[It’s] an invitation for somebody to diss him. Listen to that verse: ‘I wish you would.’”

The only time the New Blue Sun flutist ever mentioned another artist taking some sort of dig at him is when Prince allegedly gave a critique of “Hey Ya.”

“I didn’t know how to take it,” Andre told Questlove on his Supreme podcast back in December. “This is my hero. He said, ‘I like that song, ‘Hey Ya,’ man, like, I thought I was the only person who did songs in those tempos.’ That’s what he said to me. I didn’t know if he was like, ‘Mmm. Take that, ni**a.’”

3000 added that Prince could have taken another dig at him when he asked him for suggestions for his next single. “I say, ‘Well, what do you think the next single should be?’ Then he said another Prince thing; he said, ‘In my day, we only had one shot.’ Basically, he was saying, it don’t matter now, whatever you do, it don’t matter. And I didn’t know how to take that either. It’s like, okay, cool,” he concluded.

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