UPDATE (6/22): A day after saying that there was an André 3000 album on the way, Killer Mike has changed his tune. On The Big Tigger Morning Show this morning, he walked back his comments: “I got a huge announcement to make… Dre ain’t gonna give y’all no solo album.”

“I was stoned out of my mind playing, teasing with y’all,” he said. “Y’all done took the joke too seriously. But you know, [Andre 3000]’s always making music. He’s never not making music. So I got a chance to hear a lot of cool stuff … If you want to hear Dre though, I know where you can. It’s this album called ‘Michael’ that’s out right now. There is Dre, Future, and Killer Mike…”

He did say that he and Andrê worked on a different song together that isn’t out yet, one that’s 11 minutes long: “I did hear a bunch of good stuff. And he said, ‘Pick what you want’ — and we picked two records. That was one of them. And we crafted it into a brilliant record. The other record he took back… And then he called me a couple of months later and gave me another record, so we have another record together that’s like 11 minutes long.”

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André 3000 has an album on the way — at least according to Killer Mike, who mentioned its existence in a recent interview on SiriusXM’s Sway In The Morning show. Killer Mike was talking about “Scientists & Engineers,” his new song that features a rare appearance from André 3000. When asked whether André 3000 was working on a new album, Mike responded: “Yeah, I think we fly out in a couple weeks to go listen to it.”

André 3000 has never released a solo album, and he’s only very sporadically appeared as a featured artist — before the Killer Mike song, his most recent credit was on Kanye West’s 2021 track “Life Of The Party.” In the past couple years, the Outkast member has been more focused on his acting career, with roles in Showing Up and White Noise in the past year.

Here’s the interview: