André 3000 has revealed that he tried out for a role in 2 Fast 2 Furious that went to Ludacris instead, with good reason.
3 Stacks made the comments during an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last month, that somehow didn’t make the rounds on social media until Saturday (February 17).
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Asked by the show’s host how he had not made an appearance in the popular film franchise, he shared that he did indeed try out, but that he wasn’t a good fit for the role.
“I think Ludacris took the role,” André said half jokingly. I actually tried out. I tried out for Fast & Furious, and Ludacris actually took the role.”
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The ex-OutKast MC, however, confessed that he ultimately wouldn’t have been good as Tej Parker, who Luda has played in a total of seven Fast & Furious films. “[I] wasn’t ready… I was so nervous, man. I wouldn’t hire me,” he said.
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Elsewhere in the same interview, André 3000 detailed why he made the flute the focus of his debut solo album New Blue Sun.
While holding one of his many flutes, 3 Stacks said: “I discovered flute and I started playing it over and over again for years, and I felt like it would be great to share it so it kinda came in a natural way. It’s the closest thing to singing. Like, vibrato is basically a human kinda thing. You’re actually hearing a human’s wind.”
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The Atlanta native also revealed he has around 40 flutes in his extensive collection.
Later in the show, André performed a rendition of his song “That Night in Hawaii When I Turned into a Panther and Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild.”
The 10-minute performance saw him joined by a live band and a traffic cone on stage.
André 3000 spoke about the making of “That Night in Hawaii When I Turned into a Panther…” in an interview with NPR last year, revealing it was inspired by actual events.
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“I was actually in Hawaii and it was my second night of the first time I’d ever taken ayahuasca,” he explained. “We did it like a three-night kind of phase. The first night was inviting and beautiful and the most powerful love and connection with all things I’ve ever felt in my life.
“The second night was different and everybody knows that aya will do you that way. The second night my stomach was hurting, my mouth contorted like a panther and I actually turned into a panther. And I was doing like GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR — like, that kind of thing.”
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He added: “I actually turned into a panther. It was doing this thing called toning. Toning is another way of purging. And toning is where you make these vibrational noises that you can’t control.”
