André 3000‘s new album New Blue Sun has received a makeover from Aftermath producer Dem Jointz — and Snoop Dogg wants in on the action.
Jointz — who worked on Dr. Dre‘s Compton as well as songs with Kanye West, Eminem, ScHoolboy Q and more — posted a series of clips on Instagram on Monday (November 20) previewing a couple of remixes of 3 Stacks’ ambient flute music.
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The first video hears him injecting some heavy funk-infused percussion and André 3000 ad-libs into the opening song, “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time.”
The second contains a snippet of his remix to “The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off the Tongue with Far Better Ease Than the Proper Word Vagina. Do You Agree?” featuring boom bap drums and a funky bassline, which later veers into trap terrain.
After catching wind of Dem Jointz’s remixes, Snoop Dogg hopped into the comments section and told the producer: “Send me this beat asap,” although it’s unclear which track he was referring to.
A number of other Hip Hop and R&B figures also liked what they heard, with Statik Selektah and Marsha Ambrosius both casting their vote for the second remix being the best, while Bryan-Michael Cox added: “Both go crazy.”
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“Anything is possible with you fam! Just wow!” DJ Pooh also wrote, while comedian Affion Crockett joked: “You fixed it‼️ [fire emojis] [crying face emoji].”
Released on November 17 with just a few days’ notice, New Blue Sun marks André 3000’s long-awaited solo album and first full-length offering since OutKast‘s Idlewild in 2016.
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But instead of the lyrically-dense rap record that many fans were hoping for, it’s an entirely instrumental affair that showcases 3 Stacks’ woodwind skills.
The 87-minute album has been met with mixed reactions so far, but the praise in the Hip Hop producer community has been especially loud.
“Now I’m a producer, and what i hear on this album is amazing,” Pete Rock gushed on Instagram shortly after its release. “Some of y’all ears been lost [crying face emojis]. But as a producer what I hear? Sounds INCREDIBLE!!!
“Sometimes embracing a different side of a person isn’t a bad thing. In this business when you been doing the same thing forever you can get tired of it and wanna go left, nothing wrong with that.
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“We had jazz musicians put albums out like this, why not except when 3 Stacks do it? I mean I hear amazing samples on this album [fire] BEATS!!!”
Questlove added in his own post: “I knew this 3000 jawn was a left turn but I didn’t know it’s the RIGHT left turn […] This 3000 record is easily gonna take up space on my playlist for the next few.
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“All you newbie meditators/microdosers/’time-out-for-me—before-I-hurt-someone’ people who are trying to do better — THIS is good medicine music for you […] This album will be a welcome introduction.”
Snoop Dogg, meanwhile, is working on a new album of his own for which the anticipation is high. It’s called Missionary, and marks a reunion between him and Dr. Dre, more than 30 years after they first changed the game with The Chronic and Doggystyle.
