The LOX Urge André 3000 To Return To Rap: ‘You’re One Of The Greatest Ever!’

The LOX are all well into their 40s and still hungry to get bars off at any time regardless of their age, and they believe it’s time for André 3000 to do the same.

Earlier this week, Sheek Louch and Styles P pulled up to The Breakfast Club minus Jadakiss, where they urged 3 Stacks — who revealed he felt he didn’t have anything to rap about in his 40s — to pick up a pen because there’s still plenty to say.

“Nah, so much to talk about Dre,” Sheek said. “It’s a lot, man. Just how you word it and put it. You don’t gotta — of course we not talking about being in the hallways or trapping and all that too much but it’s a lot. Let us know what you been going through.”

SP added: “Rap about his travels. He’s one of the greatest to ever do it. He could’ve rapped over the flute beats. Straight up. I think rapping about what is he gonna rap about is a good point-of-view. It gives different people different perspectives.”

Watch the clip below starting around the 32:55 mark:

In support of his flute-driven and bar-free New Blue Sun album, André 3000 revealed to GQ that he felt he didn’t have any subject matter worth rapping about at 48.

“Sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about in that way,” Dre said.

He continued: “I’m 48 years old. And not to say that age is a thing that dictates what you rap about, but in a way it does. And things that happen in my life, like, what are you talking about? ‘I got to go get a colonoscopy.’ What are you rapping about? ‘My eyesight is going bad.'”

Lil Wayne caught wind of the comments and pushed back against the narrative about not having anything worthwhile to rhyme about during a Young Money Radio interview with Tyga.

“I read a depressing quote or two from someone I respect a lot in music – in Hip Hop period, in music period,” Wayne began. “And they were asked: ‘Why you ain’t been doing music’ or whatever? And they was like, ‘Man, what I’ma talk about? I’m in my 40s. Like what am I supposed to talk about?’ I was like ‘Wow, that was so depressing. I’m like, I have everything to talk about!”

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Tyga replied: “But I feel like that’s why you gotta stay in it, though. I feel like you can’t be too far removed.”

Wayne disagreed, however, saying that, at his age, there’s a risk that keeping up with current music might be even more creatively discouraging.

“So that’s why I say I don’t listen,” he concluded. “I just go in my little hole. I love what I do. I just put it out and swing for the fences man.”