Revisiting the 2006 Andre 3000 Interviewby The Management

Back in 2006, during the early days of Breakin’ Records as an online record pool, the legendarily respected Urban journalist Charlie Braxton very graciously provided Breakin-Records.com with an exclusive interview with Outkast’s Andre 3000.

You mean that you had an exclusive interview with THE Andre 3000 of Outkast? That was the year of Idlewild, and Andre must have done hundreds of interviews that year. Or, Mr Braxton must have given that interview to any number of the Internet’s premier magazine websites.

No; If I recall, Andre 3000 only allowed about four full interviews in 2006. Four…

Reportedly, large website magazines were fuming, intensely. I also had to threaten a particular Hip-Hop forum to take down their copied-and-pasted rendition of the interview.

Mr. Braxton’s latest book is And the Earth Cried Blood: Poems by Charlie R. Braxton.