--- title: Every André 3000 album with rapping on it is a bootleg publisher: RapCanon canonical: https://rapcanon.com/hip-hop/andre-3000/ license: CC-BY-4.0 retrieved: 2026-09-21 --- > André 3000 has two official solo releases. One is flute, one is piano, and neither contains a rap verse. The five album-length releases under his name that do contain rapping are all catalogued as unofficial. Read from MusicBrainz release status and checked against Wikipedia. Home / Hip Hop / Andre 3000 The reckoning · read 17 Sep 2026 # Every André 3000 album with rapping on it is a bootleg 2 official solo releases. Neither one has a rap verse on it. The five album-length releases under his name that do contain rapping are all unofficial. Other people built them out of verses he gave away. By CLERK · MusicBrainz release groups and recordings credited to André 3000 as lead artist, read 17 September 2026, cross-checked against LRCLIB for lyric presence. He titled the opening track “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” Track 1, New Blue Sun (2023) The two shelves ## What he put his name on, and what other people put his name on We did not decide which of these records are real. MusicBrainz carries a status field on every release, and that field is the only rule applied here: Official on the left, everything else on the right. Official · released by Epic · 2 albums 2023 · Epic · Official ### New Blue Sun No rapping Flute and wind instruments. Seven of its eight tracks are flagged instrumental by LRCLIB; the eighth returned no record. Its opening track is titled "I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time". 2025 · Epic · Official ### 7 piano sketches No rapping Solo piano, 16 minutes, seven tracks. No rapping; the only voices are spoken introductory notes. MusicBrainz catalogues it as an Album and Wikipedia as an EP. We print the disagreement rather than picking the one that flatters the count. Recorded years earlier on an iPhone and a laptop microphone inside a nearly empty Texas house, sent to friends, never intended for release. Unofficial · 5 albums · all contain rapping Bootleg Whole Foods 2007 Rapping Bootleg Crack Addiction 2008 Rapping Bootleg Three Stacks 2008 Rapping Promotion, no label The Myth 2011 Rapping Bootleg Otis Benjamin 2019 Rapping The rap albums exist. He just did not make them. Other people assembled them out of verses he had already given away, and those are the only André 3000 albums you can hear him rap on. The album he announced by not making it ## New Blue Sun, track by track Eight tracks, and the title of the first one is the entire press release. Seven return no lyrics at all and are flagged instrumental; the eighth is absent from the lyric database, so we mark it unknown rather than counting it as silence. - I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time 0 words - The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off The Tongue With Far Better Ease Than The Proper Word Vagina Does. Do You Agree? no record - That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn't Control 0 words - BuyPoloDisorder's Daughter Wears A 3000 Button Down Embroidered 0 words - Ninety Three 'Til Infinity And Beyoncé 0 words - Ants To You, Gods To Who? 0 words - Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens 0 words - Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Your Lord & Savior J.C. / Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, And John Wayne Gacy 0 words Where the verses went ## He never stopped rapping. He stopped doing it on his own records. Words in the full lyric of tracks he appears on as a guest. These count every word on the record, not only his, which is the honest reading of what a lyric database can see. The point is not how many are his. The point is that there are any. Rick Ross Sixteen 1,099 Kanye West Life Of The Party 1,085 Tyler, The Creator SORRY NOT SORRY 665 Unk Walk It Out (remix) 381 Kelis Millionaire 345 Frank Ocean Solo (Reprise) 281 Tyler, The Creator Interlude 143 Method, and what it cannot see ## The rule we did not get to choose What counts as official is MusicBrainz's call, not ours. Every release there carries a status of Official, Bootleg, Promotion or Pseudo-release, entered by that project's editors. We read it and reported it. Had we ranked these records by our own judgement of what is "real", the finding would be worth nothing. Checked against a second source, and they do not agree about everything. Checked against Wikipedia's Andre 3000 discography on 18 September 2026, independently of MusicBrainz. It lists no solo rap album, does not list any of the five unofficial releases, and confirms New Blue Sun (2023, Epic). It classifies 7 piano sketches as an EP where MusicBrainz says Album, which is the one place the two sources disagree and the only thing the count turns on. What we cannot see. A lyric database knows whether a recording has words, not who said them. So we never claim a given word is his, and the guest figures above are whole-track counts. We also cannot see unreleased material, and MusicBrainz completeness varies by artist, so a missing record is missing from this page too. 362 recordings are catalogued as involving him in some capacity; 93 of those are credited to his name alone. Discography and release status: MusicBrainz. Lyric presence and instrumental flags: LRCLIB. 7 piano sketches as an instrumental release: Variety and NPR. Independent discography check: Wikipedia. Questions people are asking ## André 3000, answered How many solo albums does André 3000 have? Two official solo releases: New Blue Sun (2023) and 7 piano sketches (2025), both through Epic. Neither contains rapping. MusicBrainz catalogues both as Albums; Wikipedia's discography lists New Blue Sun as his only studio album and 7 piano sketches as an EP. That is the single point where the two sources disagree, and it is recorded here rather than resolved quietly. MusicBrainz lists 27 release groups credited to him as lead artist; every other album-length entry is catalogued as a bootleg or a promotional release. Has André 3000 ever released a solo rap album? No. Not one, under either source's taxonomy. The album-length releases under his name that contain rapping are all unofficial compilations of his guest verses, catalogued as bootlegs: Whole Foods (2007), Crack Addiction (2008), Three Stacks (2008), The Myth (2011) and Otis Benjamin (2019). Wikipedia's discography does not list any of them. Is New Blue Sun really an album with no rapping? Yes. It is a flute and wind record. Seven of its eight tracks are flagged instrumental in LRCLIB and return no lyrics at all. Its opening track is titled "I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time". What is 7 piano sketches? A 16-minute solo piano release issued through Epic on 5 May 2025. Variety described it as an instrumental project. It was recorded years earlier on an iPhone and a laptop microphone in a nearly empty Texas house, sent to friends and family, and was never intended for release. Did André 3000 stop rapping? Not on other people's records. He appears on 362 catalogued recordings, and the tracks he guests on are full of words: Rick Ross's Sixteen, Kanye West's Life Of The Party, Tyler, The Creator's SORRY NOT SORRY and Frank Ocean's Solo (Reprise) among them. What he has never done is put rapping on a record with only his own name on it. How this page works. Every figure is read from a named public database on a stated date, and the build refuses to write the page if the data stops supporting the sentences on it. The verdict above is an argument and you are welcome to fight it. The table under it is not. No update schedule is promised. Open dataset (JSON) · Albums (CSV) · CC BY 4.0, free to reuse with attribution. Cite it: RapCanon (2026). Every André 3000 album with rapping on it is a bootleg. Retrieved 17 Sep 2026 from https://rapcanon.com/hip-hop/andre-3000/ Artist hub Drake, by the numbers Data study The conversion table: what a Hot 100 entry is actually worth Artist hub Kendrick Lamar, by the numbers --- ## How to cite this page **APA** RapCanon. (2026). Every André 3000 album with rapping on it is a bootleg. 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