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  "dataset": "André 3000: official releases against unofficial ones",
  "publisher": "RapCanon",
  "url": "https://rapcanon.com/hip-hop/andre-3000/",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "attribution": "Data by RapCanon (rapcanon.com). Free to reuse with attribution and a link back.",
  "as_of": "2026-09-17",
  "method": "Release status is MusicBrainz's own `status` field, not our judgement. Lyric presence and instrumental flags are read from LRCLIB. Guest word counts are WHOLE-TRACK counts: a lyric database knows whether a recording has words, not who said them, so no word here is attributed to the artist.",
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    "name": "André 3000",
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      "title": "New Blue Sun",
      "year": "2023",
      "status": "Official",
      "label": "Epic",
      "contains_rapping": false
    },
    {
      "title": "7 piano sketches",
      "year": "2025",
      "status": "Official",
      "label": "Epic",
      "contains_rapping": false
    },
    {
      "title": "Whole Foods",
      "year": "2007",
      "status": "Bootleg",
      "label": null,
      "contains_rapping": true
    },
    {
      "title": "Crack Addiction",
      "year": "2008",
      "status": "Bootleg",
      "label": null,
      "contains_rapping": true
    },
    {
      "title": "Three Stacks",
      "year": "2008",
      "status": "Bootleg",
      "label": null,
      "contains_rapping": true
    },
    {
      "title": "The Myth",
      "year": "2011",
      "status": "Promotion, no label",
      "label": null,
      "contains_rapping": true
    },
    {
      "title": "Otis Benjamin",
      "year": "2019",
      "status": "Bootleg",
      "label": null,
      "contains_rapping": true
    }
  ],
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      "host": "Rick Ross",
      "track": "Sixteen",
      "words_in_full_lyric": 1099
    },
    {
      "host": "Kanye West",
      "track": "Life Of The Party",
      "words_in_full_lyric": 1085
    },
    {
      "host": "Tyler, The Creator",
      "track": "SORRY NOT SORRY",
      "words_in_full_lyric": 665
    },
    {
      "host": "Unk",
      "track": "Walk It Out (remix)",
      "words_in_full_lyric": 381
    },
    {
      "host": "Kelis",
      "track": "Millionaire",
      "words_in_full_lyric": 345
    },
    {
      "host": "Frank Ocean",
      "track": "Solo (Reprise)",
      "words_in_full_lyric": 281
    },
    {
      "host": "Tyler, The Creator",
      "track": "Interlude",
      "words_in_full_lyric": 143
    }
  ],
  "sources": {
    "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f563a1a9-069b-41ed-8b3b-e1b1a6f5b34b",
    "lrclib": "https://lrclib.net/",
    "variety": "https://variety.com/2025/music/news/andre-3000-instrumental-project-7-piano-sketches-1236387835/",
    "npr": "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-64748/andre-3000-surprise-piano-album",
    "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_3000_discography"
  }
}