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André 3000 Says It Sometimes Feels"Inauthentic" For Him To Rap "I Don't Have Anything To Talk About In That Way...I'm 48 Years Old”

"I've worked with some of the newest, freshest, youngest, and old-school producers. I get beats all the time. I try to write all the time." But rap is not what comes. "Even now people think, Oh, man, he's just sitting on raps, or he's just holding these raps hostage. I ain't got no raps like that. It actually feels... sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don't have anything to talk about in that way. 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.' You can find cool ways to say it, but..."