3 Stacks explains why his new album doesn’t meet contract terms
André 3000 recently revealed that his long overdue first solo album, New Blue Sun, does not satisfy his contractual obligations with Epic Records.
OutKast star André 3000 shared this news with Touré in an interview, saying that he initially didn’t get the context and even tried to circumvent that part of the contract.
“They congratulated me on the process, they congratulated me on what the work was, but contractually, it’s very interesting. My label will not count this album against my contract — this is as a solo artist,” 3 Stacks explained.
“I didn’t understand it at first and we tried to find ways around it, but I understand it in a way, too,” he added. “My attorney explained it in this way: it was invented in the ’70s maybe, when artists were trying to get out of their deals so they were just pretty much turning in anything.
“And so you have to have some type of legal stipulation that stops you from doing that. It’s something where it says, ‘The next recording has to be 90 percent like the recording before it.’ You see what I’m saying?! It’s in everybody’s deal, they don’t know it ’cause most people are not doing this kind of thing.
“It stops you from turning in 10 tracks of handclaps and saying, ‘This is my album.’ And I get it! But Sylvia and the team, they’ve been so supportive. They know I’m not turning in an a han
