Andre 3000 of Outkast wore 47 different jumpsuits during recent 20th anniversary Outkast reunion tour. Those jumpsuits are now a part of a museum exhibit at the Savannah College of Design and currently on display at Art Basel. The rapper was supposed to attend the design school before he started rapping and students there also assisted with his Benjamin Bixby clothing line, so it only made sense. Three Stacks sat down with musician Nicolas Jaar on behalf of The Fader and explained his affinity for the jumpsuits.
After the tour's first show, Andre wore different jumpsuits almost every night because he didn't know what to wear on stage. His solution? JUMPSUITS: "I'm like, how am I gonna present these songs? I don't have nothing new to say. So I was like, maybe I can start saying new stuff while doing these old songs. It became a theme where I was more excited about this than the actual show. This is fun, running out in these."
Each one had a different message on them in a short, Twitter-esque way (Andre doesn't have Twitter himself): "I felt like it was cool that I could say crazy thoughts or fun stuff. And I think it actually gets more attention because it is what it is instead of tweeting it. And Twitter, from what I know of, you only have a certain amount of characters, like 150. My space was just right here. Everything had to go here. So I had to squash and edit words."
Damn, Andre 3000, still wildly ahead of his time.
