andre 3000

James Blake's glowingly romantic new LP Assume Form is here, featuring a star-studded crew of collaborators, including Andre 3000, Rosalía, Oneohtrix Point Never, Metro Boomin + more. Some first impressions as you listen to the album:

Happy Mother's Day from André 3000 / "Look Ma No Hands" features James Blake on piano. Polaroid via instagram:

As we woke up on Friday in a daze, hit by the gravity and bleak finality of one of the most unfathomably surreal and draining weeks of our collective lives, A Tribe Called Quest had just dropped 2016's most inspired and unlikely record. There was no way that this thing should even exist, much less be this fucking good, transcending far beyond all conceivable expectations of what a Tribe record cou

"War Ready", the incendiary, James Blake-produced proper opening track from Vince Staples' new Prima Donna EP, with its brilliant use of that iconic vintage 3000 verse, is already probably our most-played track of 2016. Now you can listen to it on repeat, along with the rest of the EP, below...

Erykah Badu does the Rundgren/Nazz/Isley Brothers classic with 3 Stacks, taken from Badu's new mixtape. Listen to the whole tape below + download BUT YOU CAINT USE MY PHONE now on iTunes.

Erykah Badu reps 214 on her re-work of "Hotline Bling", with a co-writing credit going to arguably the coolest kid alive, 7 Benjamin (Erykah + Andre 3000's son), taking the crown for best version of the song away from off-that-lean Trump...

Normally I'd consider Andre 3000 untouchable as far as covers like this go, but I'm posting this for a couple of reasons: first, Tame Impala kind of holds their own with their spacey, straightforward/reverential take on the song, and also I'd forgotten that there was a video for the original, it's amazing, and it somehow has less than 2000 views despite being on the official Outkast channel: