Whatever Happened To Andre 3000?

In the time between OutKast's last album, Idlewild, and his string of singles in 2018, André 3000 lost both of his parents — and he's understandably still struggling to deal with his grief. In his 2017 interview with GQ, the rapper revealed that he was "in a hole" when he signed on to star in 2013's Jimi: All is by My Side, and a huge part had to do with his parents' passing. As he put it, his "mom was everything."

"I was in a creative hole, a personal hole, and I was still not dealing with my mom's and my father's deaths. And really, I don't know if I have still. You know: Just push that away," André said. "The problem with being successful is you can do whatever you do times ten. And no one to stop you. You can easily go down the wrong path and you get into that place. And the thing that brings you out is other people."

André 3000 ended up experiencing two waves of grief for his dad. First, it was the loss, and second, it was realizing his father died alone in his home. "I do miss not being able to talk to him about him living alone and not ever being married," André told GQ. "I think I would have gotten a lot of great insight. I think he would have told me something."

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