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I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I
guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way,
for other things.
I'm pretty lazy. I do yoga every now and then, and I heard sex is a great workout.
Acting in movies, now, for me, is an offshoot to acting on stage during a concert. I love dressing up and during all of my shows, on stage, it is like one big movie set. I am in a different world when I am on stage. There is sometimes a perception that I'm this wild and crazy guy. I'm the total opposite. Andre 3000 is a character in itself. I made him up. It takes a lot for me to do that. When you see me perform on television or award shows I have to get into a certain frame of mind to do that type of stuff. It's not the easiest thing in the world. Sometimes I get tired of doing it.
Although
I hate auditioning. An audition, it's in a room smaller than this and
there's producers and directors and they've seen 100 people, and
they're, "OK. Go." And it feels strange. It's almost like you
meet a girl and someone says,"OK, have sex right now. You don't
have time to get it up.
So
early [on] I was a knucklehead just like everybody else. Fresh out of
high school, doing the dastardly deeds.
Yes I chose my own clothes, I don't have a stylist. I like going out shopping and picking up my own stuff not that having a stylist is bad because some people just don't have time or they really don't know what they want to do with themselves. So a lot of entertainers you see there put together by people they have a team. But I love going shopping and finding little stuff, this and that. Inspiration from movies, old people I usually see walking down the street. Everybody who I meet, I had interviews yesterday and it was like 1-1 interviews, people will come in and they be having some cool stuff and I'll tell them, you see things that may work on you, so you get a collections of ideas.
When
I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene
and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I
haven't seen any of it.
It's not one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what some people call nerds and they are cool with it cause they know what they are. They are so confident in knowing what they are and that makes them cool cause someone aspires to be like them cause they are fine with it. So it's confidence.
Even before I was doing music, I was in drama troupes and doing stage plays before I started doing the OutKast thing. Once we started doing (music) videos, I would get calls from directors and producers. So I would go out to L.A. a lot and I started spending a lot of money on hotels and plane tickets, so I moved to L.A. because it was cheaper. Once I started doing that, I met with a lot of movie people in Hollywood and started getting jobs. Actually before I started getting jobs I took acting workshops and classes. Once I started getting into character I started to like it and like the challenge of getting into character.
Our very first name was Two Shades Deep and my first rap name was Black Wolf. He was Black Dog.
I really don't think I'm funny but if other people think I'm funny I guess it works you know? Timing, I don't know anything about comedic timing but I've heard it a lot in the interviews, so I guess its working.
It may have touches of the period it may be new. Well I'm going to tell you this, its not straight 30's music, cause we're not from that...we're not trying to play true to true. Its still OUTKAST music but it's a perfect fit though, it's a prefect match, it's not like out of place at all.
Looking
in the mirror. They say, when you're high, you shouldn't look in the mirror.
And I did. And I saw myself deteriorating and I was like; "You look
terrible. You got to cut this shit out or you won't make it." And I
stopped. I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating.
I'm addicted to creating. And women. Oh, women.
I'm not really comfortable with guns but I mean you've got to protect yourself, you got to do what you got to do. It wasn't one line, it was maybe three or four but Gary said, 'I'll embellish the character make it better.' And we sat down and had a conversation after I read the script he just asked me questions he said, 'So where is Dabu from? Why is he like this? Why does he act like this?' We made up a back-story, I said I was from the south I sell records out of my trunk.
How
many songs? I don't know of count but we performed...like it's a
musical, I may be seating in a room and start going off into a song. So
its maybe 4,5,6 performing numbers maybe, but don't write it. Cause I
don't know.
I think she's a great person. But I don't think she's the one for me…I think it would be better for another person to motivate her to do certain things.
To
me, that's part of the creative process. I hate it when bands fall back
and say, "We're underground; we don't want to make money."
Because it's not really about making money; it's about exposing
everybody to what you're doing. And I want to do that. It's harder to be
a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than
just to be artistic when nobody understands you. You can just sit at
home and do it yourself and have nobody listen to you.
The OUTKAST movie we finished. I haven't seen it. Like when I'm shooting the film I don't look at the playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did, I never look at it so I haven' seen any of it. I talked to Bryan (Barber) the other day, Bryan Barber directed and he told me it looks phenomenal. It's a musical, it takes place in the 1930's, it's a love story mixed with a gangster story. My character...I play a mortician, the son of a mortician, generations of morticians.
Big Boi's character is this hustler guy who...he has to end up taking over this club, like a little juke joint type of thing and he gets mixed up in smuggling liquor. I fall in love with this girl who comes to town blah blah blah...I'm not going to tell you the whole story, but its done and they're trying to decide right now if they are going to release it in theatres or not. HBO, they want to release it in theatres, everybody wants to release it in theatres but we'll see once the final (cut) is done. They've only seen one cut of it and it got a standing ovation for one cut, the music wasn't even in it. It was kind of like rough pieces, so we pray that it works.
The
world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain
funk.
The OUTKAST clothing line, it was a dream that was started by myself and Big Boi and because of the costumes and stuff that I wear on stage, fans would say, 'Where could we buy this type of stuff.' So we got into a deal with a couple of investors and they told us certain things, you have full control of what you want you wanna do, it was a licensing deal pretty much where they used our name but they say you have to approve of everything.
But it was kinda of set up in a funny way where they would send the approvals the day before they had to be approved so the changes wouldn't matter.
So if you noticed I don't wear OUTKAST clothing, its because I didn't like it. I thought it was a great start. But the actually logo, we are going to do something with it to get control so that we be the taste makers that we are to make it right. I am starting my own clothing label, should be launching by the end of this year or early next year.
I have great people on my team that's been in the business for a long time and I just want to do it right this time, so I look forward to it and hope that you all go in the stores. There's going to be something for everybody.
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