Big Boi responds to the viral Outkast sketch from Key & Peele
Last month, Key & Peele debuted a hilarious sketch that unevitably went viral. The sketch tried to answer the question, what happened to Outkast?
The sketch said that the reason we haven’t heard any new Outkast music in nearly 10 years is Big Boi just got tired of Andre 3000 being so weird. Well, Big Boi has seen the sketch and he says it’s “funny as hell,” but completely false.
From a recent Pitchfork interview.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I sent it to Dre, that sh*t was funny as hell. It was funny as hell ‘cause it was way off, but it was funny as hell.”
Big Boi added that the group are just getting back to hanging out together and being friends, emphasizing that the lack of new music doesn’t mean that Andre and Big Boi are not getting along.
“If anybody’s been following me on social media—if we’re not doing music then people think we’re not together—but we’ve been really hanging out with our kids this summer; we’ve been going paintballing, we’ve been going to golfing, we’ve been hanging out every week.
We had a real good summer. It’s been a real relaxing summer for the both of us but you know, we’ve really just been enjoying the brotherhood aside from the music. Since we’ve been doing that all our life, we’re just getting back to the friendship, you know?”
Just because there’s not a new Outkast album coming soon in the near future, doesn’t mean Big Boi isn’t working hard. He recently announced an EP coming soon.
