Dear Andre 3000,
I just heard you on this new Devin.  You ripped it.  Just like you ripped that Lloyd remix and the “Throw Some D’s” remix.  You’ve decided to rap again, and you’re doin’ it to death.  Glad to hear.
My response to that–if you don’t do another OutKast album, I’m through with you.
I’m so serious, man.  Like no other group, I’m emotionally attached to OutKast.  I remember where I was the first time I heard all the albums.  I remember riding around September 27, 1998 and listening to the preview of the album on the radio in Atlanta, hoping I didn’t run out of gas while I circled streets in Atlanta that I shouldn’t have been joyriding on.  I remember downloading “b.O.B” in the summer of 2000 and spending three straight days listening to nothing else, trying to make sense of what I heard (what I realized was this was the greatest hip hop song I’d ever heard).  You guys are a part of my life, making me one of those people that takes music way too personally.  But it’s only with Kast.
So Andre, could you please explain to me how you’ve been able to jump in the studio with all these cats, but you haven’t recorded in a studio with Big Boi in years?  How the hell, man?
I can’t help but wonder if this is about more than just two people growing in different directions.  It sounds like beef, and it sounds like it’s coming from you.
Honestly, I don’t care what the problem is.  Just fix it.  You’re still ill as all get out, and Big Boi’s absolutely incredible.
Give me my group back.  Even if it ain’t really mine.
Laters,
Bo