Outkast-medlemmen högaktuell i Jimi Hendrix-filmatisering - förklarar hur han kan respektera kvinnor och samtidigt gilla "kvinnofientlig musik".

Många förfärades av den kvinnosyn Outkast förmedlade i samband med sitt Skandinavien-besök i somras då Andre 3000 och Bib Boi framträdde på Öya-festivalen samt Way Out West i Göteborg. Spelningarna delade festivalbesökare i två läger och skapade en debatt om manschauvinistiska inslag i rap samt hur amerikansk populärkultur normaliserat kroppsfixering och stereotypa könsroller.

I en ny intervju med tidningen The Fader berättar André 3000 nu om sin relation med kvinnor, och förklarar hur han kan vara både feminist och respektera så kallad “misogyn rap”.

Do you consider yourself a feminist?

Ah, yeah. Of course. Because I’ve grown up in this male-dominated world I think I kinda get beside myself sometimes about things, but for the most I am definitely a feminist. I want the equality of things.

You’ve said that it’s “rebellious” to make music about loving women. Are you surprised by a song like K Camp’s “Cut Her Off,” which is so flagrantly foul toward women?

One thing rap has done is let people build up these personalities. Really, most of the guys that say that kind of stuff, it’s for pure protection. They’ve probably been hurt at one point in time or they’re tying to build this wall or trying to let future women know: “Don’t try it with me.” I’ve been guilty of it, too, in my earlier raps, and I know my mom raised me much better than what I’d been talking. But you do it because you wanna impress people around you, you wanna feel invincible, you wanna feel tough. And that’s a part of rap. You never wanna have any kind of weak links. Part of that is you never let a woman be powerful enough to infiltrate and get to you. So to make it seem like it’s nothing, it ain’t nothin to cut that bitch off—and I mean, I can’t speak for K Camp personally—but as a whole, you’re always gonna have that armor. It’s really armor. And “Cut Her Off” is a great song because it’s an emotion, and he’s being true about it in that moment, and it sounds great. K Camp really got down last year.

André 3000 är aktuell i rollen som Jimi Hendrix i filmen “Jimi: All Is By My Side” som nyligen hade premiär i USA. Se Andre besöka David Latterman nedan:

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//Kingsize.no