Andre 3000 Says He Felt Like A Sellout Doing The Outkast Reunion Tour

Andre 3000 has admitted that last summer's Outkast reunion tour was a money grab during which he "felt like a sellout."

"Honestly…I didn't want do the tour," the artist, whose real name is Andre Benjamin, told Fader magazine. "We hadn't performed in 10 years. It was old songs."

"I'm like, How am I going present these songs? I don't have nothing new to say," he said.

Benjamin and his partner, Big Boi, celebrated the 20th anniversary of their genre-bending hip hop group by hitting the stage a series of summer music festivals across the country, including the Governor's Ball festival in Randall's Island.

The uneven performances had some fans crowing that the pair was phoning it in for a fat payday.

At times, it seemed the jumpsuits Benjamin wore on stage, which featured slogans like "I don't know what else to say" and "Art or fart" got more attention than the actual performances.

Benjamin, who spoke to Fader at the Miami opening of a new art show displaying the 47 different suits, admitted the group's act was hardly so fresh and so clean clean.

"I felt weird about going out on stage and doing it again," he told the mag. "I felt like people would be like, 'Y'all are doing all these festivals, 'Y'all are just doing it for money,' And I felt like a sellout, honestly."

Benjamin said he decided to hang a price tag reading "SOLD" on each suit as a not-so-subtle message to fans.

"So I was like, if I'm in on the joke, I'll feel cool about it," he told Fader.

"I'm 39, I got a 17-year-old kid, and I got to support certain things. And my partner Big Boi is like, 'This is a great thing for all of us,'" said Benjamin.

"So I felt like there was a certain sell-out in a way, because I didn't want do it, I knew I was doing it for a reason. So maybe if I'm telling people, 'I am selling out,' then it's not as bad as pretending."

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