LL Cool J slams André 3000's flute album: André responds

Listen, he is amazing. His bars are all the way up. Not the flute, B. Not the flute. Let's not lie to ourselves. I don't wanna hear him do the flute. You wanna hear me do a violin album? I wanna hear him get with Big Boi, I want them to make an OutKast [album] or [for him] to do a solo album. Every time he does a verse, it's enough material for an album! He's so gifted. So it's like, �Come on, B. Not the flute.' That man needs to know the truth.

To me, I feel like if it's in you � 'cause I got homies my age and older than me that still rap � so if it's in you, you should rap until you die. You should perform until you die,

But what I'm saying is, what it takes for me to do it, I'm always looking for the next. I'm not trying to uphold a thing that I've done before. Of course, I have things to say now, but if I can't say them in a fresh, innovative way, if I feel like I'm just hanging onto the same flow that I used to do, it's not enough for me.

People think, �Oh, man, he's just sitting on raps or holding these raps hostage.' I'm like, �I ain't got no raps like that. It actually sometimes feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don't have anything to talk about in that way. I'm 48 years old, and not to say that age is a thing that dictates what you rap about, but in a way it does. Like, what am I gonna rap about? I gotta get a colonoscopy? My eyesight is going bad?

This is the realest thing that's coming right now. Not to say that I would never [rap] again, but the [song] title, you know, �I Really Wanted To Make A Rap Album, But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time' because this album is about wind and breathing.

In that way, it is true. It is literally blowing me this way and I'm blowing flutes and I'm blowing digital instruments.