This year’s Atlanta Jazz Festival features one of hip-hop’s greatest rappers as a headliner — André 3000.
The Atlanta native and icon took a step back from the hip-hop duo OutKast nearly two decades ago. Since then, he has created a new path for himself, playing wind instruments.
In the early 1990s, high schoolers André Benjamin and Antwan Patton joined forces and became OutKast. The two, who went by André 3000 and Big Boi, changed the landscape of hip-hop and helped put music from the city of Atlanta on the map.
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