André 3000 Wears Piano On His Back at Met Gala 2025, Releases Surprise EP '7 Piano Sketches'
André 3000 strapped a piano to his back for his look at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday evening (May 5) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The 49-year-old rapper, singer and songwriter showed up to the annual event with his own musical instrument, and while on his way, he dropped a surprise EP titled 7 Piano Sketches.
“I had a piano in my house, and sometimes I would record ideas, or record myself improvising and making up stuff from scratch,” he told GQ of the songs. “A lot of these little moments or songs, they were just fun pieces that I would email to my son, or I would email them to Erykah [Badu], or to my stepdad or other musicians like Q-Tip or Tyler the Creator. If they look in the history of their phones, they’ll find some of these pieces.”
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“When I listened back to ‘em, I was like, this is pretty interesting. So I wanted to make a collective out of them. I think it’s a cool piece of music that people might want to have in their arsenal,” he added.
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For his Burberry x Benji Bixby jumpsuit look, André worked with Law Roach and Burberry‘s chief creative officer Daniel Lee, and he actually came up with the piano idea himself!
“When Burberry asked me to collaborate with them on the Met and help curate the table, the first person I thought about was André,” Law told GQ. “And they kind of went crazy, because Daniel is a huge fan.”
“When I heard about the piano, I was like, Only him. He’s the only one,” Law said.
André added, “It’s saying a lot for this little bitty piano album, which is kind of hilarious to me.”
If you missed it, André‘s hip hop duo OutKast was recently announced as a 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee!
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