Big Boi has recorded “a monster hit” with Kate Bush.
The rapper tells Mark Ronson on The FADER‘s Uncovered podcast he hit the studio with the elusive singer while he and André 3000 were in the UK on their OutKast reunion tour in 2014.
“I have a monster hit with Kate Bush that I’m just holding,” he says. “It’s a dream come true and the people are going to fucking love it. It’s fucking incredible.”
The musician, real name Antwan Patton, also discussed Bush’s ‘Before The Dawn’ residency in London that same year, revealing: “I got tickets, me and my wife, and we went to go see her show that she had, played the live shows.
“I get invited backstage, we have some wine and we talk. And her kid is there, he’s about the same age as my kids, which is cool. And she signs an album for me and gives me her number.”
He called the Babooshka hitmaker and, the following year, they went to “this cool little pub place” and discussed working together.
“Her son was going off to college and she was just like, ‘Okay, I’m going to try to get to something when I get my studio set back up’. And so my manager, being the great, great manager he is, reached out to her manager a couple of years ago and was like, ‘Hey, we need to make this happen.’
“And I just so happened to have the right song that is fucking phenomenal and sent it to her. It had the words on there and she just had to sing the words. And then I wrote my verse and my boy Go Dreamer wrote her parts and wrote the hook. And it is incredible. It’s incredible.”
Although he didn’t reveal a release date, Patton said the track will drop “whenever I think [fans] deserve it”, and will likely feature an NFT element.
