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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Andre 3000’s Best Friend Almost Convinced Him Not to Release “Hey Ya” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: If you were alive in three and within sniffing distance
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  Speaker 2: of any dance floor, you could not escape. Alcast. Heya right,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest smashed by the rap duo that had many
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  Speaker 2: many hits.
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  Speaker 3: It was literally everywhere and still gets heavily played to
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  Speaker 3: this day.
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  Speaker 1: Which is why it's so hard to believe that almost
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  Speaker 1: never got released.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they say, trust your best friend's advice, but probably
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  Speaker 2: not over your gut instinct. Outcast Andre three thousand EO
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  Speaker 2: solos on Hey y'a tells GQ he excitedly played the
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  Speaker 2: track after he finished it for a close friend who
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  Speaker 2: did not feel it.
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  Speaker 4: Even worse than that, he told him that if you
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  Speaker 4: release this, your career is over. His buddy thought it
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  Speaker 4: was way too pop for a rap group, so it
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  Speaker 4: gave andreas kind of like a serious pause.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thankfully, in the back of his mind, Andre was like, yeah, maybe,
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  Speaker 5: but I like it, So.
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  Speaker 2: He respectfully appreciated the honest advice, but went with his
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  Speaker 2: instinct instead. And the fact that it's a Diamond certified
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  Speaker 2: single and that Outcast got inducted into the Rock and
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  Speaker 2: Roll Hall of Fame last year suggests he made the
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  Speaker 2: right choice.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.