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Andre 3000 released new music for the first time in 17 years this week. But "New Blue Sun" is not what most fans may have expected. The record has no rap music. What it does have is the flute.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collection of flutists and artists who've used the flute in recent music history—Lizzo, the album cover of Herbie Mann's Push ...

This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.

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