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title: "André 3000’s Decemba remix with Divine Council and $ilkmoney turns 10, a cult stop on his 2016 feature run"
url: https://badiyaa.com/andre-3000-divine-council-decemba-remix/
published: 2026-11-12T01:00:00+00:00
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# André 3000’s Decemba remix with Divine Council and $ilkmoney turns 10, a cult stop on his 2016 feature run

André 3000's verse on Divine Council's Decemba remix with $ilkmoney went up in September 2016, one of at least eight guest spots he made that year.

Ten years ago this fall, André 3000 handed a guest verse to a young group called Divine Council, and “Decemba (Remix)” with $ilkmoney became one of the strangest stops on the most generous feature run of his career.

The remix went up on Divine Council’s own SoundCloud page on September 27, 2016, credited to “$ilk Money & André Benjamin”, his legal name. His public biography dates his appearance to September 30, the same day he turned up on Solange’s “Junie” from *A Seat at the Table*. Comments under the SoundCloud upload are still arriving in 2026, with one listener in August quoting the hook’s Simba line.

## The 2016 feature run, month by month

André had split from Outkast duties in 2007 and released no solo album at the time. Instead, he scattered verses across other people’s records. In 2016 the pace picked up sharply:

- **February 14:** a verse and background vocals on “30 Hours” from Kanye West’s *The Life of Pablo*.

- **August 20:** “Solo (Reprise)” on Frank Ocean’s *Blonde*, a verse about the state of the world and of rap.

- **September 2:** “The Ends” on Travis Scott’s *Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight*.

- **Late September:** “Decemba (Remix)” with Divine Council and $ilkmoney, plus Solange’s “Junie”.

- **November 11:** “Kids…” on A Tribe Called Quest’s final album.

- **December 16:** “By Design” and “The Guide” on Kid Cudi’s *Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’*.

That adds up to at least eight guest appearances on seven projects in about ten months. In 2017 he made just one musical contribution, a verse on N.E.R.D’s “Rollinem 7’s”, so the 2016 burst stands out even more in hindsight.

## Why Decemba is the odd one out

Every other name on that list was already famous: Kanye West, Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, Solange, Tribe, Kid Cudi. Divine Council and $ilkmoney were not. That is what makes the remix a cult favorite. A Grammy-winning Outkast member spent one of his rare verses on a song from a group most listeners had never heard of.

The official video now sits on the group’s own channel, DIVINECOUNCILVEVO, titled “Divine Council – Decemba (Remix) (Official Video) ft. $ilk Money, André 3000”. A separate behind-the-scenes clip from the shoot, also on YouTube, lists him under his given name, André Benjamin.

The timing also ties into another anniversary this week. Today marks ten years since [A Tribe Called Quest released We Got It from Here…, the final album made in secret at Q-Tip’s home studio](https://badiyaa.com/tribe-called-quest-we-got-it-from-here-10/), which carried André’s verse on “Kids…”. Two very different records, released six weeks apart, show how widely he spread himself that year.

## What came after

André 3000 never released the solo rap album fans kept asking for. His first solo studio album, *New Blue Sun* on November 17, 2023, was an instrumental flute record, and its opening track ran 12 minutes and 20 seconds, the longest song ever to appear on the US Hot 100. He followed it with the EPs *Moving Day* in 2024 and *7 Piano Sketches* in 2025, the same year Outkast entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Outkast’s Atlanta roots still show up in unexpected places, from music to merchandise; Badiyaa covered how [Outkast and Nike made a Georgia Bulldogs collection for the first Georgia-Florida game played in Atlanta](https://badiyaa.com/outkast-nike-georgia-collection-atlanta-florida-game/). For rap fans, though, 2016 remains the year André said yes to almost everyone, and “Decemba (Remix)” is the deep cut that proves it. The video’s tenth anniversary falls in December.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: André 3000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_3000)

*Image: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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