The one Juicy J song André 3000 wishes he was featured on
Tuning into a hip-hop radio station during the early 2010s would necessarily mean hearing ‘Bandz a Make Her Dance’ or its remix. Juicy J’s single, which featured Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz, was a big hit following its 2012 release, and its remix took it to another level. But this remix, it turns out, could easily have been even better.
A legendary artist had originally really wanted to feature on the remix, which, in the end, brought French Montana, Wiz Khalifa, B.o.B and LoLa Monroe on board. That artist was André 3000, who, in 2024, appeared on The Shop and spoke about it.
“There were songs that I wanted to get on so bad,” he said. “There was a very famous Wayne song, and I think Juicy J was on it…” He started clapping the beat and someone pointed out that the track he was talking about was ‘Bandz A Make Her Dance.’
“I tried,” he said, speaking about his attempts to write a verse for the song’s remix. “I tried all different kinds of ways… I’m a writer. I’m not a freestyle [person]. I pen things. I do try out things to myself, in my head, to see if it’s working. I just couldn’t get it working.”
André claims that he really tried to figure it out, but, for whatever reason, nothing really flowed. “Man,” he said. “I wanted to be on that so bad.”
The song’s co-producer, Mike WiLL Made It, knew about André’s interest in featuring on the remix, because, as Mike revealed in a conversation with MTV in 2013, the Outkast legend called him up personally to tell him about it.
“We talked on the phone and he was telling me like, ‘Yo man, I’m a fan of your music,’” Mike revealed, before revealing his doubts that he really was speaking with the André 3000. He apparently had to ask, “This is Three Stacks, right?”
It was. “He said, ‘I’m a fan of your music, I’ve been listening to your music and ‘Bandz A Make Her Dance’ was my favorite song. I wanted to get on the remix but I wasn’t feeling my verses,’” Mike explained.
Mike, naturally enough, was skeptical that the verses weren’t up to scratch—they’d been written by André 3000, after all. How bad could they really have been?
“They couldn’t have been wack,” Mike concluded, probably not unreasonably. But, for whatever reason, André wasn’t feeling them and the opportunity to appear on that particular track passed him by.