“We thought 'Dre was going to be happy with it at first, but he really wasn’t,” Sleepy Brown said.

It’s hard to imagine “So Fresh, So Clean” without André 3000 — but it turns out that was almost the case.

In a recent interview with Spin, Sleepy Brown shared that the OutKast rapper didn't initially want to be on one of the duo’s most beloved and biggest songs.

“The funny thing is André didn’t really like it at first. André didn’t like that record. It wasn’t like he didn’t think it was good — it just wasn’t matching where he was,” Brown recalled. “We really just did it for Big. We knew André was moving to something else, but we knew on that album it needed that hood theme. When Big heard it, he loved it. We thought 'Dre was going to be happy with it at first, but he really wasn’t.”

Brown, a frequent collaborator of OutKast’s, then revealed what led to 3 Stacks joining the track: Preston Crump, an Atlanta bassist who has done work for Goodie Mob, TLC, Destiny’s Child, and, of course, OutKast.

“['Dre] was cool, but he didn’t really like it until Preston, our bass player, played a cold line on that song," Brown said. “When Dre heard that, he got excited and came up with ‘the coolest motherfunkers on the planet’ part. He was following that line he heard. Thanks to Preston, that’s the reason why Dre even got on that record.”

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