The title track from rapper, songwriter, and musician André 3000's latest solo record New Blue Sun, ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a “Rap” Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time,' has entered the Billboard Hot 100, making it the longest-ever track to enter the charts at 12 minutes 20 seconds. An entirely instrumental flute album, André's solo debut New Blue Sun was released earlier this month, his first in 17 years, following OutKast’s sixth and final studio effort, 2006’s ‘Idlewild.'

Previous title-holders for longest track include American prog metal band Tool, who released a 10 minute and 21 second long cut, ‘Fear Inoculum,' in August 2019 – debuting on the Hot 100 charts at number 93. ‘Fear Inoculum’ dethroned the previous longest track, which was David Bowie's nearly 10 minute song ‘Blackstar.'

‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a “Rap” Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time’ marks André 3000’s first song to reach the Billboard Hot 100 since his 2012 collaboration with B.O.B, ‘Play the Guitar.' The title for longest chart topping song, however, belongs to none other than Taylor Swift, for her 2021 release ‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault).'

Thematically centring around wind, the instrumental album marks an artistic departure from the former half of Outkast's previous work as a rapper and vocalist. “I've been interested in winds for a long time," Andre said of the new release, "so it was just a natural progression for me to go into flutes."

"There aren’t any rhymes on this LP. In fact, there aren’t any words," he added. "It’s a fully instrumental record with long-running songs and equally long-winded titles."

“I just like messing with instruments and I gravitated mostly toward wind..."

Listen to 'I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a “Rap” Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time' below: