In the course of his cam­paign, Bernie Sanders has unsur­pris­ing­ly been receiv­ing approval from a num­ber of fig­ures on the Left, includ­ing Noam Chom­sky and new­ly mint­ed British Labour Par­ty leader Jere­my Cor­byn. Last Fri­day, how­ev­er, he received the back­ing of some­one which few, if any, saw com­ing: Outkast’s Big Boi.

Sanders has received endorsements from a number of musicians already, including Killer Mike, Lil B, Julian Casablancas and Diplo.

Appear­ing on the Rap Radar Pod­cast last Fri­day, the Geor­gia-born rap­per told hosts Elliott Wil­son and Bri­an ​“B.Dot” Miller that he was behind the Inde­pen­dent from Ver­mont based on his stance against the unjust U.S. prison system.

“I’m for Bernie Sanders because he’s with prison reform and things like that,” he said. ​“I’m for any­thing that’s help­ing the good of peo­ple and help­ing peo­ple get out of pover­ty and get­ting peo­ple sen­tenced to these long unjust prison sen­tences out of jail and the legal­iza­tion of mar­i­jua­na, I’m for that.”

The sur­prise back­ing came after Big Boi was ques­tioned about his ear­li­er admis­sion to the Huff­in­g­ton Post that he was a lib­er­tar­i­an, and that he had vot­ed for Lib­er­tar­i­an Par­ty can­di­date Gary John­son in the 2012 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. At the time, he had couched his stance in sim­i­lar views, explain­ing that he was for ​“any­thing that ben­e­fits the pub­lic and not just big bank­ing”; the rap­per now eschews the lib­er­tar­i­an label and says he’s a ​“human­i­tar­i­an.”

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Big Boi’s back­ing of Sanders fol­lows the Senator’s adop­tion of a wide-rang­ing racial jus­tice plat­form, prompt­ed by wide­ly pub­li­cized cam­paign dis­rup­tions by the Black Lives Mat­ter move­ment in August. Among oth­er things, the plat­form pro­pos­es the demil­i­ta­riza­tion of the police, manda­to­ry body cam­eras for law enforce­ment offi­cers, the dis­man­tling of pri­vate pris­ons, and bring­ing an end to the ​“War on Drugs.”

Sanders has received endorse­ments from a num­ber of musi­cians already, includ­ing Killer Mike, Lil B, Julian Casablan­cas and Dip­lo, as well as less sur­pris­ing names like Jack­son Browne, Roger Waters, Neil Young and Thurston Moore of Son­ic Youth. He’s also picked up endorse­ments from celebri­ties like Will Fer­rell, Pat­ton Oswalt, Sarah Sil­ver­man and Daniel Craig, who donat­ed $47,000 to a super-PAC which claims to sup­port, but is not affil­i­at­ed with, the Sanders campaign.

Don­ald Trump, the cur­rent GOP front-run­ner, has also received his share of celebri­ty endorse­ments, includ­ing such lumi­nar­ies as Gary Busey, Char­lie Sheen, Ted Nugent and Hulk Hogan, who recent­ly had to apol­o­gize after an audio tran­script sur­faced of him launch­ing into a racist tirade. Most recent­ly, Trump poached an endorse­ment by Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robert­son from fel­low Repub­li­can can­di­date, Louisiana Gov­er­nor Bob­by Jindal.

As the 2016 race to the White House quick­ly becomes the bat­tle of celebri­ty endorse­ments, it has to be asked: Where does Andre 3000 stand?

Update: This post orig­i­nal­ly char­ac­ter­ized Big Boi’s state­ments as an ​“endorse­ment” of Bernie Sanders. While Big Boi did say he backed Sanders, he lat­er in the pod­cast insist­ed that he was not ​“endors­ing” anybody.