Today, André 3-Stacks has stepped out of his thirties and is likely celebrating his 40th birthday in style with a coterie of notables. That’s cool for him, but here at ACCLAIM we’d prefer to celebrate his birthday by pointing out his most outrageous style choices; from his cosmic costumes in his teens, to his post-Badu nouveau-hippy era, to his final form as the eccentric dapper man.

He may have changed the rap game, but his legacy in masculine-yet-experimental fashion runs just as deep and is an nth degree more bizarre than any time Kanye wore a kilt. Take the journey above as we dissect his most daring looks.

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