--- description: A teaser clip of All Is By My Side, featuring the rapper portraying the late guitar legend, has been released online prior to the film's upcoming premiere at the South by Southwest music and arts festival in Austin, Texas, next week title: Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in All Is By My Side Trailer image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # WATCH: Outkast’s Andre 3000 Play Jimi Hendrix in 'All Is By My Side' Teaser by [David Winograd](/author/david-winograd/) ## David Winograd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2014 10:40 PM CUT by [David Winograd](/author/david-winograd/) ## David Winograd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2014 10:40 PM CUT Just a week before the much-anticipated Jimi Hendrix biopic premieres at South by Southwest, footage of the film has begun [emerging online](http://www.thewrap.com/outkast-andre-3000-jimi-hendrix-all-is-by-my-side-john-ridley "undefined"). The first teaser for ‘All Is By My Side’ shows Hendrix (Andre 3000) with friend Linda Keith (Imogen Poots), trying to convince her to run away with him behind his girlfriend’s back. The film [premieres](http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/see-andre-3000-as-jimi-hendrix-in-clip-from-all-is-by-my-side-biopic-20140306 "undefined") in the U.S. on Wednesday, March 12th in Austin, and is written and directed by John Ridley, according to Rolling Stone, who [recently won](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/oscars/oscars-2014-12-years-slave-screenplay-rift-reportedly-boils-article-1.1709911 "undefined") an Oscar for writing _12 Years A Slave_. The Outkast rapper said he, “listened to hours of \[Hendrix\] interviews … watched films – watched his mannerisms,” to prepare for the role. Do you think it paid off? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/14914/outkast-andre-3000-jimi-hendrix-all-is-by-my-side/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/14914/outkast-andre-3000-jimi-hendrix-all-is-by-my-side/"},"headline":"WATCH: Outkast’s Andre 3000 Play Jimi Hendrix in 'All Is By My Side' Teaser","datePublished":"2014-03-06T22:40:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:38:08.141Z","description":"A teaser clip of All Is By My Side, featuring the rapper portraying the late guitar legend, has been released online prior to the film's upcoming premiere at the South by Southwest music and arts festival in Austin, Texas, next week","url":"https://time.com/14914/outkast-andre-3000-jimi-hendrix-all-is-by-my-side/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Winograd","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-winograd/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/14914/outkast-andre-3000-jimi-hendrix-all-is-by-my-side/","name":"WATCH: Outkast’s Andre 3000 Play Jimi Hendrix in 'All Is By My Side' Teaser"}}]}] ```