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On August 20, elusive mega-artist Frank Bounding main dropped Blonde—his highly anticipated, years-in-the-making second studio album formerly known as Boys Don't Cry. Only a day prior, Ocean released Endless, a forty-v-minute visual album, exclusively through Apple Music.

Sea owned that forty-eight hour period and every hr since with fans hyper-dissecting the projects and consuming the creations at a rapid and rabid pace.

1 of the most talked-about songs is "Solo (Reprise)," a ane-verse solo track featuring none other than André 3000—himself one of the well-nigh perpetually anticipated, elusive artists of the past decade. Later previously collaborating on "Pinkish Matter," from Sea's 2012 studio debut channel Orangish, the second pairing produced even amend results. Equally with the majority of his verses, the brief track reminds fans but how necessary André 3000 is—either as a solo, group or guest artist.

I remain committed to the idea of André 3000 beingness a summit v all-time emcee despite no proper solo records and a scattered output of material since his 1994 debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik as half of OutKast. Regardless, every OutKast anthology holds classic or near-archetype status and every André appearance is a true care for for fans of hip-hop, art, writing, thinking, inventiveness, storytelling, and individuality.

I've never heard a Three Stacks poetry I didn't like and neither accept yous. He makes art meliorate.

I anticipate an even greater fever pitch if this man ever decides to focus on his own solo project and simultaneously ruin every other musician's dream for that flavour. Listed beneath are my favorite Three Stacks guest appearances, devoid of any OutKast albums and not extending past the last ten years. Brand sure you lot listen to all of them either during or after reading, equally the man'southward flows and ideas need to be heard to exist appreciated.

ten. "Everybody"

Artist: Fonzworth Bentley
Album: C.O.L.O.U.R.South. (2011)
Producer: Sa-Ra

"Shorty, you killing 'em hard with them lady pants / Elementary elegance / Looking better when you trip the light fantastic / Chest to the dominicus / With your thoroughbred stance / Yous gallop to the rhythms / Of a native drum chant / Your granny must be Navajo / Your mama do rodeo / Your papa practise the Savile Row / I bite you / Ain't no antidotes / The ruby-red blouse do arouse / I come at you like a matador / Does attract horny bulls / All the girls are waiting to run across which one he pulls / Eenie meenie miney meenie prenuptial / Enforcer in the Porsche / In case fools wanna duel"

An understandably forgotten song, this would've been in the recycling bin outside my house (forth with the video) if not for a particularly brutal Three Stacks verse. He intertwines rhyme schemes with themes and imagery of dreams—even when discussing subjects of fiddling substance. A verse similar this is a perfect example of what André 3000 tin can bring to anything he touches sonically—a particularly unlistenable vocal saved by a verse of beauty.

"I got a call from Kanye West, and I didn't know him. He said, 'Yo, I like your period, and I really want to go into the studio and practise your whole album.' And I told him—Dog, I'm really not doing an anthology, merely I appreciate the compliment. I did it because I just wanted to set the record straight that I wasn't an assistant anymore. So I got off the telephone with him and I chosen my homeboy from eye school, Dre—people know him every bit André 3000—and I told him I had gotten this amazing compliment, and I didn't really know where to begin? He told me to just go in the studio and have fun." - Fonzworth Bentley

9. "Deuces (Remix)"

Artist: Chris Brownish
Album: F.A.1000.East. (2010)
Producer: Grand-MAC

"And here I am / All heavy with the words / Where somebody that'southward a nerd / Likely fast forward / Only shit, they asked for it / It'southward hard to throw upwards them deuces / 'Cause when you lot know it'south juicy / You beginning to sound like Confucius when making upward excuses / Hunt the Cabooses until the track gone / I gotta find me a new locomotive / Stop making pitiful songs"

One of the beginning incarnations of superhero André 3000 guest appearances, the already killing it radio unmarried got that much amend with the improver of Three Stacks, who delivered a melancholy-but-deadly poesy to shut out the posse cut remix.

"The music has to kinda motility me in some kind of way. Sometimes it's emotionally, sometimes information technology's just existence at that place supporting another person. Even the Chris Brownish remix—of course I dearest the shell, but at that time a lot of people were on Chris Brown equally a human being. And I know he'd gone through his troubles or whatever and I simply was like—I just wanted to stand past him and be like: hey, you lot know, you can't really charge a human forever and condemn a homo forever. So it'southward really just like a support matter. I thought it was a absurd thing to do." - André 3000

8. Lamentable

Creative person: T.I.
Album: Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Paw (2012)
Producer: Po Johns, Sir Clef & Jazze Pia

"What it ain't / What information technology is / Even if you gotta alive / I learned that apartments are mode more exciting / Than a big ass house on a loma / I used to exist a style ameliorate writer and a rapper / When I used to want a black Karmann Ghia / At present a nigga speeding in a Porsche / Feeling like I'thou going off a grade / Cutting these fuck-niggas off / Negatives in my life / Scream that 'til I'm hoarse / Duck these / Go the fuck off me / Projectiles / Bowwow, yous ain't really got a option / I'm living my life / Live yours"

Ii Southern generals teaming up to conquer, André opted for his rarely-utilized aggressive approach, pivoting from lamenting the trappings of stardom to metaphorically pushing the TMZ cameras out of his face. I never fully understood the hype behind T.I., and tracks like this farther illustrate my confusion: why be boring when you tin can be a genius?

"I've never gotten my motherfucking ass busted on a tape ever before. He saturday me downwardly and taught me something, and that'south the first time I tin say that." - T.I.

seven. "Interlude"

Artist: Lil Wayne
Album: Tha Carter 4 (2011)
Producer: Willy Will

"I tell a nigga all those flows are borrowed / Information technology'southward the pharaoh / 3 Stacks / I woke up in Cairo / Looking at stars and then brilliant in the sky / I thought they were marbles / No car doors / what yous call those? / A whole carload of raw hoes / In a Jeep Defender / Please remember: don't feed the Simba / 3'south assembled like nobody / He'due south a symbol of what'south safari"

Preceded past an aggressive and inspired Tech N9ne poesy, Three Stacks came right on the eighth track off Wayne's 9th studio album. A must-listen, the human being rhymed borrowed with Pharaoh with Cairo with marbles. Then said, "Please recall: don't feed the Simba" - OK in that location, André, leave some meat for the vultures.

A twelvemonth prior, Wayne mentioned his hope for such a collaboration during an interview from prison:

"I've been saying to myself that I really desire to do a vocal with either André 3000 or I actually like my man Tech N9ne from the W Declension." - Lil Wayne

6. "International Player'south Canticle (I Choose You)"

Artist: UGK
Album: Secret Kingz (2007)
Producer: DJ Paul & Juicy J

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"So I typed a text to a girl I used to run across / Maxim that I chose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be / And I apologize if this message gets you down / Then I CC'ed every girl that I'd / See-see 'round town / And detest to see you lot frown / But I'd rather see her grin / Wetness all around me / True, but I'm no isle / Peninsula, perchance / Information technology makes no sense / I know, crazy"

Archetype hip-hop. Nominated for a GRAMMY Award for All-time Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 2008, the imagery, easy-going nature and classic albeit heavily recycled beat soundly bests Mathematics' "Pimpology 101," which featured the same Willie Hutch sample.

"Yeah, I initially didn't want to do it. But that song, the way you lot think of it, it'south not the one that we prepare out to create; it ain't the 1 that you lot hear now. It went through a serial of changes. We have unlike moments where there's unlike songs that he (Pimp C) wants to do that I experience like I don't desire to do or feel like we don't need to practice. Only I trusted his judgment and at the same time he trusted mine." - Bun B

5. "Dark-green Light"

Artist: John Legend
Album: Evolver (2008)
Producer: Malay & KP

"Let's hop in a cab and carve up information technology / I'g kidding / Nosotros both going to where you living / I got you giggling like a piglet / Oh, that's the ticket / I hope you lot more like / Anita Baker than Robin Givens / No, I don't know that lady / So let me quit information technology / I'thousand simply style-freeing / Costless-styling which I seldom do / This is what I'g telling you / To the bed I'one thousand nailing you / Like I've been in jail for two / Years and and then they permit me loose"

Another slept-on archetype poetry from 3000, he installed dual parts hip-hop and fun into the Platinum-certified first single off Legend's third studio album. The crossover success was specifically because—and not despite—the presence of a God emcee on a smash radio hit, bringing hip-hop to the coffee store.

"Afterward we listened to the finished runway, we thought it would be really cool if André 3000 became a part of information technology, because information technology just sounded like something he'd do. So we played it for him; he loved information technology, he wanted to get on it right abroad... So he wrote and recorded his rap very quickly. And from the moment I heard André on it, to me information technology straightaway felt like the album's starting time single. It seemed like the kind of thing that would grab people's attention, it sounded like a keen tape and it felt like information technology would be a large hit... And to me it all the same feels similar that!" - John Legend

four. "Benz Friendz (Whatchutola)"

Artist: Future
Album: Honest (2014)
Producer: Organized Noize

"I told the daughter I'm 'bout to sell the Porsche / I'm tired of it / She go and told these folks I'yard going broke / A smile poured / From my lips / 'crusade if I'k broke / it'due south only hearted / Broken records from broken English language / that's all information technology / Hold upwardly / And if I were, why? / Would you throw a party? / Affection is so convenient when balling / Correction: these hoes don't mean it when falling / I guess that's why Lois can't be with Clark Kent / Fly on a nigga back while he Superman / But if I'm in a wheelchair / You lot still there?"

Don't sleep on this poetry because y'all're tired of Time to come. Three Stacks murders the flow while legendary product collective Organized Noize provide a cute backdrop betraying the somewhat off-putting theme. Rhyming about frugality and self-misidentification, André actually sounds hurt while delivering a sneaky hilarious accept on distrust amongst the sexes.

And don't forget: Time to come came up under the Dungeon Family and his cousin Rico Wade:

"He took me in and more than similar played a male parent function, a father-effigy role. He took me in as a cousin, every bit a friend, equally a CEO. He played so many roles and made certain he was merely always at that place. The Dungeon Family motto is simply being different." - Futurity

3. "Solo (Reprise)"

Artist: Frank Sea
Album: Blonde (2016)
Producer: Mike Dean

"And so-lo that I can admit / When I hear that another child is shot by the po-po / It own't an event no more / So-lo that no more high horses / And then hard to wear Polo / When I do / I cut the pony off / Now in that location's a hole that once was a logo / How fitting / So-lo that I tin can give a fuck about what is trending / Tryna cut downwards on my spending / Regardless of winning / Instead of pretending / And bending over backwards / Over half of these hoes had piece of work done / Saying they want something real from a human being / But saying if / We beingness real persons"

Three Stacks' returned in 2016 similar to Nas on DJ Khaled'southMajor Key album. One of André's best-ever appearances; the catamenia, urgency, subject matter and finality of it all reestablishes the greatness inside the 41-yr-old'south mind. He should rap more often.

"He said, 'I only want you to tell a story. Honestly, I don't care what it is, just tell a story.' When I got the track ['Pink Affair'], I simply started writing to it. I'g just happy to exist a part of that whole motion and his whole movement considering he has become a whole another kind of icon in today's age. I was just happy to be a role of that album." - André 3000

2. "The Art of Storytellin' Part 4"

Artist: DJ Drama
Anthology: Gangsta Grillz: The Album (2007)
Producer: Don Cannon

"Got a cord / Umbilical fastened to a place that can't beget / No landscaping / Or window draping / This old lady told me / If I own't got cipher skillful / Say nathan / That'southward why I don't talk much / I swear information technology don't cost much / To pay attention to me / I tell like it is / Then I tell it how it could be / The hood be / Requesting my services / Oh, don't get nervous information technology'due south / Footstep-yo-game-up time / These own't them same old rhymes / Designed to take you dancing in some order / Niggas ride to me / Women be off in they tub / Exfoliating / with they poms-poms / Yelling, 'Go, 3000!'  / I'm in my any bumping N.W.A / 'A 100 Miles And  / Runnin' / Runnin' / Runnin' / Runnin'' / Summon / Woman / Come in / Sit down / Heard y'all need some plumbing"

An amazing verse only outdone by the No. 1 selection, this is another must-listen. Y'all'll likely run it back instantly, as André hypes up his delivery with the same energy and bravado as the balance of his best storytelling verses. The man has and then many layers and entendres to his verses, it's like he's using Game Genie when he's in the berth.

"They chosen me - I think earlier the Idlewild album - and was like, 'We want to do a Gangsta Grillz before the album.' Of course I was like, 'Definitely.' It didn't current of air up happening. They got kind of busy and it got close to the album. That'southward when the guys called me like, 'Expect, we're non going to be able to do the tape, but nosotros got you a song for the album." - DJ Drama

1. "Xvi"

Artist: Rick Ross
Album: God Forgives, I Don't (2012)
Producer: J.United states of americaT.I.C.E. League

"I'm in my room / Booming / Drawing LL Cool J album covers / With Crayolas on construction newspaper / I'grand trying to fuck my neighbour / I'g tryna claw my waves up / I'm tryna pull my grades upwards / To become them saddle lace ups / Earlier lil' Marc was Jacob / Before them girls wore makeup / Before my voice would pause up / Before we'd tour them milk shake clubs / Before my mama wake up / Before my crumbs would cake upwardly / Before they tell me they love me and nosotros'll never suspension up / Before the time she makes love to someone that I idea was my homeboy / But boy / was I wrong now"

André killed this vocal for over 2 minutes direct in addition to singing the silky chorus. He fabricated Ross an afterthought on his own record and project, which is ironic considering Ross ofttimes saves his best textile for other people's projects. This is the premiere guest appearance, exhibiting every aspect of greatness delivered in his typically effortless period.

"Classic. Basically it was merely when yous become some music that you lot actually dear or a rail that you really beloved, sometimes 16 confined is non enough to really express yourself. We just went to that adjacent level. I call back for people to hear André do what he did; I'ma allow y'all count how many confined he did equally well every bit of form what I did, man. He pulled out the guitar and banjo on this one and he sang a niggling bit on the stop of it. It just broke all the rules of making a standard record." - Rick Ross

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