So in case you aren't aware, Andre 3000 makes up half of the hip hop duo known as Outkast. Outkast is one of the most creative things to ever come out of hip hop. Growing up, I was too young to really get what they were all about. I heard their songs on the radio, knew some of the words, but that's about it. It wasn't until years later that I realized the poetry and deepness of Andre 3000's lyrics. Their beats and their sound weren't like what everybody else was doing and nobody has really seemed to do it the same way since. While I am a bit of an Outkast fan, I am a much bigger Andre 3000 fan thanks to his recent comeback via a few guest spots and select songs.
For instance, he murders "Royal Flush" on Big Boi's album.
Styles will change. They say change is dang-erous
As a King standing on the terrace
While his partner pointing up at the riflemen
Coward shooter, never know when your life will end
Then live like there ain't no 'morrow
And if one come then this the motto
Now I put message in bottle
You go to the nearest beach and open your car door
And walk to the place where the sea meets the land
Yeah, it's easier to run the street than walk in the sand
Hey, I'm talking young man. As if chalk in my hand
I will take y'all little ass to school
It's cool when the kids call me Sunny, the hood calls me Stacks
The B's call me honey, Hollywood calls me back
Crack and I have a lot in common
We both come up in the 80's and we keep that bass pumping
That's a nega-tive comparison, embarrassing
Unfortunate that if you come up fortunate the streets consider you lame
Ha, I thought the name of the game was to have a better life. I guess it ain't. What a shame
I don't slang. Never slung but I'm one with the slum that has a name well fitting
Plenty cheese getting. No wonder why they call it the trap
So watch your tail and I'm not kidding
The rats and mice will give advice, they say, "you can paint and draw
Get out of here. Go show them that we're more than slanging raw."
That's when I broke into my Big Rube impression
And I tried to enlighten but that night I learned a lesson
That the morals that you think you got go out the window
When all the other kids are fresh and they got new Nintendo Wiis
And your child is down on her knees praying hard up to God for a whopper with cheese
Do you B) hit the street hard with a flair
Or do you A) go to school for heating and air?
Dare make an honest living or make a crooked killing
Or do a bit of both until you're holding on a million?
Brilliant. You got one foot in, one foot out
You put your left foot back in and then you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey til you turn your life around
That's what it's all about. 3000 out
I hear he's supposed to come out with a solo album soon. That's one I will buy no questions asked. Until then, be sure to check his verse on the Walk it Out remix and another favorite I have by his, Chronometrophobia. In the meantime, here's a classic Outkast banger, Atliens (as it turns out, the music video embedding is disabled, but here's the song).
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