“And here I am / All heavy with the words / Where somebody that's a nerd / Likely fast forward / But shit, they asked for it / It’s hard to throw up them deuces / ‘Cause when you know it’s juicy / You start to sound like Confucius when making up excuses / Chase the Cabooses until the track gone / I gotta find me a new locomotive / Stop making sad songs” So I got off the phone with him and I called my homeboy from middle school, Dre-people know him as 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 I did it because I just wanted to set the record straight that I wasn’t an assistant anymore. He said, ‘Yo, I like your flow, and I really want to go into the studio and do your whole album.’ And I told him-Dog, I’m really not doing an album, but I appreciate the compliment. “I got a call from Kanye West, and I didn’t know him. A verse like this is a perfect example of what André 3000 can bring to anything he touches sonically-a particularly unlistenable song saved by a verse of beauty. He intertwines rhyme schemes with themes and imagery of dreams-even when discussing subjects of little substance. An understandably forgotten song, this would’ve been in the recycling bin outside my house (along with the video) if not for a particularly savage Three Stacks verse.
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