B.o.B featuring Andre 3000 “Play The Guitar”
We believe it’s stated somewhere in the Laws of Man that any song with the credits “featuring Andre 3000″ must be heard as soon as possible (and subsequently slobbered over), so of course, when word got around that Triple Stacks was going to be lacing a tune off of B.o.B’s upcoming Strange Clouds, the cut was quickly deemed The Track The People Would Most Prefer To Be Leaked Like Yesterday.
At midnight, Bobby Ray did man-kind a favor by giving the tune an official digital release, and as cool as it is to hear these two versatile cats finally get on a track together (if you recall, a lot of B.o.B’s early, pre-pop stardom buzz was built on his stylistic comparisons to Andre), it’s really all about Outkast’s “Odder” Half straight owning the track with a breathless verse that hop-scotches across awesome poetic nonsense (“Silver-back stacks/ Jumping out the jungle blowing tiger stripe bubbles with ‘Go to Hell’ bubble-gum”), rewind-worthy stabs of Deep (“My n*ggas doin’ way too much jewelry/ My chain lonely/ But they ain’t know nothin’ about black pearls, but I will show them/ Why the world sleepin’ on black girls?/ Hey, I don’t know man”), clever “gotcha” wordplay (“Excuse me if I’m no exhibitionist/ According to the Internet 3000 got a big ol’ dic–tionary full of words…”) and nuggets of wisdom for the children (“I encourage any child to pick up some instrument/ Cause if you’re mad at your Dad or Mum/ You can grab it and strum/ Eat your cabbage and corn/ By the time you’re done/ You will finally realize that they meant you no harm”).
Is it too early to call this a front-runner for Best Verse of 2012?
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B.o.B – ‘Play The Guitar’ (Feat. Andre 3000) by BreakonaCloud.com (iTunes)
