André 3000's Best Features Dissected Line By Line

Among them was DJ Ung's Walk It Out remix, where Andre appeared alongside Big Boi and completely stole the

track.

You're new to this part of town.

You're white tea, well to me.

Andre also delivered an incredible verse on Houston cult hero Devin the Dude's What a Job.

Here, Andre reflects on the strange realities of making a living as a rapper, including the impact of music piracy on artists, an especially hot topic in 2007.

We work nights, we some vampires.

Niggas gather around the beat like a campfire.

Singing folk songs, but not no kumbaya, my lord.

Of course, there's one Andre feature from 2007 that towers over not only his own features that year, but really over every other verse put out that year by any artist.

It's one of the most beloved verses in hip hop history, and the feature many feel is Andre's best ever.

So I type a text to a girl I used to see saying that I chose this cutie pie with whom I want to be.

And I apologize if this message gets you down.

Then I CC'd every girl that I CC'd round town.

And hey,

Of course, this is UGK's International Players Anthem, a classic record that unites two hip-hop duos for a four-verse masterclass in contrasting perspectives and styles.

The track's production revolves around a sample of Willie Hutch's 1973 track, I Choose You, a song about Hutch falling for a woman and choosing her to be his wife.

Thematically, UGK and OutKast riff on the idea of choosing, with each of the four international players offering a different perspective.

Pimp C brags about women choosing him, Bun B tries to convince a woman to choose him, and Big Boy warns about choosing carefully, because some women might only be after your money.

But being the romantic that he is, Andre's take is the most sentimental of the bunch and arguably the truest to the sample's original theme.

His verse is about leaving the player lifestyle behind and choosing one woman to be his wife.

But as he so often does, Andre approaches the theme from an unexpected angle.

Rather than addressing the woman he's chosen or explaining why he chose her, Andre begins by describing how he broke the news to all the other women in his life.

A clever way of keeping one foot in the song's player anthem premise even as he prepares to leave that lifestyle behind.

Andre's writing is superb from the very opening line.

Among them was DJ Ung's Walk It Out remix, where Andre appeared alongside Big Boi and completely stole the

track.

You're new to this part of town.

You're white tea, well to me.

Andre also delivered an incredible verse on Houston cult hero Devin the Dude's What a Job.

Here, Andre reflects on the strange realities of making a living as a rapper, including the impact of music piracy on artists, an especially hot topic in 2007.

We work nights, we some vampires.

Niggas gather around the beat like a campfire.

Singing folk songs, but not no kumbaya, my lord.

Of course, there's one Andre feature from 2007 that towers over not only his own features that year, but really over every other verse put out that year by any artist.

It's one of the most beloved verses in hip hop history, and the feature many feel is Andre's best ever.

So I type a text to a girl I used to see saying that I chose this cutie pie with whom I want to be.

And I apologize if this message gets you down.

Then I CC'd every girl that I CC'd round town.

And hey,

Of course, this is UGK's International Players Anthem, a classic record that unites two hip-hop duos for a four-verse masterclass in contrasting perspectives and styles.

The track's production revolves around a sample of Willie Hutch's 1973 track, I Choose You, a song about Hutch falling for a woman and choosing her to be his wife.

Thematically, UGK and OutKast riff on the idea of choosing, with each of the four international players offering a different perspective.

Pimp C brags about women choosing him, Bun B tries to convince a woman to choose him, and Big Boy warns about choosing carefully, because some women might only be after your money.

But being the romantic that he is, Andre's take is the most sentimental of the bunch and arguably the truest to the sample's original theme.

His verse is about leaving the player lifestyle behind and choosing one woman to be his wife.

But as he so often does, Andre approaches the theme from an unexpected angle.

Rather than addressing the woman he's chosen or explaining why he chose her, Andre begins by describing how he broke the news to all the other women in his life.

A clever way of keeping one foot in the song's player anthem premise even as he prepares to leave that lifestyle behind.

Andre's writing is superb from the very opening line.