Well, really it's just Stacks by himself on this brief, yet dense, interlude. After being completely underwhelmed while sampling Frank Ocean's new album
Boys Don't Cry Blonde on iTunes last night, I came stumbled across a surprise about halfway through. I'm glad I stuck it out because to be honest, time has only been kind to 2011's
Nostalgia, Ultra, Frank's lesser known mixtape that is far superior in quality to his debut album
Channel ORANGE. After sampling half of
Blonde, it was starting to just sound like the same ole same ole again. That is, until Hip-hop's savior Andre 3000 literally came out of nowhere on "Solo (Reprise)" steamrolling the minute-long track with more quotables and stray shots than your brain may be able to process the first go-round. The line that is most likely to strike you instantly is toward the end when Stacks appears to blast a certain Canadian,
"After 20yrs in, I'm so naive I was under the IM- / pression that everyone wrote they own verses / it's comin back different and yeah that shit hurts me / I'm humming and whistling to those not deserving / I stumbled and lived every word was I just working way too hard?"
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