Rating Andre 3000's 2016 Features

30 Hours

Does this count as a feature? Not really. Andre's vocals are very nice though, even if he only says 4 syllables.

3 stars. Fuck Kanye for not putting a proper Andre verse.

Solo (Reprise)

This is really impressive. I was very happy when I heard Frank Ocean dropped, but I was even more happy when I found out Andre actually had a verse on it. It really made me think Andre is back. Political bars (So low that I can admit/When I hear that another kid is shot by the popo/It ain't an event no more) and even ghostwriting jabs (After 20 years in, I'm so naive/I was under the impression/That everyone wrote they own verses/It's comin' back different and, yeah, that shit hurts me/I'm hummin' and whistlin' to those not deserving/I've stumbled and lived every word/Was I working just way too hard?), which don't diss Drake by the way. Too bad it's only a minute long. I could've heard a whole album of Andre going like that.

4.5 stars

The Ends

Whoo. No words. Just kidding, there's words

I think this was my favorite verse on all of Birds, Kenny with a close second. When Andre came in all of a sudden on the dope ass beat, I teared up a little bit. His flow was so fucking sexy, it's not even a joke. Sexiest flow of all time. The bars were heat too. (I came up in the town, they were murderin' kids/And dumped them in the creek up from where I live/Bodies, bodies, bodies sprinkled around/We runnin' through the sprinkler lookin' around/Killer would show up with boxes of pizza
And said he had a label recruitin' people/Put that on my grandma and everythin'/My homie said he told 'em his name was Wayne/It could've been me or could've been you too)

Probably the most hauntingly beautiful lines on the whole album.

5 stars

DECEMBA [Remix]

I liked the song as soon as I heard that fire ass ICYTWAT production. But when Andre came through with the hardest storytelling of this year...
It just made the whole song an angelic experience.
Plus Andre made one of the greatest outros of all time. (So he just around killing people but nah dang that don't make sense. Cause his daddy was wrong in the first place so it like fuck that movie, it ain't no good movie, nevermind)

4.5 stars

Junie

This is just like 30 Hours. It offends me that people only want Andre 3000 for one line in their songs. I don't even fuck with Solange. But goddamn. The way Andre sung his only line could make a grown man cry. He gives off that jazzy style, something similar to Cee-Lo Green. But fuck Solange for not giving at least a full hook of saying "Jump on it".

3.5 stars

Kids...

I thought that I'd never see the old classic Andre again. And then his Solo verse dropped and I was excited. But I craved more.
I finally got it on the A Tribe Called Quest album. I'm one of the biggest Q-Tip fans, but this song really is Andre 3000 featuring Q-Tip, as he renegaded him with his verses. Although Q-Tip was close. That back-and-forth in third verse was complete flames. This song is probably my top 5 favorite A Tribe Called Quest songs.

5 stars

By Design

Andre only got a hook. But that's all he needed. The beautiful production mixed with Andre's hard-hitting vocals...
There's not even words to explain how blessed we were for this collaboration.

4 stars

The Guide

Cudi's whole album was an emotional vibe for me. But hearing Andre's verse actually made a nigga cry. He didn't have to kill it. But he did. It's just too flames. The sexual vibe of the track is similar to some of Andre's older work, mixed with the blessed production of Dot Da Genius. Andre killed it (So when did we become so sophisticated and smart/And trying so hard that we forgot that we were animals?/But never her, I never heard a creature make such sounds/It never would occur to people her up-downs/Convertible would murder evil, pup-pup hounds, just been dogging her/Courtesy and real love found, just been dodging her/Mr. Man, misogyny hands, been massaging her/If she ran and blew up her town, shit, I would pardon her), but I have to say, Cudi did pretty good on the third verse too.

4.5 stars

Ranking:
30 Hours - 3 stars
Junie - 3.5 stars
By Design - 4 stars
Solo (Reprise) - 4.5 stars
DECEMBA - 4.5 stars
The Guide - 4.5 stars
The Ends - 5 stars
Kids... - 5 stars

To be updated if Andre drops another verse (or hopefully an album).