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The Tip Jar Volume One, 2008
Written by André Benjamin, 2003
It's Cover Time!
Normally, I'm not a great fan of white artists doing acoustic covers of rap; it's either a bit too much like whitewashing — Pat Boone cleaning up Little Richard's wild genius for bigoted suburbanites — or too winking and ironic: "Look how transgressive I am! I'm a rich white person singing urban lingo!" But Parker seems to mean every syllable of this Outkast classic. He doesn't slow it down as a joke; he's reflecting the broken heart at the core of the song. His impassioned vocals pull the song's buried sadness into the open, revealing the fragile emotion that was always there beneath the celebratory performance.
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