Frank Ocean’s debut solo album Channel Orange was the breakout hit of 2012, and now his Midas touch has extended to reuniting OutKast’s Big Boi and Andre 3000 on the same track for the first time since 2010.
‘Pink Matter’ features on Channel Orange and was originally intended to include verses from both the OutKast rappers, although it ended up with just a contribution from Andre 3000 as Big Boi was busy on his own album Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors. Big Boi also said recently that he turned down the chance to feature on ‘Pink Matter’ as he thought an OutKast reunion deserved to be on an OutKast record rather than on someone elses. He’s since had a change of heart, though, and you can hear the new Big Boi-featuring version of ‘Pink Matter’ just here: