There's not much Dirty South in the new Big Boi single. "Lines" finds the Southern rap titan (with guests A$AP Rocky and the indie duo Phantogram) lashed by the same chill wind that howls through songs by Canadian hip-hop revisionists Drake and the Weeknd. The beat is turbulent and psychedelic, full of moaning synths and tolling piano chords; Big Boi's rhymes mix religious testimony with the usual fleet boasts and taunts: "Received the word, and it molded me like Play-Doh/We don't play, though."

Listen to "Lines":

“1999”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.