Life of the party, written by Kanye West and Andre 3000 in November of 2021 offers a spin on the contemporary text within a rap song. Highlighting the text of  Andres 3000 verse, where he seems to poetically flow his words in a unique rhythmic fashion very different than most songs or raps.

Andre 3000 first stanza reads

Hey, Miss Donda
You run into my mama, please tell her I said “Say something”
I’m startin’ to believe ain’t no such thing as Heaven’s trumpets
No after-over, this is it, done
If there’s a Heaven, you would think they’d let ya speak to your son

Andre 3000 begins his stanza on an unknown cliff, speaking of a miss donda, the melody seems to act as a yearning plead .with non conventional breaks and messages directed to this miss donda, yet the reader still is connected to the magnitude of his lack of connection to his mama. Andre 3000 continues to plead and hope, offering a  raw, real expression of poetry .However what catches my attention the most are the 4 lines he delivers in a choppy,stutter flow and attitude offering the idea he is speaking beyond the melody and rhythm, simply speaking from the heart.

the second stanza

Maybe she has in the form of a baby’s laugh
I heard passing by in a stroller reminding me, “Hey, keep rolling”
I don’t know, maybe she has with a prick of a blade of grass
I’ve been laying on way too long, got me itchy
Got up and roamed a lil’ more

this controlled choppy poetic flow continues as his language offers the idea his mom is gone, using elements like grass and a baby to spark this idea in him she may be beyond the physical and he must, ” keep rolling”. Effectively Invoking a deep emotional connection between the reader and his expired message to mama. This puts the reader in a world beyond the text. In which that is simply what poetry is , offering complex text to depict in order to attempt to understand the inspiration of the poem.