“I sent it to Frank and he was like, ‘Ok cool.’ You know, Frank likes to take time, so of course it was years later. I was in California and I heard that Frank was doing this event where he was releasing his magazine Boys Don't Cry. And so me and my girl went down to the magazine stand to just support it, to pick up the magazine and the album Blonde was actually in the magazine.”
Andre also had no idea that James Blake played on the song. He didn't hear the final version of "Solo (Reprise)" until he was listening to the album in his car.
“So we’re riding home and we put the Blonde CD in,” he shared. “We’re listening and like, ‘Oh, this is jamming.’ Then my voice comes on! [Laughs] Out of nowhere. He didn’t tell us that it was coming out. I never heard it until it was on the album, and it was completely different. I laid it down to this whole beat and he took my verse from that beat and then — it was the genius of Frank — he put it on piano alone. No beat, just me and the piano.
“But I didn’t know that I was on the album until I was riding home as a fan listening to Blonde. It was surprising that he just left my verse alone as it is on the album.”
