Songs
"Turns Me On" has a comical beat and multiple vocals, including 1950s-styled vocals during a break in the song. "Follow Us" features fractured, Afrobeat guitar phrases, sleazy synthesizer, and a pop refrain by Vonnegutt. "Shutterbugg" has a robotic stutter, falsetto refrain, female whispers, and described by The Guardian's Hattie Collins as "a futuristic, brain-crunching slice of jittery electro hop". "Tangerine" features blunt lyrics concerning strip club themes and a lascivious guest rap by T.I. The song incorporates various musical elements, including exotic Afro-polyrhythms, psychedelic instrumental effects, booming bass, tribal beats, synthesizer vamps, and slow, reverbing grunge rock guitar. Tom Breihan notes that the song "somehow simultaneously sounds like strip-club ass-shake material and Funkadelic covering Morricone", while music journalist Alexis Petridis writes that it "improbably burst into something that most closely resembles a P-Funk take on the mid-60s Batman theme. The lyrics, meanwhile, come in a breathless blur of druggy non-sequiturs and pop-culture references, some of it frankly baffling".
"You Ain't No DJ" has a manic beat. "Be Still" features angelic crooning by Janelle Monáe. "Fo Yo Sorrows" features funk musician George Clinton performing the hook and has been described as "a seamless blur of old school Atlanta bass, current-day glitch-hop and Funkadelic-style psychedelia". It has a tinkling beat and dense bass synthesizer. "Night Night" features guest vocals by Joi and surrealistic horn and synth arrangements of horns and synths. "The Train, Pt. 2" has vocal manipulation, melodic phrasing by vocalist Sam Chris, a romantic synth melody, and a sitar-like guitar. "Back Up Plan" features turntable scratching and female vocalists responding to Big Boi's rapping.
Several tracks on Sir Lucious Left Foot contain humorous skits with dialogue from additional vocalists, including Chris Carmouche, Dax "Dirty Dr." Rudnak, Big Rube, Henry Welch, and Keisha Atwater. Welch and Carmouche are featured in a skit at the beginning of "Be Still", in which they make a reference to "tea bagging". Dax Rudnak concludes "General Patton" with a skit about a sex maneuver called "the David Blaine", which according to the skit is "when you’re making love to someone from behind, then have a friend take over and you run to a window and wave at your partner". In an interview for Time Out Chicago, Big Boi was asked whether he " taking credit for this, or is this something people do?", to which he responded "Yeah, man! You know, man, they do it now!".
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