It was an urban legend on the deep forums. The story went that in late 2012, a small boutique label had prepped a reissue of Solange’s Hadley St. Dreams EP. But it wasn't the official tracklist. It was a folder, compressed into a .zip, containing the raw, unmastered stems, and rumored to include a track that never saw the light of day—a collaboration with a producer who had vanished from the industry entirely.
: Illicit rips are often compressed at sub-standard bitrates (e.g., 128kbps), ruining the complex, multi-layered production engineered by Mark Ronson and Jack Splash.