al ship's top 50 rap/r&b crossover singles of the 00s -- which is your favorite?

the top two should not be the top two

no one should have voted for "empire state of mind" ffs! how tin must one's ears be to consider that better than anything else here?

i voted j-lo

or possibly truth hurts, can't remember

ain't it funny is a good one

it
must
be the ass!

otm

sort of want to hold forth about how much best of me means to me but i feel sure tim finney has done it already somewhere on ilx.

i was the "locked up" vote!

"my love" probably wouldn't have made my top 25

me neither tbh

feel like this poll got a lot of votes from ppl who can recall like three of these tunes

I also support the banning of figments of my imagination from polls

f u

changed my vote to 'i'm a flirt' because it is just so joyful

voted where the party at.

have to say og best of me >>>>> jay-z one but i know i'm in the minority here. jada kills that track.

I voted Slow Jamz but thought about Next Episode...should have put it down for my city/coast

I've never heard "My Love"

Cool that someone voted Young Gunz!

voted 'no better love'

vandross samples 4 all time

― blap...tremendo (deej), Friday, August 6, 2010 6:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I voted 'My Love', partly because I feel guilty leaving it out my ballot on the 2005-09 poll, but mostly cos it genuinely is my favourite here. That I know anyway - there's a lot I don't, so will be checking those out shortly.

yeah i could gripe about how i'm not wild about what got the most votes, i have to say i'm delighted that over 50 votes were spread out over 30 songs

will smh for all eternity at some of these votes. 2 for fucking 'green light'??

didn't vote myself naturally but it wouldve been one of the early fab trinity i think - perhaps '4ever'.

'no better love' seems to get realer and realer with age. was pretty real to begin with anyway.

really enjoyed the list in general though, i just liked the quintessential ships-ness of it mainly. (can someone be quixotically common-sense...? haha)

oh, also huge grim lol @ "miscarry baby".

(for a while i thought fab was saying "she's my pancetta" on 'can't let u go'.)

miscarry baby came from rev, or at least that's where i heard it first

i heard it first when someone on the jukebox (keane tzong iirc) made some offhand comment about a year go re: "miss keri baby" being a really unfortunate thing to say, it was several months until i worked out why though.

oh shit. yesterday my night ended w/ a drunken "i'm a flirt" singalong and i want to vote for that now

hey, so did mine!

what are the odds?!

~amazing~

i know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&feature=av2e

WHERE WAS THIS

never liked that song

I can take or leave Nelly. I got Country Grammar and liked it on first listen but I can't say it's the type of thing I'll ever play a lot. I will say I often like him a lot more when he's guesting -- his guest on that one song on T.I.'s Urban Legend was dope.

imo this should make anyone's list. heard it the other night an remembered how much i like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tcDXJfAFVw

Always on Time was awesome...

you don't know what you mean to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyeeeeeeeeeee

one of the forthcoming lists in this series will be pure R&B with no rapping, and "Step" will be waaaay up there on that one

― some dude, Saturday, August 7, 2010 1:48 AM (2 weeks ago)

plz do this soon btw

it's not gonna be the next one i do but it is coming

straight up R&B list is underway btw: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2010/11/singles-of-00s-part-4-r.html

i know it's not on this list but the second verse of fab's "so into you" is kind of a masterpiece

is that the "my winters been wonderful, my summers been special" verse?

no that's the third, second one's the hypnotic "thinking i'm slippin/dippin/sippin/crippin" one.

first is still my fave though... it's the principle now.

I would've traded it all in orderly fashion
My villa in Florida we crashing
Just off the shore so you can hear when the water be splashing

fab kinda goes ridic on that joint

"Can't Let You" and "Into You" are like the most lyrical girl songs ever, though.

― some dude, Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:13 AM Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A5OHPLyW3s

^^oversight

great track