I love "Signs" -- really happy it made Stylus' decade best.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 August 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
could you make a case for "Step in the Name of Love" being on this list? I guess it's more R&B.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 August 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
1. "The Next Episode"2. "Pimpin' All Over The World"3. "Best of Me (Part 2)
― Tim F, Friday, 6 August 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
47. Jay-Z f/ Alicia Keys - “Empire State Of Mind” (2009)
ugh, ban al ship
― dolores lol'reared-him (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 August 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
No
Ciara ft. Ludacris - "Oh"
no fucking credibility
― dolores lol'reared-him (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 August 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, haven't heard "put it on me" in so long! thx
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Friday, 6 August 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
There are some more obv choices (Justin, Kanye), but I'm prob going w/ "You" or "Stutter (Remix)"
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Friday, 6 August 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
voted 'no better love'
vandross samples 4 all time
― blap...tremendo (deej), Friday, 6 August 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
hey dudes! a few quick posts before i go to bed
― some dude, Saturday, 7 August 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Good writing on the "Signs," Mary J., and "Like I Love You" blurbs, some dude.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 6, 2010 6:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
thanks!
― some dude, Saturday, 7 August 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― dolores lol'reared-him (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 6, 2010 7:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― dolores lol'reared-him (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 6, 2010 7:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
::shrugs:: i thought about trying to be more objective/canonical but ultimately decided to just go with my own gut, which meant shafting a lot of consensus favorites that i'm not that into (Oh, Umbrella, Crazy In Love, Hey Ya, Yeah, Goodies, Crazy, etc.)
― some dude, Saturday, 7 August 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 6, 2010 6:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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, 7 August 2010 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
also voted for "Put It On Me" because obv i put it at #1 and also i'm not sure anyone else will
― some dude, Saturday, 7 August 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Love that all but about 3 or 4 of these have "f/"
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 August 2010 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
'put it on me' @ #1 is a bold & smart choice imo. heavily influential but somewhat forgotten track also
― blap...tremendo (deej), Saturday, 7 August 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i have never heard your no 1!
(this list has been v useful in actually discovering a few of these for the first time - if a song didn't cross over to the uk in 00-02, chances are i've never heard it.)
seeing "okay", "best of me pt 2" and "last night" crop up was really awesome, those are also personal favs that i feel have mostly been forgotten.
"all falls down" - i think this is easily kanye's best single.
my vote will be between "addictive" and "ain't it funny (murder remix)".
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 7 August 2010 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Friday, August 6, 2010 9:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
just 2, Cee-Lo and Snoop. probably coulda been more solo performances if I actually liked Kanye or Andre 3000's rapper-turned-singer stuff.
― some dude, Saturday, 7 August 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
HOLD UP
― ballerrr (The Reverend), Saturday, 7 August 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
HEYYYYYYYY-EEYYYY
Don't really think of that as a rap/r&b crossover at all tho tbh.
― ballerrr (The Reverend), Saturday, 7 August 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah in the blurb i kinda agreed but still felt it needed to be included
― some dude, Saturday, 7 August 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
addicted! maybe...
― scott seward, Friday, August 6, 2010 3:17 PM (1 minute ago)
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― the dialectic of specs (c sharp major), Saturday, 7 August 2010 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"where i wanna be" is from 2000 btw
― ballerrr (The Reverend), Saturday, 7 August 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
voted Green Light. like that 80's electro feel and hearing Andre 3000 rap again. lots of hot fire in this list tho. "Where the Party At" was my jam in 2001.
― DiMarcel Marceaupower (San Te), Saturday, 7 August 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Top five:
Ghostface Killah f/ Ne-Yo - “Back Like That” (2006)Kanye West f/ Syleena Johnson - “All Falls Down” (2004)Keri Hilson f/ Lil Wayne - “Turnin’ Me On” (2008)Justin Timberlake f/ T.I. - "My Love" (2006)Missy Elliott f/ Ludacris - "One Minute Man" (2001)
Voting for Miss Keri Baaaabbyyy...
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, 7 August 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
6. Fabolous f/ Nate Dogg - "Can't Deny It" (2001)
^^^ underrated classic. for me it's probably between this and "I'm A Flirt", although there's lotsa good stuff on the list (and I agree about the OTMness of celebrating "Put It On Me")
― stuff that's what it is (bernard snowy), Saturday, 7 August 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh but I also have an enormous soft spot for "Where the Party At", and might have to vote for it just to make sure it gets some love
― stuff that's what it is (bernard snowy), Saturday, 7 August 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Bobby Valentino f/ Lil Wayne - “Tell Me” (2005)R. Kelly featuring T.I. and T-Pain - "I'm A Flirt (Remix)" (2007)Snoop Dogg - “Sensual Seduction” (2007
b/w these 3, leaning towards bobby v
― for those about to s1ock, we slutsk you (m bison), Saturday, 7 August 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm voting "Stutter (Remix)" because I dig how frightening/creepy it is (mostly because of Mystikal's verse, jesus!)
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Saturday, 7 August 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved Cedric's routine on that...
"of course you're stutterin when ya got MYSTIKAL hollerin' at ya".
honestly after i heard the remix with him i never wantedt o hear the original again
― Obie Once Trice Three Times a Lady (San Te), Saturday, 7 August 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i wasn't aware that anyone but me legit liked "bust it baby pt 2" that much... for some reason jr rotem's sugary production bugs me on almost all his tracks except that one. but yeah i love it.
umm i voted "the next episode" but this was tough.
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 7 August 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
plies & neyo should do a colab that samples "every little thing she does is magic" imo
― "mc hammer" (f/ mc hammer) (The Reverend), Saturday, 7 August 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
your blurb about "bust it baby pt 2" was extra-hilarious, alex
― horseshoe, Saturday, 7 August 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
lol goontleman
― blap...tremendo (deej), Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
voted where the party at but this is too hard. wtpa v. addicted v. stutter is too much for any one poll to handle.
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― ballerrr (The Reverend), Saturday, August 7, 2010 9:57 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ugh thanks yeah, kept bugging me in the back of my head that i needed to double check that date, forgot to.
― some dude, Sunday, 8 August 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
loving the diversity of favorites here btw!
aaaahhh this is tough
― A solo Beatle--Paul, George, John, Yoko, etc. (Whitey on the Moon), Sunday, 8 August 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Neyo so close
― chrisv2010, Sunday, 8 August 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
OK voted Slow Jamz but easily could have gone for like 10 others
― A solo Beatle--Paul, George, John, Yoko, etc. (Whitey on the Moon), Sunday, 8 August 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"All Falls Down" got my vote.
― Lostandfound, Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
this is seriously impossible
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm just gonna go ahead and vote "locked up"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
here's a super rough top 10 but really who even knows 10 green light9 tell me8 put it on me7 next episode6 slow jamz5 where the party at4 stutter3 can't deny it2 luv u better1 locked up
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
just scanned & read a few entries so far but this is epic, al. shld have pitched it to complex for $$$.
― zvookster, Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
finally got this playlist completed (minus "empire state of mind" -- not that i hate it, but too soon) and i refuse to listen to anything else for the next few days
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
would it be controversial to politely ask for an upload of that? i was thinking of doing the same thing but that's a lot of work if it's not necessary. i know this is MAJOR LABEL MUSIC but uh
― werner herzomg (samosa gibreel), Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah if you gimme a little bit to zip all the stuff and upload it etc
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks a lot :)
― werner herzomg (samosa gibreel), Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
there will be 47 songs -- the ones missing are "flashing lights" & "good life" because when i went to add them to the playlist i realized that i didn't have 'graduation' on my computer so this was sort of like a little reminder to do it -- not to mention that i don't really need to hear those two songs right now
also "empire state of mind"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
changed my vote to 'i'm a flirt' because it is just so joyful
― bodily fuiuds (c sharp major), Friday, 13 August 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 August 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I voted Slow Jamz but thought about Next Episode...should have put it down for my city/coast
― life behind bras (admrl), Friday, 13 August 2010 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I've never heard "My Love"
― life behind bras (admrl), Friday, 13 August 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool that someone voted Young Gunz!
― blap...tremendo (deej), Friday, August 6, 2010 6:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 13 August 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dark twisted fanta girl (some dude), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― r|t|c, Friday, 13 August 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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'.)
― r|t|c, Friday, 13 August 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
miscarry baby came from rev, or at least that's where i heard it first
― some dude, Friday, 13 August 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 13 August 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit. yesterday my night ended w/ a drunken "i'm a flirt" singalong and i want to vote for that now
― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hey, so did mine!
― Clay, Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
what are the odds?!
― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
~amazing~
― Clay, Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i know
― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&feature=av2e
WHERE WAS THIS
― k3vin k., Sunday, 15 August 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
never liked that song
― honorary falser (some dude), Sunday, 15 August 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― TN's only candidate for Governor with a handgun carry permit, so... → (will), Sunday, 15 August 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Always on Time was awesome...
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
you don't know what you mean to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyeeeeeeeeeee
― k3vin k., Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
― some dude, Saturday, August 7, 2010 1:48 AM (2 weeks ago)
plz do this soon btw
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not gonna be the next one i do but it is coming
― richie goingham (some dude), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
straight up R&B list is underway btw: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2010/11/singles-of-00s-part-4-r.html
― some dude, Monday, 1 November 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i know it's not on this list but the second verse of fab's "so into you" is kind of a masterpiece
― big smang theory (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 November 2010 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
is that the "my winters been wonderful, my summers been special" verse?
― ethnic slizzur (some dude), Friday, 19 November 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 November 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I would've traded it all in orderly fashionMy villa in Florida we crashingJust off the shore so you can hear when the water be splashing
― blogosfeer of a black planet (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 November 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
fab kinda goes ridic on that joint
― based lord sotosyn (The Reverend), Friday, 19 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― based lord sotosyn (The Reverend), Friday, 19 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A5OHPLyW3s
^^oversight
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
great track
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link