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

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

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.

plies & neyo should do a colab that samples "every little thing she does is magic" imo

your blurb about "bust it baby pt 2" was extra-hilarious, alex

lol goontleman

voted where the party at but this is too hard. wtpa v. addicted v. stutter is too much for any one poll to handle.

"where i wanna be" is from 2000 btw

― 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.

loving the diversity of favorites here btw!

aaaahhh this is tough

Neyo so close

OK voted Slow Jamz but easily could have gone for like 10 others

"All Falls Down" got my vote.

this is seriously impossible

i'm just gonna go ahead and vote "locked up"

here's a super rough top 10 but really who even knows
10 green light
9 tell me
8 put it on me
7 next episode
6 slow jamz
5 where the party at
4 stutter
3 can't deny it
2 luv u better
1 locked up

just scanned & read a few entries so far but this is epic, al. shld have pitched it to complex for $$$.

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

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

yeah if you gimme a little bit to zip all the stuff and upload it etc

thanks a lot :)

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"

also there's a slight chance that i copped a few of them off itunes before i went on my filestube binge last night to fill out the playlist, in which case you'll have to track down those few yourself (filestube will work)

Was Luv U Better actually good? I can't remember it at all (not a good sign.)

yeah it's amazing

here's part one of the .zip -- akon thru keyshia cole

http://www.mediafire.com/?tgr4is6bozn7en1

the version of "let it go" is the grand hustle remix which is the one i have on my computer & play semi-regularly

http://www.mediafire.com/?o6w5tdjt032h43d

if i was gonna pick a Rule crossover track it woulda been I'm Real

ok after dl'ing that playlist i now have a new favourite pretty much every five minutes.

imo al missed by not including
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVucWRs-eWA

i should mention great list otherwise!

for some reason monica ft. busta rhymes - so gone (remix) feels like it should be on here

yeah this list is amazing; leaning "best of me" but it is v difficult to choose

right after i posted that i looked at the list again and realized i'm a liar bc "i'm a flirt" is officially my favorite song in the world?

i have never been able to love "addicted" btw because i find lata mangeshkar's voice really annoying. rakim's verse is obvs great though.

the vague callback to exoticism on 'paid in full' is what gives that so much resonance i think

although obv if u were familiar with mangeshkar i suppose you might have a diff take!

the vague callback to exoticism on 'paid in full' is what gives that so much resonance i think

― blap...tremendo (deej), Sunday, August 8, 2010 6:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it is! it's totally brilliant; i just feel like i'm tolerating the song until that part, though. i realize this is sb-worthy because mangeshkar prob has one of the world's most popular voices

or challopsy of me or whatever

that basehead song is magnificent

not over you that is

i wish i could find marcello carlins review of that album... which is also magnificent

i'm a flirt

ust scanned & read a few entries so far but this is epic, al. shld have pitched it to complex for $$$.

― zvookster, Sunday, August 8, 2010 12:21 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah considering how long it ended up being i shoulda tried to get paid for it somewhere but i have no idea who wants to run end-of-decade lists 8 months after everyone else's. this is just part one of a planned SIX PART SERIES if anyone's interested, though.

imo al missed by not including
http://www.youtube.com/v/GVucWRs-eWA&fs=1&hl=en

― blap...tremendo (deej), Sunday, August 8, 2010 5:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah "Into You" is totally #51 in my head but i was like man i already have five Fab records on here, i can stand to cut one

once the poll ends i'll post my short list of things i would've had in there

3k's verse on "green light" is so awesome -- he's totally energized

hop out the suicides lookin so cobain

i'd never heard this shade sheist joint before -- it's great of course -- was it produced by quik?

i always thought it was cute that wayne shouted out chris brown on the outro of "you" -- it's like he didn't want him to think that he was cheating with lloyd

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