I almost did this as a poll thread. my top 10:
1. "Promise" by Ciara 2. "Back in the Mud" (Zone 4 remix) also known as (Urban mix) by Bubba Sparxxx (featuring Sean Paul of YoungBloodz, Pastor Troy & Rich Boy) 3. "Luxurious" (Zone 4 remix) by Gwen Stefani f/ Ludacris 4. "Pimpin' All Over the World" by Ludacris (featuring Bobby Valentino) 5. "London Bridge" by Fergie 6. "Like This" by Kelly Rowland (featuring Eve) 7. "At The Park feat. Keri Hilson" by Field Mob 8. "Get Up" (remix) by Ciara 9. "Fallen" (Zone 4 remix) also known as (Polow da Don mix) by Mýa (featuring Chingy) 10. "When I See U" (remix) by Fantasia (featuring Polow da Don & Young Jeezy)
which is to say, he should remix everything. didn't know he did one for "Baby Boy," need to hear that, although I barely even remember what the original sounds like.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
baby boy rmx is nothing special, but it's at very least an improvement.
i couldn't not have 'get buck' and 'break a nigga off' in my list - maybe over 'ldn bridge' and errrmmmm something else in yours. tuff choice tho.
wz thinking, seeing it all laid out there, that while there's classics aplenty this is maybe not the list of an alltime great (there's not much else pushing that godlike 10 for a start); i guess it ties in with what i was saying about b-movies, but maybe the enduring factor in polow beats is in the representation of something bigger than a series of hotnesses. and not something bigger in the sense of importance for ages to come, but like a general generousness of musicality.
(sorry if that sounds a bit earnest and annoying but that's how it came out. may as well act like a fanboy if i am one rite)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
just wakin up from my hangover brother hittin me on the phone, i roll over head still spinnin cause i balled last night rims still spinnin and the lac all white G-A, B-O-Y-Z smooth operator, operating correctly bet he didn't see me and mine coming ain't no mother f-f-fucker, who ya mother f-f-fuckin? you save them pumpkins for halloween as i shove my rounds in my magazine king, yeah you king me out for real S-A-N-K ship i rip the mic i rip the stage but I don't rip nothing until i'm paid to be like P-T, many try i leave them boys totin the cross oh my
^^ pastor troy, back in the mud rmx: classic materialz
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
He's pretty.
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
here's the new tru life / bobby val, what the shit does it remind me of? something 02-03ish. bit of the 'at the park's about it anyway, i like. it's the little things.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
well, unless Polow flames out and disappears in a year (which wouldn't be a shock, so many rap/R&B producers I've gotten excited in the past few years have done that), he's probably got some time to work on the alltime great thing.
I can't co-sign "Get Buck." I don't know what Polow was thinking putting the big bassy brass over the same dinky snares that work so well on his pillowy R&B tracks. I saw someone somewhere (a commenter on Fennessey's blog lol) describe my opinion of it perfectly: "Get Buck" is wack. Polow's beat therethe definition of failed banger status
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
i butchered that quote and somehow clipped out the word "is" but you get the gist.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha yeah when timbaland's seeing himself in the mirror as some handsome ripped superproducer in a vest who can actually rap it's probably just a picture of polow danja's stuck on
xp
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
The "problem" I have with Polow is that he doesn't really have a signature sound..he's greta at doing pastiches of other peoples'/eras' sounds, but there's he hasn't really brought anything UNIQUE to the game. His trademark is "goodness"/consistency, which is a great trademark to have but I want him to step it up a bit. All of the "superproducers" came with a signature sound and totally blew everyone else out of the water, he has yet to do that.
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah see again that is exactly why i love him.
i did wonder when it first dropped if 'get buck' wasn't a little rich boy-esque hi concept and detailed to be a tru banger, but then a mate of mine went to miami for spring break and he said shit was killing it out there. so i stopped wondering. also, young buck is immaculate on it.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah not having a "signature sound" (which usually = cut & pasting the same fucking drum and synth sounud 50 times with minor variations and cashing a check) is what you call a good problem from where I'm standing. Polow's got a couple templates he's drawn from repeatedly, but so far he's only done it in a real obvious way with two singles ("Blindfold Me" and "Whatever You Like") once, and some of his synths/strings are definitely unique to him, at least on the radio.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 11 October 2007 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Q: Confident guy that you are, surely you already have your acceptance speech ready. Who are you going to thank?
A: I'm going to wing it. And of course I'm going to thank the Lord, because if it wasn't for prayer, and prayers being answered, I wouldn't be in this place. I'll thank the musicians I've worked with. My parents, because they've always been supportive. All the wack... producers who try to follow radio, because they made it easy for me.
And you know, I feel like I have made a huge contribution in just making music competitive again. Now people want to try new things, explore, venture into other types of sounds and approaches — and I'm a big reason why.
Q: Of the five songs nominated for track of the year, which do you wish you'd produced?
A: "I Get Money." It turned 50 Cent's whole situation around, 180 degrees. Plus, that's the one out of all of the tracks that beats you up. Makes you ball up your face, look all ugly and nod your head.
Q: Would you be offended if a cable channel called itself White Entertainment Television?
A: I would not be offended, but the average person probably would. And if you would be offended by that, you're not being logical. You're being emotional.
Q: You told [that other hip-hop site] that black women look at being submissive to men as being weak, while white women look at being submissive as being a woman, right?
A: I did. But all I was basically saying was, you know, we've had generations now of strong black women who've had to take care of their households with men not being in their lives. And when a man comes into the picture, she's fighting for control. At the same time, black men haven't really been taught to be men; I mean, really be a man to women and their children. Or women wouldn't be in that situation to begin with.
Q: You're single?
A: Yeah, but because I want to be. Not because women don't want me to be theirs. ... You've seen me in the videos with my shirt off. Come on.
― and what, Friday, 12 October 2007 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol yeah based on him being all shirtless in the "Good Things" video saying shit like "that would be a delight" he's gonna be on an LL tip if he ever drops a solo album.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 12 October 2007 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
i believe his sometime alias is "gorgeous jones"
it's so gonna happen
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 October 2007 00:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
A: "I Get Money." It turned 50 Cent's whole situation around, 180 degrees.
^^ always got his executive producer hat on. no one's really jealous of thinking up 'i get money' man, cmon
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 October 2007 00:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
eep
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 10:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
so i know i've tended to oppositionalize them for no partic reason lately, but it occurred to me that it'd be probably be fair to say that polow's whole thing is taking the baton from that forgotten little 2003 pocket of tim's when he was doing the kiley dean & bubba stuff? the free-er, less tracky widescreen stuff with swoooning progressions and all that. 'kiss me like that' sounds like textbook polow now, for instance.
back in the mud rmx and a polow guest rap on something else at the time make me wonder if he wasnt even vaguely involved in that period too. interested to see how the polow/tim keri hilson album will turn out.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dear god. Not that I'm particularly innocent here, but please destroy hipster-rap fashion right now.
rip Nike Dunks : (
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
-- Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:48 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
this is crazy talk
― deej, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
polow amehzes cos polow is a whatevertuoso
he has been teh suck this year though yeah no lie. but coming next from him is NELLY FT FERGIE - PARTY PEOPLE, that can only come out incredible right!! eh? eh? oh.
-- r|t|c, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:02 AM (Yesterday)
YAAAHH SELF YAAAAAHH
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 09:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok well that was a fun 16 minutes
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 09:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
this looks like it might be okay.
here's the new tru life / bobby val, what the shit does it remind me of?
kiley dean - 'kiss me like that'? that's what it reminds me of and you already said in this thread that it sounds like polow. it's also the same beat as lil fizz ft bobby valentino - tears
― dbs, Thursday, 20 March 2008 15:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Love in the Club" is amazing. I know the huge ravey R&B synths ain't exactly the newest shit, but I can't get tired of this one.
― maciej recognizing trill, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah dbs 'kiss me like that' totally works but i reckon i was thinking more along the lines of some of the chunkier 03-04 southern rap stuff, uhh examples escape me right now but lets say like 'in da wind' and 'cadillac on 22s' with the guitars
in fact i was listening to nappy roots wooden leather again since they came up on the rolling ringtone and theres a couple of really polow/timmish reminiscent things on there that turned out to have been produced by brian kidd, so i'm pretty sure now that he's the missing link in all this nerdery
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 March 2008 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
(brian kidd who done that wicked enrique iglesias pingpong song last year btw!)
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 March 2008 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
'Turnin' Me On' is a pretty good time.
― more ign'ant than thuggin', surely (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
not a fan of wayne's verse, but still: tubas!
― more ign'ant than thuggin', surely (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
the drums on 'spotlight' are pretty great
― dyao, Sunday, 24 January 2010 02:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
no
― some dude, Sunday, 24 January 2010 03:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
:))))
― dyao, Sunday, 24 January 2010 03:27 (7 months ago) Permalink