Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

Yeah, I keep wishing they'd recorded that, decided that they didn't want to put out under a "Florence & The Machine" banner and just released it - rightfully - as The XX's "You Got The Love"

http://www.whosampled.com/artist/Harold%20Melvin%20%26%20the%20Blue%20Notes/

That remix is great. It would have placed higher if I had remembered to put it on my ballot

THIS CAN'T BE LIFE! omg thank you! that was annoying me so much. Scarface verse slays me.

florence+xx is the first thing i voted for fyi

First one I voted for - didn't save my ballot, but pretty sure I put it in the appropriate 18th or 19th place.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:38 PM (18 minutes ago)

this including putting it 18th

AFAIK the original was not even nominated...

Just looked over my ballot, i'd be shocked if more than five of my votes made it to THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

but holding out hope for ester dean

hey musically idk if my emails arent getting through but if you could plz email me my ballot that would be great

DON'T DO IT IT'S A TRAP

i'm liking the way this is shaping up, so far i like every single song.

there better be like 3 Gucci songs and 10 other rap songs in the top 40, or this list is as lame w/r/t hip hop as PF and P&J

― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), Thursday, 28 January 2010 11:50 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i voted for "wasted" and "lemonade" which i figure both have a good chance of charting. not sure what else would attract tonnes of votes, maybe "first day out" or "dope boys." was the h.a.t.e.u remix nominated? it's not likely it would end up above shine blockas, but it's just as good.

37 -- Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Tirsdagsjam (10 votes, 105.5 points) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)

http://www.mediafire.com/?rvd4ttznagj - can anyone find a streaming, easy to link to copy?

The edit is myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/lindstromandprinsthomas

is *on* myspace

36 -- Gucci Mane ft. Plies - Wasted (11 votes, 105.5 points) (100 in P&J, 96 in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qql0Yi4DxU

I don't wear tight jeans like the white boys
But I do get wasted like the white boys
Now I'm looking for a bitch to suck dis almond joy
Said she gotta stop sucking 'cause her jaw's sore

hell yeah. Let's get it.

Plies gif request still pending: Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 15 minutes!

good song but gucci has >20 better songs from last year, and a couple better singles. don't have a problem w/ it placing tho - it was by far his biggest

ha i was really convinced that no other gucci was gonna make the list

pretty rad

some dude: u have to get z s drunk first

good song but gucci has >20 better songs from last year, and a couple better singles. don't have a problem w/ it placing tho - it was by far his biggest

― max ipad (k3vin k.), Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i could buy that he has 20 better verses but definitely not 20 better songs, and certainly not better singles. it felt like an instant classic to me because the chorus is so anthemic. "lemonade" is great but it doesn't have the wide-appeal sloganeering of "party, party, party let's all get wasted"

we don't get Z S drunk no more, we get wasted

more a dumb frat boy novelty hit than an instant classic. plies kind of saves it though, coming in with a different energy.

i think it's as instant classic -- and as much in the territory of frat boy novelty hit -- as "back that azz up". and yeah plies is perfect for the song -- pretty sure i've said this elsewhere but his slurry droopy-eyed thing works just right on "wasted" -- it's weird that he's actually essential on something. also it's lol @ how repudiated oj da juiceman was by the listening public once the label tried to push the version w/ him

plies is perfect for every song now, come on

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_el0B2jjUqi0/SVlwZyFlB7I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/2ZWDgtPxAn4/s1600-h/INESCAPABLE.jpg

For a minute in 09, this song had me randomly inserting the word "click" into phrases.

no it really suffers by comparison to "back that azz up" which is funky as hell. this is more jump up and down and shout the hook type dealie, but doesn't compare well with classic stuff in that cat. either, like MOP or Onyx say (not that MOP had mad hits, or not that i particularly like Onyx personally). the best comparison is prolly the obv one, "party like a rockstar".

dude onyx made possibly the 13th best rap single of the 90s and should be seen as legends for it alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ThxWzkELk

looool yeah yeah at least i said they were recognized as classic, just not favorites of mine sorry!

one of my favorite aggro raps of the year was "O Let's Do It" which was a minor hit despite not having the veneer of inclusive fun Wasted has, with that darkly insistent hook it slays me

ok but any excuse to post onyx bangers

man, comparing it to "party like a rockstar" is selling it short as hell (whiteboy fetishizing in the video excepted). the "party like a rockstar" chorus is just them repeating the title over and over, whereas "wasted" -- as is the norm for tons of gucci songs -- has a chorus that is as wordy as it is catchy, and is inventive because of that. i think it has a facade of being dumbed down when really the chorus alone is as lyrical as any verse that was on rap radio this year. and obv the verses in "party like a rockstar" aren't even comparable to those in "wasted"

and i like "wasted" as much as "ante up", for the record

ok that last part is kinda crazy

"Wasted" was a top notch '09 southern rap radio hit but i dunno if it could really compete w/ anything of comparable stature pre-'08

oooh, the FloMac/xx joint is great. I need to track it down.

They play Gucci Mane on the radio?

I was kind of shocked because they played a Gucci Mane track on Boston radio the other day! I was all "wait, waht" right up until my wife changed the channel because she hated it.

"wasted" was a huge rap/r&b radio hit

yeah i accept that (selling it short) but you did use anthemic and wide-appeal sloganeering as why you think it might be a better pick than lemonade so i was probably coming from there more than a little bit

"Wasted" is fun but it ain't no "Back That Azz Up" or "Ante Up", that's for sure

one of my favorite aggro raps of the year was "O Let's Do It" which was a minor hit despite not having the veneer of inclusive fun Wasted has, with that darkly insistent hook it slays me

― zvookster, Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:26 PM Bookmark

I started chanting "O Let's Do It" when I was drunk wasted at a party the other night and no one had any idea what I was on about. :(

"Wasted" being a huge r&b/rap radio hit seems very geographically dependent. As I've said before, neither of the rap/r&b stations in the cities I've lived in while it was a hit picked up on it.

maybe you were chanting it wrong (i.e. pronouncing the consonants) and they didn't recognize it (xpost)

"'oh let's do it?'...OH! he means 'olé dewey'!"

ha

Ante Up >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Most rap singles/Wasted > Back That Azz Up

man that's just crazy talk

ante up = back that azz up >>>> most rap singles = wasted