best mainstream hip hop/R&B remix of 2008

voted busta remix with kane w/o even looking at anything past that on the list

probably between dey know rmx and the mjb treat 'em right one for me

personal faves: Just Fine, So Fly, Touch My Body, Spotlight, Get Silly, Put On, Hi Hater

"Arab Money (Remix)" by Busta Rhymes featuring Ron Browz, Diddy, Swizz Beatz, T-Pain, Akon and Lil Wayne

^^^DJ got suspended from radio in the UK for playing this on account of "racial sensitivity"

most laughably bad: Foolish, Can't Believe It, Speedin', Damaged, Bye Bye, Love In This Club, Lollipop

hi hater because none of the verses are flat-out terrible even swizz's

my favorite verses out of all of these are jeezy on "dey know", luda on "pop champagne", wayne on "just fine" and fab on "hi hater"

yeah, Luda on "Pop Champagne" is sick, I just couldn't co-sign it as a whole w/ Kim barfing all over it and all. also Kiss on "So Fly," Tip on "Superstar," and Plies on "Single Again.

man, a rapper can do pretty well for himself just going around doing remixes, huh

obv. R Kelly's "if i were a boy"

yeah, I dunno, I've never been too clear about whether MCs get paid for remixes the same way they do for other guest verses, since they usually don't appear on albums or get officially released by a label. i mean, Wayne says he charges 100k for like every single verse, but if someone actually paid him that much for those "Single Again" and "Bye Bye" and "Gifts" remixes that disappeared after like 2 days then a ton of money was getting thrown away.

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Kelly did a ton of notable remixes this year (Flashing Lights, Customer, Lookin' Boy, Touch My Body) but as far as I know none of them were officially sanctioned by the original artist/label

^which obviously makes it 100000x better

doesn't really make it better or worse, I just didn't include those because I had to narrow the field somehow and that seemed like a good criteria. R. did a lot of official remixes in '07 (It's Me Bitches, Make It Rain, Shawty Is A Ten) so I don't know if artists stopped asking him or if he just stopped calling people to jump on the official remixes when he had an idea for one.

oh yeah i wasn't disagreeing with you, i think it's just one of the things i love abt R. he's just the kind of dude who would do these hilarious/unauthorized remixes

i thought the lookin boy rmx was official?? it was on the radio and on a joc tape

yeah i dunno, it's hard to say if something's an official rmx when it's just one artist adding new vocals but otherwise it's the same as the original.

Luda on "Like You'll Never See Me Again(Remix)" make my heart flutter

damn, I can't believe how few of these I've heard. Anyway, Busta w/ Kane, Wayne, Nas, etc d(-_-)b

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after thinking on this i'm gonna vote for "Just Fine"

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people like the "Bust Your Windows" rmx? fuckin' dream groupies.

touch your body remix is equally boring imo - dunno who voted for either

"Touch Your Body" rmx beat is incredible, I could listen to that on a loop for hours.

ah i'd never heard the tricky remix - the one i heard was the normal beat + dream hitting some wood blocks or something. this beat is incredible

gorilla zoe's 'byw' remix was way better as well, for whatever little that's worth. (song is annoying. no wait, sullivan's annoying - i mightve enjoyed it in funner hands.)

anyways, that top 2 is my top 2. i wrestled for a while with wanting to give the strongest possible daps to the swizz blendz ('teen love affair' the equal of 'just fine' imo, especially if you're insisting on the version with weezy and precise) but the 'touch my body' remix is a serious masterpiece and can only be the serious winner; nothing else even attempted what it managed to achieve (unless some maniac seriously wants to bat for 'love in the club 2' and 'she got her own').

the existence of "she got her own" is bizarre

oh hold up though, i also meant that re 'touch my body' in terms of the transformative effect it has on the song - if you in here all "great production WISH HE'D GIVEN IT TO SOME RAPPPERZZZ" then do plz stfu

here's the only other 6 i vaguely care about:

"Single Again (Remix)" by Trina featuring Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Plies
- cos i watch soaps

"Ride (Remix)" by Ace Hood featuring T-Pain, Rick Ross and Juelz Santana
- cos anything that is a kick to trey songz' nuts is ok by me

"Donk (Remix)" by Soulja Boy featuring Yung Joc
- cos swizz x ray cash beat is ridic

"Gifts (Remix)" by Ray J featuring Lil Wayne and Game
- cos teh rappers are as boring as you expect but the extra woozied beat just makes em seem like extra big chunks in its foreign-alphabet soup

"Get Silly (Remix)" by V.I.C. featuring Soulja Boy, Bun B, E-40, Pitbull, Polow Da Don, JD, Arab, DJ Unk, Big
- cos GUESS WHICH VERSE DIDNT MAKE IT TO THE ALBUM VERSION GUYZ!!!!!

"Summertime (Remix)" by New Kids On The Block featuring Jadakiss
- cos it exists, ha ha

- cos GUESS WHICH VERSE DIDNT MAKE IT TO THE ALBUM VERSION GUYZ!!!!!

yeah i was sad about this

out of all the overstuffed remixes "get silly" was far and away the best but that might just be the beat

in the despicable absence of bust it baby pt2 i also retrospectively nominate plies perfectly-judged turn on lloyd 'year of the lover'

are you saying "bust it baby pt 2" is a remix of the original "bust it baby"

yes?

it's more of an independent single than a remix in this matter though who cares really

yes sarge maybe it is really more the second of the bust it troika

in any case pt3 w/ janet qualifies though it is wack

yeah, Luda on "Pop Champagne" is sick, I just couldn't co-sign it as a whole w/ Kim barfing all over it and all.

i like kim's 'pop champagne' verse!!

http://i36.tinypic.com/30icqd3.jpg

I'll rep for "She Got Her Own".. shit is a jam

possibly the association with 'ms indie' makes that tune more of a drag than it otherwise would be by itself; at the same time its high profile owes everything to that association, so maybe i'm basically just not that into it. this was a worthwhile post.

Eh, I'm not hugely huge on the original.

i was never really clear on whether Janet's "Bust It Baby" was official or just something she did independently, and again i was using that criteria to narrow the field. also, Janet, ew.

another missing one that scores very highly with me is the dream mix of shontelle's 't-shirt', which brilliantly solves the frustrating original's lacking irreplaceablisms by taking a leaf out of 'no air's book and turning it into a keening duet; dream's christmassy carolling gives it a sorta tired/happy gently converging coming home for the j.holidays vibe like wot 'bed' did last year. it's really great, heartwarming.

yeah, it was not very shontelligent of me to leave that song out of the poll.

heh.

tbh though, the most amazing remixes i bumped all year besides the top 3 & shontelle are the 'soulja girl' collipark mix and the dogg pound mix of 'sensual seduction', neither of which technically qualify on grounds of release & relevance respectively - i'm happy to abide by the rules of the game though cos i happen to not be the sort of abject disgrace to my supposed profession that invents fake reasons to put dream's 'love/hate' in my 2008 late-pass best-of. FOR INSTANCE.

lol

but yeah the field of officialticial remixes was kind of weak this year, and "Soulja Girl" is def one of the best of '07 or '08 or whatever.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/524871600d6844fb/

snoop g-mix is a bitch to find now so i'm throwing it up - yall will probly hate at first but wait til the rapps and it will win you over with its gliding realness.

in honor of six straight posts from some dude/rtc, im now going to post the "hi hater" remix video

that's a dope track but honestly any rmx that purposefully references Flava In Ya Ear loses points because shit's just done to death.

yeah -- basically i liked it cuz they pulled in a bunch of random guys and yet the obvious ones- jada, fabolous- probably have the best verses

well plies verse might be the best actually

meh sorry but if it ain't like i dunno keith murray, g-dep and tracey lee on that beat i don't want to know.

it bears repeating:

goddamn Mya lookin' good in that video

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here is the overrated -> underrated remix of the year

"Dey Know (Remix)" by Shawty Lo featuring Ludacris, Young Jeezy, Plies and Lil Wayne

especially if it's the mega 9 min remix w/ the e-40 and gorilla zoe verses

ok maybe not 9 minutes - more like 6

also notable for giving us the first indication that jeezy was gonna kill it this year

I'm in my cool whip insides jello
Hop up out that pretty muthafucka like hello(hello)hello
Ladies how you doin
Dat nigga crazy girl don't say nothin 2 em(haha)
Dey know dey know got white low low
Rob who? Take What? (gun cocks) hello
They know I give a fuck about them haterz(nope)
Young jizzle been gettin paper(yeeeaaaahhh)
Granite? wheels on da coup like savors
Hit da club with 20 brawdz like flavor
I'm on da top floor(floor) no neighbors
Who u kiddin I get my 87's tailored

yeah i was honestly borderline about including that only because i think it dropped late '07, but on a level playing field it'd be pretty dominant. definitely my favorite AutoTune Wayne song.

that shontelle rmx is really great

so idk if anyone's gonna touch the q-tip/busta/rae/wayne one this year

http://www.zshare.net/audio/548384655603ced6/

in fact

rolling 2009 mainstream rap/r&b remix thread

so far we have this incredible remix of q-tip's "renaissance rap" ft busta, rae and wayne

http://www.zshare.net/audio/548384655603ced6

and this not very good remix of the-dream's "rockin that shit" ft the cabal of fabolous, juelz, rick ross (uh) and ludacris

http://sharebee.com/66f71968

god dammit

supposed to be in the other thread

where the fuck does rae exist in 2009? last year dude was on joints by outkast, the game and ill bill - this year its q-tip, ____ and ____??

here i responded in this thread

rolling 2009 mainstream rap/r&b remix thread