hey, isn't that the dude from the 'shorty swing my way' video?! - OFFICIAL POLOW DA DON THREAD

2002

"Hot Wheels (Polow Da Don Mix)" by Jim Crow

2003

"Posted at the Bar" by Gangsta Boo

2004

"Fallen" (Zone 4 remix) also known as (Polow da Don mix) by Mýa (featuring Chingy)
"Back in the Mud" (Zone 4 remix) also known as (Urban mix) by Bubba Sparxxx (featuring Sean Paul of YoungBloodz, Pastor Troy & Rich Boy)

2005

"Party Starter" by Will Smith
"Pimpin' All Over the World" by Ludacris (featuring Bobby Valentino)
"Break a Nigga Off" by Snoop Dogg, Gangsta Boo, Lil' Fate & Rich Boy
"DJ Play a Love Song" by Jamie Foxx (featuring Twista)
"Superstar" by Keyshia Cole

2006

"Baby Bend Over" by Field Mob
"At The Park feat. Keri Hilson" by Field Mob
"London Bridge" by Fergie
"Buttons" by the Pussycat Dolls
"Glamorous" by Fergie (featuring Ludacris)
"Throw Some D's" by Rich Boy (featuring Polow da Don) (co-production)
"Runaway Love" by Ludacris (featuring Mary J. Blige)
"Promise" by Ciara 1
"Bang It Up" by Ciara
"Blindfold Me" by Kelis featuring Nas
"Shake It" by Mýa
"Tears" by Lil Fizz (featuring Bobby Valentino)
"Where I'm From" by Young Argo (featuring Bow Wow)
"Lock Down" by Young Argo (featuring C-Bo)
"Let's Be Real" by Jibbs (featuring J. Valentine)
"Bring It Back" by Jibbs
"Straight Jack" by Chilli (featuring Missy Elliott)
J. Valentine - Keep It Goin' (feat. Keak Da Sneak)
Flipsyde - Happy Birthday (Polow Da Don Remix)

2007

"Get Up" (remix) by Ciara
"Promise" (Go and Get Your Tickets mix) by Ciara & R. Kelly
"Like This" by Kelly Rowland (featuring Eve)
"Get Buck" by Young Buck
"Role Models" by Rich Boy (featuring David Banner and Attitude)
"Crying Out for Me" by Mario
"Boy Looka Here" by Rich Boy
"Good Things" by Rich Boy (featuring Polow da Don & Keri Hilson)
"Touch That Ass" by Rich Boy
"On the Regular" by Rich Boy
"Lost Girls" by Rich Boy (featuring Keri Hilson & Rock City) (co-production)
"Ghetto Rich" by Rich Boy (featuring John Legend)
"Let's Get This Paper"/"Balla Life" [hidden track] by Rich Boy
"Assurance" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (iTunes bonus track)
"Next" by Gia Farrell
"Hot Sauce" by Stat Quo
"Ringtone" by R. Kelly
"Real Playa Like" by Fabolous (featuring Lloyd)
"Whatever U Like" by Nicole Scherzinger (featuring T.I.)
"When I See U" (remix) by Fantasia (featuring Polow da Don & Young Jeezy)
"Fantasy " by Eve (featuring Robin Thicke)
"Breathe " by Big P
"I Like Love" by R. Kelly
"1st Piece" by UTP (featuring Juvenile & Rich Boy)
"Back in Da Club" by Janet Jackson
i15 - Lost In Love feat. Polow Da Don
Hot Rod - Bump My Shit
Will.I.Am - She's A Star
Will.I.Am - Dynamic Interlude
Will.I.Am - Ain't It Pretty
Nicole Scherzinger - Baby Love (Zone 4 Remix) (feat. Will.I.Am)
Tru-Life - This Is The Life (feat. Tara Lynne)
Tru Life - Tears (feat. Bobby Valentino)

looks more like cam'ron in that picture there huh

i'd really like it if someone had a go at arguing why polow isn't the greatest producer around. but not just listing his worst beats and stuff. at his very best his tracks have this singular concept to them where everything that goes on in them makes perfect sense; at his worst (like the rich boy album, perhaps this nicole too) he's vulnerable to cooking up big chunky soups of interesting but kinda awkward stuff, when u imagine he didnt have a big plan so he thought he'd just chuck everything in.

-- r|t|c, Saturday, July 7, 2007 2:58 PM

(actually, anti-hack isn't really what i was trying to say; that sounds like i want polow to be just another auteur, when really it's the miserly hackwork of auteurs, the endless cynical branded rehashing of a once-breakthru formula, that i'd rather he avoided, because that's what he's done so well so far. he's kind of like an amazingly great b-movie director, with an absolute faith in the crafting of whatever picture he's being paid for, (notice how his one production tic - waitaminutemotherfucker - is also usually an um, narrative device, 4 want of a better phrase) but with an auteur's serene stately disdain for whatever else is going on around him at the same time i guess. anyway.)

-- r|t|c, Monday, October 8, 2007 12:20 PM

um feel free to quote yrselves too though

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.

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)

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

He's pretty.

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.

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

i butchered that quote and somehow clipped out the word "is" but you get the gist.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

i believe his sometime alias is "gorgeous jones"

it's so gonna happen

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

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/toyworld2006/fool.jpg

eep

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.

Dear god. Not that I'm particularly innocent here, but please destroy hipster-rap fashion right now.

rip Nike Dunks : (

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, October 11, 2007 3:48 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

this is crazy talk

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

ok well that was a fun 16 minutes

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

"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.

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

(brian kidd who done that wicked enrique iglesias pingpong song last year btw!)

'Turnin' Me On' is a pretty good time.

not a fan of wayne's verse, but still: tubas!

the drums on 'spotlight' are pretty great

no

:))))