Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Top 50 08/14/08

no Jones Brothers?

28. Lloyd ft. Lil Wayne, "Girls Around the World"

i love the fabulous jones brothers

top ten:

1. Lil Wayne, "A Milli"
2. Jazmine Sullivan, "Need U Bad"
3. Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West, "Put On"
4. Hot Stylz ft. Yung Joc, "Lookin' Boy"
5. Ne-Yo, "Closer"
6. Lloyd ft. Lil Wayne, "Girls Around the World"
7. Lil Wayne ft. Static Major, "Lollipop"
8. Alicia Keys, "Like You'll Never See Me Again"
9. Lil Wayne ft. T-Pain, "Got Money"
10. The-Dream, "I Luv Your Girl"

with apologies to Soulja Boy and MJB

haha jordan did you change all mentions of "rick ross" to "officer ross" or did wherever you c&p from do that?

1. Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West, "Put On"
2. Lil Wayne, "A Milli"
3. Ne-Yo, "Closer"
4. DJ Khaled's Fun Time Party Brigade, "Out Here Grindin'"
5. T-Pain ft. Lil Wayne, "Can't Believe It"
6. Officer Ross ft. Nelly & Avery Storm, "Here I Am"
7. Ryan Leslie ft. Cassie & Fabolous, "Addiction"
8. Keri Hilson, "Energy"
9. The-Dream, "I Luv Your Girl"
10. Lil Wayne ft. T-Pain, "Got Money"

i changed them all :D

i typed this out from the billboard site btw

38. Mary J. Blige, "Just Fine"
5. Jazmine Sullivan, "Need U Bad"
26. Ne-Yo, "Closer"
24. Hot Stylz ft. Yung Joc, "Lookin' Boy"
31. Slim ft. Yung Joc, "So Fly"
11. Alicia Keys, "Teenage Love Affair"
13. Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight"
47. Ryan Leslie ft. Cassie & Fabolous, "Addiction"
14. Plies ft. Jamie Foxx & The-Dream, "Please Excuse My Hands"
44. Soulja Boy, "Donk"

is it just me or is radio R&B kind of especially awesome this year.

is it crazy that ne-yo is @ #10 on the hot 100 but #26 on this list?

yeah radio r&b has been really good

it's a little weird but if any Ne-Yo song was ever gonna do better on the Pop 100 and Top 40 charts than on R&B charts it's "Closer." seems like urban stations are already latching onto "Miss Independent" as the song they're gonna play the hell out of.

I keep expecting it to be a cover of the Kelly Clarkson song.

1. jazmine sullivan - need u bad
2. slim & yung joc - so fly
3. alicia keys - teenage love affair
4. lloyd - girls around the world
5. noel gourdin - the river
6. thicke - magic
7. keysh - heaven sent
8. ryan leslie - addiction
9. jeezy & kanye - put on
10. j. hud - spotlight

"music for love" and that eric benet song are up there as well (enjoying an eric benet song in 2008? whodathunkit?) and of course keri "enery" and keysh "I remember" and the remix of that pleasure p song with teirra mari is great too.

this has been an excellent year for r&b in general, not just radio r&b

bottom 5 :

1. rihanna - take a bow
2. t.i. - whatever you like
3. alicia keys - superwoman
4. plies & ne-yo - bust it baby
5. lyfe - never never land

take a bow is def the worst of the ones that ive heard

maybe that yung berg thing

"Take a Bow" is fine/ The worst is one of these two:

8. David Banner ft. Chris Brown, "Get Like Me"
9. Officer Ross ft. Nelly & Avery Storm, "Here I Am"

i actually enjoy the yung berg song if you ignore yung berg

whats so bad about "get like me".. the beat is crazy

and the hook is great

1. Lil Wayne, "A Milli"
2. Keri Hilson, "Energy"
3. Mariah Carey, "Lovin' U Long Time"
4. Jazmine Sullivan, "Need U Bad"
5. Ryan Leslie feat. Cassie and Fabolous, "Addiction"
6. Lloyd feat. Lil Wayne, "Girls Around the World"
7. Rihanna, "Take a Bow"
8. The-Dream, "I Luv Your Girl"
9. Ne-Yo, "Closer"
10. Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight"

yeah once i got over the fact that supposed super genius classic album maker david banner was sampling yung joc for a chorus (and realized that the chorus is awesome) , i started to really like it. beat is crazy. also, im totally in favor of chris brown guest verses

"here i am" as i said when i bumped the officer ross thread, is a total radio jam to me. don't remember thinking anything of it when listening to the album (except how bad nelly's verse was) but i love the beat mostly, and as ive said on here before, ross sounds really good on fast beats cuz it doesn't usually allow him to get lazy and fall back into the rhyming/repeating same word thing

also nothing on the radio right now is bringing more lols than

"she used to fight with her moms
till i sat em both down
now she tight with her moms
WHUUUUUUUUUUT"

top 10:

1. put on
2. girls around the world
3. a milli
4. need u bad
5. closer
6. out here grindin'
7. i'll be lovin' u long time
8. spotlight
9. got money
10. like you'll never see me again
11. get like me
12. whatever you like
13. donk
14. just fine
15. mr carter
16. baby
17. i luv your girl
18. energy

the worst of the ones i've heard is definitely 'moving mountains'.

'got money' is really underrated, sure the beat is pop-cheesy and you've got t-pain in the chorus AGAIN but weezy rides it pretty nimbly, something's constantly piquing your interest (handclaps, "i'm a great dane", umbrella riffing &c)

also i've only heard 'whatever you like' once and i think i love it lots, but i was too distracted by how fiiiiine t.i. is in the video. those fucking cheekbones.

yeah i was a pretty vocal "got money" hater but i kind of love it now. you're otm about all the weird tics running through it (i'd throw my favorite, the clock ticking part, in there) and for an obvious wayne radio single it's got decent rapping, esp. the third verse ("so much ice they yell SKATE WAYNE")

also conjures up images of wayne being in a club and pretending to skate and/or wayne actually ice skating, so its a win-win really

yeah, so many tics like TIC-TIC

in the video it kind of looks like he's doing a skating move at when point? or maybe just skipping. mack maine's verse isn't bad but really when weezy's own third verse was as good as it is, why replace it

at one point, wtf

just so he could say "mack maine on them hoes"

i hope

as for "whatever you like", t.i.'s always been pretty melodic, so i'm not surprised the song where he basically half-sings the whole time is pretty good

his half-singing about romance is better than his raps nowadays anyway

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080619113713AA3e3TE

last thing before i go to sleep:

why in "whatever you like" does t.i. say "let me put this dick boy in yo life"

i thought it was "big boy", or was that the clean version?

has "i decided" been and gone from the lists there already?

yeah minus the "been" part

The "Get Like Me" chorus is shit, he takes a bunch of Joc lines that at one point were rhyming couplets that made some kind of grammatical sense, and just chopped it up and garbled it to the point that it's all nonsense like "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A CHEVY WITH THE GET LIKE ME" and none of it rhymes or flows together at all.

the worst of the ones i've heard is definitely 'moving mountains'.

...wut? "movin mountains" is a great song, urshers vocal performance is amazing.

people are hating on here i stand for like no reason at all, just becasuse there aren't as many pop/uptempo songs on it, it's actually a good album.

has "i decided" been and gone from the lists there already?

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, August 15, 2008 3:06 AM (Friday, August 15, 2008 3:06 AM) Bookmark Link

reached #44 at some point

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"magic" and "need u bad" are my two favorite songs of the past few days

in strict order & deliberately excluding everything else:

13. Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight" (voted this)
4. Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West, "Put On"
14. Plies ft. Jamie Foxx & The-Dream, "Please Excuse My Hands"
28. Lloyd ft. Lil Wayne, "Girls Around the World"
47. Ryan Leslie ft. Cassie & Fabolous, "Addiction"
15. Plies ft. Ne-Yo, "Bust it Baby Pt. 2"
31. Slim ft. Yung Joc, "So Fly"
42. Mariah Carey, "I'll Be Lovin U Long Time"
33. LL Cool J ft. The-Dream, "Baby"
34. Dwele, "I'm Cheatin'"
2. Keyshia Cole, "Heaven Sent"

'cant believe it' mightve got a bonus spot were it not that wayne completely ruins that shit

also can someone throw a miami bass freestyle beat under any jaheim song already

donk REMIX woulda been #3 also, donk og not so much

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the "Donk" remix with Yung Joc? what's so special about that?

take it out your pocket and show it

the donk remix with yung joc that sounds like some gremlins hopping around a swizz beatz rmx of ray cash 'bumping my music'? dunno man, i just like it.

my favorite part of "donk" is when he goes

"WOW she got a donk WOW WOW WOW"

i say that shit all the time now, great irl meme

also: is yung joc secretly the best r&b guest rapper of the decade?

26. Ne-Yo, "Closer" 2

wish this vile song would go away and take its ne-yophyte fans with it

his best single since "so sick"

your best inane opinion since the other thousand you probly posted in the last minute

haha i forgot about the weird voices and synths they added to "Donk" on the remix, I think the last time I listened to it the original hadn't been tattooed on my brain by the radio yet.

don't really see what's worth beefing over "Closer" about, i like it more than most of the stuff he's done since the first album but i don't know what kind of valid generalization you can make about fans of it as opposed to fans of him in general.

"because of you" is great and "sexy love" is pretty good but i love the hell out of "so sick", but any time i bring it up on ilx ppl seem to recoil

i liked "So Sick" a lot at the time, kind of ambivalent toward it now.

i liked it in the ne-yo v dream thread when dudes were all "bah these idiots taking songs outta context and misrepresenting the totally inconsequential album of my fave random-ass artist!!" and then being like "heyyyyy i love these housey ne-yo jawns though UNTZ UNTZ"

i don't know where i was for this poll

"bah these idiots taking songs outta context and misrepresenting the totally inconsequential album of my fave random-ass artist!!"

fwiw only deej said this

w/evs!

(lol apologies to the other trillion regular folk who charted 'closer' so high, you suck too but in a different way xx)

basically i contend that 'lets just be' is the only good ne-yo song this year, and that everything else is craven hackwork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV4pmGRcDZI

2008 Track on Upcoming Album - "Year Of The Gentleman".

Produced by Tricky Stewart

haha this is gonna end up being one of the dream-penned ones isnt it

weird song, seems really disjointed

i like his dance influenced stuff the most, "so sick" excepted

lol @ rtc being the r&b ethan. feelin' this track you posted tho

rtc #1 r&b thug

-- The Reverend, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:07 AM (Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:07 AM) Bookmark Link

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