Billboard Hot 100 New Entries, April 2002

crazy good month

Love: "Oh Boy," "Hella Good," "Addictive"

Like: "Closet Freak," "One Mic," "Be Here," "Soak Up the Sun" (despite myself)

Voted Truth Hurts.

Big Tymers - Still Fly - Cash Money - 4/13/02 - 99
Cam'ron ft. Juelz Santana - Oh Boy - Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam - 4/20/02 - 77

these were both MASSIVE songs for me when i was a kid -- so hard for me to pick really, but cam & juelz did better in this era with "hey ma" -- "still fly" otoh is the best big tymers single of their second period

"it's gonna be alright" is one of those sublime j. lo singles, that would def be my #3 -- "addictive" is ridiculous too, would prob be my #4 -- then "hella good"

I f/w all of these. Yup, even the Sheryl Crow:

Truth Hurts ft. Rakim - Addictive - Aftermath - 4/20/02 - 71
Big Tymers - Still Fly - Cash Money - 4/13/02 - 99
No Doubt - Hella Good - Interscope - 4/20/02 - 63
Cam'ron ft. Juelz Santana - Oh Boy - Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam - 4/20/02 - 77
Cee-Lo - Closet Freak - Arista - 4/6/02 - 99
Nas - One Mic - Columbia - 4/20/02 - 79
Raphael Saadiq ft. D'Angelo - Be Here - Universal - 4/27/02 - 99
Alicia Keys - How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? - J - 4/6/02 - 74
Lil Bow Wow - Take Ya Home - So So Def - 4/13/02 - 75
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up the Sun - A&M - 4/13/02 - 73
Remy Shand - Take a Message - Motown - 4/27/02 - 94
Jennifer Lopez ft. Nas - It's Gonna Be Alright - Epic - 4/27/02 - 69

I would absolutely buy a Now volume with all these songs. And that is absolutely Crow's best. (She was on Cougar Town tonight! Not bad, either.)

i have no recollection of the britney song

slump thru spottieottie is like, c'mon

lol, wrong thread obv

xxp: yeah, that probably is Crow's best, although I'll rep for "All I Wanna Do" and "Every Day Is a Winding Road"

"Oh Boy" was huge for me at the time. I was way into the Roc and that was the first in that trend of awesome post-Blueprint singles that didn't really have traditional hooks, just a vocal sample gluing everything together, which really stood out. Didn't appreciate "Still Fly" until later, when my sense of humor caught up to that of Mannie Fresh.

have you ever seen the crocodile seats in the truck?
turn around and sit it down and let em' bite ya butt

pretty much whenever i'm on a quarter tank of gas, i think of this song -- it's one of those songs

oh, definitely

i love "still fly" - such an awesome "balling can be a state of mind, not state of bank account" song, the beat struts like a peacock.

it still comes second to "addictive" though because most things in this world do. HE TURNS MY PAGES

"hella good", "overprotected" and "oh boy" all top notch too

"overprotected" is the britney single which invented her trademark MAAEEEHHHH

i used to have an mp3 of the source bollywood track used for the "addictive" sample - it was really good but i seem to have lost it :(

what is "MAAEEEHHHH"?

her weird way of saying "me"

Love "Addictive"; like "Oh Boy"; need to refresh my memory about what "Still Fly" sounds like (assuming I ever knew in the first place); wondering whether Brian McKnight and Donell Jones might have been good.

Also very doubtful that's Sherly Crow's best song (though I'm not gonna conjecture right now about what was, and I still do like this one.)

"Soak Up The Suck" amirite.

God, I hate that thing.

dude from KoRn was saying "me" like that first

Brian McKnight and Donell Jones might have been good, but not by then

"Soak Up The Suck" amirite

Would almost definitely take any of these over it (just tracking through her Very Best Of CD): "All I Wanna Do," "My Favorite Mistake," "Leaving Las Vegas," "If It Makes You Happy," "Picture," "A Change Would Do You Good." Probably a couple others, too.

I'd add "Anything But Down." "My Favorite Mistake" is still my favorite Crow single.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"one mic" is the best song here but not the best single

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

"One MIc" is the best song AND the best single imo

One of the best months yet and only that many votes? Guess I need to start linking these again.

people might be more likely to skip the best months, it's way harder to choose!