"Deuces" Remix ft Chris Brown, Drake, T.I. , Kanye West, Fabolous, Andre 3000

When I first heard about this song, I didn't think it was possible to have all those features.  Those are pretty big names, and Drake has been begging to work with Andre for quite some time.  However, it materialized to a remix that left me speechless (in a good way).  I thought Drake's reference to Usher's "Nice In Slow" is his verse was clever.  I like how Drake's raps are influenced by R&B (remember the Aaliyah "Are You That Somebody?" reference in "Bedrock"?)
Usually by having so many rappers on a single song, it can be a mess, but this is pretty amazing.  Up there with multiple rapper songs like "Swagga Like Us" and "Forever." Chris really isn't featured on the song as much, but that might be a good thing because adding another person might have been an overkill. The song is available here

"I'm Back"-T.I.

You know how some blogs are like "I got that exclusive" or "you heard it hear first."  Well, this is not that type of blog.  This (sadly) isn't my job (right now) so I have no access to exclusives and I'm not sure where you hear things first.  I just know I'm not the first to see things, I'm not the last, but not the first.  For example, I saw the T.I. video on my cousin's blog http://dotthagreat.blogspot.com/ where I actually do see a lot of things first.  To me its a great video: it has the rare gift of looking very expensive and low budget at the exact same time.  That might sound like an insult, but its a gift.  He has that urban edge/upscale elegance at the same time, which he has mastered since "King"  I always find it puzzling that he is with Tiny, cuz although she seems like she has a heart of gold, she always looks like she doesn't own a mirror.  The entire region of the South is just puzzling to me. 


Also, every time this comes on my iPod, I get extra happy.  The "I'm Back" video kinda reminds me of this too because of the use of black and white to color. Embedding is disabled which is actually a dumb marketing move, but here's a link for the video of "Why U Wanna" if you want to reminisce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6z_cilnJzg

Winner-T.I., Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx

This song leaked a couple of weeks ago, but as I said before, it takes me a while to really judge a song.  At first I think this song was overproduced and lyrics weren't really saying anything new. However, after further reflection, it could be a nice song for the summer and could be a commercial success because the lyrics are what anyone can relate to, the desire or confidence to be a winner.  I just thought having this trio together could make an amazing song, not just something mediocre. But having more than 2 people on a song that are not a group can be difficult.  For instance, if they were talking about a girl, it could be annoying to have 3 dudes talk about some chick (example, Bedrock.  Good song, but waaay too many people on the track).  Its not an impossible feat to have a successful song with 3 different artists on it though.  A successful song that comes to mind is "Knocks You Down" with Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson, and Kanye West. This song is a nice effort though, but my favorite T.I. and Justin Timberlake collaboration has to be "My Love."

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