On Red Cafe's "Hottest in the Hood" Remix, Featuring Jadakiss, Rick Ross, Fabolous, and OJ Da Juiceman
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Red Cafe, who apparently just signed to Bad Boy, finally has a decent song on his hands--the original version of "Hottest in the Hood" has been getting burn for what at least seems like months on HOT97, and this remix will definitely get run back on-air four or five hundred times tonight. "Five years off, number three in the country"--that's Jadakiss, who's probably as surprised as anyone at his status as minor commercial force in 2009. Out-selling Asher Roth in your first week is basically rap's new critical metric, and Jada beat him by a solid 50,000. (Sorry, Tom!) Also represented: Rick Ross, whose sales smashed everybody and whose record was such a work of glossy, outlandish fantasia that it's almost impossible not to love. He, uh, fares a little bit better in his own ridiculous context than he does here: "Step out the kitchen, look like I'm slipping / Your chick made a puddle of it, how the juice dripping." Yikes. Let's just say he's playing the Juelz Santana-on-last-year's-"BET Cypher #1" role and leave it at that. Fabolous, meanwhile--as anyone whose retina were irreparably scarred when he Twittered at length about getting a handjob over the weekend at some cursed showing of Obsessed surely knows--has been getting pretty deep into this Web 2.0 stuff lately: "They just follow my swag, Twitter my style." Hopefully not.
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