22.10.03

beyonce ft lloyd banks - steppin it hotter

like everyone else, i hate it when super-talented and successful women release amazingly cool r'n'b songs. i can only speculate that they are fembots incapable of human feeling who will eventually murder us all. with hot beats and coffee beans! run everyone! still, before beyonce reveals her gameplan she has recorded this new version of "baby boy", which loses the chorus completely to rip some ini kamoze instead. this is maybe my favourite kind of rmx, where artist dude gets to critique their own song: 'man, even ini kamoze is better than the "baby boy" chorus!' implies beyonce, and she's right - it was easily the shittest part of the original, but thinking about it, sean paul was kinda bad too. oh look, he's gone as well! 's paul's had the charts on lock all summer, how about someone who looks more like craig david?' step up, l-l-l-l-lloyd! dude looks more like c david than c david does! the production on the original was tight but kind of cold-steel. obviously the only choice was to lay down the stalag bassline (or whatever sister nancy is using on "bam bam"), the warmest and comfiest sound of all time! it's like beyonce used her fembot powers to read my mind!

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