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30. THE GAME F/LIL' WAYNE- MY LIFE

This was a track in which Weezy actually put his Auto-tune frenzied vocals to good use while the Game sounds...well...introspective...So much that Amanda wanted to remix this with me...and the funny thing is, she didn't know who the Game was when I said "oh that track from Game?"

29. T.I.- SWING YA RAG

This song should have been the lead single from Paper Trail instead of Whatever You Like...but who knows..."whatever YOU like"....pun intended.

28. LIL' WAYNE F/ROBIN THICKE- TIE MY HANDS

Another song that I felt should have been a single, but was one of my favorite tracks off The Carter 3. It even became the soundtrack to my messy breakup with my schizophrenic ex-girlfriend this past summer. Shouts to 88Nine Milwaukee, for giving this song play and this was alos another example of Weezy's abilities for songwriting.

27. CHRIS BROWN- WITH YOU

A song that wouldn NOT go away, but you heard enough that you had to love it...and beg your gf not to sing karaoke to it.

26. JORDIN SPARKS F/CHRIS BROWN- NO AIR

See "With You"...

25. JAY-Z- JOCKIN' JAY-Z

If his performance at Glastonbury didn't piss Noel Gallagher of Oasis enough, the first four bars in the second verse of this song sure did. Still waitin' on Blueprint 3!!!

24. THE DREAM- I LUV YOUR GIRL

If you wasn't bouncin' to this at the club wit ya drink 'n ya 2-step...SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH YOU...and even the remixes from Jeezy and Fab was satisfying enough to get the ladies goin' "FUCK THAT NIGGA"!!!...hell even my remix of the song ended up on more than 80 playlists this past summer on Imeem....what a country!!!

23. N.E.R.D.- SPAZ

This was the epitome of a fight-starter. I damn near had a heartattack when they performed this live in my hometown not too long ago, moshing so hard. Now if only the rest of that album was like this. But I'm not gonna piss Randal off so whatever.

22. ATMOSPHERE- SHOULDA KNOWN

While "You" had the hipsters jumping and the casuals requesting it on pop radio, the lead single from When Life Gives You Lemons, had that spooky "supposed" Eurthymics sample, while Slug's storytelling is as vivid and more on-point than usual.

21. Q-TIP- MIDNIGHT

Cool & Dre proved two things to me this year, 1. That they still had life in them 2. They can re-make a classic song from A Tribe Called Quest and make it sound better than the original (imo). From the Smirnoff series, this was indeed my favorite out of the three songs, especially since Just Blaze's remix of Common's "The Light" was closing in on this...The Preemo remix of KRS' "Criminal Minded", I didn't get a chance to peep as much. But this is something I could see playing in the iPod walking or a night out on the town.