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Labrinth “Beautiful People (Chris Brown Cover)” Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:40 PM PDT While we can completely understand why some would continue to have little interest in supporting anything Chris Brown-related post-The Incident, from our standpoint at least, few mainstream dance-pop singles offered as exhilarating a ride this year as the R&B singer-dancer’s F.A.M.E. single/ Benny Benassi collaboration “Beautiful People”, an infectious burst of thinly-penned positivity embedded within Brown’s mysterio-distorted vocal imprint and Benassi’s intoxicating roller-coaster display of throbbing lows and rave-tastic highs that largely impressed even it it felt near-impossible to successfully translate to a live, non-lip-synced, context. Labrinth does just that however in this BBC Live Lounge-birthed cover of the tune and the results lean on the side of incredible, the UK R&B star slicing through the original’s Ibiza-aimed hard techno shell to re-interpret “People” with some moody electric guitar noodling, heavenly background vocal aid, elegant string swells and subdued bits of soulful passion that inject a warm human touch behind the message of uplift. DL: “Beautiful People (Chris Brown Cover)” (alt)

Ludacris featuring Gucci Mane “Shake N’ Fries” Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:42 PM PDT While any guy who has muttered the words “With all that shake can a player get some fries with it?” to a chick within the past, say, fifteen years deserves to be shuttled off the planet for being a tired wannabe-mack, Luda gets a pass for using the “lame sitcom pick-up line”-as-hook, if only because he fills up much of the remainder of mixtape cut “Shake N Fries” with some of his best naughty-themed hilariousness in a long minute. From “I put my balls on the table/ Tell her rack ‘em up” and “For an extra value woody/ Put this Big Mac into that Quarter Pounder pussy” to “It's Ludacris, ‘Mr. Slay-A-Bitch’/ Unless that pussy is smelling like a Filet-O-Fish”, Luda comes very close to sounding like that old Back For The First Time Luda again, a refreshing change of pace from a lot of his recent material where his hunger and sharp, comedic wit seemed to dissipate into this underwhelmed boredom with the game. Couple Chris’ reinvigorated sense of XXX-rated humor with the mush-mouthed Gucci Mane being a little more hit than miss with his typical brand of so-bad-it’s-good lyrical randomness (“Your mama turned out, she so popular/ You suckers can't see her with binoculars/ She'll suck your pocket dry like Dracula/ Her last boyfriend bought her an Acura”) and a booming, low=key beat churn that’s begging for a stripper’s booty clap to accompany it, and “Shake N Fries” lands as a wildly inappropriate jam satisfying enough to re-spark our slightly waned interest in Ludacris’ career. From Luda’s upcoming mixtape release 1.21 Gigawatts, due November 15th. “Shake N Fries” (DL): Download audio file (Ludacris-Shake-N-Fries-feat.-Gucci-Mane.mp3) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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