The recent deluxe edition of Jhene Aiko's latest album features a remix of the current single that swaps out the H.E.R. feature for a Kehlani feature, which seemed like a kind of pointlessly minor change of guest to me on paper. But Kehlani does kind of fit the attitude of the song better, and she kind of approaches it like a rap feature and goes off, and Jhene adds some new lyrics too. The deluxe Chilombo oddly also has "On The Way," essentially a full-length remix with Mila J of the little snippet from the beginning of the hit "P*$$Y Fairy (OTW)." 

Best Verse: Kehlani

Overall Grade: B

I don't think I've ever stumbled upon anybody acknowledging the existence of "Falling," but it's dominated pop radio for most of the year and has passed 1 billion streams, and it's just awful, the kind of whiny white singer on a trap beat shit that we'll probably suffer through for this entire Post Malone decade. There's one remix with another annoying white trap beat dude, Blackbear, but this more recent remix at least sounds like a decent Summer Walker song when she's singing. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+

The title track from Brent Faiyaz's 2019 project Fuck The World is a good song, I always root for him and would love if this remix was what put it over the top and made it a real hit. But if not, I still got a good new 2 Chainz verse out of it, I really enjoy hearing him give a little too much energy over these kind of relaxed minimal R&B beats, it's a great dynamic. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B+ 

Anderson .Paak released "Lockdown" on Juneteenth right around the height of the initial wave of George Floyd protests, other than Lil Baby's "The Bigger Picture" it felt like one of the few songs that came out in that moment that had a little staying power and didn't feel just rushed out to be timely. And the remix is executed as well as the original, really kind of cool to see him gather 3 other sort of mid-level stars who are a good fit for these song and they all rise to the occasion. 

Best Verse: JID

Overall Grade: B+

Oddly, another chance to unfavorably compare Yung Miami, who had a terrible verse on the original "Perfect," to Doja Cat, who appears on the remix. But I particularly like BIA, who has a couple good songs out but is mostly known for a song with that terrible Russ guy, and she really just sounds more suited to this beat than anyone else on the song. 

Best Verse: BIA

Overall Grade: B

There are probably more popular rappers who are black women right now that ever before, and same goes for white men, but you don't necessarily hear them on the same tracks very often (except G-Eazy, G-Eazy has a million songs with women rappers for some reason). So I was kind of surprised to see both Post and Jack Harlow on this remix. The original "Tap In" is a pretty terrible song -- somehow they got Dr. Luke, Lunchmoney Lewis, and half of R. City together and came out with a track that has less going on than the Lil Jon track it samples. So it's kind of funny that Post Malone brought along another big time hitmaker, his go-to producer Louis Bell, and added a whole dramatic synth fanfare to to his stupid like 30-second cameo, because it doesn't really land or fit the rest of the track. And I just cringe when Jack Harlow goes "when they asked me to do this verse, you know I got horny." 

Best Verse: DaBaby

Overall Grade: C-

Snoh Aalegra is one of a dozen Soundcloud Sade wannabes crowding the R&B scene right now, I'm not really that into her stuff, but "Whoa" is an alright song. I don't know why anyone thought this song needed a Pharrell rap verse, though, I expected him to sing a little falsetto on it and that probably would have been fine. There are so many goofy head-scratching Pharrell moments in this verse, but I think the one where he talks about his synesthesia but tries to be vaguely sexual about it takes the cake.  

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: D