A dreary pop song, now with the dreariest possible rap features. Lil Mosey sounds a lot like Lil Yachty on this but it's still preferable to Blackbear quoting "Hot Girl Bummer." 

Best Verse: Lil Mosey

Overall Grade: D

I love that every generation seems to go through this process of rediscovering and celebrating Stevie Nicks. But I wish Miley and her latest '80s homage single weren't capitalizing on it, even if this sort of mashup of her song and a Stevie classic works out well enough. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+ 

I don't think much of Travis Scott, but I suppose it's good of him to include artists without whom he wouldn't exist like Kid Cudi and Young Thug in his insane and seemingly unstoppable run of #1 singles, as well as Future on the remix to the most recent one. "Franchise" is kind of a turgid, crappy-sounding song, but Future is easily the closest any of the 4 artists on here comes to getting off a good verse. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+

The Weeknd starts out singing a verse in English, but later he shows off and sings in Spanish like Bieber on "Despacito," and he really sounds like a natural fit for the track. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+

A decent song that totally gets livened up by Shania kind of taking it over and doing little spoken ad libs like her old '90s hits. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B

Still not a big fan of this song but Roddy replacing Gunna and NAV is a huge improvement, he kills his verse and kind of puts his own spin on Don Toliver's melody. 

Best Verse: n/a 

Overall Grade: B 

24kGoldn sounds a little out of place here but his verse works as kind of a new intro to a song that was fine as it was.

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B- 

I really don't like these smoothed out R&B records on the posthumous Pop Smoke album but the addition of Summer really makes this one sound better. That Lil Tjay verse is trash on both versions, though. 

Best Verse: n/a 

Overall Grade: B- 

People were not thrilled about the all-male guest lineup on this remix, but it strikes me as shrewd counterprogramming given how many hits feature women rapping/singing about pussy this year, much as I don't want to hear Jack Harlow say "convos with the coochie." Quavo almost never has the best verse on a song, so honestly, good for him. 

Best Verse: Quavo

Overall Grade: C+

The version that went to #1 has kind of a saccharine boy band quality that I thought never quite fit Jason Derulo so it kinda makes more sense here with an actual boy band on it. Has Dan Savage weighed in on a wordwide pop hit being written about his sex column? 

Best Verse: J-Hope

Overall Grade: B-

This was a pretty interesting story, Fiona Apple released the Fetch The Bolt Cutters single "Shameika" earlier this year in part inspired by what a girl named Shameika said to her in school as a kid (I also interviewed the other person mentioned in the song's lyrics, Sebastian Steinberg). Then, the real Shameika reconnected with Fiona, turned out to be a rapper, and they collaborated on a remix of the song. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B 

EST Gee is from Kentucky, a state that just got one of its first really famous rappers in the form of Jack Harlow, and for the remix he goes to a neighboring state for Tennessee's Moneybagg Yo. I like EST Gee's on the original but he definitely gets outshined by a more seasoned rapper at the top of his game. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B 

The original "Tommy Lee" already had Post Malone on it so it doesn't really add any starpower to the remix to just put the "Roses" guy on it, but it's a good verse. Such a whiny and listless song to be named after a member of Motley Crue, though. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C  

Ne-Yo and Jeremih was a combination I was a little surprised by at first, but Ne-Yo and Lil Durk, that's really a weird one. And Durk kind of ruins the song's flip on the "Computer Love" chorus by warbling "computer love, computer loooove" all over the track. Queen Naija gives one of the better performances I've heard from her, though. 

Best Verse: Queen Naija

Overall Grade: B-

And here we have the reverse of the "Pussy Talk" remix, a woman added to a man's song about pussy. Didn't like the original but this at least improves on it. Like Quavo on "Pussy Talk," Big Latto likens pussy to mac and cheese here, which, I gotta be honest, I am not a fan of the whole mac and cheese pussy analogy, I find it gross. 

Best Verse: n/a 

Overall Grade: C+

Nicki's usually not ahead of the curve with embracing new artists but this combo doesn't really work for me, she doesn't even sound on this track, makes the whole song sound worse, her overenunciation clashing with Sada Baby's odd little mutter flow. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: D

"Wow" went viral and eventually became a radio hit after Sabrina Carpenter danced to it in the 2019 Netflix film Work It, so I guess they decided to bring it full circle and make a version with Carpenter singing part of the song. But this was never one of my favorite Zara Larsson songs and their voices are kind of similar so the remix just sounds like the original. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C

If I was a melodic rapper with a sort of ballad like Yung Bleu from Alabama, I don't think I'd like Drake jump on the track and turn it into a whole Drake thing, but I guess it's shrewd to let him boost the song. That verse is awful, though. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: D