This isn't really one of my favorite tracks on Pink Planet but I'm glad it's doing well as a single and it's a pretty sweet little song that I think works better as a duet, I think Kehlani's voice is well suited for this kind of balladry. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B

"Beat Box" is already on the way to becoming the next "Old Town Road" where it becomes kind of a running joke how many official remixes there are. The first remix with Pooh Shiesty came out in December, although the TikTok challenge that went viral and propelled "Beat Box" onto the Hot 100 used the original SpotemGottem solo track. DaBaby then did his own version, which SpotemGottem's label picked up and turned into another official remix and pushed the song higher up the charts, despite the fact that DaBaby's verse mostly got attention for a poorly phrased punchline that made people think he was dissing child star JoJo Siwa. And then a couple weeks ago we got yet another remix with Mulatto, who still hasn't given us that badly needed name change she promised a few months ago. 

Best Verse: Pooh Shiesty

Overall Grade: C+

I don't really understand the point of this remix, other than that maybe it signifies that Stefflon Don's about to get a lot of promo this year -- conceptually she's a third wheel on the song and she doesn't really stick to the topic, and is an odd musical fit for the beat, and doesn't add any starpower to the song. It's not a bad verse, though. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+ 

Rosalia's verse sounds a little out of place but I really like the harmonies she does on the chorus. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B-

The "Buss It" challenge was even bigger on TikTok in January than the "Beat Box" dance, but the song has been slower to really pick up steam as a chart hit, so I'm not surprised they tacked a major star onto a remix to keep its buzz going. But Travis remains kind of a bland empty calorie guest rapper, there's a reason he's not on remixes very often relative to his popularity, and his usual reverb-heavy vocal style just doesn't fit well over a Nelly loop. Really this remix should've had a Nelly verse on it.  

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: D

As of this writing, "Go Crazy" is still #1 on R&B radio for the 25th week and I'm just tired. A remix doesn't do much to make such an overplayed song sound fresh, but Future sounds like he really likes the song and is genuinely inspired, rapping for 24 bars and incorporating the melody of the hook. 

Best Verse: Future

Overall Grade: B

Nice song, and Lucky Daye's voice is a welcome addition to it. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B 

"Hittin'" is a funny song, Money Mu opens the track saying "I don't even need too many ad libs on that shit" and then the entire song sounds like ad libs. Moneybagg doesn't miss these days so he really elevates the song. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B 

It's hard to think of a less exciting title for a rap song than "Moonwalking In Calabasas" and the song itself isn't much better. This is another song that has several official remixes, but the Blueface remix has about 5 times as many streams as any other version of the song, including the original, and I didn't think he had enough clout to blow a song up post-2019. His verse is good by Blueface standards but I'd much rather listen to the YG remix. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B- 

This is an increasingly unpopular opinion but I still think nobody does AutoTuned melodic rapping worse than Lil Durk, he sounds ridiculous on tracks like this. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C- 

I already wrote about how much I hate this song literally the first day that I heard it, and it's probably too soon to breathe easy, but the song has not blown up like I feared it would since then. Lil Wayne has a long history of showing up on absolutely terrible songs and giving them more effort than they're worth, and his verse regrettably adds a little entertainment value to this horrid modern day "Rappin' Rodney." 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C 

I have never really had a problem with the 2-minute rap hit coming into fashion in the last few years but I was kind of shocked at just how short "Opp Stoppa" is -- the original is only 1:04, and the remix is 2:14. I hate the way 21 Savage says "pussy" and he says it a lot on this. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: D

Posse cut remixes where the main artist actually contributes a new verse are incredibly rare these days, so I will give Ty Dolla Sign kudos for that (although the Post Malone verse from the original is reprised). 

Best Verse: J Balvin

Overall Grade: B-

BRS Kash also gets credit for putting new bars on the remix to his breakthrough hit, and I like his back-and-forth verse with DaBaby. This remix mostly made waves for the video, in which DaBaby skis down slopes of CGI semen, but I will say that as someone who doesn't really like "Throat Baby" as a song, this is a quality remix.

Best Verse: JT

Overall Grade: B+ 

At this point it's a joke that every time a new New York rapper gets a hit that French Montana has to piggyback on it. He doesn't sound as awkward on this as he did the last time I heard him on an NYC drill beat, but I still wish these new guys could get like an actual New York legend on their remixes when they blow up. 

Best Verse: Rowdy Rebel

Overall Grade: C+