Here's Vol. 1 from March and the Spotify playlist of every remix I've covered so far this year: 

So apparently Desiigner is still making music and released his second album last year. He doesn't really sound like a Future biter anymore on "America's Baby," which doesn't really sound like anything, just a plainspoken boom bap song, but he still references "Panda" and "Timmy Turner." Not a huge Wiz fan but he improves the song somewhat or at least sounds natural on this beat. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+ 

I didn't like Lily Allen's West End Girl, felt more like reading a Reddit "am I the asshole?" post about a bad marriage than an album. Former Little Mix member Jade Thirlwall released a pretty good album last year, though, and this revamp of the song from West End Girl with the annoying Lumidee sample is definitely refreshing by comparison. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B-

I like Trap Dickey's album, although I'm surprised it was released by TDE, I wonder how he got hooked up with them. He's one of the first nationally successful rappers to come out of South Carolina, so I guess it's nice for him to collaborate with one of the biggest North Carolina rapper. I'm still pretty sick of DaBaby and not a fan of him making a comeback, and he says "shitted" on here and then makes a poop sound with his mouth, but Trap Dickey and DaBaby admittedly do a pretty good back-and-forth flow together on here. 

Best Verse: Trap Dickey

Overall Grade: B-

Another South Carolina artist doing a Carolina-themed remix with DaBaby. I was way late to cover the Fantasia remix of "Boots On The Ground" in my last column, but I guess 803Fresh is just going to keep making new versions of that song forever. It's nice to hear Petey Pablo again, he always had a nice flow, but the guy I hadn't heard of, T.A.Z D3Vil, is really good. 

Best Verse: T.A.Z D3Vil

Overall Grade: C+

The original "Don Julio" was already a posse cut, ALLBLACK's verse is the only new addition on the remix. I think it's the best verse on here, but it's still a pretty terrible song, generic west coast shit that sounds like it was recorded on a Super Nintendo. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C

It's frustrating when there's like 3 different remixes of a hit record and none of them really hit the spot. Hearing Remy on this track is fun but she only does 12 bars and her verse is poorly recorded, she needs a real engineer tracking her vocals. She uses the 'I went deaf' part of the hook to get in a jab at Foxy Brown. I guess Tamer Hosny is a big star in Egypt but who knows why he's on this song. 

Best Verse: Remy Ma

Overall Grade: C

M.O.P.'s Billy Danze's 2020 album with producer Too Busy included "Gotham" featuring Method Man, and their 2026 album has a sequel with an even better verse from a Wu-Tang rapper.

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B- 

Last year I covered a remix CCM star Brandon Lake did with Jelly Roll that turned out to be a huge crossover hit for him, Nick Jonas has always been pretty Jesused out for a secular pop star and "Hope" was the most gospel-ish song on his latest solo album Sunday Best, he released this remix the same day as a new non-album single with Lake, "The Author." I dunno, I'm not the audience for any of this stuff, but I don't hear much musical merit in it beyond the message. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C 

Casper TNG and 100Bandplan are both from Toronto and "The Market" was a big breakthrough for both of them on the Canadian Hot 100. I guess Canadian hip hop is still in a pretty rough place outside of Drake because this song is ass, but A Boogie is a good choice for the remix because this kinda sounded like his shitty music already. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C 

After Zara Larsson's remix of PinkPantheress's "Stateside" blew up, it was cool that they linked up for another remix of one of Zara's songs for her Midnight Sun: Girls Trip remix album. The Muni Long "Midnight Sun" remix I covered last year was pleasant but forgettable, this one is overhauled a bit more with PinkPantheress and American R&B producer Troy Taylor co-producing a new version of the track. It's cool, but I'm glad that once U.S. radio finally started playing "Midnight Sun" heavily in the last few weeks it was the original version and not this. PinkPantheress mentions Delaware, fun to hear that on a big song by artists who aren't even from America. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B- 

I liked that the original "Motion Party" is this super brief 95-second thing, but adding a guest and another minute for the remix definitely makes it feel a a little more like a full song. Meg sounds great on this beat, she laughs both times that BossMan Dlow says "I remember when they laughed at me" in a way that almost sounds mean, which is hilarious. And since this was the first verse she released since breaking up with Klay Thompson, people immediately started analyzing the lines about cheating in there. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: A- 

Another very short song that feels a little more complete as a remix, they even call it the 'extended version.' Fetty Wap is the guy you expect to hear on a hook but not necessarily a great verse, but he's really good on here, made me enjoy the song more. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: B+ 

I assumed the hook of "Pop Dat Thang" was a sample of an obscure record but I guess it isn't, this goes on my shitlist of rap hits with apparent AI-generated vocal loops alongside Gunna's "wgft" and Sexyy Red's "U My Everything," what a depressing trend. GloRilla's verse is very good, I'm kind of baffled at Yung Miami becoming a viable solo star, she really is not up to doing guest verses. I like when the artist that made the original song does a new verse for the posse cut remix, but it's DaBaby so I'm reluctant to give him props for anything. 

Best Verse: GloRilla

Overall Grade: B-

Way back before "Mutt" and the Chris Brown remix of "Mutt" became inescapable for most of 2025, Freddie Gibbs appeared on the whatever first remix of "Mutt." So now Leon Thomas is repaying the favor, adding a verse to the song that sampled 112 on a re-release of the album Gibbs put out in 2024. I would hate if Freddie Gibbs started getting played on the radio, especially if it was this. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+ 

"Sexy For Me" is a shameless retread of one of Derulo's biggest hits, 2014's "Talk Dirty," which I guess has worked to some extent because it's the first song he's gotten some pop radio spins for in about five years. Getting Kevin Gates for a guest verse also feels kind of like mid-2010s nostalgia, and Gates sex bars feel slightly too filthy for the PG-13 naughtiness I associate with Jason Derulo. Jazeek is a German rapper who's had three #1 albums on the charts in Germany, apparently.   

Best Verse: Kevin Gates

Overall Grade: C

It's kinda cool to hear three Detroit rappers of note on a hit together, but Kash Doll really doesn't add anything to the song, I see why she never really got past the level of just being well known on social media to actually having big records. She says "KD" at the beginning of her verse, which reminds me of this classic moment.

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C-

Don Toliver's album is pretty big but the original "Tuition" is one of its less popular songs, I don't know if Lil Baby's verse just came in too late to make the album or if they're trying to turn the song into a hit. Very low energy strip club song and it feels like a waste of a decent Lil Baby verse. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C+ 

"Yoppenheimer" is a pretty funny title that's not mentioned at all in the original song, but Joey Bada kind of ruins it by saying "Oppenheimer flow, going nuclear when I ride the beat," and then a couple bars later "not a star, I'm the big dripper," just an embarrassingly corny rapper. 

Best Verse: n/a

Overall Grade: C

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