This week featured nine of 10 entirely new posts taking the Top 10. Jay-Z, last week’s winner, stayed around to play with the Swizz Beatz-produced “Open Letter.”It naturally helped things that Common re-circulated the track as a remix, teaming with the Brooklyn Nets Musical Director and acclaimed mixtape vet J. Period for an exclusive remix, which premiered at HipHopDX on Monday. Other goodies came from headliners like Drake, J. Cole, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled and a Cam’ron and Lil Wayne reunion. If that weren’t enough, Daft Punk brought in the great minds behind The Neptunes and Chic for bang out a summer dance gem.
Common Adds A “P.S.” To Jay-Z’s “Open Letter”
On Monday this week, HipHopDX’s homie J. Period dropped off his exclusive remix to Jay-Z’s Top 10 leader last week, “Open Letter.” With mutual friends in Kanye West and No I.D., Comm stepped up and showed support for his fellow early ’90s Hip Hop peer. Following Pitbull’s own take on Jay-Z and Beyonce’s trip to Cuba, expect more open letters across the game, especially since it’s a great platform to address rumors and controversy—which many artists seem to be finding (or finding them?). Common also hit the leader-board working with his and No I.D.’s Cocaine 80’s project. “Congratulations” plays into Comm’s success with concepts, and at least begins in raising a glass to some happy newlyweds.
Funkmaster Flex Grabs Mixtape Spotlight Again, Asks Who You Mad At?
Three of this week’s Top 10 songs came courtesy of Funkmaster Flex’s latest double-mixtape, Who You Mad At? Me Or Yourself? The HOT 97 mainstay and former Loud/RCA Records plaque-earner pulled new songs ranging from J. Cole’s “Maine On Fire” to a mid-’00s-esque Dipset/YMCMB reunion in “Love To A Diplomat,” and even a new one from Slaughterhouse. Though this one is a freebie, it’s Flex’s return to mixtapes since 2005’s The Car Show Tour. Big dog status indeed.
The Top 10 Most Popular Hip Hop Singles The Week Of 4/15/2013
1. Jay-Z featuring Common – “Open Letter Part II” (J. Period Remix)
2. DJ Khaled featuring Lil Wayne, Drake & Rick Ross – “No New Friends”
3. Drake featuring James Fauntleroy – “Girls Love Beyonce”
4. Daft Punk featuring Pharrell & Nile Rodgers – “Get Lucky”
7. Jay-Z featuring Timbaland – “Open Letter”
8. Cam’ron featuring Lil Wayne – “Love To A Diplomat”
9. Common featuring Cocaine 80’s – “Congratulations”
10. Slaughterhouse – “House Gang”
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Common > Drake
Degrassi High > Just Wright
this dummy just compared a series to a movie
Street Kings> Degrassi High
drake is allways up there best rapper alive hottest in the game rite now and thats a fact. Drake has become the most popular and the face of rap music all y’all haters gonna be mad haha
he’s the next ja rule for sure, they were also saying this about Ja Rule and wayne, lil wayne is already fading, he sucks, he only gains buzz when he drops another Carter series
it’s because teenage white girls like him
Get Drakes dick out your mouth. He’s not the best rapper ever and he’s not the face of rap. Everything you say is bullshit stan lies.
its ”maine ON fire” not in fire. damn even if u open the link they wrote it write.
right*
LIL WEEZY WILL HAVE NUMBER 1 SPOT NEXT WEEK WITH HIS NEW SINGLE!!!
I sure hope not
1. In My Lifetime, Vol. 4… feat. Beyonce (Produced by Just Blaze)
2. Stand Up (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
3. All the Way (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
4. Oh Yeah feat. Justin Timberlake (Produced by Timbaland, co. Justin Timberlake, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
5. Good Times (Produced by Hit-Boy, co. Kanye West, add. Mike Dean)
6. Blue Notes feat. Lonnie Liston Smith (Produced by Kanye West, co. No I.D.)
7. Life Is a Movie (Produced by S1, co. Caleb)
8. Fresh for Life (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
9. That’s My Word (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
10. Heaven feat. Frank Ocean (Produced by Hit-Boy)
11. Guilty Pleasures (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
12. Upper Echelon feat. Kanye West & Pharrell (Produced by The Neptunes, co. Kanye West)
13. Clap Yo Hands feat. Pharrell (Produced by The Neptunes)
14. Made In America (Reprise) (Produced by No I.D.)
THIS IS A HIPHOP WEBSITE RIGHT??? SO HOW COME NO ONE HAS ANYTHING TO SAY BOUT THE NEW HIPHOP MOVIE “FILLY BROWN”?….I SWEAR THE HIPHOP INDUSTRY IS A RACIST ONE…IF IT WAS A STORY ABOUT A BLACK KID IT WOULD BE ALL OVER THESE WEBSITES
FREE BIG GUWOOP
If you hate Ross so much why is #6?
lol #6
daft punk for more plays than ross on a hip-hop website LMAO
Common is a washed up hasbeen nigga who got destroyed by drake and laughterhouse wouldn’t even be in the game if em didnt give them a chance and that cam joint is a good look for throwing wayne on that
Your troll game is horrible. A Redman song as a screen-name and you’re calling someone washed up? Your life must truly suck if you need to go through all of this just to get attention on the internet.
Good joke. Common served Drake and Slaughterhouse are the best.
Just saying Common’s acting sucks so bad even Degrassi High was better than anything this loser MC with no platinum albums could ever dream of being in.
hell on wheels is a dope show
Common was alright in “street kings” though the movie kind of sucked… that coke commercial was also pretty good lol
Anonymous 1, kill yourself for the bullshit lies you said. Common is a good actor, better than Aubrey. And Common has platinum albums.
common better than Jay – z
Memphis Bleek > Common
Riff Raff> Memphis Bleek
“daft punk for more plays than ross on a hip-hop website”
I’m sure Ross isn’t losing sleep over Daft Punk’s amazing feat lol
he already loses enough sleep worrying about whos gonna shoot at him next
Open letter isn’t that good… seriously, Jay-z is falling off
Open Letter needs a Ja Rule on it