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Words by Richard “Treats” Dryden—
Richard “Treats” Dryden is a New York-based DJ and journalist, and a contributing editor for Mass Appeal and Complex magazines. Kris Kross was his favorite group in 1992.
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
Team Mr. Vegas just hit us off with a double dose of remixes featuring the dancehall star on the hip-hop-meets-bashment banger of the moment, the Doug E. Fresh/Lil Vicious-inspired “Freaks” by French Montana featuring Nicki Minaj. There’s two versions here: a Vegas, Montana and Nicki version and a strictly Vegas thing for the danchehall. Vegas, fresh off an appearance at Miami’s Calle Ocho Festival, is the crossover artist of the moment, with “Party Tun Up” beginning to follow the path of “Bruk It Down” onto hip-hop clubs and radio. Let’s see if he can keep the momentum going with this one…
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Words by DJ Theory —
As sure as the sun will shine the weekend will pass, and another Monday is upon us. As always, we’re right here to greet it with quality mixes from all cuts of the globe. Take a quick trip below and leave last week in the dust.
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
French Montana and Nicki Minaj’s “Freaks” is turning out to be kind of like what Kanye’s “Mercy” was last year; that high profile hip-hop song keeping dancehall on the radio and in people’s minds, as crossover success continues to elude the real thing. “Freaks” takes its inspiration from Lil Vicious and Dough E Fresh’s 1994 hip-hop x dancehall classic of the same name, sampling both that tune and the Bam Bam riddim as heard on Chaka Demus and Pliers’ “Murder She Wrote,” while Nicki and French casually sprinkle in references to dancehall (“Some a dem say dem Gully, some a dem say dem Gaza…rah”).
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