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Hey guys, CDTV here and today we're gonna be looking at 10 great rap songs that were
ruined by a featured artist. So yeah, this list will
be focussing on 10 times when a feature made a song noticeably worse, in some cases even
making the song unlistenable. So with that being said, this is CDTVProductions, my social
media accounts are down here, and let's look at 10 great rap songs ruined by the feature.
10 - Royce Da 5'9" "Caterpillar Remix" - The feature: Logic
This one seemed like it couldn't go wrong honestly. It has Logic, a rapper I love. The
original is an amazing song that had Eminem in Logic's spot. And Logic promised his
hardest feature verse he's ever done on Twitter with this one. Even Royce Da 5'9"
hyped it up. And then Logic spent half of his verse going on a tangent about not being
a white rapper and people's perception of his race. Sigh. He even for some reason, kicks
off this tangent by saying "why is everyone obsessed with my race". THEY'RE NOT. They're
memeing the fact that you talked about it so much on your Everybody album, the memes
didn't materialize from nothing. If this was supposed to counter criticisms of Logic,
it absolutely failed. Some of the stuff he says makes sense to a degree, but the delivery
is so awkward and painful. Aside from that, he also says other rappers are scared to talk
about depression and anxiety, which, to put it bluntly, is just false. Depression has
always been a huge topic in rap, even in the mainstream. It's not all bad, he actually
spits hard bars for a minute or so and that's why it's the lowest one on this list, but
he completely ruined it with the whole race tangent that everyone was absolutely sick
of by this point.
9 - Chance the Rapper "Smoke Again" - The feature: Ab-Soul
I hate to say that Ab-Soul ruined a song because
I love his music, but "lemme put my mouth where you potty boo" is one of the most
cringe worthy lines I've heard in my lifetime. I love the rest of this song, I think it's
really cool to hear Chance pull off a banger track whilst still having a lot of fun, and
his "lean all on the square, that's a f*****g rhombus" line was really creative.
It would've been cool if Soul could've came in and matched that with some creative
lyrics while still maintaining a fun atmosphere, but I really don't think he did. There's
just so many lyrics on here that could best be described as basic such as "we kicked
it then I scored, Soccer game" and "no doubt like Gwen Stefani's group", and
it kinda brings down the vibe of the track for me. I love Soul, but I'm just not a
fan of what he did here.
8 - Drake "Preach" - The feature: PARTYNEXTDOOR
So this song kicks off with the instrumental playing incredibly quietly, you can barely
hear anything. As you can imagine, this makes you listen in closer, maybe you even turn
the volume up a few notches just to hear what's going on. Then, all of a sudden, out of fucking
nowhere at a pitch that will rip your ears apart. Jesus Christ man, could we at least
have been given a bit of warning. Now maybe this is just PARTYNEXTDOOR's style, but
I'm really not to keen on the drenched in autotune sound that his vocals have here,
and considering he does the chorus and has a verse as well, that's not great. I much
prefer what Drake does on this song, his calm, kinda monotone delivery works perfectly with
a beat like this and his flow is cool too. I'm not the biggest Drake fan, but this
song would be a lot better without PARTY in my opinion.
7 - A$AP Rocky "Telephone Calls" - The feature: Playboi Carti
I've got this one lower because Playboi Carti doesn't really play a significant
role on this track, but his verse slows down the track enough for me to be bothered by
it. The beat absolutely bumps, Rocky puts in a strong performance, and Tyler has one
of the best verses he's laid down here in my opinion, but Playboi Carti's bit was
just so unnecessary in my opinion. I really could do without 15-20 seconds of Carti ad
libbing and delivering the least inventive lines he can think of, I just honestly feel
like he doesn't need to be on here. If you feel like his verse adds to the hype of the
song, that's great, I'm glad you enjoy it, but for me personally, it did not need
to be in the song at all.
6 - Jamil Cole "The Cut Off" - The feature: kiLL edward
This one is a bit odd to include, because to some
capacity, kiLL edward isn't really a feature as it's just Jafar Cole's alter ego, but
I'm counting it because he is labelled as a feature, and his segment of the track does
ruin it in my opinion. Cole's verse is fantastic here honestly, talking about wanting to cut
off friends who just abuse his trust and use him. He even talks about how he sometimes
fantasises about hurting these people for how they betrayed him, but he knows that's
not the right thing to do and he'll let karma do it's work on them. Fantastic subject
matter, but the hook of the song is done by kiLL Edward and the vocal effects he has on
his voice completely destroy his appeal for me. It's almost impossible to not sound
off key with those effects, and that's how kiLL edward sounds on the pre-chorus and chorus
of this song. Top this off with the fact that he handles most of this track instead of Cole,
and that stops me from listening to this track that often at all. The concept behind the
character of kiLL edward is great, but I'd be perfectly satisfied if he didn't make
a return.
5 - Earl Sweatshirt "Pre" - The feature: SK La' Flare
This verse right here. I'm not lying to you when I say this single verse is the reason
I immediately turned off Sweatshirt's Doris album instantly the first 5 times I tried
to listen to it, and I didn't revisit it for years. That's partially to do with me
being more closed minded towards new albums 5 or so years ago when this dropped, but SK
La' Flare also just really has a bad verse. I don't know what the thought process was
behind having this as the opening verse on Earl's album. I don't know if SK actually
raps often, or if they just thought this would be an entertaining way to open up the album
and mess with some fans, but it's just incredibly off-putting. He uses this really dead end
flow that never picks up and just sounds stilted, and of course it's got more than its fair
share of simplistic lyrics. Then consider the fact that his verse is over 30 seconds
longer than Earl's on this track and it just seems really unnecessary.
4 - Kendrick Lamar & Jay Rock "King's Dead" - The feature: Future
Everyone knows this one, and I do appreciate the memes that came out of this, but I'd
be lying if I said it didn't make the song a lot worse. It made me laugh my ass off when
I first heard it, I'll admit that, but this song doesn't seem like it was made to be
laughed at. Jay Rock came in with a hard verse, Kendrick Lamar killed it on the hook and after
the beat switch, but Future... I don't know what Future was doing. I guess I can't fully
hate on it because it made the song more popular than it already would've been, but the la-di-da-di-da
part of the song is so laughably bad, it sounded like his vocal chords were about to snap.
On top of that, I'm just not a huge Future fan so I wasn't too excited to see him listed
as a feature in the first place. Like I said, this is fun to laugh at, but I really feel
like it messes with the whole energy and mood of the song, and that's the opposite of
what you wanna do with a guest verse.
3 - Eminem "Amityville" - The feature: Bizarre
I explained the main problem I have with some of Bizarre's rapping in an old video of
mine, but in case you haven't seen it, it's basically the fact that he raps about the
same type of content as eminem, but without much of the wittiness or intelligence behind
it. Eminem says some brutal stuff, but there's commonly a purpose behind what he says, whereas
Bizarre is just pure shock value for no reason other than to shock, and that is shown in
full force on his verse here. He talks about k***ing and r***ng family members, having
his little sister gang raped on her birthday, just really shocking shit but with no smartness
to it. Then the fact that Eminem's third verse here is so ridiculously strong just
makes Bizarre's low energy verse even less impressive than it already is. It just comes
off as him trying to hard to surprise people more than anything.
2 - A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie "Drowning" - The feature: Kodak Black
Goddamn man, I almost love this track and it actually would
have been amazing if the hood version of Lisa Simpson didn't show up to ruin the party.
For almost every rapper on this planet, I can see their appeal and why some people might
enjoy them, but Kodak is always one that confuses me. The way he slurs his words with his very
strange, baby sounding voice puts me off every single time I hear a verse from him. It's
a shame, because A Boogie kills this in my opinion, he rides that piano melody perfectly
and his flow is something that really sticks with you..... then Kodak says "I'm the
s***, I'm fartin', I don't know how to potty". Do you see why this ruins the
song for me!? I wanna replay this song a lot, I want to have it on repeat, but it's such
a hassle when I have to constantly skip it after the 2 minute mark. Kodak has like one
line on here that sounds pretty slick, but everything else is just something I cannot
listen to and enjoy. A Boogie, I'm begging you, drop a solo version of this track. I
need it.
1 - A$AP Ferg "East Coast REMIX" - The feature: French Montana
Busta Rhymes? HE WENT HARD
A$AP Ferg? HE WENT HARD
Rocky? - HE WENT HARD
Dave East? - HE WENT HARD
Rick Ross? - HE WENT HARDER THAN USUAL
Snoop Dogg? - EVEN THE CHILLEST MAN ON EARTH WENT HARD
Surely you knew at the start of this list that French Montana would be number 1 right?
There really is no other competition, there's so many songs that he has absolutely ruined
and this track is the one that hurts the most for me personally. As you can tell from what
I just said, every single other rapper on this track did a great job on their verses.
French Montana was the only one that stood out as bad, completely murdering the momentum
of the track and slowing it down to a crawl. The worst part is, he appears on the track
right after Dave East, who just maybe had my favourite verse on this song with his aggressive
tone. French didn't follow it up well at all. His flow couldn't be any more uninspired,
and you just can't give a weak verse over a hard ass beat like the one found on this
song. Out of all the people Ferg could've chosen to feature on this track, French should've
been the last on that list, and his verse here proves that.
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