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HHS 2011 Year-In-Review: The 10 Worst Songs Of The Year
We decided to skip the “Biggest Songs Of The Year” or “Best Club Bangers” list, for a few reasons. One, we can’t tell good from bad when we are drunk in the club, two, this shit has been covered ad nauseum, and three, it makes us feel like we’re at work. We’re tired enough of playing “Look At Me Now”, so forget asking us to blurb about it. Instead, we’re going to cover the ten worst songs of the year. We’d be just fine if we never heard any of these ever again….
10. Flo-Rida – “Good Feeling” – The trend of ripping off big house songs for top 40 rap tracks was perfected by Flo-Rida and Pitbull a few years ago, and they almost had the timing right with songs like “Krazy” and “Hotel Room”. But with “Good Feeling”, Flo-Rida had no problem going right after Avicii’s massive Etta James sample-driven “Levels”, before it had a chance to blow up itself. And not only that, Avicii’s perfectly mixed piano stabs were traded for some white-washed acoustic gee-tar licks. So here’s a paradox for you: Is a Bingo Players remix of “Good Feeling” that doesn’t feature Flo-Rida actually a remix of “Levels”?
9. Nicki Minaj – “Roman In Moscow” – What happened here? Sure, the original Pink Friday didn’t exactly live up to expectations, but surely we thought Nicki would come correct with her second LP. This started out okay, but then goes off into left field and loses us completely, as Nicki channels her inner O.D.B. or something, triple dog daring and all. Leave this off your album, darlin’.
8. Bruno Mars – “The Lazy Song” – So, shame on us for even posting the above video, as it has clocked over 258 million views already. So please, don’t click on it, unless you want to hear Bruno rhyme “dougie” with “Snuggie”. Disposable pop trash at it’s worst.
7. Lil Wayne – “How To Love” - How did Lil Wayne follow-up “6 Foot 7 Foot”? With this auto-tuned, adult contemporary love song. Picking this song as a single is like the equivalent to putting a sticker on Tha Carter IV album cover that says “This Album Is Highly Likely To Suck”. And guess what? It does. But what do you expect from a guy who’s not allowed to smoke or drink?
6. Kirko Bangz – “What Yo Name Iz” – Aside from the fact that this cat doesn’t know how to correctly form a sentence, Mr. Charming here has a handful of auto-tuned pick-up lines to impress the ladies, such as “I swear to god I tell that pussy to get over here / like I am Scorpion, no Mortal Kombat” and “Like Sean Michaels, swear to god I hope the little woman got Gieco”. Aside from all the oath-taking he does late night in the club, this dude’s, uh, “name is” a play on “Kurt Cobain”. Get it? “Kirko Bangz”. You know, because of how similar they are to one another.
5. Plies – “Just The Tip” – We didn’t think Plies could come up with a song more offensively ignorant that “Becky”. Shows what we know. This date rape anthem is exactly what the title suggests it is.
4. 50 Cent – “I’m On It” – 50 seemed to please the streets with his Big 10 mixtape late last year, but he hasn’t been able to create a compelling club jam, as each attempt is worse than the one before it. Not sure if he’s trying to channel his inner-Mike D with that hook, but either way it’s terrible. If this is any indication, Interscope’s been doing him a favor by keeping his album in the vault….
3. Will.I.Am and Company – “The Megaupload Megasong” – This isn’t a song. It’s a megasong. While we appreciate the movement behind “The Megaupload Megasong”, the execution was terrible. Will.I.Am leads with a sort of paired down, Bob Marley-esque acoustic guitar style, but instead of singing about love lost or freedom, he’s singing about a file-sharing site. “Megaaaaaaaaa / Uploooooooooooad,” he cries. Mix in some audio samples of celebrities in hallways saying “M-M-M-egaupload” and you have one of the strangest tracks of the year.
2. Gucci Mane – “Burr” – BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. This is what happens when we allow semi-retarded individuals to have record deals.
1. Future – “Tony Montana” – Where did Future come up with such an original song idea? You know, this song is so innovative that he could probably get with Brian DePalma or somebody and make a MOVIE of it! Oh, wait….
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Okay HHS, I can’t give you a pass on the retarded thing for Gucci Mane. It’s completely disgraceful that you would stoop to such deplorable journalistic levels by using such a reprehensibly offensive word like “semi”. That dude is 100%, full on waterhead retarded at best. And giving the deals to window lickers isn’t the real problem, it’s allowing them to buy records in the first place….I may have a gone a tad too far there. Accurate list though.
Burr, Burr Burr, Burr Burr!
Yo skins! heh
Once that idiot got an ice cream cone tattooed on his face, the r-word (and all of it’s hilariously offensive derivatives) became totally politically correct when directed towards him. I stand by that.
burr burr burr. that sticks in your head.. get it out!!!! mind u some well know site thats a little over weight put tony montana(repeat 5x) at number 1 i guess there the same window lickers that skinz is taking about…
oh and pizzo no 2011 bangers mix tape this year? i still playing 2010.
They are indeed included in the window licking community.
I can proudly say that with the exception of one song on this list until now I had not heard any of them.
Wasn’t this re-named the Teach Me How To Dougie Award?
Nice, err, I mean horrible list! The only songs I had heard was the Megaupload, How to Love and Lazy Song… The rest wow I only needed to listen to about 5 seconds to know they were steamers… Can we as a community please ban any reference or likeness to the Scarface movie in 2012!?! I mean come on it’s sooo played out! Probably the most played out theme in Hip Hop/Pop. Thanks HHS for calling Gucci Mane mentally challenged! LOL! For real though he has to be slightly off, I might not hate on him so much if he just came out and said he was a Timmy! And for the record none of these songs are Hip Hop… I will say it again and again until my face turns blue crap like this is HIP POP!!! Another new years resolution for the community: Let’s make a clear dividing line between the two genres of music!!! Thanks for the consideration…
I have never heard any of these.
C’mon now, u know LMFAO deserve at least 2 slots on this list.
@JustMarv yeah that “workout look at my body” terd of a song definitely belongs on this list… But the HHS staff is cool with those guys so they aren’t gonna dis them…
I think the big difference w/ LMFAO and the rest of the people on this list is that they don’t take themselves seriously. Pretty much everyone on here thought they were making art. Burr!
@Pizzo well I gotta agree with you there, that does make a huge difference… I might not be a fan but I totally see your point.
Wow…so I had to click on that “Burr” link, and if I had to describe it to someone…I guess I’d say it’d be like getting caught at a red light between a short bus with the windows down, and a car with a loud system. As for “Kirko Bangz”, the only similarity to Kurt I want to see him strive for is uhh…let’s just say “the final chapter of his life story”…LOL! These descriptions were hilarious…the rest of the lists were on point, but this one’s the winner for me.
Very nice list–agreed with all. Now stop being so politically correct and give us the gayest lines of the year, like you used to do–always a good laugh!
I agree with Bronze. Gayest lines of the year list needs to come back.
Didn’t keep track of them this year. Maybe next year….
I agree with everyone..
I pledge for 2012 that I will not allow no whack mc/songs to invade my head nod count..this ish is ridic..smh
PIZZO hip hop bangers 2011…………… come on i know u can throw a set togather.
Darootsfan80, that analogy was was hysterical yet pretty accurate. Congrats to Coochie Lame; “Burr” is now tha wackest pop-rap song in history, knocking “Laffy Taffy” to the #2 spot. In 2012, people like the clowns on this list should not be referred to as hip hop, rap, or r&b (retarded bastard) artists. Lets call it like it is: Urban Pop.
PS: Wassup with the Pete Rock & CL reunion album, and is it safe to say that Detox will never come out?
I like to picture them explaining these songs to old, white record label execs in suits (or mountain climbers who play electric guitars if you will)
“So basically, we’re planning to say “Burr” a bunch of times”
the next list is the 25 Best Mixtape cuts – best of the blogs essentially, since we don’t have 12″ singles anymore.
@Rizzo sometimes the conspiracy theorist in me says the record execs love to push the most ignorant offensive degenerate Hip Hop/Pop/Crap Rap music on the masses to help keep the black population down and to perpetuate racist white people’s stereotypes of black people and the culture…
@dayz I don’t think it’s quite as sinister as that. I think when songs that are *clearly* stupid, the labels know that they will spread faster. Look, we’re all joking about “Burr”, but guess what, we’re talking about it. And that’s how songs like that become hits. When you’re drunk in the club and something like that comes on, you sing along, partly because you’re having fun, and even goofing on it with your friends.
Where labels fuck up is that they don’t want to promote intelligent shit. They know something like Black Star is not going to get that kind of reaction, and therefore they aren’t interested.
Look at Rebecca Black’s “Friday”. Unanimously called the worst song of the year, but has just as many youtube views as the year’s biggest hits.
Got no use for any of the pop acts on this list. No wonder we’re all fat and broke. Our brains are lost in complete nonsense like the songs on this list. Now that I had my social commentary moment, anyone seen the latest shit on naughty America?
@rizzo, is is just me, or does it seem like that ‘mountain climber who plays an electric guitar’ line seem like it was aimed at jimmy iovine? (whom I blame for the loss of rakim’s album, and detox)
@pizzo, why do you guys ignore Doomtree in in the deck? Not enough reviewers? Looking for help? A buncha the guys on these comment sections would probably jump at the chance to review LP’s for ya. (especially dayz, just don’t thank him later, or tell him to take care, myself included). :-D
Tony Montana would come real close to making the top music videos list if they muted the sound and that bangin Latina took her clothes off
Alright Pizzo, I gotta call you out on partially giving these artists (I use that term loosely)props. I’ll demonstrate by quoting your comments.
#9. “What happened here? Sure, the original Pink Friday didn’t exactly live up to expectations, but surely we thought Nicki would come correct with her second LP”.
Huh?! Actually Pink Friday did live up to my expectations. It was garbage so why would I expect her to come correct. I’ve seen no flashes of brilliance to make me think otherwise. Bubble gum rap at it’s finest.
#7. “How did Lil Wayne follow-up “6 Foot 7 Foot”? With this auto-tuned, adult contemporary love song.
You asked that question like “6 Foot 7 Foot” was a banger. That was wack as hell too. So I expected him to follow with something equally as wack if not wacker.
#4. 50 seemed to please the streets with his Big 10 mixtape late last year, but he hasn’t been able to create a compelling club jam, as each attempt is worse than the one before it.
Most of these buffoons please the streets. That’s why we know who they are and have come to loathe their music. When I first heard of him, I thought “How to Rob” was OK because of it’s concept. When “In The Club” came out, I thought it was wack and I’ve been tuning out ever since. Delivery-wise I think he’s another Mase clone (uninspired delivery)and when you base your delivery on someone wack, you are wack by default.
#2. “BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. This is what happens when we allow semi-retarded individuals to have record deals.”
Whether he is semi-retarded or not, I don’t know. My Mother worked for years with mentally challenged students/clients and I took it upon myself to never make fun of someone about an issue they can’t fix or readily change (ie, morbidly obese, amputee, burn victim, contagious disease, etc.) I can’t support you on that comment. However, I can tell you that I think that he’s an idiot. What type of self-respecting, African-American drops an album (BAYTL)with a white chick that uses the N-word when she raps. Some artists jumped to her defense (such as Trina and Mistah F.A.B.) but I would like to hear from a broader range of artists (such as Chuck D, Boots Riley, Paris, Brother J, Willie D, Wise Intelligent, Bumpy Knuckles, etc.). Maybe he’s been heavily sedated like Tyson was when Robin Givens ran him down.