Trey Songz f. Juelz Santana & Fabolous, “Say Ahh” MP3
- story Felipe Delerme
“Say Ahh” needs to marry this song and become the 2009 pop R&B hit version of Ashford and Simpson. We might’ve said Mary J. and K-Ci, but we want this to last. And by “this” we mean Trey Songz discarding his Tiger Beat cover panhandling and talking about what he knows best: getting girls drunk and having sex with them.
Download: Trey Songz f. Juelz Santana & Fabolous, “Say Ahh”
Video: Drake f. Trey Songz, “Successful”
- story Peter Macia
On Friday it was decided that Trey Songz’ YUUUP is the best adlib in music right now, mostly because it sounds like Hank Williams Jr and has absolutely nothing to do with how Songz sings. Regardless, a billion teenage girls’ iPhones just blew up from repeated streams of this so Apple is psyched obviously.
Trey Songz f. Drake, “Successful” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Now that the cat is out of the bag and scampering in heat all over the internet, we are, of course, extremely excited to have Drake’s first cover story. Written by longtime FADER familia Edwin “Stats” Houghton (author of our thoroughly thorough Ghetto Palms blog) and photographed by highly regarded photographer and shooter for us since FADER #1, Jonathan Mannion, the story is something you won’t find anywhere else—a vivid description of Drake away from the spotlight, with his friends, mother and grandmother at home in Toronto. Houghton wrote the hell out of it and Mannion shot it like Drake was his blood brother: Hopefully, you’ll read it and like it. Until it hits newsstands officially on August 18th, we are monitoring Drake’s every move on the internet because that’s our lifeblood, and this new version of “Successful,” originally from Drake’s So Far Gone mixtape, now slated for Trey Songz new album, just popped up. Songz adds a nice verse and it’s still a constant singalong in this office as we scrape together change for subway fare.
Download: Trey Songz f. Drake, “Successful” (via OS)
BONUS CUT: Elephant Man, “Worst I Ever Had”
Freeload: Trey Songz f. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy, “LOL” MP3
- story THE FADER
Apparently, there aren’t many things you can do to get the attention of Trey Songz outside of, say, sending him seductive twitpics. And while “LOL” isn’t the first song to refference Twitter, it’s certainly the best. From Songz cooing “LOL smiley face” over and over to Gucci bridging “first date sexin” and “next night textin,” to Soulja Boy’s text by text narrative, the three make it pretty obvious that real love doesn’t use up all your characters.
Download: Trey Songz f. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy, “LOL”
Freeload: Trey Songz f. Drake, “Invented Sex” MP3
- story THE FADER
Considering the fact that Trey Songz recently expressed his distaste for R Kelly’s use of autotune, we’re going to start some fake internet beef and assume that this song is actually just one giant diss track against Kells’ bedroom abilities. The reality of the situation is that Drake and Songz now have a song called “Invented Sex” in which they sing about being really good at having sex. Hopefully they can live up to their words, or else they are going to be in a lot of trouble with a whole lot of women.
Download: Trey Songz f. Drake, “Invented Sex” MP3
Freeload: Trey Songz, “Songz Medley” MP3
- story THE FADER
Rapper’s “jacking for beats” is as played out an attention ploy as they come, but angel-voiced R&B almost-superstars politely borrowing beats to cushion their inspired serenades is what’s really hood. For his “Songz Medley,” rap chorus super hero Trey Songz makes us yearn for Trey Songz features on songs we already liked and care about songs we didn’t before. His hypeman sounds a lot like Tum Tum, but we’re not too sure Tumzilla would get that excited hearing about that time Songz dreamed that he had sex with Ciara.
Download: Trey Songz, “Songz Medley”
Video: Trey Songz, “Brand New”
- story THE FADER
What now Trey Songz! We are coming for your spot on the R&B totem pole, we just have to figure out how to sing and get ill back tattoos and then it is on. For real though, Songz has a tendency to create radio friendly hits with a little tinge of weirdness that makes them stand out from the pack. This time around he’s using auto-tune to make himself sound like a robot bird and his new video features cameos from Khaled, Jim Jones, Fat Joe and others. Normally we’d expect a big deal to be made out of the guest appearances — a tight zoom on Khaled’s manicured beard followed by a quick cut to Rick Ross in a speedboat without a shirt on or whatever, but this time around they are just dudes having fun in a massive crowd of people, many of whom seem to be in love with Trey Songz.
Freeload: Trey Songz, “Brand New”
- story THE FADER
Ever since Trey Songz appeared in that Gap commercial, half our office decided he had officially done the Unforgivable while the rest of us sat tight and waited for his next single to land on our harddrives. Now it’s here and it’s good enough that we’re hoping it can sway those that were not swayed by his contribution to Ace Hood’s “Ride,” his better-than-it-needed-to-be “Paper Planes” freestyle, pretty much every aspect of “Wonder Woman,” a Bun B cosign and that one time he showed up on 106 & Park wearing a leather trench coat.
Download: Trey Songz, “Brand New”
Freeload: DJ Class f. Lil Jon “I’m the Shit (Remix)”
- story THE FADER
As Crossfaded Bacon points out, this song is the first time Lil Jon has ever actually appeared on a Bmore club track like, not as a sample. Like, this is Lil Jon with his pimp cup and prolly a bag of “oregano” up in the studio, doing his own “yeahs” and making Splack Pack references in a fancy gravel voice over DJ Class’s bananas kick drum and awesome sung verses. This version is def crunkier than the Trey Songz and Jermaine Dupri slumber party remix, though you kinda can’t top the comic value of Dupri’s line “girls look at me like the Jonas’s.”
The point is, the original is dope.
Download: DJ Class f. Lil Jon “I’m the Shit (Remix)”
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posted on Jan 26, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags DJ Class, freeload, Jermaine Dupri, Lil Jon, Trey Songz
Freeload: Trey Songz, “Paper Planes Freestyle”
- story THE FADER
If you read the title of this post and rolled your eyes at another “Paper Planes,” we implore you to reembrace fun and enjoyment, especially since Trey is the first one to really adhere to MIA’s pitch-perfect cadence and humor (”Trey Songz… First World Hypocrisy”) on the original. (via Mad Decent)
Download: Trey Songz, “Paper Planes Freestyle”
