Hustler's ambition or gangsta's therapy? Fiddy's heart's on his sleeve: "I need you I need you to hate me," he admits, his doom-low voice betraying his existential dread by the second. "Niggas around me so cold my heart done froze up." After flipp...

A stripper's ode that slithers like its namesake, "Rolie Polie" won't land in rap's lyrical pantheon -- "If her ass was a rapper/I'da signed her" is Bun's cleverest quip. But caught in a seductive collision of synths, slow grinding, and shimmy-sha...

"Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug," laments Sharissa, her power croon quavering. Meanwhile, Kells is getting really good with Greek-worthy tragedy, and the heartbreaking dialogue on this ballad is upheld by a Wurlitzer melody and Shariss...

Twenty-two-year-old Ne-Yo scored this summer after scribing Mario's "Let Me Love You," but Ne-Yo's own love-longing single "Stay" is far more dynamic: a dance-tempo R&B track lightened by synth twinkles and a melting chorus that conjures thoughts ...