![]() ![]() Sure, it took the queen of hip-hop R&B to tempt one of Wu-Tang's premiere weedmongers to do it, but the result changed pop history. "All I Need" is widely considered the first track to successfully conjoin R&B and hip-hop – two genres that hated each other with a passion before it was discovered they're like peanut butter and jelly. Blige – “I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need to Get By” Even for non-Francophones, the combination of Bardot's weary sighs and Gainsbourg's rasp oozes with the sort of eroticism that can only come from impending doom. Weeks before her death in 1934, notorious criminal Bonnie Parker wrote "The Trail's End," a poem about the tribulations faced by her and her partner Clyde Barrow, whom she'd known since he was "honest and upright and clean." (She gave it to her mother.) The source material proved irresistible for the slightly sleazy yé-yé legend Serge Gainsbourg, who recast a French-language adaptation of the poem as a duet between him and his then-muse, the breathy Brigitte Bardot. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – “Bonnie & Clyde”."We woke up in the kitchen like, 'How did this shit happen?'" she wonders, and Jay's slurred, slovenly-minded raps offer an answer: drunk, in love, you know how it goes. Ostensibly a glimpse into the spouses' boozy, loving nights, Bey's not singing her best – listen to the a cappella and experience true pitchiness – but she's at her most heartfelt, which is why this song has quickly become a women's bar-sing-along jam for bosses and bachelorette parties. It's so close to the most important duet of 20, if only Jay Z hadn't invoked Ike Turner and Mike Tyson in his rap. Ford recalled in an interview that the track came about after Osbourne and his wife Sharon had stopped by her house to give her a life-sized replica of Koko the gorilla as a housewarming present - Sharon eventually "got bored and left," which left the other two ample room to spend the rest of the night drinking and writing this dreary, emotion-soaked duet. Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne – “Close My Eyes Forever”ĭripping with drama and dressed up with enough attitude to come off as simultaneously blustery and funereal, this duet between guitar goddess Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne was one of the hard rock era's most powerful ballads, at least as far as the pop charts were concerned.Don't be misled by the glossy, Nagel-style make-up in the video: This song is deep. "That much is true, but even then I knew I'd find a much better place either with or without you," she sings, turning this push-and-pull into a de facto feminist anthem. Susan Ann Sulley, just 17 at the time she cut this classic, responds in kind. "You were workin' as a waitress at a cocktail bar when I met you," opens singer Philip Oakey, in a scene so pastoral it could be the opening to an Updike novel. One of the most substantial love tracks in the entirety of the new wave catalogue, its phrasing and story is so Eighties downtown New York that it's amazing Human League were British. Ne-Yo and the Barbadian dynamo trade off lines about being crazy in love - in the bad way, alas - and the way their voices soar and blend is enough to make one hope that they eventually figure out a way to work things out, or at least duet again. "It makes it more, 'I can relate to this character in this song because I've been through something similar.'" He was talking about "Hate That I Love You," a beguilingly breezy track that he wrote for Rihanna's breakthrough album Good Girl Gone Bad. "The best way to express an emotion like love is through storytelling," Ne-Yo said in a 2007 interview. Jadakiss is the dealer in question, rapping “Long as the love never outwears the trust/And you understand that I’m out there for us.” Over a beat that’s almost sinister in its recollection of a summertime ice cream truck, the R&B singer expresses her fear and worry that her man might be arrested or worse. Talk about the pathos of thug love: On this 2005 NYC mixtape hit, Mashonda and Jadakiss embodied the pain felt by drug dealers and the women who love them. ![]()
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