OK, so obviously dude was a cameo king way before the #1 album, but it's good to see that he's still on his grind and tearing up the guest spots. I could list ALL the guest verses he's done lately, but I'll just stick to the remixes:

Twista and DJ Smurf - "Slow Jamz" (Collipark remix)

"See in Atlanta, we like to take a good slow jam, and put you on the dancefloor with it". So there are a lot of boring "Slow Jamz" remixes (like that overrated Chamillionaire one), but this one is on the CD single and it's awesome. Double time drums and a cheesy horn riff over the Luther sample and Twista kicks a quick new verse with more R&B namedropping, Same Cooke, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, James Brown, R. Kelly, Prince, etc. Then they run his verse from the original, then DJ Smurf comes on, "now hold on hold on hold on Twista, we gotta represent for Luther one time up in here, know what I'm sayin', you can't just have Luther on here and not let him represent, so all my grown folks in the house, you gotta sang with this!"

Trillville f/ Twista - "Neva Eva" (remix)

This was mindblowing the first time I heard it. One of Lil Jon's better 'hard' beats to begin with, but hearing Twista hitting syllables in time with those ridiculous 16th note (32nd note!?) snare fills just puts it way over the top.

Petey Pablo f/ Jermaine Dupri and Twista - "Freek-A-Leek"

Another Lil Jon beat, but not nearly as much fun this time around. Actually, the same could be said for the original "Freek-A-Leek". How wrong is it that JD has the tightest verse on this?

Sting f/ Twista - "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" (B. Recluse remix)

I know, OMG WTF, right? Twista is the '04 Cheb Mami*, except Sting's latest comeback attempt is a song about a car instead of a car ad. He's actually barely on it, just the chorus and even then his voice is kind of obscured by female background vox. So it basically just sounds like a Twista song with a slick hook and it comes together really well. When I was dogsitting at my dad's house a couple weeks ago, I was going through his CD's and found the Sting album with the original version of this, and it's really slow and boring.

Elephant Man f/ Twista, Youngbloodz and Kiprich - "Jook Gal" (Head Gawn remix)

This is Ele's entry into the hit sweepstakes for the Coolie Dance riddim, which is this year's Diwali, and I like it better than all the other Coolie songs basically because it has good rappers on it.

T.I. f/ Mack 10, Trick Daddy and Twista - "Rubber Band Man" (remix)

T.I.'s new verse is alright, but it's pretty underwhelming until Twista comes on and keeps going right into the last chorus, "I'm the SLOW JAM MAN, runnin' with the RUBBER BAND MAN".

* props to that blogging fuck Jess Harvell for that one.