bg ft. ti - street niggas -- this is hot. plastic lowkeyboard southern beat and the two realest niggas in the south united!! "i'm makin it official like a referee with a whistle. so, i went all the way down to the trap in atl to holla at ti, to see how they do it. cause i know how we do it in the hood in the n.o. it's street. it's real street!" (i always have to say that bg talks more and better than any rapper ever. on his mixtapes where he doesn't have to rap unless he wants to, he can talk through half the track. his collabo with howard zinn and 5th ward weebie is dropping on alternative tentacles/chopper city in september.) and ti is okay, coming with plain i-ain't-an-actor ti stuff.

young buck ft. ti - break em off -- why does 50 let his boys drop such boring first singles? this is one of a bunch of new buck mixtape tracks that kill let me in. buck loves these expensive sounding dark southern beats and no one else who can afford to buy them uses them. and ti has some more barely-subliminals for dtp: "ask your nieces and your nephews who the shit / real niggas see the difference between you and us / me gettin beat down-- that's ludicrous."

chingo bling ft. mike jones and paul wall - american pie -- southern latino comedy rappers are saving music. plus, mike jones, who does a mike jones verse ("how many times can i rhyme grind with shine?? and here's my phone number") and sounds great on on fast beats with real drums. plus, paul wall! the iced-out gringo! he makes the only reference to the title ("i'm on the grind til the day that i die / i'm tryna get a piece of that american pie") and talks about cars.