"I wanna be on you, I wanna be on you, and if you don’t like that, then send it right back, but I just gotta say, I just gotta say."

Artist: Flo Rida featuring Ne-Yo

Song: Be On You
Album: R.O.O.T.S.
Produced by: Stargate and Ne-Yo

Flo Rida and Ne-Yo don't mind if you're picky. As long as you let them "be" on you.

OR

"Uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh, just throw it in the bag, uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh, just throw it in the bag."

Artist: Fabolous featuring The-Dream
Song: Throw It In the Bag
Album: Loso's Way
Produced by: Cristopher "Tricky" Stewart, The-Dream

Fabolous sums things up: "F*** the price tag, just throw it in the bag."

• Miami rapper Flo Rida returns with the chart-topping R.O.O.T.S, an album in which "each track feels maximized for optimum radio saturation," according to Entertaniment Weekly. "These are rap songs that have very little to do with rap music. His sample choices would make even late-1990s Puff Daddy blush," teases the New York Times. "[Flo Rida] injects these songs with enough grit to interest hip-hop fans, without scaring the pop audiences his catchy hooks are designed to ensnare. It's ruthlessly effective, though difficult to love," observes The Guardian U.K.
• El Patrón, the new album by Tito "El Bambino" is "straight fire," according to Real Talk Reggaetón, which is "surprised with Tito's new style as he is no longer doing that 'innocent' style… and is now doing perreos." Hissip asks: "Who knew there was vulnerability in this gangster?," before noting that Tito is "evolving tremendously as an artist from his It’s My Time and Top of the Line days."
• Rapper Bow Wow's new album, New Jack City II, is "made for pumping in your car with the windows down," writes IGN, before adding: But [it] lacks teeth." "It’s short, has no variety, and Bow Wow spits ABC lyrics like it’s his job," laments Nappyafro, calling it the "worst he's ever put out." XXL Mag says he needs to stop living in the past: "Nine years into his career, Bow Wow knows a thing or two about making radio hits, but he stumbles here trying to recreate past magic on every track."
• R&B outfit Day26 return with Forever in A Day, their second album on Bad Boy Records. Vibe magazine is smitten: "With an almost flawless follow-up, Diddy’s foursome have made an oh-so rare transition from must-see TV to must-hear CD." Uwire calls Day 26 a "throwback to ’90s R&B when male R&B groups were at their peak," while YK2 Daily says the group "fill[s] the void which was once occupied by former quartet 112."
• Argentinean ska-rock combo Los Fabulosos Cadillacs return from a seven-year hiatus with La Luz Del Ritmo, "the kind of unfortunate album legendary bands release just before reuniting for their concert tour," according to Club Fonograma. Although the group "remains faithful to the mix of ska, reggae and tropical rock that catapulted it to the fore of the rock en español movement," Time Out New York thinks the album "sounds somewhat dated, at best nostalgic." The Washington City Paper calls it a "gratifying new EP" that "should serve as a primer for the LFC’s '90s classics."

The sum is not always greater than its parts.

Flo Rida Right Round

Samples: Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round

Flo Rida follows up the sticky "Low" with a nod to 80's gender-bending disco.

Slim Thug I Run

Samples: A Flock of Seagulls' I Ran

An upbeat song about love becomes a downbeat track about thugs in the hands of Houston's Slim Thug.

Diddy I'll Be Missing You

Samples: The Police's Every Breath You Take

Diddy retooled the end of a romance into the end of a bromance after the shooting death of partner-in-rhyme Notorious B.I.G.

Nas Rule

Samples: Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Nas lets the original do the driving – on a ride through his 'hood.

Lady Sovereign So Human

Samples: The Cure's Close to Me

The "female Eminem" goes even more pop by hijacking a New Wave classic.

We fed the lyrics of 10 hit songs featuring T-Pain to wordle and like, yea, got ooh now.

The top 15 most used words and their frequency: like (88), yeah (63), got (55), ooh (47), now (41), know (39), flirt (35), way (35), fly (32), kiss (32), diss (32), girl (31), wit (31), hey (29), shawty (29)

The list of 10 hit songs featuring T-Pain:

"Bartender" ft. Akon
"I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)"
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" ft. Yung Berg
"Can't Believe It" ft. Lil Wayne
"Got Money" by Lil Wayne ft. T-Pain
"Shawty" by Plies ft. T-Pain
"Good Life" by Kanye West ft. T-Pain
"I'm a Flirt (Remix)" by R. Kelly ft. T-Pain and T.I.
"Cyclone" by Baby Bash ft. T-Pain
"Kiss Kiss" Chris Brown ft. T-Pain

Lazaro Mendez, better known as DJ Laz, has been reppin' Miami for as long as he's been behind a mic: "I take a lot of pride in where I'm from, so whenever anybody from here does something big, to me it's like,'that's right I'm from Miami.'"

The Cuban-American DJ has been a staple on the "Morning Pimp Show" on popular South Florida radio station Power 96.5 for the last 20 years. In the early '90s, "DJ Laz" was one of the first jocks to mix Latin rhythms with the Miami Bass popularized by 2 Live Crew. Calling his style Latin Bass, DJ Laz pumped out regional hits like Mami El Negro and Journey Into Bass in the mid 90s. By the end of the decade, he had transitioned to a style he describes as "merengue swing," which adds live instrumentation. "You gotta evolve with the times," says the husky Mendez.

Also known as"The Pimp With The Limp," Mendez has remixed tracks for artists like Gloria Estefan, Will Smith and hometown heroes 2 Live Crew. His latest album, Category 6, is currently gaining momentum on the strength of Move Shake Drop (Remix), a Benny Benassi-meets-Luke Campbell club jam featuring Flo Rida, Casely and Pitbull. The album, DJ Laz's eleventh, also includes appearances by T-Pain and Rick Ross. Mendez, who began DJing when he was 15 years old, says there's still room for him to grow: "With this album, I feel that I have evolved. [I'm] not just Laz who makes Spanish and bootie records. We got a lil bit of everything."

See: myspace.com/djlaz965