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Best Collaboration Record of 2009

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Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever   Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever
Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever   Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever
A dream-team collaboration that took the game by storm when it surfaced in late August, More Than a Game soundtrack single "Forever" saw Drake, Weezy, Kanye, and, most surprisingly, Eminem joining forces to utterly annihilate a beat by "Best I Ever Had" producer Boi-1da. Though “Forever” was nominally Drizzy's joint, it was Slim Shady's blistering closing verse that truly had Booth readers scrambling for their lower jaws.

Runner Up:
Jay-Z ft. Kanye West & Rihanna - Run This Town
  Sorry to be predictable, but was their really any other choice besides "Forever"? 2009 saw no shortage of dope collabos, but "Forever" is the track that will be talked about for the next decade, the track that not only included heavyweights Kanye and Lil Wayne, but proved that rising star Drake could hold his own alongside some of the game's elite emcees. What's more, it served as an announcement that Eminem was finally back and ready to defend his former best rapper alive crown. Yes sir, we'll remember this one...wait for it...forever.



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djblaze
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djblaze
Total Ratings: 2915
How can anyone argue with this one? The Best MC's of 2009 get on a track and kill it...What more can you ask for?
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Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

Burmy
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Total Ratings: 515
Swagga Like Us won last year's collabo award...and Forever is a million times better, plus I believe it has the highest star-rating of any track in Booth history. So, was there really anything else that could come close?


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

Mr.Top Hat
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Mr.Top Hat
Total Ratings: 3522
It doesn't get any more obvious than this!

A bit surprised to see "Run This Town" taking the Runners Up spot, as most of the peeps felt disappointed by it. I personally voted for "Maybach Music Pt.2" for that Runners Up spot.

[Resume playing "Forever"]


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

d mac
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d mac
Total Ratings: 803
no surprises here
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Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

joshL
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Total Ratings: 1471
cant argue here. this could have been a lot better of a song tho so i didnt vote for it. all i wanna know is... where was Throw It In The Bag?????????????


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

Blaze31
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Blaze31
Total Ratings: 614
When someone finds a more star studded collabo than this one let me kno... And "Swagger Like Us" doesnt count cuz it was a joke IMO...


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

JayCL
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JayCL
Total Ratings: 735
expected, this prolly the biggest collaboration of 09


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

tdotraza
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tdotraza
Total Ratings: 909
Not surprising. If you think, there wasn't a terrible verse on this song, they all did pretty solid [(c) DJ Z].


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

Aussie_Pride
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Aussie_Pride
Total Ratings: 1177
This pick is always going to annoy me, mainly because these multiple rappers on a track songs never live up to expectations. To be fair, this is a pretty good song & I guess its worthy of winning this award.


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

jaydeemorgan
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jaydeemorgan
Total Ratings: 213
I like this pick a lot.everyone killed their verses, there's not really anything else better! im suprised at runner-up though...i didnt like run this town as much as some of the other choices.


Posted on Jan 06, 2010    

GR3ATNESS
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GR3ATNESS
Total Ratings: 80
cant argue with this at all!!!! but the runner up?...i never digged run this town...make they it in the bag like someone said or fed up


Posted on Jan 07, 2010    

mathu
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mathu
Total Ratings: 313
Cant argue with this... I mean 4 of the top 5 on 1 record... daym. Em also has verse of the year on here!


Posted on Jan 09, 2010    

Hatus17
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Hatus17
Total Ratings: 283
No doubt DJ Booth is right about this one, I still play this jam a lot admiring the verses by each emcee's corner.


Posted on Jan 13, 2010    

Mark Bad
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Total Ratings: 20
can't argue


Posted on Jan 17, 2010    

Mark Bad
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Total Ratings: 20
btw "swagga like us" hook got tired when it was on paper planes.


Posted on Jan 17, 2010    

Roldy
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Total Ratings: 1
YO NO wonder its numba 1 this song is sick i would defenitly vote for this song to


Posted on Feb 10, 2010    

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