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Fat Joe - If It Ain't About Money
Artist: Fat Joe
Featuring: Trey Songz
Producer: Cool & Dre
Album: The Darkside Vol. 1
Label: R4 So Valid, LLC/Terror Squad
Let’s face it: rappers are known for trying to promote every one of their records like it’s the rap version of Thriller. I can’t even tell you how many emails my dude DJ Z probably gets with the subject line, “HOTTEST RECORD… EVER”. However, when Fat Joe promptly proclaimed that “the streets will never be the same” after he drops his new single with R&B stud Trey Songz, he wasn’t lying. The Bronx legend’s latest collaboration, a jazz influenced banger, If It Ain’t About Money sounds like the score to a night out in Miami. With Joey delivering some of the best bars he’s ever spit on a single, Trey Songz lives up to his title as the “Prince of R&B” and really brings this one home with an excellently sung hook. But the standing ovation really goes to producers Cool & Dre who craft what could be one of the summer’s anthems. This may not be the next Thriller, but it’s safe to say that Joey Crack has a monster single on his hands. It may be just the thing Joe needs to propel his upcoming album The Darkside Vol.1, due out on June 29, to the top of the charts.
This song first appeared on the
Rap Chart
on May 31, 2010
Listen to More: Fat Joe , Trey Songz , Club Written by Quentin Cuff
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Ok the hook is seriously on fire. Production is minimal through the verses, focusing on the lyrics. For the first time, imma give a 5.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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dam. the production is sick. props to cool&dre;. trey is never wrong on the hook, smooth. and fatass joe is actually decent here, on point bars.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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this a song by joe that i actually like. good lines by joe and a great hook by trey. beat is banging. kudos to the producers.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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No offense to Joey, but you'd be hard pressed to find an emcee who could mess up a musical hand off like this. Catchy production from Cool & Dre? Check. A radio-friendly chorus from Trey Songz? Check. An adequate vocal performance on the verses? Again, check.
Radio will like this, but I cannot say much of that has to do with Joey. As I am sure he'd agree with me, I am just a massive hater. 
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Theres few rappers that i can stand rapping about money every single fvckin song (Drake and Lil Wayne), other than that, i'm usually not a fan. Fat Joe sucks.
Theres no doubt that Trey Songz killed the hook, and the production was crazy, but i dont think fat @ss was good lyrically. |
| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Fire. Love the Cool & Dre production, but Trey really brings it on this track. Joe is really earning my respect again, HaHa was my joint too.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Hook and production is fire, but never liked joey. Here he sounds a bit like ross to me. While I'm sure it will get radio play, I just don't like Fat Joe and never will but Trey is someone I can get behind. Don't know how anyone can screw this production up.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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good song
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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this is aight. decent. we know Cool & Dre can go harder, and I think Fat Joe holds this back some, but overall the production is just decent nothing great or a banger or anything.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Is it just me or does Fat Joe only make club songs now? It's a shame because I grew up on "Jealous One's Envy". Classic album. Cool N Dre and Trigga steal the show here. Joey Crack has his moments, but it's not consistent throughout.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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I was getting tired of hearing songs about money, but this is cool, cant hate
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Unfortunately, I am not as impressed as everyone else. I think that this track has a ways to go if it is gonna be called anything better than OK. Trey's vocals can only take a song so far, especially considering the fact that Fat Joe is the one rapping on it.
Production was nice and the overall vibe of the song is definitely best characterized as catchy as @*#$!. Eh I don't really like this song, but that's just me. 2.5 |
| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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I am NOT by any means a fan of fat joe. But this is song is RIDICULOUS! THe production/ hook combination is so ridiculously catchy. All joe had to do was not suck. which he didn't. He did decent in my opinion. His first verse had a flow reminiscent of drake (not lyrically, just delivery) i listened to this song 5 times in a row now. Straight FIRE.,
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Radio will always be a sucker for that catchy hook. Fat Joe has impressed me since '95.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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His flow at the start reminds me of Jay-Z's 'Blue Magic' flow for some reason, which is definitely not a bad thing!
Haha Z, I have always felt that way about Joe's singles, he almost always has a strong guest feature and a big name producer lacing him with a hot track....he just needs to show up! This is good, the beat goes hard, Trey rips it! Hmm I'm not as convinced radio would roll with this, but i guess time will tell...3.5 stars |
| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Don't know what the big deal is with this. joe is terrible, production is nothing better than decent, the hook is the only good thing in this song. 2.5
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Not a big fan. The beat is dope but the Joey sounds too robotic during parts on the beat and Trey's hook doesn't stand out. Only part I remember "money." And is it me or was there an Isley brothers impersonation at the beginning of the song.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Over the last couple years everyone seemed to write Fat Joe off for dead, but I'm not sure why. As this track proves, the man can still make hits. Sure, mucho credit goes to the beat and Songz for the sick hook, but you can't completely overlook Crack either.
How many freestyles over this beat will we hear in the next week? My guess is somewhere close to eleven billion.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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I can mess with this...not bad.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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FIRE!!
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Daaaaang. They killed it up and down. This is gonna kill the radios. The production killed it.
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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Good to see Fat Joe's taking it back...then again after the flop that was "J.O.S.E. 2," it would be hard NOT to be motivated to bring it back...Trey does it well on the hook, and Cool & Dre truly channel their hometown sound here.
Now all we need is a Rick Ross verse for the remix! |
| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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gooooooood
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| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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good producion +1.5 star
Lyrics: ok +0.5 star hook 1.5+ star i ain dig fatty since make it rain but this is quite a banger |
| Posted on May 25, 2010 |
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love it
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| Posted on May 26, 2010 |
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Excellent track, quality Trey Songz hook and ok lyrically. I thought Joe could've come much harder especially with this album supposed to be about Joe rappin' hard and not caring about being "radio-friendly".
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| Posted on May 26, 2010 |
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This song goes super hard it is a super classic hit
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| Posted on May 27, 2010 |
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| Posted on May 27, 2010 |
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Their well-executed approach to radio-plays can't be missed, however, the production does wane at times lacking the necessary punch the song needs. Plus the hook is just not catchy enough for me.
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| Posted on May 29, 2010 |
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Joe is dropping pure bangers now, this album could be his best since J.O.S.E.
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| Posted on May 30, 2010 |
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iiLike iyt iyts ok..iiLove Treys Part &'d Commons part.The beat is hot
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| Posted on May 31, 2010 |
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I don't actually think Joe did too bad on the verses, when he starts rapping I was like oh-o..this is gonna suck but then he brings it harder, in tune and I actually quite enjoyed it, he definetly deserves some credit for this. Trey did his thing, heh why the topic about money?
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| Posted on Jun 04, 2010 |
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Cool & Dre r sick wit it! This is a smash!!! i c u joey wit that young money flow lol
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| Posted on Jun 04, 2010 |
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| Posted on Jun 06, 2010 |
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Kinda had me hooked in at the start, Beat kicked in and killed, then the chorus came in.
Joey laid it down as expected but wasnt expecting a lullaby chorus. Track will still bump out my pioneers |
| Posted on Jun 09, 2010 |
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i love TREY SONGZ...thats it..
fat joe needs to retire |
| Posted on Jun 10, 2010 |
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| Posted on Jun 11, 2010 |
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this is just ok.
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| Posted on Jun 17, 2010 |
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"Joey Van Gundy, watch me work the Magic" really? Go Joey!!!! Anything Trey touch is golden these days anyway. YEAH!
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| Posted on Jun 17, 2010 |
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Good song! Why it drop??
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| Posted on Jun 21, 2010 |
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I got her addicted (S-O-N-G-Z)
I got her addicted (I go in deeply) I got her addicted (I'm the MVP) Addicted to what the dick did time It started wita and a bottle full of Vodka (Ayeee) Sophisticated woman && she say that she a doctor (Oh) I gotta pretty woman, y on her own and, later on she text me on her phone said, "I know you young, but come show me ya grown hat" Sex in the city ( in the city) Started off with a kiss (It did) Next thing was her leg (It did) Next thing was some motion, in her ocean, I kept coastin Now she... I am addicted to Songz (Songz!) I am addicted to Songz (Yup!) I am addicted to Songz My addiction [Trey Songz:] (I make your say) I am addicted to Songz (Songz!) I am addicted to Songz (Yup!) I am addicted to Songz My addiction I guess it's that good to her Check When I look into the mirror (Whatchu see?) A G is all I see (Me too, come on) And it could never be more clearer (Whatchu mean?) Cause she's addicted to the love I give (Yup! Yup!) She so stuck on it Night to the morning, dusk to dawn, in the afternoon, and after the moon is gone, and the sun come back around, and the lights goin down cause it's night time now, and we still getting down She don't feel pain no more, so she still sittin down, still goin round If she were a pool I would drown Shit, I'm a fool, I'm a clown Started off with a kiss (It did) Next thing was her leg (It did) Next thing was some motion, in her ocean, I kept coastin Now she... I am addicted to Songz (Songz!) I am addicted to Songz (Yup!) I am addicted to Songz My addiction [Trey Songz:] (I make your say) I am addicted to Songz (Songz!) I am addicted to Songz (Yup!) I am addicted to Songz My addiction She's beginning to go insane from the needle in her vein Needle in her vein called the, Neverson, Tremaine Addicted to the verses her dispersin like He dope, but he so vain Cook coke in flames Bag it, once I have it, in the plastic, I deliver that, give it to the internet Then they start developin a twitch for the that I spit through the fix And if you hatin eat a glass dick trick you know I got that good |
| Posted on Jun 22, 2010 |
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i love it
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| Posted on Aug 05, 2010 |
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fat joe gaining momentum
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| Posted on Sep 03, 2010 |
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KOOL!!!
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| Posted on Dec 11, 2010 |
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