Last weekend America celebrated our independence from Great Britain, who forced us into battle by grubbing our colonial resources for the bloody queen, or something. 238 years later they still can’t keep their greedy mitts off. This time it’s not about tea—rather, they’re after the sweet croons of our vintage early-2000s R&B legends. No remixes without representation! Unless the remix is extremely dope. While other genres have done it to death (RIP BrandyHouse, 2011-2014), a clutch of grime artists have dipped their toes in with refreshing results. Fellow anglophile Alexander Iadarola and I rounded up our favorite tunes, which you should play back-to-back next time you’re trying to unite a dancefloor of cowboys and rudeboys or convince a bunch of horny American teens to drink tea with their pinkies out.Hold tight nitpicker mandem: while homegrown R’n’G is its own wonderful beast we’re strictly dealing with trans-Atlantic bits, because we’re American and we do what we want.
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