Pitchfork

Be still, seventh-graders' hearts. Lil Mama, whose "Lip Gloss" popped to #27 on Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2007, teams up with hot-stepping hearthrob Chris Brown and robot-voiced hit maker T-Pain on this remix of "Shawty Get Loose", ostensibly from the 18-year-old Brooklyn rapper's delayed debut album, Voice of the Young People. After forever redeeming Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" and teaching us how to "G-Slide", the rapper born Niatia Jessica Kirklan has lost none of her impressive vocal dexterity here. "When I spit it's like mucus, gotta get rid of it," she explains, en route to resuscitating Pussycat Dolls catch phrases and name-checking everyone from Janet Jackson to Twista. T-Pain can barely keep up, but with a CV packed with Shawty songs ("Buy U a Drank", "Bartender", Plies' "Shawty") he and Brown deliver a chorus much more likely than that of "G-Slide" to catch on with even a grown-up crowd. (via Blender)

[from Voice of the Young People; due 2008 on Jive]