Chris Brown ft.

Its impossible to review a Chris Brown track and not mention his beating the shit out of Rihanna japes. Its great that hes been allowed by a forgiving America to carry on having a career because this song is the first hip hop classic of 2011. I dont know whether an English artist would be able to get away with such an extremely nasty act of bullying violence, only to be taken back into the nations breast merely for performing passably on a song someone else has written. Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot about Cheryl Cole (boom boom). Anyway, on this the minimal electronic beat is totally the star, but wait, wait until you hear Busta come in on the second verse. He is AMAZING. Its the best rapping from him since Pass the Couvorsier 2, and that was ages ago.

Ian Mcquaid

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