In Which I Call Bullshit on This Bieber x Kanye x Raekwon “Collab” (Listen & Download)

Posted by Nathan S. on 08/30/10 | Filed under Top Stories, Downloads, Remixes, Kanye West, Raekwon, Justin Bieber

To quote my hero Will Ferrell in "Zoolander", "Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" Am I the only one who realizes this incredibly hyped Justin Bieber, Kanye West and Raekwon "collab" isn't a collab at all? What a bunch of bullshit.

Let me back up. For the past couple weeks we've hear murmurs of an incredibly unlikely collab track in the works between teen heartthrob/pop-cyborg Justin Bieber, the infamous Mr. West and, most unlikely of all, cocaine drenched Wu-Tang alumni Raekwon. The way people were talking, it conjured images of the Biebs siting in a studio with The Chef, writing lyrics about young love while Rae smoked a laced-blunt. It was an image so strange that I was prompted to write there was no way it was going to happen, that Bieber's people wouldn't risk his squeaky-clean image by placing him next to Rae.

And then the much-rumored cut dropped today and I was barraged with emails saying, and I paraphrase here, "Suck it. This collab happened. You wrong idiot." Ex-fucking-cuse me? This is a remix!

Let me say that more slowly. This...is....a....remix. Bieber didn't do anything. Kanye just took his vocals from "Runaway Love", added a new beat and added a Raekwon verse. Bieber's participation in this song has so far amounted to not suing them (which he can't do because they're not offering this for sale). If this is a "collab" then give me ten minutes - I'm going to jump on Pro Tools and record a quick "collab" featuring me and the entire Wu-Tang Clan...and Jay-Z...and Nas...and the Dali Lama. Sorry, but words mean things. And as long as we're at it semantically, it's not a "leak" if you announced it was coming weeks in advance and then blasted it out to everyone you know. It's just a song you're promoting. AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, I kind of lost it there for a minute. Anyway, the songs below. It's an unlikely remix, yes, but if I hear one more person call it a "collab" or say it's crazy that Bieber and Raekwon got on the same track, my head's going to explode.

Download "Runaway Love (Remix)" Directly

Listen to the REMIX below.

Play Kanye West & Raekwon - Runaway Love (Remix)

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Member Comments

Shamir	I agree completely Nathan. Nothing more needs to be said. You hit it dead on lol
	Posted on Aug 30, 2010

Freshmike	This song is actually dope! Except for the little girl singing
	Posted on Aug 30, 2010

SonicSkillz	YES. That's all I can say regarding this post, and quite frankly, all that needs to be said.
	Posted on Aug 30, 2010

tdotraza

Could Beiber's camp really go after Kanye and Raekwon if it was Beiber himself advertising the collaboration even more than Kanye on his twitter? It's still weird as hell seeing that he referred to Raekwon as "the Chef."

But yeah, a Kanye and Raekwon collaboration, not Beiber. Which all in all ends up being a good thing. I mean, who wouldn't prefer two Raekwon verses to one from him and one from Beiber?

Posted on Aug 30, 2010

Nathan S.	@tdotraza In regards to your question, unless it can be shown that Kanye and/or Raekwon benefited financially from the track they can't be sued for using the sample regardless of Bieber's support of non-support (if he owns the rights to his music I'll shit a brick). But somehow I don't think the Biebs is making the calls when it comes to his legal affairs, or at least I hope not.
	Posted on Aug 31, 2010

[email protected]

Rap is TRASH period. It sucks to the point I cannot say that anything besides likes of the Roots or Royce in some cases really have the art in mind. Besides that it's mixtape this remix that dj this dj that little dicky, little ricky, little mickey..... I mean come on , people have websites dedicated to turd music and post 24/7 any piece of shit they can.

I know true hip hop heads cannot argue with me for one second. RETARDED , go back to 95 when it started going south fast..... Master P , Cash Money Records these faggots are in part responsible for dumming the art down for a fucking buck.

Posted on Sep 01, 2010

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