THE HOOD vs THE HOOD

ABX's favorite STV SLV tracks of '07:
10: Clipse vs The Avalanches - When The Last Time I Left You
9: CSS vs Rick Ross - Push It To The Alalimit
8: Mike Jones vs Air - La Femme D'Monsieur Jones
7: Birdman & Lil Wayne vs Black Rock - Stuntin Like Black Rock
6: Destiny's Child vs Justice - Lose My Waters Of Naza(b)reath
5: T.I. vs Fujiya & Miyagi - What U Know About Transparent Things
4: Genesis vs Justice - Genesis Genesis
3: Amerie vs Daft Punk - Take Control Of Da Funk
2: Mylo vs Omarion - Drop The Ice Box Pressure
1: Khia vs Dan Deacon - Snatch Da Crystal Cat Back

STV SLV's favorite ABX tracks of '07:
10: Spank Rock & Benny Blanco vs We Are Wolves - Totally Solid Bootay
9: R. Kelly vs Jens Lekman - If I Could Rock (It Would Feel Like This)
8: Sean Kingston vs Patrick Wolf - Beautiful Girls in Magic Positions
7: Chris Brown vs AC Newman - Drug Drug Kiss Kiss
6: Eve vs Radiohead - Tambourine Reckoning
5: Clipse vs Cat Power - I Don't Blame You For Shinin' And Grindin
4: Rick Ross vs Ghosthustler - Everyday I'm Ghosthustlin'
3: Lil Wayne vs Modest Mouse - Fire It Up, Firemouse
2: R. Kelly vs Broken Social Scene - I'm A Flirt (Shoreline)
1: Trillville vs The Knife - Some Cut Like A Knife

Those were our favorite tracks by us. What were yours? Leave us a note in the comments. ALSO: For those of you in the Twin Cities, STV will be dropping some Hood all over First Avenue tomorrow night at their weekly Too Much Love party, alongside Willy Joy and Jonathan Ackerman.

LIL MAMA vs CELEBRATION

2007: The Year In Rejects Part 5

ABX - Our Hearts Don't Slide (Lil Mama vs Celebration)
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The Celebration track was one of my favorites of the year, but there wasn't much from that song to work with because she sings over pretty much the entire thing. It's really all about the crazy drums on the outro anyway, so I kept that. I couldn't stand that 'wheels on the bus' chorus on the Lil Mama track, so I cut it. Is it poppin'? Maybe.

GUCCI MANE vs PELICAN

2007: The Year In Rejects Part 4

DJ STV SLV - Pillz Between The Wallz (Gucci Mane vs Pelican)
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Some things were just not meant to go together.

THE HOOD INTERNET vs 2007

Cokemachineglow just dropped their 2007 Fantasy Covers Podcast and it is the hotness. It features a bunch of exclusive covers/remixes of songs from the past year by artists such as Marissa Nadler, Deer Tick, and The Main Drag.



And it also includes a brand new Hood Internet track that mixes Huey's "Pop, Lock and Drop It" with samples from 2007 tracks by The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, Justice, Yeasayer, Andrew Bird, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Simian Mobile Disco, Modest Mouse, Chromatics, Feist, Jens Lekman, Spoon, Battles, Calvin Harris, Air, Professor Murder, Les Savy Fav, Digitalism, Aesop Rock, Shop Boyz, and Soulja Boy (yooooooouuuuuuuuuu!).

For individual downloads of two of the tracks featured on the podcast check out the Gorilla vs Bear post from earlier this week.

Plus: Check out Culture Bully for 15 Favorite Mashups of 2007. The Hood is all over that list. Props to The Bully for putting that together.

R. KELLY vs KEVIN DREW

2007: The Year In Rejects Part 3

ABX - Rocked Up Kid (R. Kelly vs Kevin Drew)
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Before deciding to mix Kells' "Rock Star" with Jens Lekman it was mixed with Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew. In a lot of ways this felt like the poor man's "I'm a Flirt (Shoreline)" and this was after I had already declared T-Pain vs Cloud Cult to be the poor man's "Flirt (Shoreline)." Either way, it was a good year for poor men.

TRINA vs BATTLES

2007: The Year In Rejects Part 2

DJ STV SLV - No Battles (Trina vs Battles)
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The Hood has been all up in it again: in New York Magazine, comedian Jonah Ray's best of 2007 list on Brooklyn Vegan, GVSB, NPR's Bryant Park Project, and Stereogum. So what did we decide would be a good next move? The Year In Rejects.

LUDACRIS vs RILO KILEY

2007: The Year In Rejects Part 1

ABX - Moneymaking Money Maker That Makes Money (Ludacris vs Rilo Kiley)
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For a variety of reasons, there are some Hood Internet tracks that just don't make it to the show. We're hooking the world up with a special behind the scenes look at the tracks that weren't in 2007.

Since both the Ludacris and Rilo Kiley (who are, according to Blender, officially less hot than us in '07) tracks were called Money Maker this was an easy choice that just didn't come together as easily as I had hoped. After going back and fixing up some things, it's working better than it did when I gave up on it, but it still feels like a reject.

CASSIDY vs HEALTH

ABX - My Pills N' My 2 Step (Cassidy vs Health)
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PIMP C vs THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

ABX - Knocking Fablez Down (Pinp C vs The New pornographers)
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As STV reported yesterday, Pimp C is dead at age 33. R.I.P. Pimp C.

OL' DIRTY BASTARD vs WHITE WILLIAMS

DJ STV SLV - Got Your Smoke (Ol' Dirty Bastard vs White WIlliams)
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R.I.P. to ODB, who died on November 13, 2004, and also to Pimp C (aka Chad Butler), who died earlier today in Los Angeles. Tip and shout.

ABX - Pourin Up Vibrations (Pimp C vs Ghostland Observatory)
ABX - I Was An International Player (UGK vs TV On The Radio)
DJ STV SLV - So Many Kings (Young Buck, T.I., Young Jeezy & Pimp C vs Midnight Juggernauts)