Shea Serrano

See also: Snoop Dogg's Player's Ball 2011 - Marbella - December 17, 2011 Song: Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free" History: "Young, Wild and Free" is a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa collaboration. (I know, I know). It is the first single from Mac and Devin Go To......

See also: Our Tupac Week coverage from earlier this year. Song: Tupac's "Dear Mama" Background: "Dear Mama" is Tupac's most beloved song. It is considered to be one of the greatest hip-hop records of all time. It played in the background while God made love to the thunderbolt that birthed......

Song: "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" Atmospherics: Admittedly, this is pretty brilliantly composed. It is moody and fun and clever. History: Duh. From the cartoon special for How The Grinch Stole Christmas! that first ran on TV in the sixties. It was written by Dr. Seuss and sung by......

I still don't understand why more people didn't like Unbreakable. It was suspenseful, smart enough, featured an attractive color palette, and it had a horribly creepy opening. (Remember the baby who was born with all of his bones broken?) And the most clever part -- the crux of the entire......

Song: Dev's "In The Dark" History: "In The Dark" is the is the second single from The Night The Sun Came Up. That's the debut album from electro-pop enthusiast Dev, who very well might be the world's best, most convincing Ke$ha impersonator. This is a terrible, egregious thing to be......

Song: Flo Rida's "Good Feeling" History: Ack. ACK. "Good Feeling" is, Christ, like the 19th single from Flo Rida's 23rd studio album or something. I don't know. Who can tell anymore? They all sound the same; global, spineless, stadium/club rap built solely to be monetized. At this point, he's pretty......

See also: Our review of Katy Perry at Staples Center last night Song: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" History: "The One That Got Away" is the sixth single from Perry's most recent album, Teenage Dream. Sixth, bro. SIXTH. If you didn't know anything else about it, that's how......

Song: David Guetta's "Without You" featuring Usher History: "Without You" is a track from David Guetta's Nothing but the Beat, which he released as a double disc album earlier this year. FYI, Guetta is a DJ/producer, so he doesn't rap or sing on any of these tracks, he just mostly......

Song: Jennifer Lopez's "Papi" Background: "Papi" is from Lopez's seventh album, Love? It was released through a promotion on her Facebook page, and was supposed to piggyback off of the massive success of her previous single "On The Floor." "Papi," however, has performed only moderately well on Billboard. It did,......

Song: Beyonce's "Party" featuring J. Cole History: "Party" is the fourth single from Beyonce's fourth studio album, 4. That's three fours in a row, bro. Three. That seems excessive, right? Like, did Beyonce, the good Christian girl that she is, stumble into some Illumanti literature that Jay left out, and......