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Best featured artist on a track

post #1 of 21
7/16/10 at 2:37am
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Listening to Pandora today and 'Regulators' comes on. Nate Dogg is always a great featured artist, but more as a supporting role and not stealing the track. This got me thinking about songs were the featured artist makes the track and outshines the headliner. I would like to name specific songs, but for a frame of refence think of the Chronic as it relates to Snoop, totally stole the show on most of those songs. As for great supporting roles, Bowie in "Under Pressure" is a great example of supporting a well made track without over shining. I would like to hear your selections for best track by a featured artist....
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post #2 of 21
7/16/10 at 5:28am
Merry Clayton on "Gimme Shelter." Makes the song.
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post #3 of 21
7/16/10 at 8:21am
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post #4 of 21
7/16/10 at 8:38am
Bowie on Under Pressure was the track that immediately came to mind when I saw the subject line.

Kate Bush on Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up =

Kate Pierson on Candy by Iggy Pop
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post #5 of 21
7/16/10 at 8:49am
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post #6 of 21
7/16/10 at 10:46am
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post #7 of 21
7/16/10 at 11:07am
Peter Buck's added guitar really revs up the Fleshtones version Windout
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post #8 of 21
7/16/10 at 11:17am
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Peter Buck's added guitar really revs up the Fleshtones version Windout
Along the same line, i was thinkin Eddie Van Halen on 'Beat It'. that is one bad ass guitar solo.
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post #9 of 21
7/16/10 at 11:52am
How about Kate Pierson on Shiny Happy People?

Or, Biggie on Mo' Money Mo' Problems.
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post #10 of 21
7/16/10 at 4:56pm
Duane Allman on Layla

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post #11 of 21
7/16/10 at 5:26pm
I always like Jermaine as a featured artist
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Or, Biggie on Mo' Money Mo' Problems.
You can't be a featured artist on your own song. That being said, Ma$e's bars are fire. And Diddy makes the worst featured artist of all time. He kills so many BIG tracks for me with his constant "uh, yeah" in the back
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post #12 of 21
7/16/10 at 6:56pm
Stevie Ray Vaughn on Bowie's "Let's Dance."
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post #13 of 21
7/16/10 at 7:05pm
Kanye, Jay-Z and Ludacris comes to mind when it comes to having the best set when it comes to being featured on a song. I can probably add TI to the list too.

Kanye probably is probably best though. He easily took the spotlight from JayZ in Run This Town, same in Forever by Drake and Keri Hilson songs (American Boy & Knock Me Down).
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post #14 of 21
7/16/10 at 7:16pm
:/ Kanye gets killed on every song he has a featured artist on, imo. Do the artists in the song "Classic" count? (Nas, Rakim, KRS and all of them shit on Kanye's verse.... especially since he compares himself to them and calls himself classic )
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post #15 of 21
7/16/10 at 7:20pm
A prize will be awarded for whoever knows the featured (really backup) artist on here.
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