Ever listened to a song that you hated all around, where you thought everything about this is wrong: the flow, the concept, that awful beat? Only for another rapper to jump on and kill it. And to your surprise he even makes you bop along to the beat you thought sucked ass?

Here are some examples for me, what are yours?

· Ice Cube & Scarface on the Chris Benoit remix. I never liked the original and thought the remix beat was an improvement, but still meh. But the moment Ice Cube started rapping my whole conception of it changed.

· Danny Brown on the video version of When I'm Clownin'. To be fair, I like the song even without Danny, but it was more like a pretty decent song for ICP at the time, rather than a great song. But holy shit, when Danny jumped on, it felt like he was trying to teach them how to treat this beat right.

· Shaggy on Kickin' Kickin'. Hated that song when first listening to the album and couldn't wait for it to be over, completely lackluster performance by J on top of a boring-ass beat. But then Shaggy took me by complete surprise when he murdered his verse like he had never done before, flow-wise.

· Cold 187um on Swan Sighting. OK, maybe this doesn't completely fit the category I defined myself, but whatever. Blaze's song Damn Bitch may be my least favorite one of his. And that's because it had so much potential, because it was a Blaze and Dayton Family collab, whose styles could have meshed perfectly because they both do that dark twist on gangster rap. But then they gave us a run-of-the-mill club "banger" with a terrible hook that still manages to get stuck in your head somehow and completely contaminates the beat. I disliked a lot of the beats on Gang Rags, but this one I hated with a passion. So when I saw the tracklist for Cold 187um's album, and saw that he chose this beat, I was mildly annoyed that I had to hear it again. But he totally schooled me (and Blaze, quite frankly). The song comes on, I'm instantly annoyed at those stupid horns and hearing DAaaAmmN BiIiITtChh in my head, and then get whiplash because my mood turns 180° the second Hutch starts spitting that hook. This is part of the reason why I never understood the hate for The Only Solution, because I didn't think anybody could save that fucking beat.