Best Hip-Hop/Electronic Collaborations/Remixes

My absolute favorite kind of music is rap with an electronic instrumental. I don't know why I love it so much... probably because there's no way I'm not dancing when I hear it. Hip-hop EDM is on the come up (even Katy Perry has jumped on the bandwagon with "Dark Horse"), but it's still not always easy to find. I've spent a lot of time searching for songs I haven't already heard or that have been remixed with a trap beat, but everything I find is just awful. After looking at "10 Dubstep/Rap Collaborations That Don't Suck" and realizing that they actually all suck, I decided I would make my own list.

 B.o.B - Ray Bands (Kush Trap Remix) This remix is not well known at all, but it is great. People always enjoy it wherever it's played. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of B.o.B because he's too mainstream rap, but on this remix I love him. It's extremely different from the original and allows you to enjoy the lyrics and give him credit for clever lines. He should get rid of the original completely and only use this remix.

 Reflex - Body So Tight ft. Childish Gambino If you don't know, Childish Gambino is the stage name of Donald Glover, an actor and writer for the show "Community." In my opinion, Glover's greatest strengths in his lyrics are his uses of assonance, consonance and allusion. For example, one of the first lines in this song is, "Gambino Aveeno, that ashy to classy." It's so catchy and goes so perfectly with the beat that you have to sing along to it. Not to mention, once the bass drops on this song, you have to dance. Props to Reflex, whoever you are. 

Danny Brown - Dip Danny Brown is one of the artists who is pioneering the EDM/Hip-hop movement. He toured with record producer/trap DJ Bauuer last year, and will now be touring with the extremely famous A-trak. I had the fortune of seeing him in November 2012 when he toured with rapper A$AP Rocky and he was an incredible performer. This is a song off of his most recent album, Old... No comment on the subject matter.

 Action Bronson - Get Off Me (ill.Gates & Wick-it Remix) I recently found this song on Soundcloud and love it. Action Bronson is a newer rapper who has a tradition/underground feel to his music, which means he's typically downtempo. Remixing and Action Bronson song can be difficult, but ill.Gates and Wick-it killed it. I would expect an Action Bronson/Dubstep collaboration would be extremely awkward and terrible, but the beat goes perfectly with Bronson's vocals.

 Drake - Come Thru (James Blake Remix) This song is different from the rest in that it is not an upbeat, dubstep dance song but instead is just an electronic rework of Drake's "Come Thru." James Blake is a British electronic song, and honestly his music is weird, but for some reason I like it. Not everyone is a fan of this song because the beat doesn't necessarily match the vocals, but if you're a fan of James Blake and his kind of music, you will love this. Blake even throws on some of his own vocals, which are beautifully harmonized.

A$AP Ferg - Work (Mati Festival Trap Bootleg) Remixing this song seems like it would be easy since the original already has a great bassline...it seems like the original was just sped up and a drop was added (although I know that's not all). Still, I almost like this version better and now feel like the original is too slow. It's not a dance-y song since it's so...gangster...but I like it because it makes me feel hood when I listen to it.

JSTJR - Money and Bass ft. Charlie Bars JSTJR produced the perfect beat for Charlie Bars' rapping style. Bars typically likes to play with his vocals, changing pitches randomly throughout his songs and repeating words or lines over and over again... I guess in a way he mimics electronic instrumentals. I can listen to this song whenever, and I especially like to work out to it. I would absolutely love to see both of them perform.

Danny Brown - #ExpressYourself (Prod. by Trampy) I'll close out this post with this classic. Trampy produced this beat without Danny Brown in mind, but it was absolutely perfect for Brown. It plays into the twerk movement, encouraging girls to "express" themselves via shaking their asses. Even I try to twerk when I hear it. I call it a classic because people who follow trap or Danny Brown closely have to know this song.