The-Dream & Ludacris Join Mariah Carey for “Ribbon (Remix)” (Listen & Download)

I'm not going to lie to you. Any song feature The-Dream saying "motherf**king" in the first ten seconds is guaranteed a listen from yours truly (I'm a classy dude), and that's exactly the situation facing us today with Mariah Carey's "Ribbon (Remix)", a new take on her "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" slow jam that also brings on Ludacris for a romantic, complete opposite of "Hey Ho" verse. Ultimately though, it's The-Dream's always catchy vocals that overshadow both Luda's rhymes and Mariah's soprano vocals. What can I say? The-Dream is the motherfu**king sh*t. Told you I was classy .

It just occurred to me that as a music lover my nightmare is a Nick Cannon+Mariah Carey duet, but as a writer it's my dream. The comic potential would be off the charts.

Oh, yeah. The track is off Mariah's remix album "Angels Advocate", set to drop March 30. "Angels Advocate" doesn't have any official art work yet, so I went with this old school pic. Any objections? I thought not.

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To get your remix on right now, check out the track below.