Ranking the Raunch of the Guest Features on Chris Brown's 'Back to Sleep' Remix
Just a few players short of a raunchy football team.
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The Ultimate R&B Song(s) - Chris Brown had a plan to release the ultimate R&B song in three different parts. The first remix of "Back to Sleep" included Usher and Zayn Malik. The second remix included August Alsina, Miguel and Trey Songz. The third remix included Tank, R. Kelly and Anthony Hamilton. Now that all the remixes are out, was it really the ultimate R&B song? We completed the difficult task of ranking all of the features based on levels of raunchiness from least to most. Click through to see who was ranked first. -— Janice Llamoca(Photo: Prince Williams/WireImage)
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Zayn Malik - Best line: “Let’s not get emotional, let’s be who we are / Can we do that?"Since this is a safe space, I guess I can admit that I’m in the half of the population that hasn’t blasted One Direction. Maybe it’s the wholesome stigma of a boy band that makes Zayn’s verse the least raunchy of the eight or maybe it’s the line “let’s be who we are” that turned this verse soft.(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for iHeartRadio
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Anthony Hamilton - Best line: "I'm here to put it down, girl"Brownie points to Anthony Hamilton for stepping into the risqué bubble in the third of the remix series alongside Chris Brown, Trey Songz and company. Still, he could've been more explicit.(Photo: Johnny Louis/FilmMagic)
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Tank - Best line: "Who else gon' beat it like me? Keith Sweat, nobody."Tank joined forces with R. Kelly and Anthony Hamilton (and was overshadowed) in the grown men version of Chris Brown's "Back to Sleep" remix series. (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
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R. Kelly - Best line: "Taste so sweet I'll be calling that a Pop Tart."R. Kelly was his usual racy self in remix No. 3 and even gave us Rihanna references to sing along to.(Photo: Paras Griffin/BET/Getty Images)
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Usher - Best line: “I can tell you’ve been eating your pineapples.”Usher isn’t new to the sex-you-up genre, but he does up the raunch factor with his sensitive palate in the first verse for the first remix of Chris Brown’s three-part series.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIDAL)
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Miguel - Best line: "You got that jacuzzi and I got that Messi for you all night long."I wonder if international soccer player Messi knows that he's now a sexual reference in a Chris Brown remix, but kudos to Miguel for making it sound sexy. There's also other explicit lines that we weren't expecting from the sweet crooner. It feels like we just bonded on a different level.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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August Alsina - Best line: “I wanna get into you so deep I’m touching your soul.”August delivers a little “Gangsta Lovin’” a la Alicia Keys and “Sexual Healing” a la Marvin Gaye in under one minute on remix no. 2. The line above is pure sexting poetry, making the singer a strong contender.(Photo: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)