The 333 Best Pop Songs of the 2000s: #244

#244: Sugar (Gimme Some) (2004) - Trick Daddy

Keepin' it street, keepin' it real, keepin' it thug...yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, as long as it sounds this confectionate, Trick Daddy, you can keep it however you want it. Here, Daddy latches on to a great Talking Heads melody and gets Cee-Lo (Goody Mob, Gnarls Barkley)--who's a better singer than David Byrne any day of the week--to sing it for him, and lets Lil' Kim and Ludicrous join in the fun, and though Trick Daddy may be a thug, he's got enough pop smarts about him to let Cee-Lo handle (or at least co-handle) production duties on this one, which--like Daddy's late '90s record "Take It to the House"--knows when it's found a gem of a tune and latches on to it, punching it up with some saccharine sound effects, sweet vocals, suggestive rapping, and an almost-late-but-just-barely-catching-the-two-and-the-four backbeatput that slithers and slinks, allowing Cee-Lo--the star of this record--to work his magic as producer and singer. Add another scoop to my coffee, anytime.