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Originally posted by Inverted
I live in the US too. When the song came out, I was in New York and Z-100 played Get Right in this order.
1) The original mix with Fabolous
2) A less horn mix with Fabolous (because thought the sax was overpowering and annoying)
3) Hip Hop Mix with Fabolous
By Jennifer standards it was flopping. I think people expected it to be huge in the US and it just didn't deliver.
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That's odd.
In Boston, it was the original played on the Top 40 stations, Fabolous version played on Urban, and the Hip-Hop version was not played at all.
Weird.
And considering we are all talking about this now.
But the thing is also, New York plays all types of versions on their radios, even if their not released as singles, especially Hot97. I can't tell you how many times I had visited my family in NY & Jerzee, and hear so many "unofficial" remixes on NY radio, and I'm just like tf? Why are they even playing that it's not even official.
And they still do that with many songs even today.
For example, "Black & Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa would be played, and minutes later you guys will be playing "White & Navy" by Fabolous, which is just an unofficial remix version of the original. Same goes for other songs by Rick Ross, 50 Cent, French Montana, Jim Jones, etc. They always play unofficial remixes or songs from random mixtapes that have just no official releases. So they had possibly just been playing it to play it, possibly because it was Urban, they were both from NY, or people were requesting it? Who knows.