Throw Some D's

"Throw Some D's" is the first single off the self-titled album of rap artist Rich Boy, and his most commercially successful song to date. The single was produced by Butta and Polow da Don.

The music video was released in October 2006 and was in heavy rotation on BET and MTV. The single charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number 6 in March 2007, with a cameo made by Keri Hilson. The track saw greater success within the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Tracks charts, peaking at number 3 and 2 respectively. The song contains samples from the 1979 song "I Call Your Name" by the R&B Group Switch. This song was #37 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.^[1] It has been a good success for the rapper, having been certified platinum by the RIAA.^[2]

The song has started to appear on best decade lists including Pitchfork Media which listed the song at #351 of the 2000s.

Remixes

• The official remix was produced by Lil' Jon and it features André 3000, Jim Jones, Nelly, Murphy Lee, and The Game, it is the last track of the album.
• A rock remix to the original version was produced by Travis Barker.
• There is also another remix that features Rick Ross, The Game, Lil Wayne & Juelz Santana.
• Chicago Rap Artist Jake D! released in 2006 A Remix called "Throe Sum Cheez" which on MTV's Rob & Big was used by Christopher "Big Black" Boykin in the "Mississippi" Episode.
• G-Unit member Lloyd Banks released a song called "On My Hip" which also uses the beat of "Throw Some D's".
• Kanye West released a remix of the song, with the term "D's" referring to breast augmentation surgery as opposed to Dayton/DUB Rims. West also released a music video to accompany the song.
• Papoose released a song called "Got My Ratchet Back" to the beat of "Throw Some D's".
• Lil Wayne released a song called "Put Some Keys On That" on Da Drought 3 mixtape
• Hell Rell released a song called "Throw Some Keys" to the beat of "Throw Some D's".
• Soulja Boy Tell 'Em sampled the vocals from "Throw Some D's" in his song "Report Card."
• Expensive Taste in collaboration with DJ Skee released a song called "Them OG's" also known as "Them Are G's On That Bitch" to the beat of "Throw Some D's"
• Charles Hamilton released a remix called "Throw Some Pink"
• Sampled on Girl Talk's 2008 album, Feed the Animals on the track "Shut The Club Down".
• DJ Whoo Kid and Young Buck released a remix to the beat of "Throw Some D's" called "Blow Some Weed" on the mixtape entitled "G-Unit Radio 24: The Clean Up Man"
• A-Trak included a remix on his Dirty South Dance release.
• LA beatmaker Samiyam, is playing an unreleased, and unofficial remix at his latest liveshows.

Charts

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