Rihanna and Chris Brown Reunite on New Remixes

Rihanna celebrated her 24th birthday over the weekend by debuting a pair of remixes in which she teamed up with her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who was convicted for felony assault after beating her before the 2009 Grammy Awards.

Here is the remix for Rihanna's track "Birthday Cake," which features a verse by Brown in which he sings "Girl, I want to fuck you right now / been a long time / I've been missing your body."



Rihanna also appears on the remix for Brown's current single, "Turn Up the Music."



The two songs were revealed to the singers' respective Twitter audiences within minutes of each other, suggesting that the two coordinated the release as a way of sending a message that they have reconciled.

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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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