Rap songs like Ace Hood's "Hustle Hard" just sneak in under my defenses. The rapping is good, but not really amazing or original, and the beat has that high-pitched-horror-movie music that is pretty standard in harder rap songs. That doesn't matter for raps like this. These are about conviction, about sounding as hungry as you possibly can and Ace Hood pulls it off.

The Lil Wayne remix is worth listening to because Wayne drops a better-than-average verse that oozes with professional confidence. Wayne records at a prolific rate and guests on nearly every hit song on the radio. While I have no doubt that reports of his mercurial temperament are true, his professionalism (or talent) is evident in verses that fit every song he appears on, regardless of whether they are poppy dance songs or hard gansta rap.

Anyway, check this out.