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Cheers erupt from the J-Lo fanclub as she squeezes into the final behind Outkast, Eve & Gwen, Missy and Mis-teeq. Sophie E-B on the other hand is wiping her tears on Dude from The Feeling's velvet jacket sleeve.

On to heat #6, which is absolutely banging in my opinion, but who will make it through?

You get a maximum of TEN TICKS over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to the next stage.

If you want to change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.

UK chart placings given in brackets.

You have until Friday lunchtime to vote.

Rep for your favourites in the comments! Youtube embeds very welcome.

[Poll #1439533]

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From:

alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

AAARGH such a banging heat and I wasn't in all day to point people towards the songs to be ticked!

Lina - Playa No Mo' (http://www.sendspace.com/file/atmiuh)

Did ANY of you on my flist d/l this when I uploaded it last week? Sigh. Here is the mp3 again because it's otherwise entirely disappeared off the internet. Completely insane jazz/r&b/opera collision.

Foxy Brown - Run Dem

More adventures in patois from the Fox. For all of those who were won over by 'Oh Yeah' in the last heat - this is EVEN BETTER.

How many times I gotta let y'all bitches know I'm
one of a kind, can't fuck with mines
See when Fox in the place, bare hotness a gwan
when I bust wine we nuh watch ya face, gwan!
Ya too fraud, sound ridiculous
I'm the only Trini bitch that can kick yard shit, FIYAH
What you know about skin out and bruck out
Like a bad gyal bunny hot style, pop pure style

Usher - Pop Ya Collar

Really thought this would be more popular - easily my favourite Usher track, such an irresistibly bouncing melody, you can't NOT dance to it. I have genuinely used it as ~inspiration~ to deal with haterz. Usher was SO hot back in the day too, now he's just a skeevy middle-aged dude :(

From:

piratemoggy.livejournal.com

I would've downloaded the Lina if I had the internet. As it is, I still have no idea what it sounds like so can't possibly tick it.

May yet have to go back and tick Usher, mind. Not sure which tick would have to go though.

From:

koganbot

I'm the only Trini bitch that can kick yard shit

I'm hoping that "Trini" is the plural of "Trina" so that this means that if you're a "Trini bitch" you're a bad bitch in the style of Trina. (Actually, I'd think "Trini" would mean Trinidadian; Foxy was born in Brooklyn according to Wiki but I don't know her heritage. In any event, not sure why she'd be the only bitch in the yard who can kick shit, as opposed the one who kicks it most.)

From:

koganbot

...as opposed to BEING the one who kicks it most.

From:

alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

yeah, Trini = Trinidadian. if a new ho-rapper with Trini heritage emerges she could call herself the Trini Trina.

Similar to Nicki Minaj - haven't found any bio info about her heritage, and she was born in Queen's, but her lyrics seem to imply both West Indian heritage of some sort, and possibly Japanese too.

"yard shit" = ref to yardies, right?

From:

koganbot

"yard shit" = ref to yardies, right?

I'm not exactly the one to ask.

From:

koganbot

So she's saying she's the only Trinidadian who can kick the shit out of the yardies? The only Trinidadian who can kick shit like the yardies? --I had to look up "yardies" in Urban Dictionary which gives its UK meaning as "Black, Jamaican (Kingston) born gangstas found in rough parts of London" while the Jamaican meaning is "anyone from your neighbourhood (not necessarily gangsters).")