Ain't thrillin'.

Touted as "The World's Biggest Selling Album of All Time" on its cover, the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's Thriller was released early last month in a remastered edition, with some unreleased tracks from the sessions with Q as well as some remixes by pop radio's media darlings.  Yes, Thriller is indeed worthy to have an Anniversary Edition; I remember back in the day wanting to get my head singed so that my hair could look just like MJ's did in that Pepsi commercial, or flexing my right wrist to get that creepy gaunt groove lookin' like my man's on Thriller's inside gatefold LP sleeve...who wasn't???

Everybody knows the tracks on this joint...you're a bonafied Sadass if you don't.  But, shiii...the extra tracks ain't no thriller, main.  The fact that you gotta justify giving will.i.am props on his remixes amidst the others ain't sayin' much...Akon's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", ain't startin' sh*t...Fergie's "Beat It" makes me want to beat her...and Kanye's "Billie Jean"...c'mon Ye!?  A constant drum loop and some "yea, uh...huh huh's" ain't no remix, son...and no rap!!!???  You're the future of hip hop, man, shame on you!...especially on that track...oh btw, you know you got props from Obama???

And no Human Nature remix???!!!  Damn, y'all...SWV's "Right Here" came with it in '93 more than these joints, and it ain't even a remix!  That joint was sampled and produced by Teddy Riley, with assistance from the then unknown duo of Pharrell Williams & Chad Hugo (anybody figure that the N-E-P in Neptunes could mean Negro E Philippines???).