For those of you who had that nagging feeling in the back of your mind for so long about why D.A.N.C.E. didn’t feel R.I.G.H.T., the answer has finally come: it was actually a track from the late 1990s that missed the cut on Diddy’s tribute album to the late Notorius B.I.G. That’s it! How could you have missed the signs for all this time?! Do you think Justice could’ve come up with  the all-caps acronym-style song title all on their own? Hell no. Biggie was doin that shizz waaaay back in the day and they hopped on that bandwagon over a decade later. The problem, I hear, is that Biggie couldn’t actually dance that well, so the title just didn’t seem appropriate. Luckily Wale dusted off the mothballed track and re-released it as yet another homage to the original BigDancer. Or, at least, i’m pretty sure that’s the story of this song. You’ll never dance the same again, I’m sure.

A just-as-forced, yet somehow working for me precursor to WaleDance in hip-hop co-opts hipster history was the Diplo remix of Hot Chip’s Over and Over. Which is more right? Which is more wrong?

Wale - W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. (Justice cover) [zshare] // Wale - W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.(Justice cover) [ysi]

Hot Chip - Over and Over (Diplo Remix) [zshare] // Hot Chip - Over and Over (Diplo Remix) [ysi]