Mariah Carey just heated up your already steamy summer with a surprise four-track EP featuring all-star remixes of her latest single, “Type Dangerous.” The elusive chanteuse dropped the four piece on Friday morning (July 11) with revamps featuring a trio of her day one MC pals, Busta Rhymes, Method Man and Red Man (titled “The Remix of the Gods”), as well as new takes with Big Sean (“The Sean Don Remix”), DJ Snake (“The Touch The Soul of the People Remix”) and Brazilian singer Luísa Sonza (“The Brazil Funk Remix”).
The “Gods” remix keeps the original’s “clap to this” sample and bouncing funk beat with Redman up first, rapping, “I came through the door swingin’ that big hammer/ Like Thor, meat coat dragging on the floor/ Soul training wars, I’m handling my business,” followed by a typically punchy Meth verse. “I don’t bug out of chill or be acting ill/ No script since 36, this a master kill/ No tricks, clean up the fish, this a massing kill/ To the masses, I get it lit, this is mass appeal,” he adds, as Busta pulls up last with his signature tricky flow, rapping, “Stay with us while they flavor for most of them folks is flavorless/ When I spit, I’m the craziest and they sound like the laziest/ Maybe this one of the situations you thought you was the nicest/ And your guard failed you so now you became an atheist.”
Sean doesn’t pull punches on his take, either, dropping seductive lines including, “Just like that album from the almighty/ And I been on you for the whole night/ You shine so bright even in the low light/ You the prototype, you tell me I’m the worst type/ ‘Cause when we met you said it’s love at first sight/ He hate it how you try to balance love and work life/ I knew y’all wouldn’t last so I put you on that first flight.”
While Snake’s remix gives the song a swoony, hip-swiveling Latin club vibe, Sonza’s hyped-up, high-energy take amps up the BPMs even more and includes a sensual Portuguese verse in which the singer reveals she likes it when her lover is “obsessed with me.”
The first single from MC’s upcoming as-yet-untitled 16th studio album dropped on June 6 and so far it is the only preview of the singer’s first full LP since 2018’s Caution. Carey recently confirmed that she’s wrapped work on the album, revealing that will be 11, or possibly 12, songs on the LP and that it will include some classic “Mariah ballads,” as well as a second, “summery,” single due out soon.
Check out MC’s remix EP announce and listen to the remixes below.