I have been listening to some of my favorite rap tunes and I realized: I love it when rappers or singers use high-end designer names in their songs to further remind us that they are richer than us.

But there are some songs that just do a really damn good job of incorporating high-end designers…

Here’s an excerpt from a remix of “Hotel” by Cassidy featuring Trina and R. Kelly:

(for your convenience, I have bold-faced all the fashion designers and references to luxury lifestyle)

Miss Trina and I’m off the chain
And you know I do my thing in the Vera Wang
So fresh, so clean 20 karat pinky ring
I’m the baddest chick in Alexander McQueen
I’m back on the scene da chick of your dreams
You making me cream and you love how I scream
Now yous a real playa Cassidy
But tell the truth you don’t know a b*tch as bad as me
After the party is the after party
In the penthouse suite and we actin naughty
Dis chicks so nice, got the cris so nice
In the hotel room thoia thoing all night
And you know I’m ready, La’ Perle teddy
Rock the boat steady till I’m hot and sweaty
In the hotel motel make you wanna go tell
Your homeboys how I put it on you so well

This portion of the song was performed by Trina (a.k.a. THE BADDEST BITCH)

…and she certainly is the BADDEST because any female M.C. that incorporate fashion designers Alexander McQueen AND Vera Wang in her lyrics is good in my book! Trina definitely gets some fab points from me - and ain’t she hot?!

The next set of “haute” lyrics comes from R&B diva-of-all-trades, Beyonce and her remix to “In Da Club” originally sung by 50 Cent:

I’m the chick with the hot *ish, Manolo Blahnik
Jimmy Choo kicks, killin’ it, who you with?
Me and my girls at the party with the diamond Zinati’s
I’m that classy mami with the Marilyn Monroe body
I’m that fly chick 5′6 Marc Jacob mini
Ghetto fabulous, glamorous, its effortless
Make up light, we with my pastel Louis
Designer scarf, work of art, rockin’ vintage Pucci

Manolo Blahnik? Jimmy Choo? Marc Jacobs? Louis Vuitton? Pucci? Beyonce definitely knows her stuff! She gets two snaps with a twist and a kiss!

As much as I like how they used such prominent luxe names in their songs, the skeptical side of me is asking, “are these just shameless bouts of product placement? Do they get a Louis Vuitton bag every time they say `Louis Vuitton’?”

If that were the case, I’d have like over 100 LV bags by now.

Labels: Alexander McQueen, Beyonce, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, lyrics, Manolo Blahnik, Marc Jacobs, Pucci, rap, Trina, Vera Wang