"Pop Champagne" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Ron Browz, originally released independently in June 2008.
It is most famous for a remix with fellow American rappers Jim Jones and Juelz Santana that was officially released as a single on September 4, 2008 by Columbia and Universal Motown Records.
[2] Hence, Ron Browz independently released the original version of "Pop Champagne" through his Ether Boy record label[8] in June 2008,[7][9] and it became a regional radio hit.
"[1] The remixed version of "Pop Champagne" was released on September 4, 2008[10] through Columbia, Universal Motown, and Koch Records and achieved commercial success.
[13] Jonah Weiner, writing for Slate magazine, described the video as containing homoerotic undertones in a scene where "Jim Jones and Juelz Santana giddily douse each other with frothy white geysers of bubbly.
VIBE magazine described "Pop Champagne", alongside "Arab Money" and "Jumping (Out the Window)", as representing Browz having "mastered the craft of creating mindless melodies that catch on".
[16] Ben Westhoff, writing for the Houston Press, said the song was one of the tracks on Pray IV Reign that showed off Jones's "hypnotic, breathy delivery".
[18][11][19] Chris Ryan of Spin magazine said it was the only song on the album Pray IV Reign "that recall[ed] the balls-out hedonism" that "We Fly High" possessed,[18] and David Jeffries of AllMusic called it a "club anthem".
[19] Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine called the song "remarkably anemic, nearly drowning in Auto-Tune, with a low-key shuffle beat that underlines the verses clashing with a more bombastic chorus".
[21] Kit Mackintosh, in a retrospective about technology in music, remarked that the song was "hard artifice as car crusher to the soul tradition, taking the voice [...] and flattening it into inhumanly rigid timbral geometrics", tying it to a larger trend of "human authenticity [being] automatised, and, ultimately, bastardised.
[3] The two would later reconcile and release a collaborative single, "All The Way", in 2013, with Ron Browz dismissing their brief conflict as part of the competitive nature of hip hop and "good for the game".