My mix of 'If You Say'.

[Detra]

You know, my trick, cause I had a few guys doing that... Put on some EQ, pump up the bass some and then add a bit of highs, then add a limiter and turn up as much as you possibly can get out of it! Then you return it and get the money for a full mix... Cause to them, well it got louder and it had more bassdrum... Exactly what they would get if they send it to a dj for mixing. But they think it's awesome.

I'm used to mixing rap music

8k is the ticket! Make sure you carve out some space in the other tracks, especially the hi hats if they're on their own track. I've only worked on two rap projects ever and neither time was I lucky enough to get stems. It's always just a bounce of the instrumental that some dude made and there's no way to get a multitrack mix down. If you carve out space over a whole instrumental like that, you might just feel there's a brightness missing that vocals alone won't make up for.

Look at me rambling.