Summary: Jay Smooth and Maura Johnston take on modern duets, as three of the top five songs on the charts are male rapper/female singer pairings. When you heard a duet from Ray Charles and Betty Carter, or Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, they each shared center stage in the verses and harmonized in the chorus. But in "Love The Way You Lie," for example, Eminem's sole custody of the verse gives him literally ten times as much time to speak as Rihanna. Do you think it's possible these days for women to have an equal say in pop duets?
