 Genius Lyrics
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America – To Each His Own
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To each his own it's plain to see / To walk alone you have to be / It's all for you and all for me, you'll see / I'm gonna miss you, yes, I will / No matter who you are, I'll love
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Trick Daddy (Ft. Society) – America
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[Intro: Trick Daddy] / It's 'posed to be land of the free / I don't see how / Count me in, uh / America / Oh, America, yeah, ha-ha, ha-ha / America (America) / Sweet land of
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Lil B – Gotta Question
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[Intro:] / Yah I got some questions... this shit is so crazy / Like I said man bringing that shit up from the top to the bottom / I forgive you mixtape / Like I said from the
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Trick Daddy (Ft. Society) – Amerika
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Trick Daddy and Society is explaining the ills of being Black in America: being constantly associated with poverty, living by a double standard and constant discrimination from
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The Goats – Typical American
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The debut single by the Philadelphia based Hip Hop band, The Goats. The track itself is attack on the ‘92 Bush regime.
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Calum Scott – Dancing on My Own
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“Dancing On My Own” is a cover of Robyn’s 2010 hit. Scott first sang it in his Britain’s Got Talent audition which had been viewed over 240 million times as of September 1st, 2019.
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B.J. Thomas – America Is
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America is a sharecropper's son / Who plays a guitar / And grows up to be a rock and roll star / Yes even a sharecopper's son can go far / In America / America is an immigrant's
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Sole (USA) – I Think I'm Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was a prominent political activist and writer whose works centered around the ideas of anarchism while also reaching into topics such as atheism, sexual
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Emanon (Ft. Blu) – Yesterday
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[Verse 1: Blu] / Damn, hold up, yeah / Forgive me, I used God's name in vain / Had her sayin' it when she came, shame on me / Spoke thunder as the lightning struck rain on me
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Taylor Swift – King of My Heart
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During a Secret Session hosted by iHeart Radio, Swift revealed that the goal for the 10th reputation track was to make each session of the song sound like a move forward in a
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Stone Sour – Silent Type
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[Verse 1] / "Half alive and stark-raving free with only a handful of gravel to suck on for the entire duration of this commercial-free interruption / We ran and ran until there was
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Yasiin Bey – Mathematics
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Rap – like physics – is fundamentally a mathematical discipline
Yasiin’s masterful jaunt into numerology rests mainly on analysis of sociological statistics
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This Is Not America (Ft. Marina Schiptjenko) – Every Single Beat of My Heart
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[Chorus, both] / Every single beat of my heart / Is its own distinct message of love / And when my heart gives in, I'll go knowing / That each beat has left a mark where my love
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GQ – Till It's Over
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[Intro] / Till it's over / Waddup tho? Waddup? / Feel good to feel good, you know? / Khrysis / Safe travels to my niggas and shit, ya dig? / Ay / [Verse 1] / Rain falling I'm
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Logic – Obediently Yours
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“Obediently Yours” is the No Pressure outro for Logic that samples the August 11, 1946 episode of the “Orson Welles Commentaries,” which is related to Issac Woodard Jr, a black
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Black Thought (Ft. Ledisi) – American Heartbreak
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[Verse 1: Black Thought] / Yeah, America the ugly / This country is deep to say the least / Ask from Louisville Kentucky, to LA to the East / Where the race been on, but recently
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Viracocha Mendoza – Biko-Mendoza
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Intro / [Viracocha Mendoza]: / Yeah, uh, di, uh, di, uh, uh / Pop, pop, pop, pop / [Yasiin Bey] / If you watch popular media as a primary source of information / Then your world
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ZEKE (WJBJ) – B.L.AND.D. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
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[Verse 1: Z.E.K.E] / Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, T-25, and the Biggest Loser / This what I see on my converter box at sunshine / This what I see on my television at this time / Can
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Alexander Hamilton
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Hamilton does not have an overture. There are eleven notes of orchestral introduction in Hamilton: seven rhythmic orchestral notes in the rhythmic motif of “not throwing away my
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Robyn – Dancing on My Own
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“Dancing On My Own” is about dancing alone in the club while watching your ex—who’s with another woman. When writing the song, Robyn took inspiration from classic sad-and-lonely
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The American Minerva – First Issue: Editor's Address to the Public
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On the evening of December 9, 1793, New York City’s first daily newspaper, The American Minerva, hit the streets. The paper would later become The Globe, which was later merged
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Don McLean – American Pie
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Don McLean released this groundbreaking song on the album American Pie in 1971. It is full of pop-culture references. An entire website has been created by Jim Fann to explore the
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D12 – American Psycho
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Off of D12’s debut album Devil’s Night named after the famous holiday in Detroit on the night before Halloween October 30th
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Common (Ft. Stevie Wonder) – Black America Again
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“Black America Again” combines powerful, socially conscious lyrics with a jazz-infused instrumental. It is also the title track appearing on Common’s forthcoming album by the same
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Barack Obama – State of the Union (2012)
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Barry O drops his first major track of 2012. It features cameos by Jackie Bray and Bryan Ritterby, and a shout out to the dead homies Steve Jobs and Ronald Reagan. And like any
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Chuck Brown And The Soul Searchers – Bustin' Loose
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Keep what you got / Until you get what you need y'all / You got to give a lot / Just to get what you need sometimes y'all / Gimme the bridge now / I feel like busting loose
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Bruce Springsteen – American Skin (41 Shots)
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This song was inspired by the police shooting (and killing) of 23-year-old Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man who didn’t know he was risking his life just for pulling
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Billie Holiday & Tony Scott and His Orchestra – God Bless the Child
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This song was written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939. It won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1976, was one of the songs of the century and inspired a children’s
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Joyner Lucas – I'm Not Racist
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“I’m Not Racist” is about the disconnect between white and black people in the United States. Joyner attempts to rap from both sides of the political climate between conservative
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Green Day – Homecoming
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The climax of the rock opera. Jesus decides to return home. This song has whole pieces written by each of the current members of the band: Billie Joe Armstrong (“The Death Of St
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Nicolay – I've Seen Rivers
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[Verse 1] / I heard some seen rivers / Rivers flowed over levees at night and left dreams floating / To some man, it's hard to focus, but the waters keep going / These are the
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Frederick Douglass – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Appendix
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I find, since reading over the foregoing Narrative, that I have, in several instances, spoken in such a tone and manner, respecting religion, as may possibly lead those
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