 Genius Lyrics
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J Dilla – U-Love
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Just because I really love you / Just because I really love you / Love you / Love you / I love you / I love you / I love you / I love you / I love you / I love you, baby / Really
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J Dilla (Ft. Pharoahe Monch) – Love
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Love ft. Pharaohe Monch is the fourth track on The Shining [2006], J Dilla’s second official studio album which was released after his death. It samples two separate tracks called
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Slum Village – The Look of Love
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[Produced by J Dilla] / [Intro] / What is the look of / It got something to do with, um / Being a man and handlin' your biz / What love got to do with it? / Ask S.V., it's all
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Slum Village – Fall in Love
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Samples: Gap Mangione’s Diana in the Autumn Wind (melody) and Iron Butterfly’s Soldier in Our Town (drums).
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Erykah Badu – Love
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[static and sustained tones] / [Spoken Intro: Pilar Cote] / Our emotions have a vibratory frequency to them / There are only two emotions that humankind experience: fear and love
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Common (Ft. Daniel Caesar) – HER Love
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“HER Love” is the third song in a trilogy of songs by Common. The first song, “I Used to Love H.E.R.” released in 1995 and the second, “The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R
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Slum Village – The Look of Love, Pt. 2
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[Hook] / What is the look of / It got something to do with umm / Being a man and handling your biz / What love got to do with it / Ask SV it's all bullshit / You know what love is
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J Dilla – Two Can Win
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[Produced by J Dilla] / [Intro] / Only one can win / Ooh only / Only one can win / Only one can win / Ooh only / [Verse] / Can win, only one can win your love / Ohoo / One can win
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J Dilla – Time: The Donut of the Heart
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Timeless track from the late great J Dilla.
Black Thought used this beat for the track “Can’t Stop This,” a tribute song to James Yancey on The Roots’ album Game Theory (Def Jam
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J Dilla – Don't Cry
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In a 2012 XXL interview, Questlove, a close friend and collaborator of Dilla’s, said “Don’t Cry” was a message to his mother.
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Common – The Light
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“The Light” is the second single from Common’s 2000 album Like Water For Chocolate. The song is a love letter devoted to his then-girlfriend Erykah Badu, whom he parted ways with
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Common – Love is…
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“Love Is” is Common’s view on how love was seen in the hood as a young child and through adulthood. it really shows how showing love towards one another was not all that encouraged
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A Tribe Called Quest – Find a Way
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Tribe’s main single off their fifth The Love Movement (1998), produced by the brilliant J-Dilla alongside Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
Tip and Phife are complaining about girls
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J Dilla – Can't You See
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[Instrumental] / [Sample] / "Can't you see it's me who..." / "Love, love" / "Can't you see it's me who loves you, baby" / "Can't you see it's me who needs you, baby" / "Can't you
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Illa J (Ft. Debi Nova) – Sounds Like Love
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[Verse 1: Illa J] / Yeah uhh, yeah / Listen to this, and tell me what it sounds like / Uhh... stimulating soundbytes / While I seize firmly those hips / Movin closer and closer to
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J Dilla (Ft. Guilty Simpson & M.E.D.) – Jungle Love
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[Verse 1: Guilty Simpson] / Prolific flow, like blow, sniff it / Get zooted, banging that dope music / My mind is set, this year niggas better step it up / I get the job done way
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Common (Ft. Erykah Badu) – In the Light Remix (For U)
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(Chorus) / [Erykah Badu] / There are times.. when you'll need someone.. / I will be by your side.. / There is a light, that shines / Special for you, and me.. / I never knew a luh
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Slum Village – Reunion
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Black Milk used a sample from guitarist John Abercrombie’s song “Timeless”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OzDX6oivxZU#t=557
This song was intended
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J Dilla (Ft. eLZhi) – Come Get It
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Sample taken from ground breaking jazz group Weather Report’s “Orange Lady”. http://rapgenius.com/J-dilla-welcome-2-detroit-lyrics
Introduces the world to “Detroit’s Best Kept
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J Dilla – Bye.
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Another message is getting across: he’s leaving.
While this doesn’t sound true and rather more disrespectful, it isn’t. Donuts is a deep album, even though it is a beat tape. In
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The Moments – To You With Love
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My love's so bold / This ring that I hold / I give to you (to you with love) / I walk up to the preacher man / Just to take your lovely hand / And give to you (to you with love
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N'Dea Davenport – Whatever You Want (Remix)
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[Chorus: N'dea Davenport] / Whatever you want / My heart I’ll give you gladly / Whatever you want / I love to keep you laughing / Whatever you want / If you want my love just ask
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J Dilla – Stop!
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[Produced by J Dilla] / [Jadakiss sample] / *Laugh* / It's dat real / [Dionne Warwick sample] / Mmm, you're gonna want me back in your arms / You're gonna need me, one day / Mmm
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Slum Village – Look of Love (Remix)
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The sample used for this production derives from the track “Inside My Love” by Minnie Riperton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVniMFJYY1o#t=186
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J Dilla – Motor City 9
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[Instrumental] / [Samples] / "Now he's found someone new, and you want him back again" / "Can't you see, that I still love you" / "Can't you see, that I still love you" / "Can't
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Five Stairsteps – We Must Be in Love
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I sigh and don't know why / I sigh is it that I'm lonely for you / Are you lonely for me too / We must be in love / I miss your tender kiss / Your tender kiss is what I miss / I
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Slum Village – Sentimental Love
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[Intro] / You like it, you need sentimental love, baby / We give sentimental love, baby / You need sentimental love / We need sentimental love, baby / [Verse 1: Baatin] / See it's
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J Dilla – The Twister (Huh, What)
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[Produced by J Dilla] / Would you join me please in welcoming / The Tempt... / Long before I knew / Someone warm like you / Huh, what / Huh, what
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Common (Ft. Bilal & Marsha Ambrosius) – The Light '08 (It's Love)
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Common and Just Blaze breathe new life into Common and J Dilla’s classic, “The Light”
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J Dilla (Ft. Black Thought) – Love Movin'
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[Hook 1: Black Thought] / 'Riq Gees, that's what's up / Dilla Dawg, that's what's up / Roots crew, that's what's up / We keep the ghe-tto twisting backwoods up / K. Rigg, that's
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Slum Village (Ft. Dwele) – Tainted
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Slum Village talk about tainted love and relationships with soulful hook and ad-libs from Dwele over a smooth Dilla production.
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A Tribe Called Quest – The Love
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“The Love” is an album cut from The Love Movement that offers perspective on the idea of love and life. Life sure isn’t perfect but this song makes it seem like it’s all good. This
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J Dilla – King
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[Instrumental]
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Common (Ft. Erykah Badu, Pharrell Williams & Q-Tip) – Come Close Remix (Closer)
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J Dilla samples Bonita Applebum in this remix, which is fitting since Q-Tip is in the house. A Tribe Called Quest’s “Bonita Applebum”
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J Dilla (Ft. Common & D'Angelo) – So Far to Go
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[Produced by J Dilla] / [Intro: D'Angelo] / I wanna get closer to you baby / [Hook: D'Angelo] / You have come so far, you've got so far to go (yeah) / You have come so far, you've
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J Dilla – Glazed
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One of the handful of tracks on the record that actually refer to donuts, “Glazed” is a dynamic instrumental track that is a companion piece of sorts to “Mash” in that both feature
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De La Soul – Stakes Is High
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The climactic point of De La Soul’s “Stakes is High” album serves as a criticism to the state of the world in 1996, along with a declaration that the Native Tongues are back in
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J Dilla – Mash
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The bulk of J Dilla’s “Mash” consists of two primary samples: a looped, tuned-down piano sample of Galt MacDermot’s “Golden Apple” and vocals from Frank Zappa’s “Dance Contest”. In
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Common (Ft. Bilal) – Star *69 (PS with Love)
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[Verse 1: Common] / Let's do it now, it's me and you / Close my eyes, Erotica, I'm seein' you / Listen to me wishin' I could be with you / To share my love and ecstasy with you
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Slum Village (Ft. Bilal & Illa J) – Love Is
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[Intro: T3] / Uh, yeah / Dilla dog, yes / Uh-huh / Bilal, let's go / Slum Village, y'all / Uh / [Post-Chorus 1: Slum Village] / It's fantastic, come on—uh / It's fantastic, come on
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J Dilla – The Diff'rence
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[Produced by J Dilla] / The fruit man / The fruit man / The fruit man / The fruit man / You will see the diff'rence / The diff'rence / Come on / The diff'rence / The diff'rence
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J Dilla – Thunder
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[Produced by J Dilla] / Ladies and gentleman / Ladies and gentleman / Ladies and gentleman / The Original
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J Dilla – Anti-American Graffiti
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My family tree, my family, it's my history, my family / My family tree, my family, it's my history / Ah! Ah! / What's up... he-hey baby! / Have mercy, have mercy, you bet your life
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Yancey Boys – Lovin' U
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[Chorus] / Thought you would fall in my arms instead of falling in love / You're just here for the charm / It will be cool, I mean we will be fine / You can get yours but I gotta
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J Dilla – Geek Down (Donuts)
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[Instrumental]
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