Genius Lyrics
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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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J Dilla – Don't Cry Samples
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See all of “Don't Cry” by J Dilla’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Odysseas (Razastarr) – Θέλω να Χαθώ, Part 2 Samples
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See all of “Θέλω να Χαθώ, Part 2” by Odysseas (Razastarr)’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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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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Omen – A Chicago Child
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[Intro] / No love / [Verse 1] / I'm 19, gotta give me a nine / Cause I live among this city with crime / I mean the grittiest kind / On the block, gotta get on my grind / I stand
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Mary J. Blige – Didn't Mean
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[Intro: Diddy] / Come on, let's go / Mary J., Bad Boy, collaboration / Yeah, and we won't stop, let's go / [Verse 1: Mary J. Blige] / Baby, don't, don't go / You know I need you so
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The Weeknd – MEMENTO MORI Ep. 2 Tracklist
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1. Wicked City - Bobby Raps & SinGrinch / 2. Bloom - J^P^N / 3. The Final View - Nujabes / 4. Paris, Tokyo - Lupe Fiasco / 5. Don't Cry - J Dilla / 6. Time: The Donut of the Heart
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Slum Village (Ft. Q-Tip) – Hold Tight
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[Verse 1: Q-Tip] / Hold tight, this is the last time you hear me / I'm out now, this is the last time to cheer me / Niggas in the game is getting too slimy / Liable to make this
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J. Cole – Change
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On “Change,” Cole reflects on the maturation of his understanding of the cycle of violence and crime in struggling black communities and details the murder of his friend James
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Common (Ft. Slum Village) – Thelonius
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This track appears on Common’s 2000 project, Like Water for Chocolate, and was also included months later on Slum Village’s Fantastic, Vol. 2.
At the start of The Roots' “Can’t
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J Dilla – Airworks
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[Produced by J Dilla] / I don't really care / I never never needed..
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Fatt Father (Ft. Marv Won) – One More Chance (Big Proof & J Dilla Tribute)
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Tribute to Big Proof and J Dilla by Detroit rappers MarvWon and Fatt Father.
The song samples The Jackson 5’s “One More Chance”
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Baby Rose – Rainy Day
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A rainy day on Sunday morning / Reach in me deeply, hit my soul / Watch it fall from my window / A rainy day on Sunday morning / Reflecting the inside of my mind / All the time / I
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J Dilla – Donuts (Outro)
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This track opens Donuts and already introduces the major thematic concern of the record: Dilla himself. Donuts is a highly autobiographical work, and a meditation on life itself as
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Baby Rose – Rainy Day
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A rainy day on Sunday morning / Reach in me deeply, hit my soul / Watch it fall from my window / A rainy day on Sunday morning / Reflecting the inside of my mind / All the time / I
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Yancey Boys (Ft. Botni Applebum & Posdnuos) – Beautiful
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[Chorus] / Boy, keep your head up high / Look up, you'll see that I / I just want you to know / The struggle is so beautiful / [Verse 1] / Even when we feel like we trapped stuck
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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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AlenGC – Next Door
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[Letra de "Next Door"] / [Intro] / Ah, AlenGC / Mira, hermano, me puse este nombre porque tú te vas a Spotify / Buscas "Alen" y hay como 30.000 "Alen", hermano / Esto es muy simple
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Favorite hip hop songs that used samples
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any public enemy song
Money trees kendrick lamar
any Jdilla
435 Tyler
Bank account 21 savage
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The Weeknd – The Knowing
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On the final track on House of Balloons, we get a peek inside of the mind of Abel during a sexual encounter with a female who’s been around as much as he has. Although he “knows
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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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JAY (Oz) – E.T.
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[Verse 1] / Aye / Double entendre when I say that we lost touch / Now it’s “Hi, what’s been happening, not much” / Like I remember when we’d snap and flirt all day / Caught you
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J Dilla – Welcome to the Show
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On some editions this track is titled “Donuts (Intro).” In both that case and when it is called “Welcome to the Show,” the irony of its title and purpose is immediately apparent
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J Dilla – Waves
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J Dilla’s final message to his younger brother, John “Illa J” Yancey.
This is the second track on the album to feature extensive sampling from 10cc, following the previous song “
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Chris King – DIDN'T CHA KNOW?
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[Intro] / Remember when Wayne did that shit, you hear the lighter and shit you just knew somethin' 'bout to happen, huh / Yeah / [Verse] / Chop another foe when the cactus cool off
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Micah James – Midnight delite (happy birthday)
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Who gives a fuck about old jewels and lessons? / Throw it into pro tools and don't use compression / Fuck a hoodrat and still won't use protection / Yeah nigga / It's hard times
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Shadi (Deathbomb Arc) – Only Thing Guaranteed is Death
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[Intro] / Shadi, wake up! / Wake up, you bum! / You bitch-ass! / Fuckin' no job, skinny-lip, dick-lookin'-ass! / Wake the fuck up, boy! / Wake up / Wake up / [Verse 1] / 5:30 and I
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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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