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Kanye West (Ft. Lupe Fiasco) – Black Vietnam
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Black Vietnam · About · Genius is the world's biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge.
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Kanye West (Ft. JAY-Z) – Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix)
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Both this remix and the original were singles from Kanye’s Late Registration album. Kanye uses the remix to go into more detail on “conflict diamonds”: diamonds which are mined
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Talib Kweli (Ft. Busta Rhymes, JAY-Z, Kanye West & Yasiin Bey) – Get By (Remix)
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A Brooklyn’s Finest posse cut remix of Talib Kweli’s “Get By” from the 2002 album “Quality”.
This remix, also produced by Kanye West, samples the soul classic “Sinnerman” by the
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Black Country, New Road – Suggestion Bar
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I open the lid of my Macbook Pro / I watch pop music videos on YouTube / By Kanye West and Miley Cyrus / I don't have to search / Because the suggestions bar guides me / The
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Kanye West (Ft. JAY-Z & Swizz Beatz) – POWER (Remix)
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Featuring a slightly altered hook, some fresh new lyrics, and, most prominently, a feature from his big brother, Kanye remixes the first single from his own acclaimed MBDTF album
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Mobb Deep – Survival of the Fittest
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Maybe Mobb Deep’s most famous track next to “Shook Ones Pt. II,” “Survival of the Fittest” was released as the second single from The Infamous. It describes the challenges of the
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Kanye West – Diamonds from Sierra Leone
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This was Late Registration’s lead single, and it was technically a bonus track on the album.
Jay-Z would later jump on the track for the remix.
West explained the inspiration for
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Big Sean (Ft. John Legend & Kanye West) – One Man Can Change the World
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On this soulful ballad, Sean invites label mates Kanye West and John Legend along as he reflects on the positive influences in his life, the struggles he faced throughout his
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King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man
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This song is a commentary on the Vietnam War and a criticism of the politicians who were running it.
Schizoid personality disorder is a personality disorder that renders the
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Pusha T (Ft. Clipse, Labrinth & No Malice) – I Pray For You
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Pusha’s favourite song off the album, “I Pray For You” is the fourth Clipse collaboration since the group ended in 2010, and the second in the past month. This is also the first
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Black Lodge Singers – War Paint / Soldier Boy
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SOLDIER BOY / SODIER BOY / BOYYY / WE OHH YAHHH / SOLDIER / (SCREAMING CHATTING) / SODIER BOY
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Big Sean (Ft. Jay Electronica & Kendrick Lamar) – Control
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“Control” is a braggadocious attempt to revitalize the competitive spirit of the rap game.
Kendrick Lamar sent shockwaves across the internet with his verse that name-drops and
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Kanye West – Yikes Samples
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See all of “Yikes” by Kanye West’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Kanye West – Yikes Samples
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See all of “Yikes” by Kanye West’s samples
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Black Savage – Kothbiro Samples
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See all of “Kothbiro” by Black Savage’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Gil Scott-Heron – Comment #1
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In a 1970 spoken-word poem off his debut album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, musician Gil Scott-Heron takes aim at the (predominantly white) student movement and its claim to
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Public Enemy (Ft. Big Daddy Kane & Ice Cube) – Burn Hollywood Burn
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“Burn Hollywood Burn” was released as a single for PE’s third album, Fear of a Black Planet. The song is a scathing examination of stereotypes about Blacks in Hollywood films from
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Kanye West – Yikes
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“Yikes” is a song about drugs, specifically about addiction and intoxication.
Ye alludes to hallucinogens and prescription opioids, and describes the highs that these can induce
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N.W.A – Fuck tha Police
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“Fuck tha Police” takes the form of a trial against the LAPD, with Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and Ice Cube as judge, court officer, and witness.
Dr. Dre explained the song was created after
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ScHoolboy Q – Figg Get da Money
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Here, Q talks about all of the ways people have been grinding around where he lives, legally and illegally.
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Lauryn Hill – War in the Mind (Freedom Time)
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“War In The Mind”, track 7 of Lauryn Hill’s MTV Unplugged album, illustrates the trappings of society’s norms, and the mental slavery that has taken its toll on society today.
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Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun - Live at Fillmore East 1/1/70 [First Show]
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“Machine Gun” was written by Jimi Hendrix and performed by him along with varying band-mates at several live concerts from late 1969 up to his death in September of 1970.
This
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Shyne (Ft. Foxy Brown) – More or Less
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The 3rd song off Shyne’s ‘04 album, Godfather Buried Alive. Produced by no other than Mr. Kanye West, and features Foxy Brown on the hook. What could go wrong?
This was also on
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¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign (Ft. Tyga & YG) – All This Money On The Floor*
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Lyrics from Vultures Listening Party 12/15/2023 / [Intro: Ty Dolla $ign] / Dolla $ign / Woah, woah / [Chorus: Ty Dolla $ign] / All this money on the floor / Ten racks, throw it up
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John Lennon – Imagine
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The antithesis of a call to arms, John Lennon’s “Imagine” is one of the most beautiful and awe inspiring songs of all time.
Released in 1971, deep in the heart of the Vietnam War
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King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man Samples
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See all of “21st Century Schizoid Man” by King Crimson’s samples
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The Clash – Straight to Hell
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“Straight to Hell” is a song about immigration, from a British and American perspective.
The first verse deals with the UK, which saw immigration from its former colonies in the
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Jay Rock – Hottest in the Hood
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Find the music video here.
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Genius Lists – Songs of Protest and Politics
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Political and protest songs have a long history in music, and some of them are great music as well as political commentary or plea for social change.
This list covers all music
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Rap Boulevard – Kanye West - Power To The New Slaves (feat. JAY-Z, Swizz Beatz, & Frank Ocean)
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[Part l: POWER] / [Intro: JAY-Z] / Is this thing on? / Oh, I thought they silenced us, Ye / Power to the people / [Verse 1: JAY-Z] / We livin' in that 31st century, futuristic fly
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Jeezy (Ft. T.I.) – I Got Money
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Samples of all things; “The Phantom of the Opera” from the musical of the same name.
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Logic – Growing Pains II
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“Growing Pains II” is the second installment of the series that includes “Growing Pains,” “Growing Pains III” and “GP4.”
Throughout this track Logic discusses his evolution as an
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Rast RFC – Bad Dope
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[Chorus: Rast RFC] / We break night til the morning / 'cause that's when the dope comes out / We hustle til the evening / You know I got my gun, gun / Ay-ay ay-ay ay / [Verse 1
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Gorillaz (Ft. Bootie Brown) – Dirty Harry
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Gorillaz craft a single that examines war and soldiers, reminiscent of Jedi Mind Tricks' “Uncommon Valor” in its first-person look at the battlefield.
“Dirty Harry” was the first
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The Glory (Ft. DJ Tolse) – Retirement (Gil Scott-Heron Tribute)
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(Intro)(Gil Scott-Heron) / Poem here says, Comment #1 / Uh, Comment #2 is dynamite / But Comment #1 is the one we decided / To use here this evening / Because it makes a comment if
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Black Savage – Kothbiro
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Aaa haye haye / Be uwinja / Koth biro / Keluru dhok e dala / Oooh mam' uwinja / Koth biro / Keluru dhok e dala
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Genius Swedish Translations – Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix) ft. JAY-Z (Svensk Översättning)
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[Intro: Shirley Bassey] / Diamanter är för evigt / De är allt jag behöver för att behaga mig / De kan stimulera och reta mig / De går inte iväg på natten / Jag är inte rädd att de
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Common (Ft. Bilal & Lonnie "Pops" Lynn) – It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)
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This song serves as the finale for Be. Common’s message here is that no matter where you came from, you can still fulfill all the potential the world has to offer – if you stay
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Eric West – Beast Mode
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[Verse 1] / Here to make you feel like a taser in a vagina / Dont need to stretch Im already set there's no need for a windup / I win when I walk that's called Dubstep / Don't need
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