Genius Lyrics
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Whodini – One Love
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“One Love” is a love and lost song. It was produced in 1986 by Larry Smith, was a hit anthem and has been sampled by 20+ rap songs to date.
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Whodini – One Love Samples
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Whodini – One Love Interpolations
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Amerie (Ft. Jadakiss, Kain, Nas & Rick Ross) – Why R U? (Remix)
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[Intro: Amerie] / Why R U the one? / [Nas] (Sample courtesy of "One Love" by Whodini) / I need the mics to sound like 1987 on this / (From The L to the O! to the O! The V to the E
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Nas – One Love Samples
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Nas – One Love Samples
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Nas (Ft. Q-Tip) – One Love
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“One Love” was the final single released from Illmatic. Fellow Queens native Q-Tip provided the vibes from the Heath Brothers' “Smilin' Billy Suite Part II” as the backdrop for Nas
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2Pac – Hold Ya Head Samples
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Black Eyed Peas – Where Is the Love? Interpolations
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Whodini – How Dare You
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How dare you! / How dare you! / How dare you! / How dare you! / How dare you! / How-how / How-how / How dare you! / How dare you! / How dare you! / How dare you! / How dare you
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Chris Brown – Young Love Samples
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Whodini – Friends
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“Friends”, by Whodini, became the group’s signature song. It peaked at #87 at the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Billboard Hot Hip-Hop & R&B Songs.
The instrumental of “Friends
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E-40 – Drought Season Samples
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Whodini – Do It Again
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On “Do It Again,” Whodini takes the listener on a tour of hip hop history over the arc of their career. From the humble roots that spawned a movement to its arrival on the global
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Sauce Heist & K Sluggah – Whoodini Samples
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Whodini – Last Night (I Had A Long Talk With Myself)
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[Hook] / Last night, I had a long talk with myself / Last night, I had a long talk with myself / Last night, I had a long talk with myself / Last night, I had a long talk with
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Whodini – Funky Beat
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“Funky Beat” is the lead single of Whodini’s third album. It reached #19 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Chart in the summer of 1986. Its music video features actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who
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Whodini – Keep Running Back
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[Intro] / (I keep running...) / Huh, you know why? / She know how to love me / She know how to make me feel real good inside / So I can't help it / I just keep running back / [
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Whodini – Fugitive
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To the highest degree, in quality! / In our rap technology ladies and gentlemen I am the rapper Ecstasy! / And standing to my side, this is my partner, the master rapper Jalil
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Prodigy of Mobb Deep – Y.B.E. Samples
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Kool Keith – The Real Beginer
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[Kool Keith] / Yeah! Y'knahmsayin? Tashan Dorrsett / It's all about Tashan / You think you tough? / Like you got lyrics written from the state of prison / You lookin like a warm-up
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Whodini – Be My Lady
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This song is about that one girl who catches your eye.
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Whodini – I'm a Ho
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From Whodini’s 1986 album, Back in Black, “I’m a Ho” was produced by Larry Smith and sampled a year later on Eazy-E’s “Boyz N the Hood” with minor adjustments.
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Whodini – Freaks Come Out At Night
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“Freaks Come Out At Night” peaked at #104 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and #43 on Billboard’s R&B chart.The song also peaked at #25 on Billboard’s dance
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Common – Freestyle (Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2005) Samples
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Whodini – Magic's Wand
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“Magic’s Wand” was one of the earliest rap songs to have a featured music video. The video was about John “Mr. Magic” Rivas, who was the first radio personality to put out a major-
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Black Eyed Peas – Where Is the Love? Samples
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Wyclef Jean – To All the Girls Samples
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See all of “To All the Girls” by Wyclef Jean’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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E-40 – 1-Luv Samples
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Whodini – Be Yourself
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This song states how no one wants to be hanging around phonies. Don’t front.
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Ego Trip Magazine – Hip-Hop's Greatest Singles By Year
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ego trip’s Book of Rap Lists (buy a copy here) is a highly-entertaining reference book about hip-hop history by the creators of ego trip Magazine.
It includes a list of the
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Whodini – Five Minutes of Funk
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Five Minutes of Funk peaked at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on Billboard’s R&B chart (along with the song Friends).
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Whodini – Echo Scratch
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Serve you your way / From the people's republic of turntable town / Where instead of having battles we have showdowns / Where everybody's put into the spotlight / Where they can
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Whodini – Yours For A Night
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[Verse 1] / Why does it seem (that we) / Just don't see each other / Time passes by (and we) / Still can't compromise / I'm not asking much (from you) / All I'm sayin' is that
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Whodini – Nasty Lady
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[Intro] / Who's that knocking at my door? / [Verse 1] / Excuse me? Excuse me? / Can I tell you a story? / About this lady that I once met / In an underground discotheque / You see
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