 Genius Lyrics
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J Dilla – The $
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[Intro] / (Yo!) / ("I need the money") / McNasty Presents / ("For awesome amounts of dough") Yeah-yeah-yeah... / ("I need the money") / ("Awesome amounts of dough") / ("I need the
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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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J Dilla (Ft. Ta'Raach) – Say It
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[Intro] / ("Say It") / I don't know man / I don't know if they really wanna hear this shit / ("Come on") alright / ("Say it") / [Verse 1] / Welcome to the sacred, Dilla ok kid
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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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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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J Dilla – The Diary
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[Intro: Dank] / Yea, yea, what's the deal-y? / My nigga Dilla / For life, McNasty records, uh, yea / [Verse: J Dilla] / I come from a long line of pimps, hustlers, soldiers and
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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 – 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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J Dilla (Ft. Dwele) – Think Twice
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Jay Dee’s cover of Donald Byrd’s “Think Twice.” Dilla handles the vocals while Dwele plays the keys and the trumpet.
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J Dilla (Ft. Kenny Ray) – The Shining Pt. 1 (Diamonds)
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[Verse 1] / Bling, bling / Keep me on shine while I make the ching ching / You so precious, like a burst of joy / I heard your boy Jacob got the best shit / You so hot you make me
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J Dilla – One
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Oh, oh / And you say one love, uh, to SV / Flipmode, Frank-N-Dank / The Abstract, Waajeed / Roc-a-Fella, Hi-Tek / Chocolate City, Badu / Keep it on and / Keep it on and on and
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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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J Dilla – Airworks
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[Produced by J Dilla] / I don't really care / I never never needed..
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J Dilla – So Far
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From Pay Jay, Vinyl LP (Unofficial Release)
The song is also known as “No One’s Home” because that’s what the sample says.
The sample is Kansas – Nobody’s Home, from the 1977
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J Dilla (Ft. Common) – E=MC²
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As well as being on The Shining, “E=MC²” is featured on the 2k8 soundtrack along with two other J Dilla tracks.
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J Dilla – The New
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[Produced by J Dilla] / [Beastie Boys Sample] / And on the cool check in / Center stage on the mic / And we're puttin' it on wax / It's the new... / It's the new / It's the new
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J Dilla – Hi.
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[Produced by J Dilla] / ...Standing at the bus stop and I hear a voice behind me say / "Hi, baby" / Aw, I just fell all apart inside / Because I hadn't heard that voice in such a
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J Dilla – Won't Do
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[Produced by J Dilla] / [Chorus] / For me, no.. / One won't do it, two is not enough for me,no / One won't do, two is not enough for me, no / One won't do it, two is not enough for
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J Dilla – Welcome 2 Detroit
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The intro to Jay Dee/J Dilla’s first album features a Turkish rock sample and is a brief intro to the project, representing Detroit.
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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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J Dilla – Crushin' (Yeeeeaah!)
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[Sample Intro] / Sex, sex, sex! / Freaks, freaks! / [Intro: J Dilla] / 'Bout to get nasty in this muh'f***** / Where my freaks at? Uhh, get live with it / Yeah, uhh, let's go / [
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J Dilla – Reckless Driving
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[Intro: J Dilla] / I feel you, Dank, uh / We bout to get it / Oh my... God! / So serious / [Verse 1] / Turn me up, a little louder / Get it crunk yeah, let's get 'em riled up / Let
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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 – One Eleven
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This song clocks in at 1:11 in length, hence the name One Eleven.
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J Dilla (Ft. Bilal) – The Ex
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[Produced by Pete Rock] / [Intro] / Yes / Big Dilla / P R / Bilal / Here it is / Yeah, it's for you / [Verse 1: J Dilla] / Hey, Remember me? Take a look baby / Yes it's your ex- he
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J Dilla (Ft. Guilty Simpson & Madlib) – Baby
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“Baby” is the 5th song off of the posthumous J Dilla album “The Shining”.
In this song, Dilla riffs with Guilty Simpson and Madlib about life on the road, partying, love, and
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J Dilla (Ft. Nas) – The Sickness
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[Produced by Madlib] / [Hook] / Uh, uh, it's the sickness uh, uh, uh, ah, ah, ah / Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh / [Verse 1: J Dilla] / I got the MJ disease cause MCs wanna be me
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J Dilla – Workinonit
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With one of the most memorable beats on the album, Dilla uses choppy samples to create a smooth sound scape at a perfect opening track to his last record created while alive
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J Dilla (Ft. Dwele) – Dime Piece
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[Chorus] / Find my dime piece tonight / She will be by my side / Signed on the dotted / 'Cause even good ones turn bad / And I ain't 'bout to get at no— / Find my lady tonight
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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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J Dilla (Ft. Blu) – The Clapper
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[Intro: Jay Dee] / Uh, yeah, this is for all my street niggas / Feel it, bounce, uh / Survival of the fittest, uh / They out here to get us y'all / What you gon' do, what you gon
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J Dilla – Wild
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[Intro] / Anymore, alright / So c'mon, feel the noise (Ruff Draft) / Girls, grab the boys (Uh) / Get wild, wild, wild (Get wild) / Get wild, wild, wild (Get wild) / [Verse 1: J
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J Dilla – Gobstopper
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The instrumental basically speaks for itself. The two things that can be noted here is that Nas and Jay Electronica used this instrumental.
Nas – The Season
Jay Electronica
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J Dilla (Ft. Kokane & Snoop Dogg) – Gangsta Boogie
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Just when you thought J Dilla couldn’t come back with more heat, he still brings it. This time he brings in Hi-Tek with this funky west coast laid back production.
And not only
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J Dilla – Walkinonit
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In one of the many examples of mirroring and progression on the album, the title alludes to the earlier, similarly titled track “Workinonit.” However, unlike the earlier upbeat
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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar & Punch) – J.Dilla Freestyle
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[Verse 1: Punch] / I'm still lost in my own zone in the living room Like I'm dead to the world playing Donny Hathaway / Patron shots I consume taking the pain away Each sip bring
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J Dilla (Ft. Guilty Simpson) – Take Notice
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This track was recorded in 2003, but was released only as a snippet on the original single LP version of Ruff Draft because of time constraints. When Stones Throw reissued Ruff
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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 (Ft. Busta Rhymes) – Geek Down
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[Produced by J Dilla] / [Intro: Busta Rhymes] / Ayyo / Ayyo / [Spoken: Busta Rhymes] / This shit is a fuckin' emergency / Evacuate the fuckin' premises, bitch / There’s a fuckin
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J Dilla – Yesterday
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[Instrumental]
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J Dilla (Ft. Guilty Simpson, Nick Speed & Supa Emcee) – Dillatroit
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[Verse 1: Supa Emcee] / Y'all wanna bite and sample him / Screaming, "I got tracks by Dilla" (Nigga) / Nigga, Charles Hamilton / Lying for the camera, damage you, Jeru / Beat a
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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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J Dilla (Ft. Havoc & Raekwon) – 24K Rap
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[Havoc] / H-A-V-O, I'm iller, rocking over Dilla / Paint a picture clearer than a mirror / I come from that era where everything matters / Lyrics counting for something, careers
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