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Beyoncé – Hold Up
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“Hold Up” is Beyoncé’s salacious and assertive ode to her partner. In it, she verifies that she loves him physically and emotionally, but also states her intention to figure out
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Beyoncé – Hold Up (Homecoming Live)
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[Intro: Beyoncé & Sister Nancy] / Bam bam dilla, bam bam / I see y'all in the front row, hey / Bam bam dilla, bam / [Chorus: Beyoncé] / Hold up, they don't love you like I love you
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Beyoncé – TEXAS HOLD ’EM
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[Chorus] / This ain't Texas (Woo) / Ain't no hold 'em (Hey) / So lay your cards down, down, down, down / So park your Lexus (Woo) / And throw your keys up (Hey) / Stick around, '
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Beyoncé – Denial (Lemonade Poem, Part 2)
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[Poem] / I tried to change / Closed my mouth more / Tried to be soft, prettier / Less... awake / Fasted for 60 days / Wore white / Abstained from mirrors / Abstained from sex
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Beyoncé – Freakum Dress
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“Freakum Dress” is a song from Beyonce’s sophomore album B'Day and produced by Rich Harrison who was responsible for her smash hit “Crazy In Love.”
The concept behind the song
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Genius Traduzioni Italiane – Beyoncé - Hold Up (Traduzione Italiana)
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“Hold Up” è l'arrogante e risoluta ode che Beyoncé dedica a suo marito Jay Z. Qui la donna conferma di amarlo fisicamente e sentimentalmente ma, allo stesso tempo, dichiara di
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Beyoncé (Ft. Blue Ivy Carter) – Blue
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Beyoncé dedicates the last track on the normal version of her eponymous album to her daughter Blue Ivy Carter, born in 2012. Bey’s husband and Blue’s father Jay Z has previously
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Soulja Boy Responds To Beyoncé’s ‘Turn My Swag On’ Homage
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Plus, the true story behind the classic song’s creation: “I had a big-ass mirror in my house...”
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Beyoncé (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM (Remix)
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Beyoncé surprise-drops an eclectic remix of her song “AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM” off of her Grammy-winning 2022 album, RENAISSANCE, featuring American rapper Kendrick Lamar.
This is
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Beyoncé – BLACK PARADE
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“BLACK PARADE” is a song celebrating blackness. It was released in the final hours of Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United
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Titus Andromedon – Hold Up
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[Intro - Spoken] / I tried to change / To be...sweeter / Prettier / Less...gassy / I slept on a cot next to a towel / Shaped like a swan wearing my sunglasses / And plugged my
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Beyoncé – 7/11
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One of two new solo tracks from the Beyoncé Platinum Edition, a re-release of the album that broke the internet. “7/11” sees Queen Bey embrace her ratchet side with a dance all
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Mariah Carey – It's a Wrap
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This song has two samples:
Samples Love Unlimited’s 1974 “I Belong to You.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvOYgmG19fY
Interpolates the piano from Aretha Franklin’s Ain’t
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Beyoncé – All Night
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“All Night” is a groovy love ballad. The song illustrates a wise love, one that has experienced deep pain and disappointment yet was able to come out the other side determined to
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Rihanna – Lift Me Up
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Rihanna returns from a music hiatus with “Lift Me Up,” the lead single from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie soundtrack, titled Wakanda Forever: The Album released in 2022
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JAY-Z (Ft. Beyoncé) – Part II (On the Run)
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Released as the 3rd single off Magna Carta… Holy Grail, the record serves as a spiritual sequel to the consummation of their budding relationship: “03' Bonnie and Clyde”, released
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Beyoncé – Sorry (Original Demo)
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This demo of “Sorry” is a much more mellow, vulnerable version of the original album release which was defiant breakup song, a middle-fingered clap-back anthem about having
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Beyoncé – BREAK MY SOUL
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Announced through social media just hours prior to its release, “BREAK MY SOUL” serves as the lead single to Beyoncé’s seventh studio album, RENAISSANCE.
Heavily sampling Robin S
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Beyoncé – Freakum Dress (Live)
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[Intro] / To be or not to be, not / [Chorus] / (Oh, oh) / Put your freakum dress on (Oh) / Put your freakum dress on (Oh) / Put your freakum dress on (Oh) / Put your freakum dress
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Nicki Minaj (Ft. Beyoncé) – Feeling Myself
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This highly anticipated song featuring Beyoncé celebrates the achievements of both moguls.
“Feeling Myself” could be viewed as the continuation of their acclaimed summer
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Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drunk in Love
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Beyoncé brings her husband Jay Z aboard for their first collaboration since 2013’s “Part II (On the Run)” continuation of their first collab “‘03 Bonnie & Clyde”.
“Drunk” seems to
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Beyoncé – Drunk In Love (FWT Live)
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[Verse 1: Beyoncé] / I've been drinkin', I've been drinkin' / I get filthy when that liquor get into me / I've been thinkin', I've been thinkin' / Why can't I keep my fingers off
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Beyoncé – Countdown (Homecoming Live)
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[Intro] / Rah, rah, rah / Sing it, y'all / [Chorus] / Oh, killing me softly and I'm still falling / Still the one I need, I will always be with you / Oh, you got me all gone, don't
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DJ Khaled (Ft. Beyoncé & JAY-Z) – Shining
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Right after the 2017 Grammy Awards came to a close, DJ Khaled dropped a surprise single featuring his manager Jay Z and musical superstar Beyoncé. “Shining” serves as the first
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Beyoncé – Yoncé (Homecoming Live)
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[Verse 1] / See me up in the club with fifty-eleven girls / Posted in the back, diamond fangs in my grill / Brooklyn brim with my eyes sitting low / Every girl in here with me got
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Ar'mon & Trey – Kiss it Better - Rihann
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[Kiss It Better - Rihanna]: / I've been waitin' on that sunshine, girl / I think I need that back / Can't do it like that / No one else gon' get it like that / So I argue, you yell
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J Balvin & Willy William (Ft. Beyoncé & Blue Ivy Carter) – Mi Gente (Beyoncé Remix)
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J Balvin and Willy William join forces with Beyoncé to make a remix of the massive hit “Mi Gente” to help victims from the catastrophes at Mexico, Puerto Rico and several Caribbean
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Beyoncé (Ft. Busiswa, Moonchild Sanelly, Nija, Tierra Whack & Yemi Alade) – MY POWER
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In this team up with Tierra Whack, Moonchild Sanelly, and Nija, Beyonce quotes the crowd’s cheer for Muhammad Ali in his famous “Rumble in the Jungle” fight against George Foreman
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Beyoncé (Ft. Jack White) – Don't Hurt Yourself
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“Don’t Hurt Yourself” is an empowering, guitar-thrashing black woman’s anthem that continues the cheating motif from the previous song “HOLD UP.”
On the Jack White assisted hook
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Beyoncé – Partition (Homecoming Live)
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[Intro] / (Drop) / Driver, roll up the partition, please / Driver, roll up the partition, please / [Verse] / Driver, roll up the partition, please / I don't need you seeing 'Yoncé
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Frank Ocean – Pink + White
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Produced by Pharrell Williams and featuring uncredited backing vocals from Beyoncé, “Pink + White” details Frank’s memories of his youth and someone close to him who passed away
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Mariah Carey – Shake It Off
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“Shake It Off” is a song performed by Mariah Carey, taken from her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). The song was initially solicited to radio on July 12, 2005
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Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
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Beyoncé’s unofficial theme song for Sex & The City, produced by North Carolinian crooner The-Dream.
Beyoncé and Jay Z got married in 2008—but didn’t tell anybody. “Single Ladies
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