Genius Meanings
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Ride Natty Ride
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[Verse 1] / Dready got a job to do / And he's got to fulfill that mission / To see his hurt is their greatest ambition / But we will survive in this world of competition / Because
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Wizkid (Ft. Major Lazer) – Naughty Ride
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[Intro] / Bust the tune... / Oh, yeah yeah yeah / Oh, Lawd / International flex / Wizzy deh yah so / Wizzy boy, hold down / Wizzy boy, slow down / Wizzy boy deh yah so / Yo, yeah
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Roots
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Root, natty, roots / Dread, kinky, dread / I and I are the roots / Some are leaf (shoo-be-doo) / Some are branches (shoo-be-doo) / I and I are the roots / Some are dry wood (shoo-
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Sublime – DJs
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[Chorus] / All of the DJ's surely have taken a lesson / Start talkin' trash and I'll come with my Smith & Wesson / [Verse 1] / A little competition comes my way (Budda-by) / But it
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Ambush In The Night
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This song refers to the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley’s life. Three gun men broke into his house. Marley was shot 3 times but survived. The shooting occurred in the
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Zimbabwe
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“Zimbabwe” was written by Bob Marley in support of the revolution going on in Zimbabwe from 1964 to 1979. This song became the anthem of many Zimbabwean freedom fighters in the
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – So Much Trouble in the World
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[Intro] / So much trouble in the world / So much trouble in the world / [Verse 1] / Bless my eyes this morning / Jah sun is on the rise once again / The way earthly thing's are
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Babylon System
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[Verse 1] / We refuse to be / What you wanted us to be / We are what we are / That's the way (way) it's going to be, if you don't know / You can't educate us / For no equal
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Wake Up and Live
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[Intro: Bob Marley] / One, two, three, four / [Chorus: Bob Marley] / Wake up and live, you all / Wake up and live / Wake up and live now / Wake up and live / [Verse 1: Bob Marley
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Top Rankin'
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The song is about the propaganda of media and politics to keep everyone against one another. How can they control us if we all realize the bullshit and stand up for one another? It
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Africa Unite
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Bob’s cry to the continent to UNITE, so they can share their resources and resolve all of the individual problems
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Survival
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[Intro] / (Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow! / Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!) / Yeah, yeah, yeah! / [Verse 1] / How can you be sitting there / Telling me that you care / That you care / When every time I look
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – One Drop
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[Chorus] / Feel it in the one drop / And we'll still find time to rap / We're making the one stop / The generation gap / Now feel this drumbeat / As it beats within / Playing a
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
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[Chorus] / Them belly full, but we hungry / A hungry mob is a angry mob / A rain a fall, but the dutty tough / A yut a yook but yood nah nuff / You're going to dance to Jah music
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50 Cent – Window Shopper
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Off the soundtrack for Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (not to be confused with the major label debut of the same name), 50 delivers another report on the spoils of success and the negative
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UGK – Cocaine in the Back of the Ride
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[Verse 1: Pimp C] / Pimp C bitch! So what the fuck is up? / Step wrong nigga and I'll take ya fuckin nuts! / Got more dope than a pharmacy, hoe / Got a job for the city bitch, I'm
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Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
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Dylan’s 1965 single “Like a Rolling Stone” is widely considered one of the greatest songs ever recorded. In 2004 the critics at Rolling Stone magazine (whose name was partly Dylan-
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – High Tide Or Low Tide
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[Intro] / In high seas or in low seas / I am going to be your friend / I am going to be your friend / In high tide or in low tide / I will be by your side / I will be by your side
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MAGIC! – Rude
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“Rude” tells a story about a man desperately wanting to marry his richer girlfriend, the love of his life. However, her father is preventing the man from marrying his girlfriend
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Sean Paul – Temperature
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A classic, Temperature rocked 2005 by peaking at number one in multiple countries and went platinum twice. Sean Paul fuses his Jamaican dancehall roots with a pop smash to create
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Stephen Marley (Ft. Damian Marley & Julian Marley) – The Traffic Jam
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The Marleys' triple teamed this song. Speaking of their status as celebrities.
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Public Enemy – Fight the Power
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This anthem, originally from the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s classic movie Do the Right Thing and later on PE’s seminal album Fear of a Black Planet, is perhaps the group’s best-
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OutKast (Ft. Goodie Mob) – Git Up, Git Out
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The message is simple: Get up, get a job, and make a living. But as the song depicts, the road to a successful life through education isn’t as easy as it seems.
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Stephen Marley – The Traffic Jam (feat. Damian Marley)
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Cho, stabba, dom / (Yeah) / Stabba, labba, dom / (Hear that) / Stooby, labba, labba, dom, ram / Labba, babba, labba, labba, dom, I say / (Watch mi lion) / [Hook] / Pom, rom, pa, ba
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The Impressions – People Get Ready
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Though a quick glance at Curtis Mayfield’s lyrics might suggest a simple Gospel song, “People Get Ready’s” messages of persistence and deliverance became a massive musical
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