 Genius Meanings
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Bread – Mother Freedom
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Freedom / Keep walking / Keep on your toes and / Don't stop talking 'bout / Freedom / Get going / Lots to be learned / And lots to be knowing 'bout / People / Gotta reach 'em / Sit
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Bread – Just Like Yesterday
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Just like yesterday / You come upon my mind and take it away / And just like at the time / The things we did made our hearts skip away / Down on my knees I prayed / Kind woman don'
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Bread – Everything I Own
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[Verse 1] / You sheltered me from harm / Kept me warm, kept me warm / You gave my life to me / Set me free, set me free / [Pre-Chorus] / The finest years I ever knew / Were all the
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Beyoncé (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Freedom
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“Freedom” is an anthem dedicated to black women. The song brings Beyoncé’s visual album to an apex with the scene ‘hope’ and features the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown
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I found her diary underneath a tree / And started reading about me / The words began to stick and tears to flow / Her meaning now was clear to see
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He found her diary again and started to read it again but noticed what she had actually meant and was starting to tear up about it.
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Bread – I Don't Love You
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I don't love you / I just want you / If I don't have you never be the same, oh baby / I don't love you, but girl you'd drive a man insane / I don't love you / But I need you / I
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Bread – This Isn’t What the Governmeant
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Sure gets funny thinkin' 'bout money / Makin' my daily bread / The more you make, the more they take / You never seem to get ahead / You break your backs just to pay your tax
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Bread – Down on My Knees
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I've told you before / Don't you hear what I say? / I won't take it no more / No more making me stay / Down on my knees / You know I'm down on my knees, yeah / Yes I've been down
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Bread – Baby I’m-a Want You
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[Verse 1] / Baby, I'm-a want you, baby, I'm-a need you / You're the only one I care enough to hurt about / [Bridge] / Maybe I'm-a crazy, but I just can't live without / [Verse 2
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Bread – Daughter
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Daughter, don't give your love to the first man you see / Just bide your time so your heart will be free / To find the one / Girl, you don't have to run / Daughter, don't think
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Bread – Games of Magic
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First time it's rained since I came to the city / Seemed like a good time to write / And even now as I look out my window / Rain clouds are chasing the light / The play games of
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Beyoncé – Formation
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“Formation” is a Black Power anthem, a fitting contribution to Black History Month and an important conversation piece in the Black Lives Matter movement. The song was released one
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Kanye West – Who Will Survive In America
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The final song of My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy, “Who Will Survive in America” is an abridged version of Gil Scott-Heron’s “Comment #1” that paints a bleak outlook for Kanye’s
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Bread – Dream Lady
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I see her walking in the velvet moonlight / But then she hides behind the clock of midnight / And as I look to see her face / She disappears without a trace / Sometimes I find
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Brother Ali – Freedom Ain't Free
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[Hook] / Ain't nowhere to run to / There ain't nothing here for free / [Verse 1] / If I don't like my life I gut it and rebuild it / Fuck it keep nothing but God and my children
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Kevin Gates – Super General (Freestyle)
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[Intro] / (Well, we could be superstars) / I gotta get this off my chest, you heard me? / (We been rather wreckin' cars) (Ayy, bro, is that Jambo?) / I forgive you for anything you
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What So Not (Ft. Action Bronson, BloodPop® & D-Mac (Rapper)) – Every Time You See Me (The Quack)
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Action Bronson: / Queens, Queens, Queens in the building / Every time you see me, I'm stoned like a motherfucker / If this bitch is too annoying, let my brother fuck her / I don't
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Temple of the Dog – Hunger Strike
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The best-known Temple of the Dog was something Chris Cornell wrote questioning whether his music would get commercialized, and eventually found new life once presented to the
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Z-Ro – I Hate U Bitch
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[Intro] / Shit this your boy Z-Ro / Fucking with Mike Dean, at www.deanslist.net / We ain't gon sweat / [Refrain] / I hate you bitch, I hate you bitch / I hate you bitch, I never
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Dreamville, JID & J. Cole (Ft. Kenny Mason & Sheck Wes) – Stick
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On “Stick,” all four performing rappers discuss their habit of keeping a gun on them at all times, with either, or sometimes both, protective or aggressive motivations.
JID
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Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake – King's Dead
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A star-studded collaboration. In his first single as the main credited artist since 2015, Jay Rock links up with Future, James Blake and Black Hippy partner and label mate
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Dave Matthews Band (Ft. Carlos Santana) – Mother, Father
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Mother Father please explain to me / Why a world so full of mystery / A place so bitter and still so sweet / So beautiful and yet so full of sad sad / Mother Father please explain
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Junior Ross & The Spears – Freedom Fe Natty
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[Intro] / Even when I walk though the valley of the shadow of death / I'll fear no evil 'cause Lord is with I / An' I an' I an' I / We are slaves (Taken into captivity) / [Verse 1
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J. Cole – MIDDLE CHILD
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J. Cole’s first offering of 2019 serves as a warning in advance of an extensive rollout of Dreamville material. On the track, Cole envisions himself in the center of the old and
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Zac Brown Band – Chicken Fried
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Brown began to write “Chicken Fried” with Wyatt Durrette several years before the song’s release. The two met when Brown was playing at a tavern in Atlanta, Georgia. According to
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Noisey (Ft. Action Bronson, Alexander Spit, A$ton Matthews, Bobby Creekwater, Bodega Bamz, Bryant Dope, CUZ Lightyear, CyHi, Danny Brown, Da$H, Del Harris, Flatbush Zombies, Heems, Killer Mike, Kilo Kish, Meyhem Lauren, Mike G, Nigel Nasty, Nipsey Hussle, Pill, Pregnant Boy, Problem, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Pusha T, Raekwon, Remy Banks, Renegade El Rey, RetcH, Rockie Fresh, Scotty ATL, Two-9, Vado, Yak Ballz, YG, Young Thug & Zebra Katz) – The Rap Monument
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44 Emcees all rapped a verse for Noisey’s “The Rap Monument”, the song was recorded during three sessions (held in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York) everything was put together
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3MFrench (Ft. Ghangis Khan) – Notorious
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[Intro] / I'ma make sure you're smiling from up there, broski / R.I.P a real one / Long live Cadi / [Chorus: 3MFrench] / I heard this beat / It's like it almost made me cry / Let
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Coast Contra (Ft. Cosmic Kev) – The Come Up Show Freestyle
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[Intro: Taj] / We up on Cosmic Kev, man, uh / Been a dream for a minute, so have to be here, you know what I'm sayin'? / Apt. 505 is out right now / Coast Contra in the buildin
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Fela Kuti – Sorrow Tears and Blood
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Following the release of his 1976 Album Zombie, which was a direct shot at the Nigerian Military, Fela was lynched at his Kalakuta Republic home in an invasion style attack by ‘law
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Andre Nickatina – Situation Critical
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[Nickatina] / Situation critical cause shit ain't nothin nice / Motherfuckers play for keeps so niggas lose they life / Money comes in different ways, the dope game's kinda slow
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