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Cream – World of Pain
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[Verse 1] / Outside my window is a tree / Outside my window is a tree / There only for me / [Chorus] / And it stands in the grey of the city / No time for pity / For the tree or me
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Cream – World of Pain (mono)
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Outside my window is a tree / Outside my window is a tree / There only for me / And it stands in the grey of the city / No time for pity for the tree or me / There is a world of
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Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
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Arguably one of the most iconic songs in hip-hop, the underlying idea of “C.R.E.A.M.” is found in its title—cash rules everything. The timeless piano riffs and background vocals
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House of Pain – Jump Around
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“Jump Around” was a humongously popular hit and has enjoyed a long life ever since, thanks to sync and licensing, and rowdy pubs. House Of Pain were never able to follow the
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Cream – Dance the Night Away
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[Verse 1] / Gonna build myself a castle / High up in the clouds / There'll be skies outside my window / Lose these streets and crowds / [Chorus] / Dance the night away / [Verse 2
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L.A. Guns – Crystal Eyes
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Crystal eyes she gazes / Like a desert flower in the morning rain / She's well aware of every promise made / She's a child of light in a world of pain / Ooh, let her be free / Oh
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Denzel Curry – Walkin
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“Walkin” is the first single from Denzel Curry’s fifth studio album, Melt My Eyez, See Your Future. On the track, Denzel discusses the struggles of walking through life, dealing
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Bo Burnham – Sad
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This song is about all the “sad” things Bo sees in the world. Later in the song, he talks, sarcastically, about how we should forget about being sad about everything, and laugh at
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Rocko – Ease the Pain
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[Verse 1:] / Numbing cream to ease the pain / But it make you feel worse when you finally feel it / Turn my white walls to wisdom / You cut me, I bleed green / No pain no gain
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Cream – Tales of Brave Ulysses
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This song’s lyrics were not written by Cream, but by a guy named Martin Sharp. Clapton matched it to the music from a song he was already working on.
The lyrics refer to Ulysses
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Lyrical Lemonade, Juice WRLD & Cordae – Doomsday
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“Doomsday” serves as the lead single to Cole Bennett of Lyrical Lemonade’s All Is Yellow. The track features a verse from North Carolina rapper Cordae, as well as a posthumous
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Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer
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“Feels Like Summer,” later released as “42.26,” is the tenth track on Gambino’s fourth studio album 3.15.20.
Bino first released the track, alongside “Summertime Magic,” on the
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House of Pain – No Doubt
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[Chorus: Everlast] / No doubt, hold tight / To the break of dawn, to the break of light / No doubt, hold tight / To the break of dawn, to the break of light / [Verse 1: Everlast
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Method Man – Bring the Pain
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“Bring the Pain” is a hit track by the Wu Tang Clan’s Method Man. “B-the-P” was the first single released from Meth’s solo debut album “Tical.”
Released November 15, 1994, on Def
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Method Man – Perfect World
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[Intro: Method Man] / First, they dropped the bomb / (Adriaaaaan!!!!) / Then came the disease, then death / This our world, your world, my world / I like this world! / [Verse 1
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Maroon 5 – Memories
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“Memories” is an evolution of the more acoustic sound put forth in Maroon 5’s sixth studio album, Red Pill Blues, and specifically their #1 hit, “Girls Like You.” and was the first
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Seagram – If the World Was Mine
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This song is in memory / Of my brothers / Keith and [Name] Miller / [ VERSE 1 ] / If I could go back and change things that I done / I stole all my life and the pain that I brung
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Vitriol – Pain Will Define Their Death
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[Verse 1] / A hammer to crash through what it is to be human / Wield it with contempt or have it torn from your arm / We are wolves chewing at the ankles of the world / [Chorus
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Gang Starr (Ft. J. Cole) – Family and Loyalty
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“Family and Loyalty” is the lead single to Gang Starr’s forthcoming record. It features a classic chopped piano sample beat by DJ Premier, and the duo’s first collaboration with J
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21 Savage (Ft. J. Cole) – a lot
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On the introspective introduction to his sophomore studio album, 21 Savage raps about having “a lot” of blessings and curses in his life. Savage also reflects on his tumultuous
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Cream – SWLABR
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The title stands for “She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow.” Like the songs' lyrics, it is not supposed to make much sense.
The words were written by Pete Brown, a poet who was friends
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$UICIDEBOY$ – 5 ‘N The Mornin’
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[Intro] / You did good, $lick / It's a SMASH! / Pla-pla-pla-players never die / [Chorus: Lil Keke] / Draped up and dripped out / Know what I'm talkin' 'bout / Three in the mornin
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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
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“Black Hole Sun” is the 7th track and 3rd single from Soundgarden’s hit 1994 album Superunknown. It is one of their biggest hits, reaching #1 of the US Billboard Mainstream Rock
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MYTH & ROID – ICE CREAM QUEEN
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And I'm a lonely queen / I melt all with this burning pain in my heart / So you wait / I'm like yeah, whatever, I'm still livin' like that / I'll stay！ / They say “must change
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Mobb Deep (Ft. Q-Tip) – Drink Away the Pain (Situations)
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From The Infamous, produced by and featuring Q-Tip. Samples “I Remember I Made You Cry” by The Headhunters.
The song personifies dangerous addictions. Prodigy and Havoc compare
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Gunna – Choppa Sing
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[Intro] / (-Makers) / (Run that back, Turbo) / [Verse 1] / Hop out the McLaren, (Skrt) I'm so fresh, I'm so clean (Clean) / And my bitch in Celine, (In Celine) in Fifths, sippin
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J. Cole – Black Friday
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The track is a counterpart to K Dot’s rhyme over Cole’s “A Tale of Two Citiez”—both freestyles were released simultaneously on November 27, 2015.
After nearly a full year since
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Michael Franti & Spearhead – What I Be
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If I could be the sun / I'd radiate like Africa and / Smile upon the world / Intergalactic love laughter and / If I were the rains, I'd wash away the whole world's pain and / Bring
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Prince and the Revolution – Purple Rain
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Prince’s definitive power ballad “Purple Rain” peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 on November 17, 1984 behind Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”. It was the title track of the album and
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House of Pain – Jump Around (radio edit)
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Pack it up, pack it in / Let me begin / I came to win / Battle me, that's a sin / I won't ever slack up / Punk you better back up / Try and play the role and yo the whole crew will
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Mindless Self Indulgence – Ala Mode
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This song is about the mindset of people who think that adding something sugary and sweet (ice cream in this metaphor) can help mask the pain of what you are going through, or “
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Cream – Strange Brew
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The 1967 hit (#17 in the UK) was a remake of an older song performed by the cream, “Lawdy Mama” – a Blues song originally recorded by Buddy Moss in 1934.
From the Cream’s second
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Lil Darkie – banana pie
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[Verse 1] / Misunderstanding running rampant / I can see it in your eyes / Vision tainted by the lies of every man / Banana pie, so sweet and soft / Never enough / I'm left with
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