 Genius Meanings
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D'Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel)
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“Untitled (How Does It Feel)” became notorious for its sexually charged video featuring a series of lingering shots of D'Angelo’s nude body that split the difference between mass
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D'Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel) [Made In America Festival 2012]
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[Instrumental] / [Intro: D'Angelo] / Ooh-hoo— / [Verse: D'Angelo, Audience] / Girl, it's only you / Have it your way / And if you want, you can decide / That if you'll have me, I
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GIVĒON – Untitled (How Does It Feel)
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[Verse 1] / Girl, it's only you / Have it your way / And if you want, you can decide / And if you have me, I can provide / Everything that you desire / And if you get a feeling / A
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D'Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Live)
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[Intro: DJ Scratch] / Everybody right now, put some hearts up right now for yourself / Put some hearts up right now for D'Angelo / [Verse 1: D'Angelo] / Girl, it's only you / Have
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American Dad (Ft. Scott Grimes) – Is She Not Hot Enough?
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A musical taken from American Dad Season 10: Episode 17. Episode 169 in total. Titled “Rubberneckers”
One of the characters, Steve Smith performs this bit to inform the main
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D'Angelo – Jonz in My Bonz (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Got a jones, yeah / Oh, oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh, yeah / Take it back to Brown Sugar / Yes, sir / Yeah, uh / Oh, oh, oh, oh / [Chorus: D'Angelo] / I
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D'Angelo – Lady (Live)
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[Intro] / Where all my ladies at? / All my ladies, make some noise / Ow / [Chorus] / You're my lady / (Shout-out to my queens) / You're my lady / (You're my, you're my) / You're my
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D'Angelo – When I Die (Made In America Festival 2012)
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[Intro] / [Harmonizing] / Oh-oh, hey, oh / Philly / [Refrain] / Said when I die, I hope I'd be, huh / The kind of man that you thought I'd be / [Interlude] / Alright, hey, oh-oh-oh
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Cam'ron (Ft. Juelz Santana) – I Just Wanna
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Sample comes from D'Angelo’s Untitled (How Does it Feel) at 1:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1WGn7da0co&t=218
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D'Angelo – Cruisin’ (Live)
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[Intro] / Ooh / Ooh, ooh / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Baby, let's cruise, away from here / Don't be confused, baby, the way is clear, uh / And if you want it, you got it forever / Oh, this
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D'Angelo – Spanish Joint (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Whoa / Ah, bless, brother / Man / Blessings, yeah / We had to do that for the ladies, ya'mean? / Yes, for sure, mmm / Wow, let's pick up the pace
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D'Angelo & H.E.R. (Ft. Daniel Caesar) – Best Part (Live)
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[Intro: H.E.R.] / I'ma start it off / Oh, oh, hey / [Verse 1: H.E.R. & D'Angelo] / You don't know, babe / When you hold me / And kiss me slowly / It's the sweetest thing (Mm-mm
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blackbear – my heart is lost
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[Verse 1] / Gold hair shinin' in the sun in the back of a Cadillac / Ripped jeans pullin' you tight / "How Does It Feel" by D'Angelo playin' on the radio / Glass cold, gripped in
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D'Angelo – What is Love (from Verzuz: D’Angelo x Friends) [Live]
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[Chorus] / La-la-la-la-la-la-la / Love is a thing / Makes the world go 'round / It's the thing that lonely hearts have found / Love is a thing / Makes the girl wanna sing / Wedding
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D'Angelo – Send It On (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Shout-out to Robert "Kool" Bell that's on the check-in, Kool & the Gang / Rest in peace / [Chorus: D'Angelo] / Send it up, send it through / Send it
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Ne-Yo – GOOD MAN
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Over a slow guitar-driven beat, Ne-Yo croons to his girl about wanting to be a ‘ good man’, promising to “give [her] things to be the man [she] deserves” and reassuring her
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D'Angelo – Send It On
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“Send It On” is dedicated to D'Angelo’s newborn son and was the first song recorded for Voodoo. Co-written by his former girlfriend and the mother of his son, singer Angie Stone
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Panic! at the Disco – Girls / Girls / Boys
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“Girls/Girls/Boys” explores bisexuality and the idea of casual sex. The song stresses the importance of holding a truthful sexual identity and celebrates the courage it takes to
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D'Angelo – The Root (Live)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / She done worked a root / Done worked a root that will not be reversed, yeah, no / Then I go on / Go on my role in her play with no
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ID – ID1 (from Verzuz: D’Angelo x Friends) [Live]
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Listen, if y'all ready for D'Angelo / Turn your lights on / Turn your lights on / Put the motherfuckin' hearts up in the air right now if you're ready for D'Angelo / Want you to
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ID – ID1 (from Verzuz: D’Angelo x Friends) [Live]
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Listen, if y'all ready for D'Angelo / Turn your lights on / Turn your lights on / Put the motherfuckin' hearts up in the air right now if you're ready for D'Angelo / Want you to
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D'Angelo – Devil's Pie (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Shout-out to Premier / Primo / [Chorus: D'Angelo] / Fuck the slice, want the pie / Why ask why 'til we fry / Watch us all stand in line / For a
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D'Angelo – Feel Like Makin' Love
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“Feel Like Makin’ Love” was released as the final single from Voodoo and is a cover of the June 1974 soul classic of the same name by Roberta Flack. Lauryn Hill was originally
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D'Angelo – Devil's Pie
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“Devil’s Pie” is a sparse funk diatribe on the excess of money and materialism in Hip Hop, with a minor reference to Five Percenter philosophy A Spin magazine columnist later cited
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D'Angelo – Brown Sugar
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Although it may seem so at first listen, “Brown Sugar” is not a love song about a dark-skinned woman. The track is an ode to marijuana, specifically the indica strain of the same
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D'Angelo – The Root
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[Intro] / (Talk to y'all, tell you a story, namsayin?) / (One, two, three, four) / [Verse 1] / She done worked a root, ooh-ooh / Done worked a root that will not be reversed / Yeah
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D'Angelo – Spanish Joint
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“Spanish Joint” was one of the last songs to be recorded for Voodoo. In a May 2014 interview with Red Bull Music Academy, Russell Elevado describes how D'Angelo was wrapping up the
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D'Angelo – Chicken Grease (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Let me tell you 'bout the— / Let me tell you 'bout the chicken grease / Stuffs and things to make the people get out ya seat / Everybody, it's cool if you wanna clap
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D'Angelo – Chicken Grease (Made In America Festival 2012)
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[Instrumental] / [Intro] / Illadelph', how y'all feeling out there? / Woo, huh, good God, come on / Lord, huh, huh, huh / Illadelph', everybody put your hands together / Come on
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D'Angelo and the Vanguard – Sugah Daddy (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo] / Ah yeah / Ow, uh / Uh-huh / [Verse 1: D'Angelo] / It's just the way she's so raw and uncut / She needs a spankin', she'll love it / And I just wish that I could
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D'Angelo and the Vanguard – 1000 Deaths (Live)
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[Intro] / [Khalid Abdul Muhammad] / "When I say Jesus, I'm not talking about some blond-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned, buttermilk complexion cracker Christ. I’m talking about the
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D'Angelo – One Mo' Gin (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Man (Yeah) / I think we should change the pace, slow it down for the ladies / What do you think? / I'm with you, man, I like that idea, definitely
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D'Angelo – Brown Sugar (Made In America Festival 2012)
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[Intro] / Ooh, ah, ooh, uh, it ain't over, ah, uh, we're not done / Ah, ooh, uh, it ain't over, ah, ooh, we're not done / Ah, ooh, uh, it ain't over, ah, ooh, uh, we're not done
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Daniel Caesar – Japanese Denim
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The main idea of “Japanese Denim” is the comparison of Daniel’s feeling of everlasting love to a pair of jeans that last a lifetime.
The song was released as the B-side to the
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D'Angelo – Sugar Daddy Jam (Made In America Festival 2012)
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[Intro] / Uh, uh, good God / Woo, uh, uh, good God / [Verse 1] / It's just the way she's so raw and uncut, uh-huh, good God / She needs a spankin' to shake her up / And I just wish
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D'Angelo (Ft. Method Man & Redman) – Left & Right
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“Left & Right,” the second single from Voodoo features guest vocals by hip-hop duo Method Man and Redman who also co-wrote the song.
The song contains a sample from Eric B. & Rakim
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D'Angelo – Lady
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“Lady” is a collaboration between soul men D'Angelo and Raphael Saadiq that was released as the third single from Brown Sugar. The gold single peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot
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