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Fugees – Ready or Not
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The Fugees' second biggest hit is an ominous warning to wack MCs. The song puts a hip-hop spin on a soul classic—its chorus and bridge are an interpolation of The Delfonics' 1968
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Fugees – Ready or Not (Salaam's Ready for the Show Remix)
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[Intro: Wyclef Jean] / I'm just about done... Yo, let me finish tuning this guitar... / Yo, y'all ready for the show? / [Chorus: Lauryn Hill] / Ready or Not! Here we come! All the
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Bridgit Mendler – Ready or Not
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“Ready or Not” is a classic teen-pop anthem, describing Bridgit’s journey gaining confidence in herself. The song follows her asking a boy out, and listing all the things they’d do
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Fugees – Ready or Not (Clark Kent / Django Remix)
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*phone rings* / [Male voice] / Operator, can I help you? / [Lauryn] / I hope so, baby. Can you put me through to the Fugees bootleg hotline? / [Male voice] / Please hold while I
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Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage – Creepin'
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On the melancholy and soft sound of Metro Boomin’s “Creepin,” The Weeknd and 21 Savage talk about the vulnerability of all the lies and “keep it in secret” moments that got the
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Fugees – How Many Mics
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In this song, the Fugees brag about their rap skills and prove their haters wrong.
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Skrapz (Ft. P.Dubbz, Streetz (ICB) & Toxic) – Ready or Not
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[Intro: Big Keyz] / Uh, and this track, feauturing Toxic, P Dubbz and Streetz, Ready or Not, by the Fugees / [Intro: Skrapz] / CSB, ICB, free up my people, check me out, boom / [
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Madison Mars – Ready or Not
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[Chorus] / Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide / Gonna find you and take it slowly / Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide / Gonna find you and make you want me / Make
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Fifty095 – Ready Or Not (Remix)
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[Chorus] / Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide / Gonna find you and take it slowly / Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide / Gonna find you and make you want me / [Verse
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Fugees (Ft. Diamond D) – The Score
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The title track from Fugees' Second studio album,
The Score.
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Fugees – Vocab (Refugee Hip-Hop Remix)
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[Intro: Lauryn Hill] / Yo, this is the Fugees.. Refugees / About to take you on a journey / Into the dimensions of the Booga-Basement / The basement, word / Hey yo, one two three
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Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, & 21 Savage Remake A 2000s R&B Classic With New Song “Creepin’”
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It’s essentially a cover of Mario Winans’ 2004 smash “I Don’t Wanna Know,” featuring P. Diddy and Enya.
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Fugees – Killing Me Softly
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The Fugees' first mega-hit is a fairly straightforward cover of a song by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, written for and originally recorded by Lori Lieberman and made famous by
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Fugees – Zealots
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In this classic single off of the Fugees' The Score, Wyclef, Lauryn, and Pras make a bunch of nerdy references and metaphors to show that they know a lot of random stuff. While
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Mario Winans (Ft. Diddy & Enya) – I Don't Wanna Know
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Released in November 2003, “I Don’t Wanna Know” is a collaboration from Mario Winans and his label boss Diddy from his sophmore album Hurt No More about a girl cheating on her
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The Delfonics – Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)
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Ready, get ready / Ready or not here I come / You can't hide, gonna find you and keep you happy / Ready or not here I come / You can't hide, gonna love you and make you love me
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Meek Mill – Ready or Not
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[Intro: DJ Drama & Meek Mill] / Maybach Music! / They say your brain's most creative in your sleep / See, they say, in the sleep state / The brain thinks much more visually and
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Lil' Kim (Ft. Cassidy) – Whenever You See Me
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This song has interpolation from 50 Cent’s “Window Shopper” and The Fugees’s “Ready or Not”.
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RMC Mike – Ready Or Not
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[Intro] / (Marc Boomin, this you?) / Look, ayy, ayy, look / (Boomin need extras) / [Verse] / Ready or not, just press the gas, we on go / I was taught to get up, get a bag on your
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SQUiRE – Shine
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[Hook] / I ain't phased by the rain, I ain't phased by the pain / I ain't phased by the clouds or the shade / Imma shine regardless, imma shine regardless (yeah) / I ain't phased
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The Fray (Ft. Stacie Orrico) – Ready or Not
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[Hook: The Fray] / Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide / Gonna find you and take it slowly / Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide / Gonna find you and make you want me
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Fugees (Ft. John Forté & Omega (Rapper)) – Family Business
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‘Family Business’ is the 7th track off of The Fugees 2nd album “The Score”
The main sample you hear throughout most of the song is Francisco Tárrega’s composition “Recuerdos De La
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Fugees – The Mask
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sampled ‘Nights in White Satin’ by The Moody Blues (1967)
The subject of masks might be a reference to Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask”. In it, he discusses how in
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Fugees (Ft. John Forté & Outsidaz) – Cowboys
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Considered one of the best classic posse cuts (along with “Scenario”) “Cowboys” is a unique song, with its back and forth verses, pairing Outsidaz, John Forté and Rah Diggah, with
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Fugees – Blame it on the Sun
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Released on the B-Side of the UK single for “Ready or Not”, this song is a remake of the Stevie Wonder song, “Blame It On The Sun”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqJLTCxaehc
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Bastille (Ft. Kae Tempest) – Forever Ever
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One of the songs from Other People’s Heartache Part 2. The song’s background was sampled from The Fugees’s “Ready or Not (Can’t Hide From Love)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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IShowSpeed – Shake
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[Intro: The Raelettes, Ray Charles & IShowSpeed] / MC, make another hit / Hit the road Jack, and don't ya come back (Project, Project X) / No more, no more, no more, no more (Hah
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Laura Mvula – Ready or Not
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[Chorus] / Ready or not, here I come / You can't hide / Gonna find you and make you happy / Ready or not, here I come / You can't hide / Gonna love you and make you love me, yeah
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Fugees (Ft. Kool DJ Red Alert) – Manifest/Outro
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Samples:
Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Half-Steppin'
Poor Righteous Teachers – Rock Dis Funky Joint
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Fugees – No Woman, No Cry
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“No Woman, No Cry” is the fourth single from the Fugees' second studio album, The Score. The song was produced by Salaam Remi. The Fugees' version of the track features Wyclef Jean
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Fugees (Ft. Diamond D) – The Score (Album Version)
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[Hook 1] / It's time I settle the score! / I play my enemies like a game of chess / Playing Mr. Big, I'm gonna get you sucka / Hahahaha, you shouldn't diss refugees... / Soldiers
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Fugees – Fu-Gee-La
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Interpolates “Ooo La La La” performed by Teena Marie
Samples “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” performed by Ramsey Lewis
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Fumez The Engineer, Young A6 & Rakz (Ft. C1NNA, Ridla, RondoMontana, S13 (CGE), Strika & Tremz) – Plugged In Season Finale 1
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[Intro: S13] / (Ayo, TR, go brazy on these niggas, man) / (M3nace) / Plugged In with Fumez / (Ayo, TR, go brazy on these niggas, man) / [Verse 1: S13] / Fillin' it / One wrong move
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JAY-Z – Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)
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Kanye West samples “Ain’t no Love in the Heart of the City” by Bobby “Blue” Bland.
According to Complex, Jay wanted this to be the first single off The Blueprint.
Kanye stated in
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50 Cent – High All The Time
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Despite the content of this song, 50 Cent admits to not smoking weed.
I don’t drink and I don’t use drugs, and I didn’t back then, either. I put that joint on the first record
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Sqad Up (Ft. Gudda Gudda, Kidd Kidd, Lil Wayne, Raw Dizzy & Young Yonny) – Ready Or Not
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[Intro: Lil Wayne] / I told you we will win / I told you we will win / Gudda, holla at em / [Verse 1: Gudda Gudda] / Skinny nigga but my pockets stay fat as fuck / Man my whole
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Fugees – Don't Cry Dry Your Eyes
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[Wyclef Jean (Lauryn Hill):] / Yes, Refugee Camp (Yeah, Yeah Refugee Camp unh! Ahh!) / Yo...It never stops, what?! / We comin' back! (Murder dat buoy!) / Ninety seven to two
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Bridgit Mendler – Ready or Not (Live from Spotify London)
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[Verse 1] / I'm the kind of girl who doesn't say a word / Who sits at the curb and waits for the world / But I'm about to break out / About to break out / I'm like a crook tonight
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Fugees – Nappy Heads (Remix)
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2nd single from ‘Blunted on Reality’
The beat samples: ‘Santa’s Birthday’ by The Caroleer Singers and Orchestra
Also interpolates ‘I’ll Fly Away’ by The Humbard Family, ‘The Hump
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Canibus – All Over the Track
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[Intro] / But Ty is a, is a beat maker that / Nigga that know how to make a motherfucking beat / The mother, he is nice / Laughing / [Verse 1] / Yo I destroy your defenses with
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Headie One – Voice Of The Streets Freestyle (Part 2)
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[Intro] / Yo, One / Shoutout Kenny / Roll up, yo, yo / [Chorus] / Feds done run up in the trap / Tryna find where this two in the blues / If my young boy ain't bank / Would've been
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Fugees (Ft. Akon & John Forté) – Fu-Gee-La (Sly & Robbie Mix)
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Featuring Sly & Robbie and young Akon (Sly & Robbie Mix).
“Fu-Gee-La” (Sly & Robbie Mix) produced by Handel Tucker
“Fu-Gee-La” (Refugee Camp Remix)produced by Fugees, Jerry
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Fugees – The Beast
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Song about the police and how they tend treat African Americans in real nasty ways.
NOTE:
The skit at the end of this track has its own page. You can check it out here.
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Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
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Lauryn Hill’s breakout solo single from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, “Doo Wop (That Thing)” hit #1 on the Billboard charts and netted Hill two Grammys for Best R&B Song and
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Fugees (Ft. Busta Rhymes, John Forté & A Tribe Called Quest) – Rumble In The Jungle
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This songs come from the movie When We Were Kings. Its available for free on youtube the song really won’t make sense unless you have seen the movie so go check it out ASAP!
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