 Genius Meanings
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Ghost – Twenties
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The eighth track on Ghost’s fifth album, “Impera”. Tobias Forge previously told Kerrang! Magazine that Ghost’s new single Twenties has a vibe of “Slayer meets some sort of Missy
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Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties – Grapefruit
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This song is sort of a background song so to speak. It gives you exposition on the things that are weighing Aaron West down (i.e. the loss of his father and of his unborn child).
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Gracie Abrams – I know it won't work
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[Verse 1] / I left you here / Heard you keep the extra closet empty / In case this year / I come back and stay throughout my twenties / What if I won't? / How am I supposed to put
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Porcupine Tree – Lazarus
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This song is about a mother talking to her son from “Beyond the grave,” following the concept of the album.
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Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties – Carolina Coast
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I woke up to shorebirds / I must be close to the sea / I walked through the parking lot; / Felt the pavement burning my bare feet / I stumbled out eastward; / Pushed my way through
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Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties – Goodbye, Carolina Blues
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“Goodbye, Carolina Blues” is the second track off Bittersweet, and was the final track released in promotion of the new EP. After selling his father’s car for money, Aaron travels
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Ghost – Respite on the Spitalfields
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[Verse] / We're here in the after of a murderous crafter, the past / Is spun like a yarn and mangled / With flesh and blood and bones, I wonder / Did no one hear the distant
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JAY-Z – NYMP
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14th track on Jay-Z’s 4th album, Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. Samples “Life Can Be So Grand” by Brian and Brenda Russell.
NYMP is New York Marcy Projects.
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Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties – Bury Me Anywhere Else
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‘Bury Me Anywhere Else’ details Aaron’s journey catching out on freight trains to go to Los Angeles. It is the fourth track and official single from Routine Maintenance releasing
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Ghost – Spillways
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Impera’s third track, “Spillways” is a dancing track, hardly inspired by a lot of the 80s pieces. Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song:
This is an elegy for the darkness that
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Ghost – Call Me Little Sunshine
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Second single from Ghost’s fifth album Impera. The song has references to Aleister Crowley, including the album cover artwork, which takes inspiration from a famous photo
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Big L – Sandman 118 Freestyle
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Big L also kicked this freestyle over Biggie’s Who Shot Ya? beat during an interview with Tim Westwood.
This version was produced by Dirtman in 1995.
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Ghost – Darkness at the Heart of My Love
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“Darkness at the Heart of my Love” is a powerful ballad, such as Ghost’s “He Is” or “Life Eternal.” The song talks about indoctrination and trusting people who do not have the best
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Chris Renzema – God & Prozac
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[Verse 1] / The better part of my twenties / Spent writing songs about God / On a Prozac prescription / Doesn't that seem odd? / 'Cause I believe in a gospel / And a God who is
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Big L – Who Shot Ya Freestyle
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Cipher from the punchline king himself, Big L.
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Ghost – Griftwood
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“Griftwood” shows an arena rock aesthetic, hiding his lyrical theme. The song talks about fake-preachers that use religion as a way to get richer. He has talked about it to Metal
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Nas – N.Y. State of Mind
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Nas displays complex lyricism with his “N.Y. State of Mind” over a track from Gang Starr’s DJ Premier. The chorus samples a Rakim line from the track “Mahogany,” which is fitting
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Ghost – Watcher in the Sky
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Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song: “It enthusiastically explains how we can utilize science to make the world smaller and to reverse scientific things. Basically a flattened
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Tropical Fuck Storm – Legal Ghost
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“Legal Ghost” was inspired by the death of singer Gareth Liddiard’s girlfriend in his early twenties. In an interview with The Quietus he explained that she had lost her own former
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
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Perhaps the quintessential Bruce number, this anthemic 1975 song contains many of the lyrical and musical hallmarks that make the band from E Street so justly famous. It is the
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Ghost – Imperium
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The first track on Ghost’s fifth album, Impera. “Imperium” serves as the lead-in to “Kaisarion,” establishing a musical motif that returns at the end of the album in the song “
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Ghost – Kaisarion
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“Kaisarion” starts the album with power, musically and lyrically speaking. In the context of the album, Tobias Forge said to Metal Hammer:
That’s the violent start of this new
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Lil Peep – veins
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[Verse 1] / Layin' on my back now, lay another track down / Brought the black cats out, bad luck / If you wanna snap now, try not take a cap now / I'll bring the black cats out
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Ghost – Hunter's Moon
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The first single from Ghost’s fifth studio album, Impera, was also the first released song from the soundtrack of Halloween Kills, in which Michael Myers is hunted down by an angry
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Russ – Utah Freestyle
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[Intro] / Damn, this beat is crazy / Who made...? Oh, I did, haha / Let me just update / [Verse] / I've been balancin' my chakras in the mountains out in Utah / I know I'm the
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Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties – Thunder Road
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“Thunder Road” is a bonus track from Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties' Live From Asbury Park album.
Released via Twitter, it is a cover of the Bruce Springsteen original.
The
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Rio Da Yung OG – Accidental Shit Talking 2
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[Intro] / (313 Mafia) / Alright / Shit / (Trapboy3k) / Accidental shit talking / Y'all niggas can't fuck with me / (Stupid Dog, I ain't gon' lie, this bitch hard) / [Verse
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Russ – Pull the Trigger
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“Pull The Trigger” is Russ’s 34th single of 2015.
Every song has been produced, written, mixed, and engineered by Russ himself. Each song has also been free to download and his
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Ghost – Dominion
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Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song: “A segue, where we go outside the city to this vast landscape – meadows and all that, so you see another part of the empire. It’s meant to
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Steven Wilson – Lazarus
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As the cheerless towns pass my window / I can see a washed out moon through the fog / And then a voice inside my head / Breaks the analogue / And says / "Follow me down to the
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Drake – Free Smoke
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On “Free Smoke” Drake introduces his More Life playlist by asserting his dominance over the rap game; displaying his mixtape style bars and flow.
Drizzy takes shots at Meek Mill
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Dylan – Lovestruck
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“Lovestruck” tells the story of a now split relationship. The track has Dylan fall for a boy, when she is just 19, which could have happened in sync with her previous track “
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Gucci Mane – Lemonade
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The pinnacle of Gucci Mane’s work, “Lemonade” was the ultimate rap-pop crossover that poised him for a mainstream breakthrough.
“Lemonade” samples the song “Keep It Warm” by Flo
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Gunna (Ft. Lil Duke) – Seen a Ghost
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[Intro: Lil Duke] / Billboard Hitmakers / Got some pretty bad bitches and they play they role / And I done seen a lot of bad bitches come and go, yeah, what? / [Verse 1: Lil Duke
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Honestly – Fault
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[Verse 1] / Is it wrong to hold you now? / I swear I fell in love with you / But couldn’t be enough for you / Was it right to give you up? / Because if I were to hurt you / I know
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Hollie Col – Forgot To Love You
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[Verse 1] / I was in my head while you were making memories / Shot you down while you were making plans / Kissed you goodbye knowing I wouldn't come back / Already one foot out the
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Lil Peep & DEATH PLUS – Body
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[Intro: DEATH PLUS] / Yeah, yeah / [Verse 1: DEATH PLUS] / Chillin' with the poltergeist, he wear his frozen clothes / Casket thrashing 'til I die, these bitches know that / It's a
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21 Savage – Bank Account
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“Bank Account” sees 21 Savage rapping about his wealth amongst other things over a dark beat produced by Metro Boomin and 21 Savage himself.
The track samples Coleridge-Taylor
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