 Genius Meanings
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Ice Cube – You Know How We Do It
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Although Lethal Injection received poor reviews by critics, this single stood out from the rest of the album and was considered a West Coast classic.
Songs sampled:
- “The Show Is
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Ice Cube – You Know How We Do It (Remix)
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[Intro] / Slippin', slidin', glidin', Low-ridin' / Ain't no hidin' from this hit / Fool, you know how we do— / [Break] / Westside / I'm comin' from the Westside / Westside / It's
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Ice Cube (Ft. Mack 10 & Ms. Toi) – You Can Do It
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Samples the classic hip hop songs:
Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”
Afrika Bambaattaa & Soul Sonic Force’s “Planet Rock”
Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks”
Hugo Montenegro’s “I
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Rick Ross (Ft. Chrisette Michele & Drake) – Aston Martin Music
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The mood of this song, as Ross stated, is that music you play in your two-seater with your favorite female (of the week) just riding together feeling like BAWSES.
Producer Rook of
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Ice Cube - You Know How We Do It (Tradução em Português)
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[Intro: Ice Cube e Evelyn King] / Yeah, yeah / Otário, você sabe como fazemos (Woh-uh-oh-oh-oh) / Lado Oeste / Vindo do lado Oeste / Nada além do lado Oeste (Woh-uh-oh-oh-oh) / [
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Ice Cube – Friday
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“Friday” is featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 comedy film of the same name. The film was co-written by Ice Cube and co-stars Chris Tucker.
This track was the beginning of a
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Ice Cube (Ft. Das EFX) – Check Yo Self
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The remix contains two lyrical changes within two different verses:
Verse 1:
Verse 3:
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Ice Cube – D'Voidofpopniggafiedmegamix
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[Intro: Male Interviewer] / Aiyyo, Ice Cube man / Since you went solo, what's up with the rest of the crew? / [Hook: George Clinton] / So High you can't get around it / So low you
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Ice Cube – Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
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“Gangsta Rap Made Me Do” it serves as the first single from Ice Cube’s eighth studio album Raw Footage.
Ice Cube addresses the often held sentiment that gangsta rap (and one could
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Ice Cube (Ft. Chino XL, DJ Felli Fel, New Boyz, Ray J & Roscoe Umali) – Lakers national anthem 2010
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During the 2009-2010 NBA season, the L.A. Lakers advanced to the NBA finals, eventually winning them. This song was recorded before the finals actually took place though. There’s a
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Lil B – Sleep By The Bay
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Lil B spits a based freestyle over the chopped and screwed version of “Today Was A Good Day” by Ice Cube
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Terminator X (Ft. Chuck D, Ice Cube, Ice-T & MC Lyte) – Sticka
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[Ice-T] / That's fucked up... where your bodyguards at Godfather? / Chillin / [Chuck D] / You know, every now and then / I think people want to hear something from us, nice and
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Ice Cube (Ft. Yo-Yo) – It’s A Man’s World
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Based around the James Brown classic “It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World,” Ice Cube, a self-styled sexist gangsta rapper, is met with his opposite in the form of Yo-Yo, “the brand
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Ice-T – Colors
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The title track on the soundtrack to the film of the same name, “Colors” was released as a single and became the first of two of Ice-T’s most successful songs, reaching #70 in the
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Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day (Clean Radio Version)
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[Verse 1] / Just wakin' up in the morning, gotta thank God / I don't know, but today seems kinda odd / No barking from the dog, no smog / And mama cooked the breakfast with no hog
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George Clinton (Ft. Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Kam, MC Breed, Public Enemy, Pupa Curley & Yo-Yo) – Paint the White House Black
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[Intro] / At these uptight times, hardcore funkateers before the bop gun / We unleash you a positive light. The bop gun can do you no harm / It frees yo mind, so yo' behind can
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YOUNG DIAMOND – Dollar Bills
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Yo right now man i / I was walking down the street / And nigga / My iPhone / Fell you know / But you know it's all good man / This song is for everybody / Who try to stop my shine
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N.W.A – Gangsta Gangsta
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Off of N.W.A’s 1st album Straight Outta Compton.
You can also hear this song on the radio channel West Coast Classics in Grand Theft Auto V.
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Master P (Ft. Ice Cube) – You Know I'm a Ho
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Master P (Cube) / I'm ready / (Ay yo P What's crackin' nigga?) / I'm tryin' to get my roll on Cube / (So where we headed?) / The Player's Club fool. You 'Bout It? / (I'm 'Bout It
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Ice Cube (Ft. Doughboy, OMG (USA), WC & Young Maylay) – Y'all Know How I Am
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[Intro: Ice Cube] / Don't trip, y'all know how I am (I'm a fool) / I'm a fool, y'all know how I am... / Drop it, drop it / Uhh, yeah / [Hook: Ice Cube] / Don't trip, y'all know how
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Ice Spice – No Clarity
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[Intro: Foxes & Ice Spice] / Chasing relentlessly / Still fight and I don't know why / (Stop playin' wit' 'em, Riot) / [Chorus] / You did me dirt (Why?) / 'Cause what did I do
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Ice Spice – Munch (Feelin' U)
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“Munch (Feelin' U)” is the breakout single by Bronx rapper Ice Spice. Released in August 2022, the track went viral shortly thereafter due to its quotable chorus:
You thought I
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
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“Juicy” is the first single from Big’s debut album, Ready to Die, and is the track that established him as a titan.
It was one of the first mainstream rap songs about a rapper’s
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K-Dee (Ft. Bootsy Collins & Ice Cube) – Thought I Saw A Pussy Cat
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[Intro: Bootsy Collins & Ice Cube] / I thought I saw a pussy...uh, cat, that is / K-Dee, baby / [Verse 1: K-Dee & Ice Cube] / I always swung around, never hung around a group of
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Ice Cube – We Be Clubbin'
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[Intro] / Yay, yay / Uh huh, uh huh, brrr / We be clubbin' / Hey hey hey hey, look here, look here / First of all, I wanna welcome all y'all broke ass entrepeniggas to the Player's
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Westside Connection (Ft. AllFrumTha I, The Comrads & K-Dee) – Hoo-Bangin' (WSCG Style)
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[Intro: Mack 10 + Ice Cube] / Westside! / Hoo-Bangin' on the transformers / These trick-ass niggas quick to tuck they tail / But fuck that, you know how we get / (Can't get enough
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. MC Eiht) – m.A.A.d city
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“m.A.A.d” is an acronym for both “my Angels on Angel dust” and “my Angry Adolescence divided.”
“m.A.A.d” is also a reference to the 90s Compton based hip-hop group “WC and the
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Ice Cube (Ft. Das EFX) – Check Yo Self (Remix)
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“Check Yo Self” retains two main versions, the original and a remix which utilizes the same beat as Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message,” titled “Check Yo Self (The Message Remix)”.
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (Ft. Duke Bootee & Grandmaster Melle Mel) – The Message
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” may not have been the origin of conscious-rap in the early ‘80s, but it took the idea, ran away with it, married it, had
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50 Cent (Ft. Nate Dogg) – 21 Questions
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“21 Questions,” released on April 29, 2003, is the second single from the album. It became 50’s second number one song in the United States after “In Da Club.”
The music video for
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Lil Dicky (Ft. Fetty Wap & Rich Homie Quan) – $ave Dat Money
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“$ave Dat Money” is the first single from Lil Dicky’s debut studio album Professional Rapper. He collabs with summer star Fetty Wap on the hook and a short interlude by Rich Homie
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Ice Cube – St. I.D.E.
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[Intro: Ice Cube & Sample] / Damn / S-T-Period-I-D-E / Yep / S-T-Period-I-D-E / Another one / S-T-Period-I-D-E / S-T-Period-I-D-E / [Verse: Ice Cube] / What up, locs? Put your yoke
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Ice Cube – No Vaseline
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“No Vaseline” is Ice Cube’s diss track about his former group N.W.A and their manager, Jerry Heller.
Cube left N.W.A in 1989 over financial issues, and the group took shots at him
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Ice Cube – I Rep That West
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Ice Cube’s sends a S/O to the West Coast in this “West Coast Banger”. When asked about West Coast Hip Hop, he replied, “The West Coast has been trying to figure out ‘What does the
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Smokepurpp – Tim Westwood Freestyle
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[Intro: Tim Westwood] / youtube.com/timwestwoodtv / Yo, it's TimWestwoodTV, up at Capital Xtra / We're back, it's super lit and super turnt / With an epic freestyle / Goin' in
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Ice Cube (Ft. Butch Cassidy) – Take Me Away
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[Intro: Ice Cube] / Hahaha, today was a good day / Know what?, sometimes I just get on my knees / You know what I mean? / And pray to the man with the master plan / To swoop on
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Fetty Wap – Again
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“Again” could be a follow-up to Fetty’s smash hit “Trap Queen” – an ode to the mystery woman he loves. “Again” serves as the song that tries to win her back following a breakup
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UGK (Ft. OutKast) – Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)
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The Underground Kingz (Bun B, Pimp C) and the Outkasts (André 3000 and Big Boi) unite in a classic track about the women in their lives. There are two stories about actually
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Kokane (Ft. Cold 187um) – Don't Bite the Phunk
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[Intro: Answer Phone] / Hello / You've reach area code 213 291 50 50 / The edge recording studio / Where in session / So leave us a message / We'll call you back / Thank you / [
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N.W.A – I Ain’t Tha 1
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Ice Cube ain’t ever going to let a girl get the better of him as this song of 1988’s Straight Outta Compton shows.
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The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
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“Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)” was the first single from The Offspring’s 1998 album Americana, and it is one of the band’s well-known songs.
It achieved significant pop and rock
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Ice Cube – Down For Whatever
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This song is famous for it’s role in the cult classic, Office Space
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