Genius Meanings
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John Legend – Never Break
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[Intro] / Oh, yeah / [Verse 1] / We got a good thing, babe / Whenever life is hard / We'll never lose our way / 'Cause we both know who we are / Who knows about tomorrow? / We don'
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John Legend – Conversations in the Dark
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[Verse 1] / Talk, let's have conversations in the dark / World is sleeping, I'm awake with you, with you / Watch movies that we've both already seen / I ain't even looking at the
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Ella Mai (Ft. John Legend) – Everything
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[Verse 1: Ella Mai] / I'd be lying if I say I never really cared how / I step out the bathroom / You notice my perfume and tell me I'm perfect / Oh, you're so deserving / Baby, you
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DJ Khaled (Ft. Akon, Anthony Hamilton, Jadakiss, John Legend, Meek Mill & Scarface) – Never Surrender
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Khaled offers one of his best experiments, bringing in Akon, Anthony Hamilton and John Legend to croon over a posse cut spanning six-and-a-half minutes. It’s a bit more like a
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John Legend (Ft. Miguel) – Overload
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[Verse 1: John Legend] / Yeah we used to flirt with freedom / 'Fore everybody knew our name / We became their favorite secret / Love for love and not for fame / Oh when I was your
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John Legend – Focused
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[Verse 1] / Oh, you know I got a lot of food for thought on my plate, mmm / You won't believe all of the people tryin' to get in my face, mmm / Not to mention all the ladies trying
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Meghan Trainor (Ft. John Legend) – Like I'm Gonna Lose You
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“Like I’m Gonna Lose You” is a love duet off of Meghan Trainor’s debut, Title. It features R&B singer and first time collaborator John Legend.
In this doo-wop ballad, both sing
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John Legend – Again
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The first time we ever got a chance to be alone we knew / That it was wrong to do / Guess that's why I was drawn to you / The second time leads to the third, the fifth, the seventh
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John Legend, Travis Scott, Teyana Taylor, CyHi The Prynce & Malik Yusef – Sin City
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This song contains a sample of Rick James' “Mary Jane.”
The concept for the song is not about the city of Las Vegas which goes by “Sin City,” but rather about a fictional city in
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John Legend – Pieces
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[Verse 1] / I'm disconnected / Feelin' out of place / Don't know how this shit got so strange / Open eyes, but can't see you / Something for the pain / Anything to erase me / Drive
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John Legend (Ft. Ludacris) – Tonight (Best You Ever Had)
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Purposely written for the Think Like A Man soundtrack (Kevin Hart movie) the track was used towards the final scenes of the movie.
John Legend talks to a girl in the song and let’
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John Legend – Love Me Now
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“Love Me Now” is the first single off John Legend’s fifth studio album: Darkness & Light.
John provided a teaser of the song on his Instagram, afterwards, during a Facebook live
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John Legend (Ft. Chance the Rapper) – Penthouse Floor
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“Penthouse Floor” is a song about social injustice in the United States. The penthouse floor is a metaphor for the upper class of a society—the idea of “going to the penthouse
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DJ Khaled (Ft. John Legend & Nipsey Hussle) – Higher
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On “Higher,” DJ Khaled enlists John Legend and Nipsey Hussle for the first posthumous verse of the late-Crenshaw rapper.
“Higher” was slated to be a promotional single for Father
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John Legend – P.D.A (We Just Don't Care)
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“P.D.A. (We Just Don’t Care)” was the third single from John Legend’s sophomore album Once Again. Named after an acronym for “public display of affection,” the lyrics wax poetic
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John Legend – Let's Get Lifted
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[Verse 1] / I've got something new for you / When it hits, you won't know what to do / Relax, let me move you / Don't resist, it's in the air / Just one taste will take you there
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. John Legend) – Never Forget You
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[Hook: John Legend] / Take me to that old familiar place / Take me to memories we won’t erase / Take me to all that we had / Good and the bad / I’ll never forget you / I’ll never
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The Roots (Ft. John Legend) – The Fire
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Black Thought and John Legend discuss the passion inside all of us. There’s also a brief history of “fire” within the verses. “The Fire” was first performed at the 2010 Olympics in
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Herbie Hancock (Ft. John Legend & P!nk) – Don't Give Up
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[Verse 1: John Legend] / In this proud land, we grew up strong / We were wanted all along / I was taught to fight, taught to win / I never thought I could fail / No fight left or
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DJ Khaled (Ft. Fridayy, JAY-Z, John Legend, Lil Wayne & Rick Ross) – GOD DID
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In what is the most vintage DJ Khaled posse cut in a fair amount of time, “GOD DID” is the album-titled track for Khaled’s thirteenth studio album.
On the track, the artists
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Kanye West – Graduation Day
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“Graduation Day” dramatizes Kanye getting reprimanded and kicked out of college for getting kids to sing about drugs in “We Don’t Care.”
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Meek Mill – Never surrender
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[Intro: DJ Khaled] / Keep your circle tight / Trust no one, nobody (nobody, nobody, no no no) / DJ Khaled! / [Verse 1: Scarface] / Gotta be careful who you trusting / Be aware of
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Rich Boy (Ft. John Legend, Lil Wayne & Nas) – Ghetto Rich (Remix)
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[Verse 1 - Rich Boy] / Let me take ya through my hood where I was born and raised / Where niggas toting semi-automatics, busting them K's / Heavy guns and dope boys harassed by the
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Rick Ross (Ft. JAY-Z) – Free Mason
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[Intro: Rick Ross] / This is for the soldiers that see the sun at midnight / You dig? / Let me slow down / It’s so Inkredible / [Verse 1: Rick Ross] / I go to the grave before I be
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Common & John Legend – Glory
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Off the soundtrack to the movie Selma, John Legend & Common’s “Glory” won “Best Original Song” at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards and the 87th Academy Awards.
Inspired by the 1965
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John Legend (Ft. Jhené Aiko) – U Move, I Move
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[Verse 1: John Legend] / I don't need words, you don't need to say it / Go with the feeling, and I'll do the same, woah / That's how this works, I put you first / You twist and you
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Metro Boomin & John Legend – On Time
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[Intro: A$AP Rocky] / Listen (Listen) / Every story need a superhero and a villain / Now, introducin' / Metro motherfuckin' Boomin, nigga (Metro motherfuckin' Boomin, nigga) / [
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Alicia Keys – You Don't Know My Name
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“You Don’t Know My Name” is the lead single of Alicia’s second studio album The Diary Of Alicia Keys; the song won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 2005.
The track is built
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JAY-Z – Encore
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Jay-Z kills the jive turkeys like it’s Thanksgiving
The production features vocals by John Legend, Don Crawley, GLC and Kanye West – a family singalong
Kanye samples the trumpet
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John Legend (Ft. DJ Camper) – I'm Ready
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[Intro] / Ooh, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / Oh, oh, ooh, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / [Verse 1] / I miss you most of all
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John Legend – Always
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[Verse 1] / Hey, love / My first love / My last love / I can't stop looking for you / I'm movin' / But can't move on / Since you've gone / I don't know what to do / [Pre-Chorus
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John Legend & Koffee – Don't Walk Away
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[Intro: John Legend] / Woah, oh woah / Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah / Woah, woah, woah / [Refrain: John Legend] / Come back, come back / We don't wanna go out like that / Come back
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Scarface (Ft. John Legend) – God
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Face is one of the only rappers that can get away with making an inspirational song and doesn’t loose any street credibilty. He’s been representing the streets for decades now.
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John Legend – Slow Cooker
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[Intro] / Oh / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Woah / [Verse 1] / I'm not worried 'bout tomorrow / While we're still, while we're still / While we're still soaking in today / Yeah / Don't need
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Black Eyed Peas (Ft. CeeLo Green, John Legend, Q-Tip & Talib Kweli) – Like That
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[Intro: Q-Tip] / Wow, we in stereo? / [Verse 1: Q-Tip] / Question for the ages: What's going on with my rap pages? / Rappers wanna be down, but listen-listen / You got to feel it
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Big Sean & Metro Boomin (Ft. Travis Scott) – Go Legend
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“Go Legend” reflects Sean’s and Travis' tremendous work ethic and how they both strived to become rap superstars.
In an interview shared by Republic Records, Sean explained that
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John Legend – Medley: City Of Stars / Audition
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This covered medley version was released at the same time as its first performed by John Legend at the 89th Academy Awards ceremony that was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood
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