 Genius Meanings
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Archive (Ft. Rosko John) – Beautiful World
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Guitar: Steve Taylor
Additional vocals: Siobhan Sian, Jane Wall
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Father John Misty – Total Entertainment Forever
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“Total Entertainment Forever” is Father John Misty’s vision of the frightening reality our society is heading towards. He warns against allowing technology to progress to the point
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JAY-Z (Ft. John Legend) – Do U Wanna Ride
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“Do U Wanna Ride” is dedicated to Jay-Z’s close friend Emory “Vegas” Jones. Jay wrote the song while Emory was away in prison to express his thoughts and feelings on his situation
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Henry George – Progress and Poverty (Book I, Chap. 2)
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Book I: Wages and Capital / Chapter 2: The Meaning of the terms / Before proceeding further in our inquiry, let us make sure of the meaning of our terms, for indistinctness in
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John Trudell & Jesse Ed Davis – Rich Man's War
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Rich man's war / Industrial streets / Class lines money talks / Turning language to paper pieces / Rich man's war / Free man society / Raging violent insecurity / Nuclear man
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Rick Ross (Ft. Drake & Wale) – Diced Pineapples
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Perhaps the greatest title for a song ever, featuring MMG cohort Wale and OVO’s Drake. The song is produced by Cardiak.
Ross stated the concept of the song:
“When I got out of
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Elton John – Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
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This 1972 song makes direct references to the 1960 track by Ben E. King and later popularized in 1971 by Aretha Franklin titled “Spanish Harlem”.
Bernie Taupin decided to write
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The Beatles – Revolution
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The B-side of The Beatles' best selling single “Hey Jude”, “Revolution” has John Lennon expressing doubt in regard to some of the tactics used by the 1968 protests. While the song
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Van Halen – As Is
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Yesterday I was a bum and broke / Today I am a star and broke / In this town that’s called progress / That’s how we do biz / I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor / Rich was better
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J. Cole – Rich Niggaz
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[Intro] / Ayo / Ayo / Ayo, ah / Ayo, ah / Ayo / Ayo / Ayo, ah / Yeah / [Verse 1] / I hate rich niggas, god damn it / 'Cause I ain't never had a lot, damn it / Who you had to kill
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J. Cole – MIDDLE CHILD
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J. Cole’s first offering of 2019 serves as a warning in advance of an extensive rollout of Dreamville material. On the track, Cole envisions himself in the center of the old and
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The Doors – Celebration Of The Lizard (An Experiment/work In Progress) (Bonus
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Lions in the street and roaming / Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming / A beast caged in the heart of a city / The body of his mother / Rotting in the summer ground / He fled the town
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Matchbox Twenty – Our Song
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North is a direction. It’s a place. It’s a marker of progress – and an intended destination. NORTH is also the title of Matchbox Twenty’s fourth album.
Atlantic Records
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The Black Crowes – Jealous Again
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Cheat the odds that made you / Brave to try to gamble at times / Well, I feel like dirty laundry / Sending sickness on down the line / Tell you why, 'cause I'm jealous, jealous
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John Steinbeck – Chapter 9 (The Grapes of Wrath)
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IN THE LITTLE HOUSES the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the
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Indie Tribe., nobigdyl. & Jon Keith – HOLY SMOKE!
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“HOLY SMOKE!” is the second track released under independent hip-hop collective indie tribe’s new lineup in 2021, following “OUTSIDE”, as well as the second single off of the group
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Tom MacDonald – Dirty Money
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[Verse 1] / They're angry that they'll never shut me up, I'm makin' more noise / Turn me up or turn me down, it's your choice / Black lives only matter when they got a corpse to
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Sw3rve The Realest (Ft. Flash Garments) – Big Pressure
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[Intro: Sw3rve The Realest & Flash Garments] / Skrrt, skrrt / Swerve, swerve / Swerve / Swerve, swerve / Swerve / Swerve, swerve / Swerve / (Garments!) / [Chorus: Flash Garments
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John Donne – Love's Alchemy
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This poem uses medieval science as an analogy to love, drawing a parallel between the two.
Alchemy was a ‘science’ which aimed to find the Elixir of life. Its practitioners hoped
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EST Gee – Come Home
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[Intro] / (Ayy, who that?) / (John Gotitt) / Hmm, I feel like the streets needed me / Wait for a nigga, I be up in myself / Needed a nigga like me / Needed a bad guy, they need a
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S-Town – S-Town, Chapter II
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SARAH KOENIG: / Chapter II. / BRIAN REED: / In one of my first phone conversations with John, before we'd met, I asked him if he thought it was possible that maybe Kabrahm Burt
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House of Pain – Jump Around
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“Jump Around” was a humongously popular hit and has enjoyed a long life ever since, thanks to sync and licensing, and rowdy pubs. House Of Pain were never able to follow the
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John Trudell – Voices Catching Up/Lompoc Song
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Last rush in Babylon / Voices catching up, voices catching up / Watch out child, watch out child / Babylon falling down falling down / Society a broken promise / Economies war
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Ace Hood (Ft. Future & Rick Ross) – Bugatti
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First single of Ace Hood’s 3rd studio album Trials & Tribulations, featuring Ricky Rozay & Future. By far the most successful Ace Hood single of his career.
The song was remixed
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Lil Debbie (Ft. Kool John) – I Do It
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[Verse 1: Lil Debbie] / Lil Debbie, big shirt, you don't rock it like me / YSL all gold, everything on me / I'm from the Bay and we ridin' if the tank on E / Fat wallet, big cash
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W.E.B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk (Chap. 14)
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Of the Sorrow Songs / I walk through the churchyard / To lay this body down; / I know moon-rise, I know star-rise; / I walk in the moonlight, I walk
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Quadeca – 30,000 Word Rap Song (World Record)
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YouTube creator Quadeca wrote a 30,000 word rap song after promising on one of his previous videos that for every like he got, he would put a word in a song. The video got an
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David Hume – The History of England, Vol.I. Part A. ( Chap 11)
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John / THE noble and free genius of the ancients, which made the government of a single person be always regarded as a species of tyranny and usurpation, and kept them from forming
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William Makepeace Thackeray – Chiswick Mall
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The title of this work comes from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, 215: “BUNYAN. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town
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T.S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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T. S. Eliot’s self-described “drama of literary anguish” portrays the social and sexual frustration of a man obsessed with his own inadequacy. Begun in 1910 (when he was 22) and
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Howard Zinn – Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
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The first chapter of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States seeks to tell the story of Christopher Columbus' so-called discovery of the Americas from the perspective
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John Skywalker and Endre Blaq – Self-Confidence
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I’m living good / Niggas try to steal my peace / I wish a nigha would / Get his own, live the truth, no gimmicking / See the light, speak the light, keep living it / I’m so
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John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (Chap. 1.1)
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#Description
A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which appeared in 1980, eleven years after Toole’s suicide. Published through
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