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Kanye West – Pinocchio Story
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On “Pinocchio Story,” Kanye takes a turn for the worse as he tears himself apart for his mistakes in this haunting song. He blames himself for his mother’s death and attacks his
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Kanye West – Pinocchio Story (Freestyle Live At Hollywood Bowl 2015)
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[Intro] / Wise man say / Wise man say / Wise man say / [Verse 1] / Do you think I'd sacrifice a real life / For all the fame and flashing lights? / Do you think I'd sacrifice a
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Kanye West – Heartless / Pinocchio Story (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Intro] / How could you be so? / [Chorus] / (In the night I hear them talk) / The coldest story ever told / (Somewhere far along this road) / He lost his soul / To a woman so
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Kanye West – Heartless
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“Heartless” was released as a promotional single 20 days before the official release of 808s and Heartbreak, and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts while topping
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Kanye West – Pinocchio Story Freestyle (Extended)
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You know another fish in the sea, uh / In- in the sea, yeah in the sea [?] / Yeah, you know another fish in the sea, [?] / Ayy, yo, you know another fish in the sea, [?] / The one
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Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem – Forever
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Four of hip-hop’s heavyweights take turns going in over a hard beat by Boi-1da.
During his Detroit stop on his Summer Sixteen tour, Drake brought out Eminem to perform his epic
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B.o.B (Ft. Kanye West) – Do You Have the Stamina?
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[Intro: sample from Kanye West's "Pinocchio Story"] / "Do you really have the stamina? / For everybody that sees you that say, 'Where's my camera?' / For everybody that sees you
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Kanye West - Pinocchio Story (Traducción al Español)
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[Letra de "Kanye West - Pinocchio Story (Traducción al Español)"] / [Intro] / El sabio dice, el sabio dice / El hombre sabio dice / Nunca descubrirás el amor real / Nunca descubras
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i got more rhymes than the bible’s got psalms
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Kanye West - Pinocchio Story (Tradução em Português)
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[Intro] / O sábio diz, o sábio diz / O sábio diz / Você nunca vai descobrir o amor verdadeiro / Nunca vai descobrir o amor verdadeiro / Você nunca vai descobrir o amor verdadeiro
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Genius Russian Translations (Русские переводы) – Kanye West – Pinocchio Story (Русский перевод)
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[Интро] / Мудрецы говорят, мудрецы говорят / Мудрецы говорят / Ты никогда не поймешь, что такое настоящая любовь / Никогда не поймешь, что такое настоящая любовь / Ты никогда не
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Kanye West – I'm a New Man
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Well the song says no one man should have all that power right? / There’s definitively been times I let / Let power, get the best of me… / And let the world take the rest of me / I
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Kanye West – Love Lockdown
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The fifth song in the groundbreaking album and its lead single. A song that was a drastic change in Kanye’s music, it was a sneak peek into Kanye’s influential album. It debuted in
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Kanye West (Ft. Kid Cudi) – Welcome To Heartbreak
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In “Welcome to Heartbreak,” Kanye describes how, despite all the money and fame he has accumulated through his career, or rather because of them, he finds himself trapped and
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Kanye West – Coldest Winter
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“Coldest Winter”—an impassioned farewell to two important women in Kanye’s life—is his rendition of the 1983 song “Memories Fade” by Tears for Fears.
The first of the women is his
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Kanye West – Street Lights
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One of the most emotionally distressing tracks off an already depression-focused album is “Street Lights.”
Kanye iterates the repetitiveness of life and its petty affairs, and
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Kanye West – Flashing Lights (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Intro] / Let’s go, let’s go, let’s / [Verse 1: Kanye West] / She don't believe in shootin' stars / But she believe in shoes and cars / Wood floors in the new apartment / Couture
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Kanye West (Ft. Mr. Hudson) – Paranoid
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In the closest thing that comes to normal rapped vocals from Ye on 808’s & Heartbreak, Yeezy is reflecting upon a past relationship and laments his frustrations to his past flame
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Genius Türkçe Çeviri – Kanye West - Pinocchio Story (Türkçe Çeviri)
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[Intro] / Bilge bir adam, bilge bir adam söylemişti / Bilge bir adam söylemişti / Asla gerçek aşkın ne olduğunu anlamayacaksın / Gerçek aşkın ne olduğunu anlamayacaksın / Asla
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Kanye West – Say You Will (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Verse 1] / Why would she make calls out the blue? / Now I'm awake, sleepless in June / [Chorus] / Hey hey hey hey / Don't say you will / Hey hey hey hey / Don't say you will
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Kanye West – Bad News
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Along with “Say You Will”, “Bad News” is one of the more instrumental tracks on 808s & Heartbreak.
The first two minutes features Kanye’s vocals. The song then shifts into
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Kanye West's Most Underrated Songs
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This thread is all about appreciating Kanye’s most underrated songs. Give me ten songs that you feel are Kanye’s most underrated.
Here are my ten (in no order)
Get Em High
Two Words
Drive Slow
We Major
Good Morning
The Glory
Big Brother
Welcome To Heartbreak
Lost In The World
Send It Up
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Kanye West – See You in My Nightmares (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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So many people get caught up in trying to remake their first album and it's impossible for me to make another College Dropout, but I could make the best Graduation and best 808's
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Genius Deutsche Übersetzungen – Kanye West - Pinocchio Story (Deutsche Übersetzung)
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[Deutscher Songtext zu „Pinocchio Story“] / [Intro] / Weiser Mann sagt, weiser Mann sagt / Weiser Mann sagt / Du wirst niemals wahre Liebe kapieren / Wirst niemals wahre Liebe
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Kanye West – RoboCop
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In the seventh track of 808s & Heartbreak, Kanye constantly uses references to the film series, RoboCop, to describe a girl’s distrust in him. He talks about her problems as a
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Kanye West – RoboCop (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Intro] / Drop it, drop it / [Verse 1] / 'Bout the baddest girl I ever seen / Straight up out a movie scene / Who knew she was a drama queen / That'd turn my life to Stephen King's
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Kanye West – Street Lights (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Intro] / (Let me know) / Do I still got time to grow? / Things ain't always set in stone / That be known let me know / Let me / [Chorus] / Seems like, street lights, glowin
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Kanye West (Ft. Jeezy) – Amazing
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Kanye marvels at his career and how it is so amazing, so amazing, so amazing, so amazing, so amazing….
This song was the subject of a bit in one of stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari
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Kanye West – Say You Will
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The first track off Kanye West’s album 808s & Heartbreak. Sung primarily in autotune, and seen as a departure from old school Ye.
Kanye has explained in concert that this song is
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Run–DMC – Peter Piper
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The first song off of Run-D.M.C.’s monumental album Raising Hell. “Peter Piper” is based mainly around several nursery rhymes, though there are also references to children’s books
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Kanye West (Ft. Lil Wayne) – See You In My Nightmares
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Playing on the dark side of the “see you in my dreams” cliche, Kanye begins to close the album on this note. He’s making his exit from the failed relationship, getting past it: “I’
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Kanye West – Amazing (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Verse 1] / It's amazing, I'm the reason / Everybody fired up this evening / I'm exhausted, barely breathing / Holding on to what I believe in / [Chorus] / No matter what, you'll
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Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Verse 1] / I'm not loving you, way I wanted to / What I had to do, had to run from you / I'm in love with you, but the vibe is wrong / And that haunted me, all the way home / So
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Kanye West – Stronger (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Intro/Monologue] / When people come at me a certain type of way, uh, I forget them for / They base their opinions merely on what they were taught / You know, what they were given
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Taylor Swift – mad woman
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Much like her previous songs “Blank Space” and “Look What You Made Me Do,” which she references throughout the song, Swift connects the concept of a delusional woman to her
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What is the worst song(s) from your favorite rapper?
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a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. Remember that definition.
For example: My favorite rapper is Kendrick Lamar. His worst songs are anything before Section.80
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Kanye West – Touch the Sky (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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Let's have some fun now / Get up and touch it / Get up and touch the sky, come on [7x] / [Bridge] / I gotta testify / Come up in the spot lookin' extra fly / Before the day I die
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Kanye West – Good Life (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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When I made Good Life / I was very rich / Already / But if I think back to when I was making the College Dropout, thinking was this what I expected? / I mean, I didn’t expect the
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