Genius Meanings
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M.I.A. (Ft. Timbaland) – Come Around
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The album closer on Kala explores the running theme of M.I.A projection of diverse culture’s on a worldwide scale.
On here collaborating with Timbaland for a guest verse, M.I.A
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M.I.A. – Paper Planes
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This penultimate song on Kala marries a deceptively airy beat with a song about tourist-murdering passport-counterfeiting thieves. The song can be read as the clichéd story of
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Drake – Thank Me Now
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The closer to Thank Me Later provides us an introspective look into Drake’s career, where he describes his influence in hip-hop and his success, as well as his personal life
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JAY-Z – Tom Ford
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Jay Z’s “Tom Ford” includes a sample from M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” the lyrics of which follow the same cadence and flow.
Get back, get down
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
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Aaliyah (Ft. Timbaland) – Are You That Somebody?
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The unusual, stuttering beat of this 1998 single recorded for the Dr. Dolittle soundtrack received great acclaim for emphasizing Aaliyah’s vocal prowess, eventually earning the
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M.I.A. – Amazon
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This song might be about M.I.A. remembering the time her family was trapped in Sri Lanka.
“It was all right. In the beginning I didn’t really think too much about it. It was just
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M.I.A. – Fire, Fire
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I wrote this about the music industry. It’s not actually that political at all. It’s basically just saying that if the mainstream doesn’t communicate with the marginal people, they
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Missy Elliott – Work It
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“Work It' is the first single from Missy’s 2002 album Under Construction. The song was both a commercial and critical hit: It peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 (a spot it held
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M.I.A. (Ft. The Wilcannia Mob) – Mango Pickle Down River
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On Mango Pickle Down River, M.I.A. contributes her own verse to preteen Aboriginal rap group The Wilcannia Mob’s award-winning hit single. Her lyrics emphasize how drug-use
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LL COOL J (Ft. Timbaland) – Headsprung
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“Headsprung”, the lead single of LL Cool J’s eleventh album The DEFinition, was his eighth to go gold (or better) and his tenth to reach the top 20 in the US. LL raps the verses
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M.I.A./Missy – One for the Head Skit (Piracy Funds Terrorism Version)
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[Intro: Missy Elliott] / One / One / One / One / [Verse: Missy Elliott] / One; drums go bump, bump, bump / This beat here will make your pum pum jump / If you's a fat one, put your
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M.I.A. – Birdflu
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Bird Flu disses dogging males everywhere over another filmi sample and a barely synchronized four-four on some thirty deep-tone durmi drums.
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M.I.A. (Ft. Afrikan Boy) – Hussel
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There’s melancholy melodica and Sri Lankan temple horn on “Hussel,” the then eighteen-year-old rapper Afrikan Boy describes his hustles.
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M.I.A. – 20 Dollar
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[Verse 1] / War! War! War! / Talking about you's such a bore / I'd rather talk about moi / Like do you know the cost of AK's up in Africa? / 20 dollars ain't shit to you / But that
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Eric Nally, Grandmaster Caz, Grandmaster Melle Mel & Kool Moe Dee) – Downtown
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“Downtown” is the second song released from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s follow-up to 2012’s breakout album The Heist. The track features Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam on vocals, along
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M.I.A. – Boom ADD
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A little over three years since M.I.A. teased us with the first verse: Boom Skit, she finally give us the full version.
https://twitter.com/MIAuniverse/status/702890501675028481
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M.I.A. – XR2
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The song is a mixture of M.I.A. experience partying in the London rave scene in the 90’s.
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M.I.A. – Bamboo Banga
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Kala opens with the uninvitingly spare “Bamboo Banga”, which samples Indian Tamil filmi composer Ilayaraja and bends the lyric of The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner”. The song
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M.I.A. – Boyz
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In 2016, after all the accusations of being anti-black due to her comment towards BLM, she took a few minutes to reflect on Boyz during a conversation with The Fader:
No, every
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Aaliyah – Try Again
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The lead single of the soundtrack to the 2000 action film Romeo Must Die, later released as the 15th track of Aaliyah’s 2001 self-titled album. “Try Again” is about a woman who
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Monica – Why I Love You So Much
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[Intro] / Ooh, ooh, baby / Ahh, ooh / [Verse 1] / You mean the world, ooh, and everything that I want for / Since I've been your girl, oh, my whole life has been much better than
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Timbaland (Ft. Garland "Sebastian" Mosley & Keri Hilson) – Miscommunication
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[Intro: Sebastian] / Oh / Two Step / Oh / [Verse 1: Timbaland] / Let me talk to you, girl / I'm in your part of town / I call your phone and you're nowhere to be found / You do
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M.I.A. – The Turn
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[Verse 1] / I don't read, yeah, I just guess / As the world turns / Don't bring me with your mess / [Verse 2] / I'm trying to do my best / Get my head up out the stress / When the
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Aaliyah (Ft. Timbaland) – We Need a Resolution
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“We Need a Resolution” is a song performed by Aaliyah. It was written by Static Major and Timbaland, who also produced and contributed with a featured rap verse.
The song was
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50 Cent (Ft. The Game, Lloyd Banks & Young Buck) – Y’all Niggas Aint Fuckin Wit Us
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[Intro: 50 Cent] / 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Game / G-G-G-G, G-G-G, G Unit! / [Verse 1: 50 Cent] / See I'm a city boy, man I ain't from the South / 50 Cent man y'all niggas
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TRU (Ft. C-Murder, Master P, Mia X & Silkk the Shocker) – FEDz (Radio)
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[C-Murder and (Silkk the Shocker) talking] / Ha, ha what they say Mia? / Talkin' bout No Limit sellin' (All over the world) / They got all over the country / CIA, Feds (All them
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Shamur – Let the Music Play
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[Intro] / Let the music play, baby / Music, take control / [Chorus] / O na kar maan rupaiye wala baar baar ke na rajje / Bai na kar maan rupaiye wala baar baar ke na rajje / O na
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BIA & Timbaland – I’M THAT BITCH
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[Intro] / Yeah, uh / Brr (Yeah), hah, hah (Grr) / Ayy (Yeah), uh / BIA, BIA (BIA, BIA) / [Verse 1] / Soon as you see me I up it, I'm gone / I'm really livin' the shit in my song
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Aaliyah (Ft. Timbaland) – If Your Girl Only Knew
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The lead single from Aaliyah’s 2nd studio album One In a Million, “If your girl only knew” was released in 1996 and became Aaliyah’s 3rd single to reach top 20 on Billboard’s Hot
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Missy Elliott – Bomb Intro / Pass That Dutch
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Following quickly on the heels of her 2002 album Under Construction with its international smash hit “Work It,” Missy Elliott delivered “Pass That Dutch,” the lead single from her
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Petey Pablo – Raise Up (All Cities Remix)
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“Raise Up (All Cities Remix)” is the remix of Petey Pablo’s first single. It is the final track of his first album, Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry.
The notable difference between
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Donna Summer – Bad Girls
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[Intro] / Toot toot, hey, beep beep, toot toot, hey, beep beep / Toot toot, hey, beep beep, toot toot, hey, beep beep / [Chorus 1] / Bad girls, talking ’bout the sad girls / Sad
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Remy Ma – So Hot
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[Verse 1: Remy Ma] / I left the factory I was on the 645 / Got dudes runnin' up on a don like yo bitch so fly / See I been talkin' to the kids and the kids don't lie / They like R
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M.I.A. – World Town
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[Intro] / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / [Verse 1] / Sick of all the shit that's keeping me down
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TRU (Ft. C-Murder, Master P, Mia X & Silkk the Shocker) – FEDz
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[C-Murder and (Silkk the Shocker) talking] / Ha, ha what they say Mia? (Drug dealers) / Talkin' bout No Limit sellin' dope (All over the world) / They got ki's all over the country
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