 Genius Meanings
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Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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“Inner City Blues” depicts the ghettos of inner-city America as it discusses the bleak economic situation set against the backdrop of the space race, the Vietnam War and the
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Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Detroit MIx
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[Intro] / Dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah / [Verse 1] / Rockets, moon shots / Spend
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Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Reprise) (Live 1972)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / I'm gonna dedicate this to my mother and father / Mr. and Mrs. Gaye, who are in the audience / I'd like you to acknowledge them, ladies and
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H.E.R. – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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[Intro] / Mother, mother (Mother, mother) / Everybody thinks we're wrong (Mother, mother) / Who are they to judge us? (Mother, mother) / Simply 'cause we wear our hair long (Mother
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Gil Scott-Heron – Inner City Blues (Poem: ”The Siege of New Orleans”)
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[Verse 1] / Rockets and moon shots / And blame it on the have-nots / Money, we made it / Yeah but before we see it, they take it / [Chorus] / Yes, make you wanna holler, right on
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The Chi-Lites – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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[Intro] / Some of us know (Some of us know) / Some of us know (Some of us know) / Some of us know (Some of us know) / Some of us don't know (Some of us don't know), oh / [Verse 1
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Nona Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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[Verse 1] / Rockets, moon shots / Spend it on the have-not's / Money, we make it / Before we see it, you take it / [Chorus] / Oh, make you want to holler / The way they do my life
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Etta James – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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Rockets, moon shots / Spend it on the have nots / Money, we make it / 'Fore we see it you take it / Oh, make you wanna holler / The way they do my life / Make me wanna holler / Way
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Ft. Guru) – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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[Verse 1] / Some people live in guilt, consumed in sorrow / Settin' themselves up for a doomed tomorrow / I learned a great deal from what life has shown / Like don't follow the
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Joe Cocker – Inner City Blues
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Rockets, moon shots / Spend it on the have nots / Money, we make it / Before we see it, you take it / Makes me wanna holler / The way they do my life / Makes me wanna holler / The
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Marvin Gaye – God is Love (Live 1972)
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[Verse] / Oh, don't go and talk about my Father / Because God is my friend (God is my friend) / He made this world for us to live in, and gave us everything / And all He asks of us
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Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (Rhythm 'n' Strings Mix)
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[Instrumental] / [Chorus] / What's going on / What's going on / What's going on / What's going on / [Instrumental]
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Marvin Gaye – Stage Dialogue
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[Interlude] / Ah yeah now now / Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah / Ladies and gentlemen / This has been my very first attempt / Coming back
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Marvin Gaye – Wholy Holy (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / Ah, wholy holy / Come together (Come together) / Wholy holy (Wholy holy, come together) / Gotta come together, ah yeah / And I know with the strength, power, and all the
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The Impressions – Inner City Blues
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Rockets, moon shot / Spend it on, the have nots / Money, we make it / Fore we see it you take it / Oh, make me wanna holler / Way they do my life / Make me wanna holler / The way
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Marvin Gaye – What's Happening Brother (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / Hey baby, what'cha know good? / I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would / War is hell, when will it end? / When will people start gettin' together again? / Are things
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Marvin Gaye – I Love The Ground You Walk On - Instrumental
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Instrumental
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Marvin Gaye – Sad Tomorrows
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“Sad Tomorrows” is the demo version of the classic song “Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)”, from the What’s Going On album. It was released as the b-side of “Mercy Mercy Me (The
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The D.O.C. – The Formula
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Album: No One Can Do It Better
Year: 1989
Track #: 11
Production: Dr. Dre
Sample: “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” by Marvin Gaye
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Marvin Gaye – Save The Children (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / I just want to ask a question: / Who really cares / To save a world in despair? / Who really cares? / There'll come a time (There'll come a time) / When the world won't
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Marvin Gaye – What's Happening Brother (Live 1972)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Hey baby, what you know good / I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would / War is hell -- when will it end? / When will people start
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Meshell Ndegéocello – Make Me Wanna Holler
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[Verse 1] / My mother used to whore herself / And my father / Would reap the benefits of her labor / It was almost as if she was absent / Absent from her own life / I remember
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Amerigo Gazaway – I Want You 'Til the Summertime Samples
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See all of “I Want You 'Til the Summertime” by Amerigo Gazaway’s samples
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Mr. Voodoo – Da' Come Up (Dirty)
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Agu (AKA Mr. Voodoo) - “Da’ Come Up” / [Emcee(s): Agu (AKA Mr. Voodoo)] / [Producer(s): Looie II] / [Intro: Agu (AKA Mr. Voodoo)] / Yeah, yeah, yo (Uh huh), this Agu (That’s right
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Star Cast (Ft. Brittany O'Grady, Ryan Destiny & Sharlene) – Sun Comes Up
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[Intro] / Dad'l la, da-da, dad'l, dad'l la, da / Dad'l la, da, da-da, dad'l, dad'l la, da / Dad'l lad'l la / Crime is / (Whoo) / Increasing / Trigger happy policing / Panic is
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Bono – Save the Children
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I just want to ask a question / Who really cares? / To save a world in despair / There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin' / Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin
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Placebo (BE) (Ft. Guy Theisen) – Inner City Blues
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[Intro: Guy Theisen] / Dah-dah-dah-dah, dah-dah, dah-dah-dah-dah / Dah-dah-dah-dah, dah-dah, dah-dah-dah-dah / Dah-dah / [Verse 1: Guy Theisen] / Rockets, moon shots / Spend it on
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Marvin Gaye – What's Going On (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying / Brother, brother, brother / There's far too many of you dying / You know we've got to find a way / To bring some lovin
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Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
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This song mourns the destruction of the environment in a modernized society. Oil catastrophies, radioactive waste, and overpopulation… we even Almost Lost Detroit.
In his
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Marvin Gaye – Thanks to the Orchestra
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[Interlude: Marvin Gaye] / Right here, I'd like to have you / I'd like to have you say hello to the orchestra, just for a second / We'd like to have—I don't know if these are / I
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Marvin Gaye – What's Happening Brother
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The second song on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On tells a story of a soldier coming back to the United States after fighting in Vietnam, and the adjustments to culture that he has
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Marvin Gaye – What's Going On (Mono Single Version)
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[Verse 1] / Mother, mother / There's too many of you crying / Brother, brother, brother / There's far too many of you dying / You know we've got to find a way (Find a way)- / To
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Marvin Gaye – Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
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“Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)” is based around the concept of Marvin Gaye’s drug use. At this point in his life, he was still mainly smoking marijuana but he’d later delve
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Lisa Stansfield – Just to Keep You Satisfied
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You were my life, my hopes and dreams / For you to understand what this means / I shall explain / I stood all the jealousy, all the bitching, too / Yes, I'd forget all once in bed
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Devon Gilfillian (Ft. Ruby Amanfu) – What's Happening Brother
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Oct 22, 2020 ... 8. Wholy Holy (Unreleased). 9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Unreleased) ... James Nyx & Marvin Gaye. Strings Arranger. Ryan Connors.
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Marvin Gaye – Head Title a.k.a. Distant Lover
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On “Head Title”, we hear Marvin Gaye freestyling over the luscious instrumental that would eventually become “Distant Lover”.
This was one of a series of tracks Gaye cut in
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Marvin Gaye – God Is Love (Single Version)
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[Verse 1] / Don't go and say things 'bout my father / God is my friend (I love Him) / He made this world for us to live in / He gave us everything / And all He asks of us / Is we
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Marvin Gaye – Sixties Medley
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[Intro] / Yeah / Woo-hoo / Woo, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, baby / Woo, woo, oh Lord / [Part 1: That's the Way Love Is] / [Verse 1] / As the bitter tears fall from your eyes / A
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