 Genius Meanings
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No Doubt – Excuse Me Mr.
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The second song on No Doubt’s 1995 album Tragic Kingdom, and the fourth single from the album. Written by vocalist Gwen Stefani and guitarist Tom Dumont, “Excuse Me Mr.” is a fast-
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No Doubt – Happy Now?
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[Verse 1] / You had the best, but you gave her up / 'Cause dependency might interrupt / Idealistic will, so hard to please / Put your indecisive mind at ease / [Pre-Chorus] / You
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Milk Teeth – Destroyer
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[Verse 1] / Hey Mr. where you headed? / Stumbled through more red tape lines / You've got some nerve showing your / Face around here this soon / You look so scared to see me
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Blackstreet (Ft. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen) – No Diggity
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“No Diggity” is a song by Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen in her first recorded appearance.
It sold 1.6 million copies in 1996, and won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best
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No Doubt – It's My Life
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This is No Doubt’s cover of Talk Talk’s 1984 hit, “It’s My Life.” It appears on their Greatest Hits compilation album.
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No Doubt – Don't Speak
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Gwen Stefani wrote “Don’t Speak” with brother and bandmate Eric Stefani. The song details Gwen’s break-up with bandmate Tony Kanal. The two met in high school and dated for seven
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No Doubt – Just a Girl
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Stefani’s famous critique of male-dominated society, written from the perspective of the “little girl” who “needs” protection. As it turns out, Stefani, like others, are quite
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Jane Austen – Emma (Chap. 1.8)
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Harriet slept at Hartfield that night. For some weeks past she had been spending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have a bed-room appropriated to
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No Doubt – Total Hate
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You're livin' your life without a care in the world / That's the way it should be / What's life like in a candy swirl / What's life like to me / Everyone is slowing down / Look
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Fire From the Gods – Excuse Me
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[Verse 1] / Look what I’ve found, come get down / It’s that revolution sound / Call it second emancipation, break these chains and let me out / It’s not violence I’m on about, but
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No Doubt – Spiderwebs
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The opening track of No Doubt’s 1995 album Tragic Kingdom, and the second single from the album. Written by vocalist Gwen Stefani and bassist Tony Kanal, “Spiderwebs” is about a
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Jodeci – Play Thang
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[Intro: Jodeci, DeVante Swing, K-Ci] / I'm kinda lonely / So what's up? Can I call you tonight? What's your number? / 5-5-3 and I'm gettin' nasty / Think I wanna call her, hahaha
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No Doubt – Different People
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[Verse 1] / Well things can be broken down in this world of ours / You don't have to be a famous person just to make your mark / A mother can be an inspiration to her little son
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Method Man (Ft. Carlton Fisk, RZA & Streetlife) – 4:20
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420 is code for “Let’s go get high”.
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No Doubt – D.j.'s
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All of the D. J. 's surely have taken a lesson / Start talking trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson / A little competition comes my waybittybye but it always winds up the
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Green Day – Basket Case
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“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.
It’s about Billie Joe
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A$AP Rocky – L$D [Explicit]
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[Verse] / I know I dream about her all day
I think about her with her clothes off / I'm ridin' 'round with my system bumpin' LSD / I look for ways to say "I love you"
But I ain't
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The Beatnuts (Ft. Method Man) – Se Acabo
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[Method Man] / Beatnuts, Mista Mef, you know how we do / ("Se acabó") / [Ju Ju] / Free drinks on the house, word / Everybody drinking tonight / (WHAT DA DEALLY?) / Por ahi viene el
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Ghostface Killah (Ft. Madam Majestic) – Ghost Showers
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Samples these two songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGmjXVsGC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZnXgxODfHg
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No Doubt – The Climb
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[Verse 1] / Step by step, I come closer to reaching the top / Every step must be placed so that I don't fall off / Looking down to see about how much higher I am / Another cool
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OFB (Ft. Bandokay, Double Lz & SJ) – Next Up?
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Part 1 / [Intro] / M1OnTheBeat / [Verse 1: Bandokay] / Your sweet one's tryna go on boujee / Looking boogie, ayy miss, excuse me / No Niners safe in the 9 'till they bake in the A
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No Doubt – Sunday Morning
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On “Sunday Morning,” No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani relishes in her exes regression—he is now the “parasite,” begging for her to come back. In a classic example of post break-up
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Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None (Chap. 10)
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"Do you believe it?" Vera asked. / She and Philip Lombard sat on the windowsill of the living-room. Outside the / rain poured down and the wind howled in great shuddering gusts
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No Doubt – Sixteen
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[Intro] / (One, two, three, four) / Yeah / [Verse 1] / You've been a juvenile / With a dolphin smile / With no elbow room / With your body in bloom / You've had your little
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OutKast – Ms. Jackson
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The second single from Stankonia, “Ms. Jackson” catapulted the Southern rap duo OutKast into the mainstream, reaching the top 5 in several countries and becoming their first of
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No Doubt – World Go 'Round
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[Verse 1] / In the quickness of our haste / It seems we forget how to live / The old blueprint no longer manifests itself / As the correct way to exist / So wipe the grime off the
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El-P (Ft. Aesop Rock) – Delorean
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The Delorean was the time-travel vessell in 1985’s Back to the Future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psxktpxkc6o
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Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes (Chap. 2)
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I / In the conduct of an invented story there are, no doubt, certain proprieties to be observed for the sake of clearness and effect. A man of imagination, however inexperienced in
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No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
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The 14th and final track on No Doubt’s 1995 album of the same name. Written by then-keyboardist Eric Stefani, “Tragic Kingdom” is a song about the famous theme park Disneyland and
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The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
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This song is sung in first person form, with Mick Jagger playing no one else but Satan himself. He documents events through history that could be seen as “works of the devil.” The
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No Doubt – Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
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[Verse 1] / Desmond has his barrow in the market place / Molly is the singer in a band / Desmond says to Molly "Girl, I like your face" / And Molly says this as she takes him by
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No Doubt – End It on This
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[Verse 1] / You see in the past, I had a dream, a fantasy / I thought that we would last, become a little family / Then one, two, three, four, the years were flying by, they soared
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Jane Austen – Emma (Chap. 1.5)
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"I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston," said Mr. Knightley, "of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing." / "A
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LDZ (Ft. Dabbla) – British Gash
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[Verse 1 - Dabbla] / Yeah, I went to the Brit Awards / It was shit and I was bored, thank god I brought a bit of draw / I can't believe they let me walk through the door / I'm a
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Lil Wayne (Ft. Cory Gunz) – A Milli (Mixtape Version)
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Rumor has it that Wayne cut Cory out of the official single because his verse was too hot… we’ll let you be the judge
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Lazee (Ft. Apollo Drive) – Calling Out
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[Intro: (Lazee) & Apollo Drive] / (All around the world, all around the world) / (There's people in need) / Wherever you are / Oh oh / (Wish I had a million hands) / (So I could
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Ft. Dr. John Watson & Sherlock Holmes) – The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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Christmas mystery in which Holmes and Watson go on a wild goose chase – with a difference.
‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ is the seventh story in The Adventures of Sherlock
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Ivor Biggun (Ft. The D. Kups) – Bras On 45 (Dirty Gertie Version)
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Bra size forty-five, bra size forty-five / Bra size forty-five, bra size forty-five / Well I went out for a boogie, a week ago last Tuesday / I was doing the Wiggin' Hustle and the
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Jimmy Spicer – Adventures of Super Rhyme (Rap)
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An idiosyncratic old school joint, it was recorded at the Platinum Factory studio in Brooklyn and released in 1980 as a 12-inch on Dazz Records. The music is another studio band
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A$AP Rocky – L$D
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This song and accompanying video were released on May 19 by Lil B on Twitter. Rocky later tweeted “THANK YOU BASED GOD.”
The song is both an ode to the drug LSD (commonly known as
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Charles Dickens – Dombey and Son (Chap.1)
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Dombey and Son / Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully
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Noah Kahan – Dial Drunk
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[Verse 1] / I'm rememberin' I promised to forget you now / But it's rainin' and I'm callin' drunk / And my medicine is drownin' your perspective out / So I ain't takin' any fault
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Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot - Act I
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Waiting for Godot (composed 1948-49, premiered 1953) is the best-known theatrical work by Nobel Prize-winning Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). A bleakly
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Randy Newman (Ft. Kathy Najimy, Natalie Cole, Rick Logan & Scott Bakula) – Nothin's Gonna Stop Us
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[Danny] / Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen / If you would be so kind / Got someone very special here / She's 'bout to speak her mind... / [Sawyer] / I gotta song to sing / If you
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Eminem – Ass Like That
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In what many consider to be a low point in Eminem’s career, this hit single from 2004’s Encore features an India-flavored beat while Eminem impersonates Triumph, the Comic Insult
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