 Genius Meanings
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Odyssey – Use It Up And Wear It Out
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Shake shake your body down / Oh shake / Skae your body down / Oh shake / ... / Everybody - all you people gather round / And get your body busy - move it up and groove it down / We
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Brotherhood of Man – Use It Up & Wear It Out
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[Intro] / Shake / Shake your body down / Shake / Shake your body down / Shake / [Verse 1] / Everybody, all you people gather round / And let your body music, move it up and move it
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Odyssey – Hang Together
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[Verse 1] / The world is full of hurryin' people tryna lead us nowhere / The world is full of worryin' people sayin' we ain't got a prayer / Ooh / The world is full of down-and-
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David Bowie – Space Oddity
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‘Major Tom’ is a fictional character created by David Bowie for this song in 1969. That same year marked the first moon landing, so space was “in”; this was a year after Stanley
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Odyssey – If You're Looking For A Way Out
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[Verse 1] / Love is crazy baby, I can see it in your eyes / Your kisses taste the same / But it's just a sweet disguise / Ain't that just like you / To worry about me / But we
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Kendrick Lamar – Look Out For Detox
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“Look Out For Detox” was recorded as a promotion for Dr. Dre’s unreleased Detox—which attained semi-mythical status over the decade-plus period since it was first announced. Dre
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Danger Mouse & Black Thought (Ft. Kid Sister & Raekwon) – The Darkest Part
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[Chorus: Kid Sister] / Shine the light into the darkest part of me / All around you, find the one thing they can't see / Though they say / They'll take your pain / Don't give it
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Orion Sun – Space Jam - An Odyssey
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[Intro] / This is Mission Control / Houston / [Chorus] / You wear Michael Jordans / I can't afford them / I got dreams of Paris / I'd love to share them / I wanna go real far, like
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Florence + the Machine – Third Eye
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In “Third Eye”, Florence encourages a fellow friend to come out of their shell and learn to love again, only to reveal that she’s going through the same problems also.
They
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Drake – Nonstop
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On “Nonstop,” Drake flexes his abilities as a rapper and the business moves being made behind the scenes of his music. The song audibly has a distinct Memphis influence, as
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A Track By Track Analysis Of Every Song On Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’
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The Genius community wrote bios for every song, breaking down themes of love, drugs, and depression.
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Homer – The Odyssey (Book IV)
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The Visit To King Menelaus, Who Tells His Story—Meanwhile The Suitors In Ithaca Plot Against Telemachus / they reached the low lying city of Lacedaemon, where they drove straight
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Go-Rilla Warfare (Ft. Daylyt & O-Red) – Daylyt vs O-Red
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[Round 1: O-Red] / Let’s put all these suckas dodging Lyt in one circle / You who I got to bite next for sho, Red / So I brought a perfect round for this bloodsucker, O Red / What’
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Toosii – Love is...
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In “Love is…,” Toosii displays his vulnerable side as he laments about a failed relationship.
The song employs a piano-sampled beat to establish a sorrowful ambiance that provides
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
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“Juicy” is the first single from Big’s debut album, Ready to Die, and is the track that established him as a titan.
It was one of the first mainstream rap songs about a rapper’s
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Drake (Ft. Playboi Carti) – Pain 1993
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“Pain 1993” is a nod to fashion designer Ian Connor’s motto, “Born from Pain 1993.” Ian is a longtime friend of Drake and Carti and he was previously Carti’s manager. Carti even
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Nicki Minaj – Good Form
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A week before the release of the songs “Chun-Li” and “Barbie Tingz”, Nicki Minaj appeared in a Mercedes-Benz commercial, and the hip-hop instrumental used in the commercial was
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
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“Maps” is a single by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their debut full-length album, Fever to Tell (2003).
It was released on February 10, 2004, and the band performed the song at that
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Slipknot – Psychosocial
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“Psychosocial” is a song about hate for life and broken society. It’s the second single from All Hope is Gone and was nominated for the 2009 Grammy for Best Metal Performance
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Solve The Problem – Stars'R'us
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[hook] / Rockstar, gucci flip flop' star / Loud pack, cookie sweet like pop tart / Glock star, killers on my block star / Flashback's flicker like some cop cars / Heard 'em pray
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Flatbush Zombies – This Is It
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The second single released before the album dropped along with the music video on March 11, 2016. It is the 11th track on the album, talking about how most rap sounds the same and
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Smino, Young Pink & Jay2 – Z4L
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“Z4L” stands for “Zero For Life.” “Z4L” is a collaboration between Zero Fatigue label members Smino, Bari, and Jay2. The trio previously worked together on the song “Manegos” which
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Sol (Ft. Camila Recchio & Otieno Terry) – Legacy
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[Intro: Sol] / Legacy...yeah / Take a trip down memory lane, wonder if you'll remember my name? / I live my life like the canvas is plain (why?), cause it is, is whatever you think
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Drake – War
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On December 19, 2019, Shoot the Messenger debuted a snippet of a new Drake track that he performed live at a club in Canada. Five days later, Oliver El-Khatib released “War” as a
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Pantera – Cowboys from Hell
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“Cowboys From Hell” is brazen personal anthem meant to broadcast Pantera’s Texas origin with the unabashed usage of cliched western themes and parlance. The title’s abbreviation “
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Ali Vegas – Queens Anthem
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(Yo) Queens got shit on lock / Wipe your feet when you step in my house (Queens nigga) / Queens got shit on lock (Ali Vegas) (no doubt watch yo mouth) / *Repeat / (Ali Vegas) / Yo
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A$AP Mob (Ft. A$AP Rocky, Gleesh, Playboi Carti & Tyler, The Creator) – Telephone Calls
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“Telephone Calls” is the first collab between A$AP Mob and Tyler, the Creator. A$AP Rocky and Tyler have collaborated before on “What The Fuck Right Now” and a “Golf Media
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Ramirez (Ft. $UICIDEBOY$) – GreyGods
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[Intro: DJ Paul] / This for all you, this for all you, this for all you playa hataz / This for all you, this for all you, this for all you playa hataz / This for all you, this for
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Homer – The Odyssey (Book V)
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Calypso—Ulysses Reaches Scheria On A Raft / And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus—harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals—the gods met in council and with
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Odyssey – Native New Yorker
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[Intro] / New York girl, ooh, ooh, ooh / Runnin' pretty, New York City girl / 25, 35, hello, baby / New York City girl / [Verse 1] / You grew up ridin' the subways, running with
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Odyssey – Inside Out
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[Verse 1] / When you're sitting on your own / And you feel the city life surround you / And she's always on the phone / But you just don't think that you can fight it / [Pre-Chorus
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blink-182 – I Miss You
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“I Miss You” is one of Blink-182’s most iconic tracks, serving as a haunting depiction of the effect depression can have on a relationship and its subsequent fallout.
The song ‘I
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Herodotus (Ft. G. C. Macaulay) – The History of Herodotus, Vol I (Chap. 4)
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The Fourth Book Of The Histories, Called Melpomene / 1. After Babylon had been taken, the march of Dareios himself 1 against the Scythians took place: for now that Asia was
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Ivan Ave – Warm Couture
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[Intro] / What's up Don? / You cold today / Layer up, layer up / [Verse 1] / My coat got / Goatskin lining for how she roll her eyes at me / Baby seal half for the ice-cold irony
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David Bowie – Life on Mars?
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“Life on Mars?” is often considered one of the true masterpieces of the Bowie Canon. Originally released on the Hunky Dory album in 1971, it was made a single in 1973 during the
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Dua Lipa – Levitating
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With themes of space travel and excitement, “Levitating” is a joyful ode to the often-quick process of falling in love. Originally included on Dua Lipa’s 2020 album, Future
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