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The Black Keys – Fire Walk with Me
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[Verse 1] / Fire walk with me / I'm tired as I can be / Bruised, my weary soul / Flames now take control / [Verse 2] / Fire light the way / Burn the night to day / Bathe in
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The Black Keys – Walk Across the Water
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[Verse 1] / I can barely wait to get a hold on you / I wanna feel the one who has my love / Always come a runnin' when you want me to / I put no one else above / Only one I’m
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Surf Curse – Fire Walk With Me
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[Verse 1] / Fire walk away with me, tonight, tonight / I wrote in my diary that I'm fine, that I'm fine / Let's hang out by the train tracks tonight, tonight / Split that golden
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The Black Keys – Breaking Down
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[Verse 1] / I went out on the town and I stumbled / I got caught in the trap, I was humbled / Bag of bones, sat alone in the deep blue / Pull me up, you don't know what I've been
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The Black Keys – Tell Me Lies
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[Verse 1] / Burn, baby burn / You live and learn every time along the way / Lies, tellin' lies / Hypnotize, disguising things you say / [Chorus] / Tell me lies / Tell me all your
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The Black Keys – Sit Around and Miss You
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[Verse 1] / We used to play pretend / You and me thought it might never end / Now I wonder where you been / I sit around and miss you / [Verse 2] / The fireflies would glow
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The Black Keys (Ft. Beck & Juicy J) – Paper Crown
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[Verse 1: Beck] / Come on babe, so what'cha gonna do / Tell your momma, gonna ride it on through / You walk on splinters, be sleepin' on nails / Come and let your hair down, run it
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The Black Keys – Under the Gun
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[Verse 1] / Leaving now, all I have is all I own / I'm hoping it's all I need / Ran me down and the love was like a rolling stone / Only way out was to leave / [Chorus] / On the
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The Black Keys – Lo/Hi
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[Intro] / Woo! / [Verse 1] / Out on a limb in the wind of a hurricane / Down at the bar like a star in the howlin' rain / [Pre-Chorus] / Nobody to love you / Nobody to care / If
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The Black Keys – Shine a Little Light
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“Shine A Little Light” mixes it’s lyricism with harder edges, expressing the dark connotations of death and the aftermath of coping with the loss of a lover. The chorus in
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The Black Keys – Get Yourself Together
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[Verse 1] / I'll go, I'll go wherever you go / Don't care, I'm here, I want you to know / Don't run, we'll make time and take it real slow / I'll go, I'll go wherever you go / I'm
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Fantômas – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
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Memories fade to gray / My smile, your name / Roof leaks, dim lights / Low rent, high tide / Boxsprings, spare change / Your scent, my ways / Your breath, my air / Fog lifts, I
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The Black Keys – No Lovin'
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[Verse 1] / No lovin', no lovin', I'll still find a way / No baby, come save me your lovin' today / No pleadin' some reason, I'm all on my own / No lovin', no huggin', now my girl
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The Black Keys – Every Little Thing
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[Verse 1] / When you look into the mirror / Do your secrets start to show? / You been holding onto something that you wish you didn't know / Every little thing that you do / Is
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The Black Keys – Go
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[Verse 1] / In the summer time, when it's hot outside / The streets are bare, there's no one there, and the valley is wide / There comes a time, two hearts of gold / Leave together
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The Black Crowes – Hard to Handle
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The sixth track on The Black Crowes‘ 1990 album Shake Your Money Maker, and one of the singles from the album. “Hard to Handle” is a blues rock cover version of the soul song
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The Black Keys – Eagle Birds
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[Verse 1] / See twin eagle birds up in the tree / One for you and there's one for me / When we thought we might be losing our minds / We saw the signs / [Chorus] / Don't nobody
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JAY-Z & Kanye West (Ft. Frank Ocean & The-Dream) – No Church in the Wild
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“No Church in the Wild” is an existential renunciation of traditional, organized religious worship. Its theme is reminiscent of a famous line delivered by Cassius in Shakespeare’s
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King Crimson – The Court of the Crimson King
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“The Court of the Crimson King” is the fifth and titular track from King Crimson’s debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King. It is a sprawling, 10-minute epic primarily
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Alicia Keys – Girl On Fire
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“Girl On Fire” is the leading and title single from Keys' 5th solo album Girl On Fire. It was released on September 4, 2012 and peaked at #11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Kanye West – Dark Fantasy
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Preceded by the darkest period of Kanye’s life, which culminated in the infamous Taylor Swift incident, this conceptual album digs deeper into the dark side of fame.
This track
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Kendrick Lamar – Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
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Kendrick Lamar’s two-part “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” depicts life in an urban ghetto. From beginning to end, Lamar breaks down the stories that pulled him away from gang
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The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
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Jack White uses an effects pedal to make his guitar sound like a bass and howls about a rage so intense, he could take on an army all by himself. Result: the greatest riff of the
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Alicia Keys – Brand New Me
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“Brand New Me” is the second track on Alicia Keys' 2012 album, Girl on Fire. Alicia calls it the “anchor” of the record and speaking on Capital FM Radio she explained:
“Brand New
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Drake (Ft. Rick Ross) – Lemon Pepper Freestyle
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Adding on another hit to their catalog of collaborations, “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” sees Drake and Rick Ross raving about their lavish lifestyle and what it entails. Additionally
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Eminem & Skylar Grey – Black Magic
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“Black Magic,” the opening song on Music To Be Murdered By: Side B features American singer and songwriter Skylar Grey, and marks her second feature on the full album, the first
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The Midnight – Aerostar
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[Verse 1] / A forest fire from some careless spark / Weren't we embers burning in your mama's car? / The window warnings, your body carved / A clear horizon in that aerostar / [Pre
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Maxwell) – Fire We Make
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“Fire We Make” is track number seven off Alicia Keys' fifth studio album Girl On Fire. It topped Billboard’s Adult R&B chart, making it Keys' tenth #1 on the chart.
This sensual
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Rihanna – Love on the Brain
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“Love on the Brain” has a 1950’s doo-wop sound that is similar to other contemporary songs like Amy Winehouse’s “Wake Up Alone” and Beyoncé’s “Superpower.” The chord progression
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Brent Faiyaz (Ft. Alicia Keys) – GHETTO GATSBY
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[Chorus: Brent Faiyaz & Alicia Keys] / I'm sorry I've been out of touch / You said I be out of town too much / Flyer than the wind, I'm Gatsby (Uh) / I'm probably faded when you
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Eminem – Still Don’t Give a Fuck
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For the finale of his Aftermath debut, The Slim Shady LP, Eminem reaffirms that he does not give a fuck on a track laced with vivid imagery and inventive wordplay.
As Em explained
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[Intro: DJ Kay Slay & Sheek Louch] / Trackateering Music / Man, y'all did it with this one here, y'all / People love to use that quote, "I'm doin' it for the culture" / But what
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Eminem (Ft. Beyoncé) – Walk on Water
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“Walk on Water” details the struggle Eminem endured during the later half of his career. Since his comeback in 2009, his critics have showed disinterest in Eminem’s presence this
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PSC (Ft. CeeLo Green) – Walk This Way
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[Intro: T.I. & MacBoney] / Whatchu wanna do wit em on this one Mac? / The Pimp Squad Click gotta spit sum pimp shit / I don't know if I got it in me / Got to / Well I tell you what
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – It's On Again
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Kendrick’s rapid-fire rapping and Alicia’s silky vocals comes together to create this big sound perfectly fit for the superhero flick, The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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Black Eyed Peas – My Humps
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By “humps” Fergie is referring to those muscles on the sides of a lithe girl’s crotch area (the opposite of FUPA)
She might be talking about her butt – at least, that is the less
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Coldplay – Charlie Brown
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With it’s coming-of-age background and lively beat, “Charlie Brown”, the fourth track and third single off Mylo Xyloto, takes its inspiration from the famous star of Charles M
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Kanye West (Ft. Consequence & GLC) – Spaceship
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Kanye enlists the help of friends and frequent collaborators GLC and Consequence to discuss the plight of the black man in the ghettos of Chicago. ‘Ye also discusses his work as a
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21 Savage & Metro Boomin – Glock in My Lap
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On this track, 21 Savage delivers a menacing banger about gang violence and his experience with lethal weapons. He always remains alert and prepared for any danger, even keeping a
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Tom Misch – Movie
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“Movie” is the 4th track from Tom Misch’s second studio album: Geography.
Released as a single on the 2nd of November 2017, “Movie” is a poignant song reflecting on the memories
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Grim Salvo (Ft. Witchouse 40k) – BLACK RAINBOW
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[Intro: Mossback] / Terror when she told me, mmm / “This is what you wanted” / Somebody to hold me, mmm / It's all I ever wanted / Terror when she told me, mmm / “This is what you
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JAY-Z (Ft. Alicia Keys) – Empire State of Mind
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The Blueprint 3’s third single is a love song to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' home city of New York, which is also known as “the Empire State.” The title alludes to the Billy Joel ballad
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T.I. – Walk This Way
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What chu wanna do wit em on this one man? / The Pimp Squad Click gotta spit'sum pimp shit / I dunno if I got it in me / Got to / Well I tell you what this as close to some pimp
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