 Genius Meanings
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Tory Lanez – Lucky You (Freestyle)
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With this freestyle, Tory Lanez is responding to Joyner Lucas' challenge by serving up straight bars utilising a Youtube remake of the beat used by Joyner Lucas on his
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Joyner Lucas – Litty (Freestyle)
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“Litty Freestyle” is Joyner Lucas' response to Tory Lanez’s “Lucky You (Freestyle),” released earlier the same day, and followed by Lanez’s rebuttal on “Litty Again (Freestyle
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Tory Lanez – Litty Again (Freestyle)
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“Litty Again (Freestyle)” is Tory Lanez’s response to Joyner Lucas' “Litty Freestyle,” and serves as Lanez’s second track aimed at Lucas, following “Lucky You (Freestyle).” This is
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Eminem (Ft. Joyner Lucas) – Lucky You
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“Lucky You” marks the first collaboration between Eminem and Joyner Lucas, whom people have pointed out, shares many characteristics with Em in terms of rhyme and flow.
Their
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Tory Lanez – Wait For You (Freestyle)
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[Intro: Tems] / Wait for you, for you / I will wait for you, I will wait for you / Higher, saying higher-er-er-er / Ayy (ATL Jacob, ATL Jacob) / [Verse: Tory Lanez & Tems] / Look
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Tory Lanez Declares Victory In Feud With Joyner Lucas
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“Joyner Lucas, we killed you. It’s done.”
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Tory Lanez – Broke In A Minute
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“Broke In A Minute” is a one-off single by Tory Lanez, released on February 7, 2020.
According to one of Tory’s Instagram posts promoting the song before its release, the vocals
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Tory Lanez – 40 Days n 40 Nights
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“40 Days n 40 Nights” follows Tory through a time in his life when he was homeless and trying to get himself back on his feet. Those nights he felt real hunger, the cold of winter
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Weekly Annotation Competition #45
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Hello everyone! Vinyl here, I hope all of our American Geniuses had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. However, now that it’s Monday, it’s time to welcome you back to the Weekly Annotation Competition! Here, you can submit dope annotations and vote for your favorites. The person whose annotation gets the highest average score on the voting poll will receive the “Tate of the Week” title and a badge to go with it! We’ve gotten off-schedule in the past few weeks, but part of why we delayed this installment is so we could get back on track.
Who won last week?
Here are the final rankings for last week’s competition:
It was a, perhaps historically, tight competition, but this week’s winner is… @GnarlingtonTX ! Congrats! Here’s your personalized FIRST EDITION “Tate of the Week” badge:
Big shoutout to everyone who competed!
Click here view the full score breakdown.
Previous Winners
@kingkillmonger – 7
@BigBabyGOAT_HGA – 6
@SmashBeezy – 5
@chanhmatt – 2
@Liiight – 2
@Marcel
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Kanye West (Ft. Pusha T) – Runaway
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The piano, the echoing voice in the background, the distortion on his singing, the vocoder solo: every single element of this track is spine-tingling, hauntingly beautiful. Combine
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Genius – July 2020 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' JULY 2020 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For July 2020 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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Black Thought – Black Thought
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Black Thought’s 10-minute, 2000+ word freestyle on Hot 97 became viral quickly, earning over a million views in 24 hours and holding 12.8+ million views as of March 17th 2021
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Meek Mill – Meek Mill (2018)
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[Verse 1] / Walk up into Barney's and I get what I want / I really hang with niggas richer than Trump, for real / And the flow so cold it'll give you the mumps / You niggas pussy
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Nelly Furtado – Say It Right
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The third single from Nelly Furtado’s Loose, a keyboard-driven pop song inspired by the Eurythmics discussing love in a spiritual way.
The single reached #1 on the Billboard Hot
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Drake – Duppy Freestyle
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“Duppy Freestyle” takes shots at G.O.O.D Music artists Pusha T and Kanye West. The word “duppy” is Jamaican patois for “ghost.” Kanye released an album with Kid Cudi on June 8th
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Lola Brooke – Lola Brooke
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[Verse 1] / I don't agree with keep it coke aesthetic / I will past the whole collection / I step out of the show perfection / Bitch you know they get it / I keep the last touch
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Genius – February 2021 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' FEBRUARY 2021 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For February 2021 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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DaBaby – Suge
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In the second track from his Baby on Baby album, Charlotte rapper DaBaby delivers a homage to Marion “Suge” Knight, the founder, and former head of Death Row Records.
Knight
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Genius – July 2021 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' JULY 2021 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For July 2021 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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Flight – DeMar DeRozan Freestyle
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[Verse] / I-I be balling on these niggas like a free throw / On-only fuckin with one girl, she a freak hoe / Broke niggas Hating but they getting repoed / Touchdown down in ya city
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Drake (Ft. Swizz Beatz & T.I.) – Fancy
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An ode to independent, self-respecting women with class, ass, and their own bank accounts.
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Quilly – Quilly
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[Verse 1] / If I ruled the world, I'd lower the coke prices / Raise the welfare, and lower the perc prices / You can pay for a feature even though the flow priceless / Whole team
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Steve Lacy – Bad Habit
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“Bad Habit” is the second single released for Steve Lacy’s second album, Gemini Rights. It was released on June 29th, 2022, alongside an official music video.
The song is mainly
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O.T. Genasis (Ft. Young Dolph) – Cut It
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On “Cut It,” O.T. once again professes his love for pushing drugs.
During an interview, O.T. commented on the high expections he faced after the success of “Coco”:
I was actually
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Ginuwine – Pony
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“Pony” is Ginuwine’s debut single, released 3 months prior to his debut LP Ginuwine… the Bachelor in August 1996. The song was a huge commercial and critical success and is
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Kendrick Lamar – The Art of Peer Pressure
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The song where the album’s narrative truly begins to set itself in motion, Kendrick takes you through a vivid story of how he learned ‘Peer Pressure’ the hard way.
This samples
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Rob Markman (Ft. Kirby Maurier) – I Don't Wanna Wait
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“I Don’t Wanna Wait” is the lead single from legendary hip-hop journalist Rob Markman’s debut EP, Write to Dream. The song was premiered on Sway in the Morning on July 12th, 2017
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Bryson Tiller – Don't
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“Don’t” is the pinnacle of Bryson’s fresh R&B career, receiving over 70 million plays on his Soundcloud in under a year. The narrator of this vibey track speaks on how he wishes to
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Shotgun Suge – ShotGun Suge
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[Verse] / Try to Mike Brown me man I dare one / I'ma make sure this chopper get the fair one / SMGs, let it pop, I'ma air some / I ain't got shit to lose, I'm in square one / We
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JAY-Z – Barclays Center Freestyle
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New Hov lyrics from the opening night of the Barclays Center
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Genius – June 2020 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' JUNE 2020 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For June 2020 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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Mark Morrison – Return of the Mack
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“Return of the Mack” is a 1996 R&B track from British musician Mark Morrison. It was the lead single from his album with the same name.
While highly successful in its own right, “
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King of the Dot (Ft. Arsonal & Pat Stay) – Pat Stay vs. Arsonal II
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[Round 1: Pat Stay] / Arsonal, Arsonal, we meet again / Despite our first encounter, we actually ended up being friends / We both started families, his one didn't last though / He
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Chris Rivers – Chris Rivers
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[Verse] / Yo, gotta flex on Flex, that's flexception / Ain't no misconception, conception's the best weapon / 'Cause my popper bust that proceed pause / But as I proceed to get
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Genius – August 2020 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' AUGUST 2020 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For August 2020 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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Polo G (Ft. Lil Tjay) – Pop Out
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Polo G recruits up and coming Bronx rapper Lil Tjay for the first time on “Pop Out,” where the two rap about their streets ties and rises in fame and popularity. Produced by
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NLE Choppa – Shotta Flow
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Serving as the emerging Memphis rapper’s official solo debut, “Shotta Flow” emphasizes NLE Choppa’s energetic delivery and infectious flow. While the lines themselves can be
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Clavish – Traumatised
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[Verse] / Uh, if boy'dem pull up, know I'm cutting first / I was upset when bro got first blood 'cause I tried cuttin' first / This white girl more than average, make my number
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Genius – April 2019 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' APRIL 2019 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For April 2019 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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2Pac (Ft. Big Syke) – All Eyez On Me
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The title track off of 2Pac’s album All Eyez on Me samples Linda Clifford’s “Never Gonna Stop” (also used for Nas' “Street Dreams,” which was released a few months later in July
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Lil Wayne (Ft. Static Major) – Lollipop
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Here, we encounter Wayne’s masterful foray into electropop. He is known to experiment with different genres hence his rock album, Rebirth.
This was his breakout single, and is to
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A Boogie wit da Hoodie & Don Q – A Boogie & Don Q
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[Verse 1: A Boogie] / The summer's over, before it started I took it over / The real artist, I go and draw it then paint it over / Last year me and Sosa was sleepin' on sofas / Now
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Tory Lanez – The Most High
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[Chorus] / Uh, stepped out on bail, I did a Diddy Bop / I had to tilt my hat at the city cop / I walk away free 'cause I'm innocent / And when I walk, the whole world know a nigga
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Eminem (Ft. Dina Rae) – Superman
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Adding to Eminem’s collection of songs expressing his anger against ex-wife Kim Mathers, “Superman” contains a lot of harsh truths about the kinds of women that Eminem interacts
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TZ (Female Rapper) – FREESTYLE FRIDAY ELEVEN
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[verse] / Gotta be another way / When it comes to love I swear to God I caught a couple slugs when they started letting off the strays / Couldn’t bare the wait to wake another day
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Sin Squad (SS) (Ft. GP (Sin Squad), KayyKayy, S A Vheezy & Uncs (Sin Squad)) – [Sin Squad] Plugged In Freestyle 2
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Part 1 / [Intro: S A Vheezy] / They know alot of people ask us "How is CDot funded? Where do you get your money from?" The simple answer / Sin Squad, shout out Fumez the Engineer
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USHER – U Don't Have to Call
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Usher is rarely on the other end of a bad relationship, but in this song he discusses how he was ditched and had to find some love in the club once again.
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Genius – August 2021 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' AUGUST 2021 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For August 2021 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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