Genius Meanings
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Vanilla Ice – Play That Funky Music
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Based heavily on the Wild Cherry hit of the same name, “Play That Funky Music” was Vanilla Ice’s first single, with “Ice Ice Baby” as its B-side.
That B-side became popular, so it
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Vanilla Ice – Play That Funky Music [Extremely Live]
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[Intro] / Yo, Vanilla. Kick it one time, boy! / Lay down the boogie and play that funky music 'till you die / [Verse 1] / Check it out, cause Ice is rhyming / To the top I keep on
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Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
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“Play That Funky Music” is Wild Cherry’s first and only international top 10 hit, and their signature song. It topped the US Pop Chart in September of 1976. In 2018, Billboard
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Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
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“Ice Ice Baby” was originally the flipside to Vanilla Ice’s debut single “Play That Funky Music”. When it was later released as its own single, it became an international smash hit
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Vanilla Ice – Ninja Rap
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This song was created for the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze” movie. It dropped in 1991, at the height of Vanilla Ice’s fame.
In the movie, Vanilla Ice
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Vanilla Ice – Ice Is Workin It
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[Verse 1] / Yo! here comes the intro / It's time to let it go / I live the life of my rhyme, I think i'll let it show / So, keep it goin' so the mic can stay warm / Then I know i'
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Vanilla Ice – Juice to Get Loose Boy
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[Spoken Word] / Yo, this is Vanilla Ice and The VIP Posse / Kickin' it colder than ever with the Juice to get Loose Boy
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Vanilla Ice – Havin' a Roni
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This was Vanilla Ice’s beatboxing song, to show off his beatboxing skills.
Roni is short for tenderoni, refering to a girl who is young, sweet, and a virgin. No, really!
This
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Vanilla Ice – Ice Cold
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[Intro] / Uh! / With your bad self- / Uh! / With your bad self- / Uh! / With your bad self- / Uh! / With bad-bad self- / Uh! / [Verse 1] / All right, stop, spread yourself around
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Vanilla Ice – Stop That Train
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This was the first song composed by Vanilla Ice after signing a record deal with a major company. They paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance which caused Ice to write this
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Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby (Miami Drop Mix)
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Yo, VIP, let's kick it! / Ice ice baby / Ice ice baby / All right stop / Collaborate and listen / Ice is back with my brand new invention / Something grabs a hold of me tightly
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The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
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“Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)” was the first single from The Offspring’s 1998 album Americana, and it is one of the band’s well-known songs.
It achieved significant pop and rock
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LL Cool J – Rock the Bells (Original)
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[Intro] / Rumor has it that you're tired of my scratchin' and drums / And of couse I wanna expand to the maximum / So I injected one more element to that of L.L. / Came up with
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Vanilla Ice – Go Ill
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[Verse 1] / Get on up...i walk the beat and walk it with clarity / I wanna' make sure all's hearing me / Ducks who's bumming, I found your hide away / I'm livin' large y'all so by
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Vanilla Ice – Satisfaction
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[Verse 1] / Saturday night, The club was packed, But I can't get no action / The girl I want is frontin hard, I can't get no satisfaction / Thousand people up in the club and the
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Vanilla Ice (Ft. Riff) – I Love You
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[Intro: Riff] / Ooh! / La, di-di, di-di, da / Ah, oh yeah, yeah / [Verse 1: Vanilla Ice] / Girl, I keep thinkin' of how I feel / When I'm in your arms, gives me a chill / Just
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Vanilla Ice – Rosta Man
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[Intro] / Strictly from the islands, vanilla ice / The man jam down reggae music / Mash it up ice, mash it / [Verse 1] / I got the rhyme to keep the body pumpin' / Turn the party
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Vanilla Ice – Fight the Power
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[Intro] / 1989! / 1989! / [Verse 1] / The number, another summer (Get down!) / Sound of the funky drummer / Music hittin' your heart 'cause I know you got soul! (Brothers and
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Rodney O & Joe Cooley – U Don’t Hear Me Tho’ (Street Mix)
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[Intro: Joe Cooley] / But you don't hear me though / [Pre-Chorus] / Uh, uh / Uh, uh, uh / [Chorus: Pumpkin] / Funk, funk, funky / Funk, funk, funky / Funk, funk, funky / Funk, funk
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Vanilla Ice – Minutes of Power
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[Verse 1] / Crank it up, yo, and let me hear that system bump / Cuz with this here I gotta get over the hump / And you know what that means (that means) / Kickin' out funky rhymes
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Vanilla Ice – The People's Choice
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[Intro] / Yup, yup / Drop it / Oh yeah, I'm gonna drop some funky lyrics / And here goes a little bit something like this / Hit it / [Verse 1] / It's not what you say, It's how you
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Vanilla Ice – The Wrath
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In this song, Ice answers back with anger against critics, especially 3rd Bass. He also explains the sound his 2nd album, in which this song is featured, is like.
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Michael Jackson – Beat It
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Released as the third single from Thriller, “Beat It"—along with the second single "Billie Jean"—helped propel the album to the top of the charts and into the record books as the
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Vanilla Ice – Hooked
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[Intro] / 1, 2, 3, 4 / Hit it, hit it / [Verse 1] / Yeah, here's a story bout' my homeboy Randy / He was hooked on a girl named Candy / Started off as sex for fun / Now the girl's
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Vanilla Ice – Prozac
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[Verse 1] / Stop as I drop this bomb / Blow up this place like another Vietnam / I'm heavy like a Holyfield blow to the dome / Back up son, now give me room, give me room / I set
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Eminem – Role Model
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Eminem himself talked about this song in the book “The Angry Blonde” saying:
“I was just fucking around when I made this song. To me it’s just a rap record. The message behind it
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DJ Quik – Tonite
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[Intro] / Here we go / Yo / [Verse 1] / A day in the life of a player named Quik / I'm just a stubborn kind of fellow with a head like a brick / And just because I drink the eight
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Vanilla Ice – Too Cold
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“Too Cold” is a rap-metal remake of “Ice Ice Baby”.
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Vanilla Ice – Get Loose
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[Verse 1] / Get Loose / Vanilla Ice is here with the juice / No use for steppin' so give the bass a boost / Produced by the 3 man crew / Not a deuce just a hit man / Keepin
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Vanilla Ice (Ft. Princess) – Get Wit It
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[Verse 1] / Disaster, systems break when I quake / Make no mistake, the crowd stays awake / When I'm Shakin' and bakin' and I'm takin' all mc's / Smilin' on the mic cause I'm gonna
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EPMD – Crossover
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This was the final addition and first single on Business Never Personal, and also ironically one of EPMD’s biggest hits. The song uses pop sounds (sample of Roger Troutman’s “You
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Del the Funky Homosapien (Ft. DJ Pooh & Rashad Coes) – Same Ol' Thing
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[Hook] / The same ol' thing (All over the world) / The same ol' thing (Got to get wit' it) / The same ol' thing (MCs out there got...) / The same ol' thing (So let me tell ya 'bout
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize
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Biggie’s first number one hit “Hypnotize” was released just a week before his death on March 9, 1997. The song was the first single from his second album Life After Death.
The
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Vanilla Ice – Hit 'Em Hard
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[Chorus] / Hit 'em hard, Ice! Hit 'em hard, Ice! / Hit 'em hard, Ice! Hit 'em hard! / Hit 'em hard, Ice! Hit 'em hard, Ice! / Hit 'em hard, Ice! Hit 'em hard! / Hit 'em hard, Ice
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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (Ft. Loleatta Holloway) – Good Vibrations
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“Good Vibrations”, a #1 song in the US, Denmark, Sweden & Switzerland in the fall of 1991, was the result of a promise made to Mark Wahlberg by his brother Donnie, who was on tour
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Public Enemy – Fight the Power
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This anthem, originally from the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s classic movie Do the Right Thing and later on PE’s seminal album Fear of a Black Planet, is perhaps the group’s best-
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Cypress Hill – How I Could Just Kill a Man
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Cypress Hill’s debut single and first big hit. “How I Could Just Kill A Man” was actually the b-side of the single but it quickly overshadowed its a-side, “The Phuncky Feel One”.
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Vanilla Ice (Ft. 2Hype, C-Note & Insane Poetry) – Freestyle
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[Hook: Vanilla Ice] / Freestylin on the mic at Indigo / Freestylin on the mic so let it flow / Freestylin on the mic at Indigo / First on the microphone; Cyco! / [Verse 1: Cyco
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