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Whodini – Freaks Come Out At Night
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“Freaks Come Out At Night” peaked at #104 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and #43 on Billboard’s R&B chart.The song also peaked at #25 on Billboard’s dance
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De La Soul (Ft. 2 Chainz) – Whoodeeni
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This song title is a reference to the old school hip hop group Whodini and their hit song ‘The Freaks Come Out At Night’ to which this beat is inspired by.
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Uncle Kracker (Ft. Busta Rhymes) – Freaks Come Out At Night
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Hey, now who goes there? / Busta Rhymes and Uncle Kracker ya'll / Check it, yeah / The freaks come out, the freaks come out / The freaks come out, the freaks come out / The freaks
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Whodini – Friends
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“Friends”, by Whodini, became the group’s signature song. It peaked at #87 at the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Billboard Hot Hip-Hop & R&B Songs.
The instrumental of “Friends
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Whodini – I'm a Ho
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From Whodini’s 1986 album, Back in Black, “I’m a Ho” was produced by Larry Smith and sampled a year later on Eazy-E’s “Boyz N the Hood” with minor adjustments.
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Rejjie Snow, MF DOOM & Cam O’bi – Cookie Chips
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Rejjie Snow enlists underground hip hop legend MF DOOM and frequent collaborator Cam O’bi for the single “Cookie Chips,” the first excerpt off of the Irish MC’s upcoming fifth
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The Game (Ft. 50 Cent) – Westside Story
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On the lead single to his debut, Game makes his aim clear—to resurrect West Coast rap. By the 2000s, rappers from the East and South rose to prominence and overshadowed the West
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Nice & Smooth (Ft. Rappin' is Fundamental) – Boogie Down Bronx / BK Connection
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[ Greg Nice ] / Ay, ay, ay, ay / Rappin' Is Fundamental / Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay / Nice & Smooth is goin down / It be the Boogie Down Bronx / BK connection / Feel it in your soul, in
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Ego Trip Magazine – Hip-Hop's Greatest Singles By Year
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ego trip’s Book of Rap Lists (buy a copy here) is a highly-entertaining reference book about hip-hop history by the creators of ego trip Magazine.
It includes a list of the
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Whodini – Five Minutes of Funk
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Five Minutes of Funk peaked at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on Billboard’s R&B chart (along with the song Friends).
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Whodini – Yours For A Night
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[Verse 1] / Why does it seem (that we) / Just don't see each other / Time passes by (and we) / Still can't compromise / I'm not asking much (from you) / All I'm sayin' is that
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Whodini – Escape (I Need a Break)
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[Intro] / Escape, gotta get away / I need a break, gotta get away / [Verse 1] / I left my house this morning on my way to work / Some lady on the train spilled coffee on my shirt
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Soopafly – Freak Freak
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[Soopafly] / Yea, yea, yea, don't stop, don't stop, don't stop / Don't quit, don't quit, don't quit / Yea, don't stop, don't stop, don't stop / Its that shit, that shit, that shit
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YG – In The Dark
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[Intro] / Mustard on the beat, ho / [Chorus] / I'm in the dark goin' brazy / I'm in the dark throwin' twenty past eighty / I'm in the dark, it's a movie, Scorsese / I'm in the dark
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Whodini – Last Night (I Had A Long Talk With Myself)
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[Hook] / Last night, I had a long talk with myself / Last night, I had a long talk with myself / Last night, I had a long talk with myself / Last night, I had a long talk with
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Whodini – Big Mouth
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A big mouth, a big mouth! / [Verse 1: Ecstasy] / There's a rumor bein' spread about me and the crew / About somethin' we did or supposed to do / You might not have heard it or
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Immature – Lover's Groove
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[Chorus (2x)] / The feeling's on to the break of dawn / The party's on lover's groove / [Verse 1: Romeo] / Let me take you on a ride / To a place where the ladies freak yo mind
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Whodini – Featuring Grandmaster Dee
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A slightly extended instrumental version of Five Minutes of Funk, though the robotic voice counting down the time was left in.
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112 (Ft. Dru Hill, Lil' Zane & Shyne) – Anywhere (Remix)
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Yo This is the remix / [Shyne] / I'll pop Pussy / Pop Nine's and I'll pop Pain / I'm not sane / Cop aim leave U not stayin' / In da dark range, Chock pain / No shoes for ya, leave
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Whodini – Do It Again
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On “Do It Again,” Whodini takes the listener on a tour of hip hop history over the arc of their career. From the humble roots that spawned a movement to its arrival on the global
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Travis Scott (Ft. Juicy J) – Wasted
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“Wasted” serves as the fourth track off of Travis Scott’s highly anticipated debut album, Rodeo. This song features Juicy J and a sample from the Pimp C track, “Havin' Thangs ‘06”.
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9th Wonder & Buckshot (Ft. Starang Wondah) – Money Makes the World Go Round
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[Verse 1: Buckshot] / The mission was supposed to be set off by Tek / Right before the fun was about to begin / B.D. got the call from the wickedest men / Kinda strange 'cause one
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (Ft. Duke Bootee & Grandmaster Melle Mel) – The Message
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” may not have been the origin of conscious-rap in the early ‘80s, but it took the idea, ran away with it, married it, had
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Whodini – Rock You Again (Again & Again)
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Rock you / (Hold up your hands to what he's doin') / Rock You / [Jalil] / Since you took the time to come to my party / I money back guarantee you won't be sorry / I plan to rock
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Whodini – The Haunted House Of Rock
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[Verse 1] / Welcome to the place where all the creatures meet / The last building to your left on a dead-end street / You'll find skeleton bones outside on the pavement / And
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Whodini – The Good Part
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When we gonna get to the good part? (Good part) / Get down, to the good part (good part) / When we gonna get to the good part? (Good part) / When we gonna get to it? / When we
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MF DOOM – Deep Fried Frenz
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DOOM raps about friendship. It sounds like he suffers from the hedgehog’s dilemma…
On the song, DOOM samples “Friends” by Whodini and “Friends and Strangers” by Ronnie Laws.
The
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Whodini – Any Way I Gotta Swing It
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From the original motion picture soundtrack A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. The music video for this song reflects the horror movie theme.
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Whodini – We Are Whodini
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Rap back in the day was about letting the listeners know 1) who you are and 2) how awesome you are.
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Whodini – Rap Machine
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Jalil unveils a potentially earth-shattering technology, earth’s first-ever robotic MC. Many are delighted, but Ecstasy has doubts….
Coming out in 1983, this was eerily
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Eazy-E – Boyz-n-the Hood
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“Boyz-n-the-Hood” is the solo debut by rapper Eazy-E as a part of N.W.A. Ice Cube wrote the song, and originally intended it to be for H.B.O., another group signed by Ruthless, but
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50/50 Twin – Check Out Time
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(*talking*) / Say, can I holla at ya / Come here mayn / [50/50 Twin] / Vibrate like a vibrator, you vibrant thang / Back it up on my brain, so you can see how I hang / Once you
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Whodini – Nasty Lady
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[Intro] / Who's that knocking at my door? / [Verse 1] / Excuse me? Excuse me? / Can I tell you a story? / About this lady that I once met / In an underground discotheque / You see
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Everlast – Ends
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[Intro] / Everything must change... / [Hook] / Ends / Some people will rob their mother / For the ends / Rats snitch on one another / For the ends / Sometimes kids get murdered
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Whodini – The Haunted House Of Rock (Vocoder Version)
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[Intro] / It's just what you wanted / Something funky and haunted / It's just what you wanted / Something funky and haunted / It's just what you wanted / Something funky and
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Whodini – Cash Money
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Cash Money Cold Cash Money (x4) / You see / Bill has lots of dollars so we call him dollar bill / He spends money like a fool 'cuz it gives him a thrill / The aim of his game is
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Jermaine Dupri (Ft. Ludacris) – Welcome To Atlanta
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‘Welcome To Atlanta’ is the second single off Jermaine Dupri’s (a.k.a JD) album, Instructions. It was also included in Ludacris’s album ‘Word Of Mouf’ as a hidden track.
The
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Nas (Ft. Q-Tip) – One Love
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“One Love” was the final single released from Illmatic. Fellow Queens native Q-Tip provided the vibes from the Heath Brothers' “Smilin' Billy Suite Part II” as the backdrop for Nas
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Eazy-E – Boyz-N-The Hood (Remix)
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Eazy-E steps up with his usual gangster persona in the classic gangsta rap track “Boyz N The Hood”, dropping references to street life in Compton at the time – cars, violence and
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Jermaine Dupri (Ft. Diddy, Ludacris, Murphy Lee & Snoop Dogg) – Welcome to Atlanta (Coast 2 Coast Remix)
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The official remix of the song “Welcome to Atlanta” from Ludacris. This one features the rappers Murphy Lee from St. Lunatics, Snoop Dogg and P. Diddy. Everybody in the song
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Nas (Ft. Lauryn Hill) – If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)
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Nas' exercise in Utopianism – inspired by Sir Thomas More (and Kurtis Blow).
Nas told Complex:
Being a hip-hop fan and Krush Groove fan, Kurtis Blow was my favorite rapper when I
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2Pac – Troublesome '96
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Previously unreleased, this song was released on the posthumous, diamond-certified, double-album Greatest Hits.
It’s possible this song is actually a subliminal diss to Nas. 2Pac
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