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Grand Funk - We're An American Band

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Album: We're An American Band
Released: 1973

We're An American Band Lyrics

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact
Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight

We're An American Band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

Four young chiquitas in Omaha
Waitin' for the band to return from the show
Feelin' good, feelin' right, it's Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight
Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said, come on dudes, let's get it on
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band, wooo
We're an American band, wooo
We're an American band, wooo

Writer/s: BREWER, DONALD GEORGE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was written by Grand Funk drummer Don Brewer. In our interview , he told us:

"We started out as a trio in 1969. Everybody calls it 'Heavy Metal,' but heavy metal didn't come around until the '80s, so we were just a hard rock trio. We were kind of riding along with the FM underground situation, so we were able to make 7-minute, 9-minute songs and we'd get the airplay because that was the in thing to do - we could get whole albums played. As we moved into 1972, FM underground radio was beginning to be very commercial, so they were looking for songs that were 3 minutes 30 seconds long. We needed to go that way. We left our former manager Terry Knight in 1972. We were going through lawsuits and all this crap and we came out with an album that was very different for Grand Funk Railroad called The Phoenix Album. We were lucky to have sort of a semi-hit off that record (Rock 'N' Roll Soul), but we knew that the next record had to be something big or the career was going to go down the toilet. We were touring, supporting The Phoenix Album, we were going from town to town, there were lawsuits flying all over the place, it was a very tumultuous time period. I remember lots of discussions in the back of cars going, 'What are we going to do next?' Our manager kept saying, 'Why don't you just write songs about what you do: you're out here on the road, you're going to this hotel, you go to different places, there's people, you come into town...'

So the thought came into my mind, 'We're coming to your town, we'll help you party it down.' That's really what we were doing - we were coming into town and we were the party. That's where the line came from, and the next thought I had was, 'We're an American band.' It wasn't to wave the flag or anything, it was just simply what we were. It was a true description and it kind of rolled off my mind. I went home and worked on the concept for a while and picked up a guitar; I'm not really a great guitar player, I can play tow-finger chords and that kind of stuff. I worked out the chord structure and I brought it in to rehearsal one day and there you go - we just let it go from there. It had a mind of its own."

The lyrics are about little things that were going on on the road during the Phoenix tour. All of them are true. Don explains the line, "Up all night with Freddie King, I've got to tell you, poker's his thing":

"Freddie King was the opening act for us, the great Blues guitar player from Texas. It always struck me as funny that he would make his band play poker with him every night. We used to sit in on some of the poker games, and that's where that line came from. His band, he'd pay them, and then he'd go win all the money back so they were broke and they'd have to keep playing for him - it was a great deal. A lot of people don't understand the Freddie King part because they don't know who Freddie King is. Anybody who knows about Freddie King immediately picks it up. People who don't say, 'What are you saying, that Focus can't sing?'"

Regarding the line, "four young chiquitas in Omaha," Don Brewer told us that it came from a situation where they checked into a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska. "There were four groupies in the lobby waiting to see the band," he said. "'Four young chiquitas' sounded a lot better than 'four young groupies' or 'four young girls.'"

The line, "Sweet Sweet Connie was doing her act" is about Connie Hamzy, a famous groupie known as "Sweet Connie." Some of her rumored conquests include Brewer, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Huey Lewis, Peter Criss, and Bill Clinton 9when he was governor of Arkansas). This song made her famous, and in 2010 VH1 ran a special about her life. According to Hamzy, she didn't have "the whole band," as stated in the lyrics, but she came pretty close - Mark Farner was a holdout.

Brewer sang lead on this. Grand Funk guitarist Mark Farner sang most of their songs, but Don was the lead vocal on songs like "Shinin' On," "Walk Like A Man" and "Gimme Shelter." He and Mark shared vocals on "Some Kind Of Wonderful."

Brewer: "From the time when I brought the song in and we worked up an arrangement to it and we got it recorded, the song just had a life of its own after that. Nobody can just sit down and say, 'I'm going to write a song like this and it's going to be a major hit.' They just either have it, or they don't, and that one just had it."

Todd Rundgren produced the We're An American Band album. He is an accomplished musician who produced albums for Badfinger and The New York Dolls before working with Grand Funk. He has played on albums by Joan Jett, Cheap Trick and Hall & Oates, and had success as a solo artist with the hit "Hello It's Me." Brewer explains his production style: "Working with Todd was very relaxed, he did the engineering himself as well as production. He would just kind of sit there and let us do our thing and work our way through all the arrangements - every now and then he'd drop in a suggestion. His real thing was the sound. He had a way of turning knobs that would make everything sound huge, even in the headphones. A lot of the engineers would come in and say, 'I've got to record everything flat, don't worry about what it sounds like in the headphones, I'll make it sound great later.' Todd was of the school that, 'I'm going to make it sound great right now, it's going to tape right now. I'm not going to screw around with it later and get a whole different sound. You guys are going to hear the way it's going to sound on the record in your headphones.' That was new to us and it just blew us away that we're hearing these great sounds in the headphones as we're playing. Back then, we used to do an entire album in a week, so you didn't have a lot of time for splicing and editing and changing arrangements after you got it done. It was done in a week and it was done with mistakes or without."

Grand Funk was one of the best-selling bands of the '70s, and this was their biggest hit. Critics were often very harsh, especially Rolling Stone magazine, but they had a huge fan base and got lots of radio play. Says Brewer, "The time was right, it was the summer heading for the 4th of July. We'd really come off of about a year of publicity in Rolling Stone and other music mags with publicity flying over our lawsuits with Terry Knight. There were a lot of things going on where as long as we came up with something that was very commercially viable, it was going to hit, and this came and really took it over the top. We enlisted Todd Rundgren to work on the album - we wanted that commercial appeal Todd could give us with FM radio - he really understood what the sound of the time was. When he came in, the magic was there. We recorded in Miami, one thing was leading to another and it was all snowballing and happening for us. The fact that the song was so good, and so commercially good just added to it."

This was the first of two #1 singles by Grand Funk - the other was their remake of "The Loco-Motion" a year later.

This was Grand Funk's first major hit after shedding their original manager, Terry Knight (they were originally Terry Knight and the Pack). It was also their first single as Grand Funk, rather than Grand Funk Railroad.

In the first pressing, all the copies of the 45 RPM records were pressed on gold vinyl. Says Brewer: "That was Capitol's idea. A couple of bands had done that prior to us. It's called virgin vinyl and it's expensive, so record companies didn't want to do virgin vinyl. You could see through it. Black vinyl, they can put all kinds of impurities in there that nobody cares about. Virgin vinyl, where you can see though it, if there were impurities and stuff there would be specks all through it, so they didn't like doing that, but we went to them and said, 'Look, we want to make a special statement,' so they agreed to print 100,000 units of both the single and the album on virgin gold vinyl to go along with the gold record situation we had going - we had about six gold records prior to that, and it was like, 'Let's give everybody a gold record.' They were rare, and they still go for a pretty good buck with collectors."

Death from Above 1979 - Government Trash

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Album: The Physical World
Released: 2014

Government Trash Lyrics

Well you can't say nothin'
We're doin' right
'Cause the Government Trash
Will give me up all night

'Cep for drugs so hard
They need to break their banks
Don't step on the crack
'Cause you know about that, oh

21, 21, Nobody knows anything at 21
22, 22, Nobody knows anything at 22

She's alright, alright
She'll make it alright, alright

It's not a secret
Everybody has decided
Look in the mirror
Starin' back in those eyes

Don't stop thinkin'
Now pass the phone
I said do what you want
But just leave me alone

Nothin' is free
Call the police
They dress to care
I dress to die, oh

It's not a secret
Everybody has decided
Look in the mirror
Starin' back in those eyes

Don't stop thinkin'
Now pass the phone
I said do what you want
But just leave me alone

Writer/s: GRAINGER, SEBASTIEN / KEELER, JESSE N
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This explosive track was released as the second single from The Physical World. "I'm happy that song came out just as crazy s--t was happening in Ferguson, Missouri," Death From Above frontman and drummer Sebastien Grainger told The Guardian, referring to the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was killed by a police officer.

"The second verse was written while watching Boston being occupied by police after the marathon bombing. What the f--k was going on? That s--t happened at the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010, too; kids got thrown in jail for absolutely no reason."

Grainger believes the bass-led song is the most ambitious thing his DFA partner, Jesse F. Keeler, has done. "I was encouraging him to play the s—t out of the bass," he told NME, "play the craziest thing he could play, and then tried to keep up."

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

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Album: Jimmy Eat World
Released: 2001

Bleed American Lyrics

Frankie was a heart breaker
I didn't know it at the start
She was only 16
But she went and broke my heart

And she pulled up in her dad's car wearing white
She said she knew a place where we could hide
She didn't have a license and she told me I could drive
So I drove all night

Why don't you leave me, she asked that night
I said, I see, I didn't know the kid is mine
I'll never leave you, it isn't right
Let's stay together until the end of time

Oh now the white is red
Can't get it outta my head
Oh now the white is red

I heard that there's a place where we can go
Across the state there's no one that we know
Or maybe rent a place where we can stay
Where what we have will go along the way

Then Frankie turned to me, she looked me in the eye
She said that I looked tired, she told me she could drive
I pulled up to the station, walked through neon lights
Then she put her foot down, down, down, down

Why did you leave me alone that night
You took of racing, the kid is mine
You left me standing out on the yellow line
The daylights fading into the night

We cross the line
We cross the line
We cross the line
We cross the line

Oh now the white is red
Can't get it outta my head
Oh now the white is red

I don't know why she left, took off racin'
I ran down yellow line, red lights fadin'
She went left, double line, outta luck, outta time
I cover my eyes, I know she crossed the line

She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line

Oh now the white is red
Can't get it outta my head
Oh now the white is red

Writer/s: GRAINGER, SEBASTIEN / KEELER, JESSE N
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This road song is about a heartbreaker named Frankie. DFA 1979 frontman and lyricist Sebastien Grainger explained to NME: "This is a journey song. I started with the lyric 'Frankie was a heartbreaker' and then this story emerged. It's one of the most concise narrative lyrics I've ever written. It's a bit Springsteen because it's a wandering ballad and a car song."

Death from Above 1979 - White Is Red

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Album: The Physical World
Released: 2014

White Is Red Lyrics

Frankie was a heart breaker
I didn't know it at the start
She was only 16
But she went and broke my heart

And she pulled up in her dad's car wearing white
She said she knew a place where we could hide
She didn't have a license and she told me I could drive
So I drove all night

Why don't you leave me, she asked that night
I said, I see, I didn't know the kid is mine
I'll never leave you, it isn't right
Let's stay together until the end of time

Oh now the White Is Red
Can't get it outta my head
Oh now the white is red

I heard that there's a place where we can go
Across the state there's no one that we know
Or maybe rent a place where we can stay
Where what we have will go along the way

Then Frankie turned to me, she looked me in the eye
She said that I looked tired, she told me she could drive
I pulled up to the station, walked through neon lights
Then she put her foot down, down, down, down

Why did you leave me alone that night
You took of racing, the kid is mine
You left me standing out on the yellow line
The daylights fading into the night

We cross the line
We cross the line
We cross the line
We cross the line

Oh now the white is red
Can't get it outta my head
Oh now the white is red

I don't know why she left, took off racin'
I ran down yellow line, red lights fadin'
She went left, double line, outta luck, outta time
I cover my eyes, I know she crossed the line

She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line
She crossed the line

Oh now the white is red
Can't get it outta my head
Oh now the white is red

Writer/s: GRAINGER, SEBASTIEN / KEELER, JESSE N
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This road song is about a heartbreaker named Frankie. DFA 1979 frontman and lyricist Sebastien Grainger explained to NME: "This is a journey song. I started with the lyric 'Frankie was a heartbreaker' and then this story emerged. It's one of the most concise narrative lyrics I've ever written. It's a bit Springsteen because it's a wandering ballad and a car song."

R.E.M. - Orange Crush

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Album: Green
Released: 1988

Orange Crush Lyrics

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Orange Crush was an orange flavored soft drink. In this case, though, it was meant to refer to Agent Orange, a chemical used by the US to defoliate the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. US military personnel exposed to it developed cancer years later and some of their children had birth defects. The extreme lyrical dissonance in the song meant that most people completely misinterpreted the song, including Top Of The Pops host Simon Parkin, who remarked on camera after R.E.M. performed the song on the British TV show, "Mmm, great on a summer's day. That's Orange Crush."

The song does not refer to any single Vietnam-related experience for lead singer Michael Stipe, but simply that he lived in that era of American history. He wrote in Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011: "[The song is] a composite and fictional narrative in the first person, drawn from different stories I heard growing up around Army bases. This song is about the Vietnam War and the impact on soldiers returning to a country that wrongly blamed them for the war."

Stipe's father served in Vietnam in the helicopter corps.

Stipe sometimes introduced this in concert by singing the US Army jingle, "Be all that you can be, in the Army."

The drill sergeant heard in the background during the middle is just an imitation by Stipe. In the traditional Michael Stipe way, the words he says during the imitation are complete nonsense.

This was not the first R.E.M. song to deal with the Vietnam War. That distinction goes to "Body Count," an early unreleased song that they played live many times.

This was used in the 2007 drama Towelhead, starring Maria Bello, Chris Messina and Summer Bishil.

The song's meaning keeps changing for Peter Buck. He wrote in the In Time liner notes:
"I must have played this song onstage over three hundred times, and I still don't know what the f*** it's about. The funny thing is, every time I play it, it means something different to me, and I find myself moved emotionally. [Playwright/composer] Noel Coward made some remark about the potency of cheap music, and while I wouldn't describe the song as cheap in any way, sometimes great songwriting isn't the point. A couple of chords, a good melody and some words can mean more than a seven-hundred-page novel, mind you. Not a good seven-hundred-page novel mind you, but more say, a long Jacqueline Susann novel. Well alright, I really liked Valley of the Dolls."

Garth Brooks - People Loving People

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Album: Man Against Machine
Released: 2014

People Loving People Lyrics

Doctor, you ain't got a pill
For whatever's making this world ill
You can't get forgiveness at the store
And peace, it's a politician's war

You won't find no resolution in the bottom of a bottle
In the stars or Aristotle, the only answer to the problem is…

People Loving People
That's the enemy of everything's that's evil
Ain't no quick fix at the end of a needle
It's just people loving people
Whoa, woah, woah, woah

Words aren't what they seem to be
Talk is cheap but lies are free
We fear what we don't understand
And we've been scared since time began

All the colors and the cultures circle 'round us on a spindle
It's a complicated riddle, the solution is so simple…

It's people loving people
That's the enemy of everything's that's evil
Ain't no quick fix at the end of a needle
It's just people loving people
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
Whoa, woah, woah, woah

You can pawn it off on kings and queens and those behind the curtain
Say what can make a difference in a world so full of hurting
But I believe the remedy starts right here with you and me

People loving people
That's the enemy of everything's that's evil
Ain't no quick fix at the end of a needle
It's just people loving people
It's just people loving people
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
It's just people loving people

Writer/s: MILLER, LEE THOMAS / BUSBEE, MICHAEL JAMES RYAN / WALLIN, CHRIS ALLEN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Written by busbee (Rascall Flatts' "Summer Nights"), Lee Thomas Miller (Trace Adkins' "You're Gonna Miss This") and Chris Wallin (Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink"), this southern rock anthem finds Brooks preaching love as a solution to the world's ills. The song was Brooks first single release since un-retiring from raising his three daughters.

Frank Zappa - San Ber'dino

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Album: One Size Fits All
Released: 1975

San Ber'dino Lyrics

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Portions of this song refer to a character named Bobby who spends time in Tank C in San Bernardino jail. In the early 1960s Zappa spent 10 days in San Bernardino county jail on a trumped up obscenity charge. (thanks, Matthew - Amherst, NY)

This is included on Zappa's compilation album Strictly Commercial.

Interpol - All the Rage Back Home

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Album: El Pintor
Released: 2014

All the Rage Back Home Lyrics

When she said hey love come over my head abounds
Oh the feeling
And she wept, hold me again, I made no sound
Oh the beating
Then she swore love is never done
So easily
Then we went over again, my head abounds
Oh the feeling

She said you don't need mine
Behave, you won't meet your mate inside
My faith won't lie
He said you don't need time
Be tame, you wanna leave my lady lovers
Of my eighteen summers alone
She said, you don't read minds
Be patient, you won't leave me shakin'
Leave me shakin'

I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
But it's All the Rage Back Home
It's all the rage back home

When she said, love come over my head abounds
Oh, what feeling
She said, you oughtta refine
Be paid, you're gonna see my face in lights
My faith won't lie
My sweet, you don't need mine to
Come away and just say you'll love me,
Say you'll love me alone
She said you don't read minds
Be patient, you won't see me shakin'
You have been mistaken

I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
But it's all the rage back home
It's all the rage back home

All the rage back home
All the rage back home
All the rage back
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
It's all the rage back home
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
It's all the rage back home

Writer/s: Kessler, Daniel Alexander / Fogarino, Samuel J / Banks, Paul Julian
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The lead single from El Pintor, this song was written by frontman Paul Banks on a balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the last day of the band's 2010 tour.

Banks also plays bass guitar on the track. He has been Interpol's bassist since the departure of Carlos Dengler in 2010.

Brandon Curtis of Secret Machines guests on keyboards. He contributed to most of tracks on the El Pintor album.

El Pintor is not only Spanish for "the painter," but did you spot it is also an anagram of Interpol?

The black and white video was co-directed by Banks with Sophia Peer (The National, Paramore, Yeasayer). The clip features dimly lit shots of Interpol performing the tune contrasted against footage of surfers challenging waves.

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach

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Album: True Blue
Released: 1986

Papa Don't Preach Lyrics

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This song is about teenage pregnancy. Madonna takes the voice of a confused teenager who wants advice from her father at a difficult time. In a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, she said: "It just fit right in with my own personal zeitgeist of standing up to male authorities, whether it's the pope or the Catholic Church or my father and his conservative, patriarchal ways."

The line "I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby," caused anti-abortion groups to praise Madonna and abortion-rights groups to criticize her. Madonna refused to take a stance on the issue.

Madonna called this "a message song that everyone is going to take the wrong way."

This was one of the most controversial Madonna songs. Many articles were written about it in the context of abortion. The media attention helped make it a hit and keep it on the charts.

A producer named Brian Elliot wrote this song for a new artist he was working with named Christina Dent, who was on the same label as Madonna. When a record company executive heard it, he convinced Elliot to give it to Madonna instead, because she was an established star.

This was one of the first Madonna songs to take on a political issue. Her previous hits, like "Holiday," "Borderline," and "Lucky Star," stayed well clear of controversy.

The video featured Danny Aiello as Madonna's father. He recorded an answer song from the father's perspective called "Papa Only Wants The Best." Aiello was mostly unknown at the time, but went on to star in Do The Right Thing and Moonstruck.

Around this time, Madonna was working out and had a more toned body that she showed off in the video by wearing a tight black outfit. It was rumored that you could see her nipples when she leaned back.

Ozzy Osbourne's daughter, Kelly, recorded this with Mike Einziger and Jose Pasillas from the group Incubus for the soundtrack to The Osbournes, an MTV show about Ozzy's home life. Kelly's mom, Sharon Osbourne, asked her to do it. Her version peaked at #74, making it the first instance of a cover of a Madonna song reaching the Hot 100. Osbourne's rendition also reached #3 in the UK singles chart.

The guy who plays Madonna's boyfriend in the video is Alex McArthur, who is featured in the Desperado movies. (Thanks, Linda - Oudenaarde, Belgium)

In it's review of the album True Blue, Rolling Stone magazine referred to this song as "Madonna's Billie Jean." Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" had a similar theme, about a pregnancy complicating people's lives. Jackson has been called "The King Of Pop," while Madonna has been referred to as "The Queen of Pop."

Rock critic Dave Marsh gave this song a glowing review: "that ultimate rarity - a message song that opens with Beatles-esque cellos that you can dance to." (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England, for above 2)

Jeezy - Me OK

Jeezy - Me OK Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Seen It All
Released: 2014

Me OK Lyrics

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that Me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

I'm a fool on that Avion, snow be on that liquor
Approach me if you want to, I will smoke ya like a Swisha
You know my game tizight you know that's all tizzop
Presidential day day, looking like two blocks
They ain't know 2Pac when he was on Death Row
All black glizzock, that 40 says leggo
All my niggas is 'bout it, all my bitches is with it
One call that's all, choppers pay him a visit
Real nigga fo' sho', got a fetish for dough
34 a unit, nine hundred, an O
Break 'em down into zips, that's a hell of a flip
Had 'em now they gone, guess I'm takin' a trip

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

When L.A. Reid was in office made some history up in Def Jam
If Jizzle ain't droppin', nigga, what the fuck is Def Jam?
I know you heard how your boy bossed up at Atlantic
Boss shit, might just drop my next album on Atlantic
I really hope you bitches ready, Vice-prezzy and his Presi
Got some shit up in my bezzy, So what ya sayin'? My wrist is heavy
All white, penthouse, yeah, like the one on Belly
With a brown skin thing swear to God she look like Kelly
Two door Rolls is how I'm rollin', plus you know a nigga totin'
Keep that street nigga paper, rubber band it, it ain't foldin'
First the XXL, read about me in the Forbes
That's a long way from trappin' in that 4-door Accord
Wassup

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

Snow can eyeball a seven, yeah you best believe without the scale
I just want the mansions and the riches, yeah without the jail
You can call me postman, don't go no where without some mail
In and out in 20 minutes, you best believe I'm makin' bail
Put you on designer watches, put you on designer frames
Had you cashin' out, payin' for, you can't pronounce the name
Had that Murcielago, it was green like margaritas
Sold yayo, I sold albums, might as well sell some tequila
Dropped so many Lambos, thought I was a Lam ambassador
Dropped so many Rollies, niggas thought I owned the Rollie store
Snow it's been a while, yeah you know them streets missed you
I don't eat, sleep, or shit without my mothafuckin' pistol

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

Writer/s: JENKINS, JAY / GHOLSON, CHRISTOPHER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The first few lines after this song's chorus find Jeezy expressing his frustration with his record label, Def Jam Recordings.

When L.A. Reid was in office, made some history up in Def Jam
If Jizzle ain't droppin', nigga, what the f--k is Def Jam?
I know you heard how your boy bossed up at Atlantic
Boss s--t, might just drop my next album on Atlantic

In late 2013, rumors spread that Jeezy might be leaving Def Jam. The rapper encouraged the talk of the split when he vented on Twitter, threatening to leak his album.

Asked by Billboard magazine what reaction he was going for when he called out Def Jam, Jeezy replied: "I wasn't going for any reaction. That was just the truth. I was basically saying I got options and putting it into the stratosphere that I am really a boss."

"Even for my fans and peers, I'm not going to be the person just all blacked out in hood atmosphere," he continued. "I can go into these buildings and move things around too. I been in that game. I been at Atlantic over there head of A&R. I A&R my own records at Def Jam. It was like, look, here's where I am with it, I can do either or—know that though."

Jeezy explained the concept of the song's visual to MTV News: "The video is basically about touching my town," he said, "getting in the streets and running through the neighborhoods that I often ran through and getting back out with the homies, kids and people of Atlanta."

Blur - You're So Great

Blur - You're So Great Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Blur
Released: 1997

You're So Great Lyrics

Sad, drunk, and poorly
Sleeping really late
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Not feeling so great
Wandering lost in a town full of frowns
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Dogs digging up the ground

And I feel the light
In the night and in the day
And I feel the light
When the sky's just mud and grey
And I feel the light
When you tell me it's OK
Cos You're So Great, and I love you

Tea Tea and coffee
Helps to start the day
Tea Tea and coffee
Shaking all the way
City's alive and, surprise, so am I
Tea, tea and coffee
Get no sleep today

And I feel the light
In the night and in the day
And I feel the light
When the sky's just mud and grey
And I feel the light
When you tell me it's OK
Cos you're so great, and I love you

Writer/s: COXON, GRAHAM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was the first song from a Blur album that featured guitarist Graham Coxon as a main vocalist. It's the only Blur song that was written and performed by just one member of the band (Coxon).

Coxon, at the time, not too confident with his vocal abilities, was so shy that he felt better by singing and playing the song under a table in the studio. (thanks, Phoebe - Rome, Italy for above 2)

The Kooks - It Was London

The Kooks - It Was London Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Listen
Released: 2014

It Was London Lyrics

It was in London
Where we heard the revolution
From Covent Garden
All the way down to Brixton

It was in Tottenham
Man got shot by a policeman
A young girl went to test them
Went up against the system
Oh oh, I don't know

Who are you
Who are you

On the television
Of course they blame the youth for disruption
Cause they took Fortnum & Mason
And nothing said about the shooting
Just the looting

It was in London
It was in London

And it was thunder
Caught between love and anger
From Trafalgar
All the way up to Camden

Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?

London town, London town
London town, London town

Writer/s: DEAN WYNTON JOSIAH COVER, LUKE PRITCHARD
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This gritty tune finds Luke Pritchard recounting the 2011 London Riots, which left England's capital city in a state of mayhem. The Kooks vocalist explained to Sound Of Boston how the song tried to capture the band's feelings at the time: "A big city like that, London, Paris, you have this illusion that everything's safe, and that sort of thing happens and the walls come crashing down," he said. "The police brutality that happened around that time… we wrote a song about that."

Thousands of mostly young males rioted in several London boroughs for several days during early August 2011 as well as in other places in England. The resulting chaos generated looting and arson as well as the deaths of five people. The riots inspired a number of songs including:

"Kids" by Mikky Ekko

"Uptight Downtown" by La Roux

In addition the video for Plan B's single "Ill Manors" features footage of the riots.