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Can I Get A… JAY-Z (Ft. Amil & Ja Rule) – Can I Get A…
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“Can I Get A…” features Jay-Z, almost counter-intuitively, letting women know that money can’t buy love. Under producer Irv Gotti’s watchful eye Hov employs new Roc-A-Fella Records signee Amil to respond to his claims with her own concerns about the other sex, and gives a young Ja Rule a chance to provide his personal impressions of females.

Containing a sample of OutKast’s “Git Up, Git Out,” “Can I Get A…” is notable for popularizing Ja and Amil; as well as becoming one of Hov’s most commercially successful singles at the time, peaking at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.

The track was first released in September 1998 as a single on Def Jam’s Rush Hour Soundtrack in promotion of the hit film Rush Hour. It would later be included on Hov’s third studio album Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life.

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Not everybody understands that Jay-Z and Hov are the same person.

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Money, Cash, Hoes JAY-Z (Ft. DMX) – Money, Cash, Hoes
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“Money, Cash, Hoes” is about the 3 most important things in life:

  1. Money
  2. Cash
  3. Charitable Acts (no j/k! #3 is Hoes)

It was released on November 9, 1998 as the third single from Jay-Z’s third studio album, 1998’s Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life. Produced by Swizz Beatz, it samples Tohru Nakabayashi and You Takada’s composition “Theme of Thief” from the 1989 SEGA game Golden Axe.

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Imma say this is about “FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT.”

HE WORKING TO RESTORE THE FEELINGS… street love is chopped two ways through church and state, and he got no love for the system. if crooks can make you fear God’s love, he gonna play by their rules and show you how to get paid once you know about how they abusively profit by dividing and selling GODS LOVE. For the “love of MONEY” IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.

MONEY IS SLAVERY, EVEN IF THEY CALL IT FREEDOM, and so in order to expose the lie, some choose to be bold as he is and choose to beat them by way of joining them. Thus the perfection of the art of war is to take the enemy’s whole estate, with no blood shed. To beat them, you must appear loyal to the same criminals/crooks.

Jesus is now the richest poor man that ever lived, and guess who all that money is suppose to go to and doesn’t:
.orphans- kids robbed of futures(cash)
hoes:(chicks who become prostitutes in their dignity in some way, unprotected and under provided for) that lose fathers themselves and for their kids; left to raise children by themselves as struggling widdows.

We talking angelic warfare. Pick a team God or simply the shaddow we all know as “death.”

There is no sin, only that u remain fearful of mans faulty laws, over GODS RIGHTFUL RESPECT to be stood up for and not continue becoming just raw meat, all over the money and cash being our creativity rights as women(without men we have none, and without us men have no money unless its fast. so he saying he gonna put bling on her and up the price.

Jesus was hood, and what people miss is the 66x the same love story was repeated… “Romeo and Juliet.” Set in VERONA Italy.

Did ANYBODY ACTUALLY READ MACHIAVELLI WORKS, or did they think it was some bs tupac throws around to make a line rhyme?????

It’s the secret to politics plain as day, from an Italian statesmen whom was denied being a rightful ruler, thus he might be merely a nobility whom works for the RULING actors.

Lmfao… Wake up. YOU ARE ALL ROYALTY; walking AWAY FROM YOUR OWN THRONES.

GOD LOVES YOU NO MATTER WHAT;
-IN FACT HE CALLS RELIGION/POLITICS THE PIMPS AND whores…

If you so choose to dare risking a few extra moments of your time to look, you might see:
that poverty doesn’t exist IN THE SLIGHTEST only it’s appearence does, your 3names are all holy hidden messages, and your birth cert/ social have incorporated your name in All caps, which makes you part business owner… OF WEALTH BEYOND BELIEF, ONLY HIDDEN in hopes TO RETAIN POWER OVER YOUR “SONG THAT NEVER ENDS.”

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C.R.E.A.M. Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
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Arguably one of the most iconic songs in hip-hop, the underlying idea of “C.R.E.A.M.” is found in its title—cash rules everything. The timeless piano riffs and background vocals come from a chopped up sample of The Charmels‘ 1967 record, “As Long As I’ve Got You,” that make up the entire track.

Although it was released as an official single in 1994, “C.R.E.A.M.” was first recorded in 1991, around the same time as RZA’s assault case, and featured himself and Ghostface Killah. The track went through several revisions and was later re-recorded by Raekwon and Inspectah Deck in 1993—an early title of the song was “Lifestyles of the Mega-Rich.”

In 2017, RZA explained to Power 106 how the final version of the track came together:

Once we got to the studio, I decided that this track had to be on the Wu-Tang album. I reminded Rae and Deck of their verses—their verses were long. […] Method Man, the master of hooks at the time, came in with this hook right here: ‘cash rules everything around me, cream, get the money.’ Once he added that element, I knew it was going to be a smash.

Since its release, the song and chorus have been referenced countless times by several artists. It has also been featured in movies such as Eminem’s 8 Mile and the N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton.

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Broads Big Tymers (Ft. Lil Wayne) – Broads
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In what is ultimately a deconstruction of black male misogyny, the Big Tymers have come up with the most ludicrously misogynistic lines in all of rap

In the third verse, Baby even refers to the sad, nihilistic roots of his attitude towards women

However, parts of the song (Manny Fresh’s ginseng reference, Baby’s “Main Ho”) reveal a certain tendresse for the right kind of woman

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Spend the Night Cam'ron – Spend the Night
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The loopy come-ons and laconic put-ons of “Spend the Night” paint Cam'ron as a Harlem Don Juan

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Go Crazy Jeezy (Ft. JAY-Z) – Go Crazy
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“Go Crazy” is the third single from Young Jeezy’s debut album Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101, featuring a guest appearance from his Def Jam Recordings boss Jay-Z. The two form a dope boy anthem that features them waxing poetic about the possibilities of what someone can achieve, even if they come from the streets.

Produced by Don Cannon, the track samples the song “(Man, Oh Man) I Want To Go Back” by The Impressions. “Go Crazy” peaked at #22 on the Billboard “Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs” chart. Pitchfork listed it as the 359th best song of the 2000s.

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This doesn’t help me understand the song any better. It actually reads like it was written by a bunch of nerd-ass record execs.

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a true tramp Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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Tramp here means 1) whore, 2) penniless hobo

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Get him a Mauri flow, from the Mauri show Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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Cam will get your son enough “flow” (stream of income) to afford Mauri Italian gators on his feet, straight from the “show"room.

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Get 'Em Girls Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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The lyrics to this song are of the sort that Cam gets made fun of for writing: nursery rhyme-sounding, lots of allusions to t.v. commercials and other immature memes. They used to make fun of James Joyce for doing this sort of thing, too

Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana – O Fortuna” is sampled for the beat. As in Killa Cam, the hook features a woman singing Cam'ron’s name over and over again

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The What The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Method Man) – The What
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“The What” features Wu-Tang Clan standout Method Man as he was the only other rapper to appear on Ready To Die. In a retrospective published by XXL, Meth revealed the early tensions between Biggie and some Wu members as well as how he was only paid $2500 for his verse. Producer Easy Mo Bee talked about how the song got its simple title:

With ‘The What,’ the song was done and everything, and Big, Puff and me was standing there. And I remember Puff in particular was like, ‘Yo, what we gonna call this shit?’ And I told him, ‘Yo, I nickname all my beats on the disc that I saved them to, so I know what each disc is.’ So for whatever reason, I wrote on this disc, ‘The What.’ Puff was like, ‘Yo, that shit is cool.’

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