Biggie tells a tale about how a woman he trusted was only getting in his bed for his money. Lil Kim counters by recounting the conniving men in her life. She empowers the money-over-men mentality that you can find in women rappers today. This is another one of the best rap songs abo...
The lyrics for this song about working in a mine are a little more risque, the song sings about toiling underground to make extra money for ‘Melinda’ who for all intents and purposes is probably a lady of the night. The upbeat music creates a real juxtaposition against the miserable lyri...
The amazing thing about the song was how much it got right about my life. It quoted the parents as saying “We gave her everything money can buy,” which was true in my case… Then there was the line “After living alone for so many years,” which really struck home to me because...
The LOX packed as much talent into “Money, Power, and Respect” as humanly possible. Not only did the group consist of Sheek Louch, Styles P, and Jadakiss, but they recruited Lil Kim for the chorus and snagged a verse fromDMX. It was a New York City power play, and it firmly estab...
Finally, the third part of the song discusses Taylor's struggle with handling fame and money. He references his old band, The Flying Machine, and how it did not make it: "Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground." 3 'Got To Get You Into My Life' By The Beatl...
A three-chord wonder, even in my early days as a solo performer, I found “Take The Money And Run” an easy song to sing. And, of course the fact that it’s a three-chord song makes it easy for instrumentalists to pick up and play too. If you want to imitate all the falsetto...
Harry Warren, American songwriter who, by his own estimate, produced 300 to 400 songs from 1922 through 1960, many for Hollywood films and Broadway musical productions. His songs included ‘We’re in the Money,’‘Chattanooga Choo-Choo,’‘You Must Hav
He gave the beat to his friend Shanell — a onetime R&B singer on Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment — to pass along. Wayne initially had grand plans for “A Milli”: He wanted to use the instrumental as skits for rappers like Tyga, Hurricane Chris, Corey Gunz, and Lil Mama. In ...
You might think the song is directed at rich, complacent hippies — but the rich, complacent hippies in the Beatles would never write a song about that, would they? The “tuned to a natural E” line is a gem, but there’s also that bit about keeping all your money in a big brown ...
" Listen closer for the qualification: the war-starters are "no moneyboys." --Douglas Wolk 20: Radiohead "All I Need" [self-released] It's not difficult to imagine "All I Need" as a snapshot of the same poor soul Radiohead sang about 14 years ago in "Creep": The kid who once...