Lyrics: Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma

Classic Fridays
Dilemma
Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland

I love you and I need you
Nelly, I love you, I do
Need you

Chorus:
No matter what I do
All I think about is you
Even when I’m with my Boo
Boy, you know I’m crazy over you
No matter what I do
All I think about is you
Even when I’m with my Boo
You know I’m crazy over you

Uh-uh-uh-uh
I met this chick and she just moved right up the block from me
And she got the hots for me, the finest thing I need to see
But oh, no, no, she got a man and a son, oh-oh, but that's okay
'Cause I wait for my cue and just listen, play my position
Like a shortstop, pick up e'rything mami hittin'
And in no time I better make this friend mine and that's for sure
'Cause I-I never been the type to break up a happy home
But there's something 'bout baby girl,
I just can't leave her 'lone
So tell me, ma, what's it gonna be
She said, "You don’t know what you mean to me, come on"

Repeat Chorus

Uh-uh-uh-uh
I see a lot in your look and I never say a word
I know how n****s start actin' trippin',
and hate up all the girls
And there's no way Nelly go for it
Ain’t f***in’ with no dame, as you could see
But I-I like your steeze, your style,
your whole demeanor
The way you come through and holler,
and swoop me in his two-seater
Now that's gangsta and I got special ways to thank ya,
don't you forget it
But it ain't that easy for you to back up and leave him
But you and me we got ties for different reasons
I respect that and right before I turned to leave
She said, "You don't know what you mean to me", come on

Repeat Chorus

Sing it for me, K

I love you and I need you
Nelly, I love you, I do
And it’s more than you’ll ever know
Boy, it’s for sure
You can always count on my love
Forever more, yeah, yeah

East coast, I know you're shakin' right
Down south, I know you're bouncin' right
West coast, I know you're walkin' right
('Cause you don't know what you mean to me)
Midwest, I see you swingin' right

Repeat Chorus

East coast, I know you're shakin' right
Down south, I know you're bouncin' right
West coast, I know you're walkin' right
('Cause you don't know what you mean to me)
Midwest, I see you swingin' right
Repeat

Repeat Chorus

Yeah, yeah

East coast, I know you're shakin' right
Down south, I know you're bouncin' right
West coast, I know you're walkin' right
('Cause you don't know what you mean to me)
Midwest, I see you swingin' right
Repeat

Third single released from Nelly's second studio album "Nellyville" and first single released from Kelly Rowland's debut solo album "Simply Deep" in June 25, 2002.
Track peaked at #1 on Australian Singles, Belgian, Dutch Top 40, Eurochart Hot 100, German Singles, Radios Top 40, Irish Singles, Swiss Singles, UK Singles, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Billboard Top 40 Mainstream.
Track won the Grammy for Best Rap Collaboration at the 45th Grammy Awards.
Track was ranked #64 on Billboard's Hot 100 songs during the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100 issue.
Track was certified triple Platinum in Australia, Double Platinum in Norway, Platinum in Belgium, New Zealand, Switzerland and UK.

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Lyrics: Kanye West ft. Twista & Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz

Classic Fridays
Slow Jamz
Kanye West ft. Twista & Jamie Foxx

Are you gonna be?
Say that you're gonna be

Jamie Foxx
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh...

Chorus (Jamie Foxx):
She said she wants some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross, a little Anita, will definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be? Well well well well well)
She said she want some Ready for the World, some New Edition, some Minnie Ripperton, and definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be? Well well well well well)

Kanye West
I told her to drive over in your new whip
Bring some friends you cool with
I'm gonna bring the cool whip
Then I want you to strip
See you is my new chick
So we get our grind on
She be grabbing, calling me Biggie like Shine home
Man, I swear she fine homes
Why she always lying though
Telling me them diamonds when she know they rhinestones
She got a light skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
Got a dark skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
I play 'Ready for the World' - she was ready for some action
My dawg said you ain't no freak, so you got to prove my man wrong
I'm a play this Vandross
You're gonna take your pants off
I'm gonna play this Gladys Knight
Me and you're gonna get right

Repeat Chorus 2x

Twista
Got you looking at the gliss at my hands and wrists
While I'm laying back smoking on my cannabis
When it come to rocking the rhythm like Marvin and Luther
I can tell you ain't no messing with Kan-man and Twist
From the Chi and I be
Sipping Hennessy
Play some R&B
Trying to smoke a B
Looking properly
Feeling on a G?
And always (well well well well well)
Come with me and sip on some Evelyn Champagne
You ain't know Twista can work it like the Whispers
Hit the stop light, get into some Isaac
The rims still moving so I'm bumping little spinners
While I'm smoking on a B
Dipping through the streets
Bumping R&B
And I got to leave
something to the 23's?
And I do it (well well well well well)
With my earth and the wind smoke a fire
Let me when get your sheets wet listening to Keith Sweat
Put you in a daze for maze
Fullfilling our every temptation slow jamming having deep sex
You ready for the world girl
Come on over make me touch you all over your body baby don't say no to me
An every moment you controllin' me I'm loving the way you be holding me when I be listening to Jodeci
And when I come over and bend your ass
You be bumping Teddy Pendergrass
I'd hit it from the back to the melody to roll it slow
Now I gotta go up in it fast, but I'm gonna finish last
No matter how much of a thug you see
I still spit it like it's R&B, so to the club with me
And with some Luther come on and hope you finna and still be in love with me

Repeat Chorus 2x

Twista
Baby drop another slow jam
And all us lovers need hold hands
And if you ain't got no man hop up in my Brougham
I keep it pimping like an old man
You got to roll with the plan
Cause after that then I
Take it to the dome
Then I got to bone
Stay up in the zone
Got to get you home
Gotta run up on
And I do it (well well well well well)
Baby drop another slow jam
And all us lovers need hold hands
And if you ain't got no man hop up on my brohem
I keep it pimping like an old man
You got to roll with the plan
Cause after that then I
Take you to my home
And we could get it on
Disconnect the phone
Just to get you goin'
Trying to make you moan
And I do it (well well well well well)

Second single released from Kanye's debut album "College Dropout" in 2003. The Original version was the lead single taken from Twista's album "Kamikaze" released in 2003.
Track peaked at #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
Track written by C.C. Mitchell, Kanye West, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Produced by Kanye West.

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Lyrics: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert - Same Love

Same Love
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert

When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay,
'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.
I told my mom, tears rushing down my face
She's like "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-k, trippin' "
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league"
A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
The right wing conservatives think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made rewiring of a predisposition
Playing God, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don't know
And God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago
I don't know

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we're saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that's not important
No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it

(I don't know)

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

We press play, don't press pause
Progress, march on
With the veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
Till the day that my uncles can be united by law
When kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all
But it's a damn good place to start
No law is gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever God you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it's all the same love
About time that we raised up... sex

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love is kind
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
Love is kind

Fourth single released from their debut album "The Heist" released October 9, 2012. Written by Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert & Curtis Mayfield.

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Ryan Lewis - Facebook | @RyanLewis
Mary Lambert - website | Facebook | @marylambertsing

The Heist
01. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Ten Thousand Hours
02. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
03. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz - Thrift Shop
04. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Buffalo Madonna - Thin Line
05. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert - Same Love
06. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Make The Money
07. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Allen Stone - Neon Cathedral
08. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. The Teaching - BomBom
09. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Hollis & ScHoolboy Q - White Walls
10. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ab-Soul - Jimmy Iovine
11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Wing$
12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - A Wake
13. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Eighty4 Fly - Gold
14. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ben Bridwell - Starting Over
15. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Cowboy Boots

Lyrics: Eminem - Lose Yourself

Lose Yourself
Eminem

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Yo

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs,
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,
The whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking how, everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!

Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
Easy, no
He won't have it , he knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stagnant, he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again, yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

Hook:
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
(You better)

The soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a new world order
A normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post mortem
It only grows harder, only grows hotter
He blows us all over these hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's known as the globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold water
His hoes don't want him no more, he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it's old partner but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

Repeat Hook

No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this motherfucking roof off like 2 dogs caged
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhyming and stepped right into the next cypher
Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life
And these times are so hard, and it's getting even harder
Trying to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna
Baby mama drama's screaming on and
Too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go it's my shot.
Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got

Repeat Hook

You can do anything you set your mind to, man

First single from the motion picture soundtrack "8 mile" released in 2002. Movie starred Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy and Taryn Manning. Track was included in his compilation album, Curtain Call: The Hits.
The track won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and help him win the Grammy for Best Male Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Song.
Track peaked at #1 on Billboard Hot 100, O3 Austria Top 40, Ultratop 50, Canadian Singles Chart, Eurochart Hot 100, Hungarian Singles Top 10, Dutch Top 40 and Billboard Pop Songs. Song was ranked #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 Decade (2000-2009) End Chart.
Track is ranked #4 on VH1's Best Songs of the 2000s, #12 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the 2000s, #57 on NME's 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Year (2011), #93 on the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Songs from American Films and #166 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004).
Track is certified Quintuple Platinum in the US, Quadruple Platinum in Australia, Platinum in Austria, Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland; Gold in Finland, France, Germany, Greece, and Japan; and Silver in UK.
Music video was directed by Eminem, Paul Rosenberg and Phillip G. Atwell. Video won the Best Video from a Film at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.
Track has been parodied by Weird Al Yankovic (2003) and has been covered by the East Village Opera Company.
Written by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto. Produced by Eminem and Jeff Bass.

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