| 50 Cent – I Smell Pussy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| ...Come to think of it: this IS the Game we're talking about. So, maybe shorty should know better than to get involved, since that's the reputation the Game has towards women. Can't change the Game; it only changes itself when it suits it to, and not a minute before. :( | |
| Tupac Shakur – Runnin' (Dying to Live) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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They captured the rhythm of the Game pretty well - especially including the sorrow behind it. Tupac's homie flipping out finally at the end of his Game, Biggie growing up trying for a way out, all of them... the interviews where you can see, maybe they would have reconciled if they'd both lived. Who knows? This song makes me cry when I hear it. It almost sounds like Biggie's crying too, in the interview part of it. This song was originally something that they DID record together, along with a bunch of other artists. It was called "Runnin' (From tha Police)" and it was made back in 1994, before Tupac got shot and had his falling out with Biggie. When Eminem compiled it, he included the chorus from an Edgar Winter song. God, this song is beautiful. The video, the medley of different styles - this has got to be one of Eminem's most beautiful artistic works, bringing together those voices that way. But like I already said, Tupac and Biggie originally did record this together, so their voices were already together for this piece. Man... someone earlier commented that Tupac could really see the future - that they were rapping about things back in 1995 that still applies now. It's sad, but-- while it's seeing the future, I think it's also because they were seeing the present. And it repeats itself. The drama's still bad, getting worse... they just frame it differently nowadays. |
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| Destinys Child – The Story of Beauty Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| What moves me most about this song is the artists' acknowledgment of these horrible things: what it feels like to be abused, beaten down, not supported by the people who are supposed to be there for you, continuing to spiral down because you lose your feelings of self-worth... So many people go through this, and they are silenced, because you never hear these songs on the radio. All you hear about are how to be hot enough to be wanted, how to get a guy/girl, your role as a pimp/ho (how you have to work HARD to be a pimp and how you have to be kept in line if you're a ho)... You don't hear about the pain of being abused this way. I love this song. It makes me so sad to hear it, but it is one of the realist songs out there. Thank you, Destiny's Child, for writing this. | |
| 50 Cent – I Smell Pussy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I came here to learn if there was genuinely some better message on this song that I was missing that would make me go "Ahhh, I get it." Tch. So the message I'm really walking away with is, sex is a game. Part of The Game, in fact. In that Game, women are *bitches* for feeling emotional or remotely attached, yet "I gotta make her mine" ("Wanksta"). Being emotional is the sort of thing that "real pimps" look down on, unless it's anger. Is that it? "I'm not here to tease you, mislead you, or mess up your dreams (nah) I can't say I love you, I don't know what that means" Or "It's not in my nature to make a commitment, so let me breathe, But she doesn't understand, catch attitudes when I leave her (leave her)" Pssssh. Lack of communication, that's all I have to say. Ever-constant dilemma of relationships. Yeah, that's understandable. It's part of growing up. What bugs me about the song, though, is using the word "bitch" to put down guys as being too much like ladies (as if being a woman is an insult), for being emotional. 50 Cent is immature as FUCK. Sounds like he and "his" girl don't talk much, since talking is the sort of "emotional thing" only bitches do. T_T Ah well, maybe some folks out there can resonate with this song. Maybe it helps them to identify with it. Two other things... 1) chocolate: Hilarious. Great rhymes. :) 2) Folks, please stop saying the words "faggot" and "gay" as insults. Really, it's every bit as disrespectful as saying "nigger" to a black person (which I am). |
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