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IDK - DENiM feat. Joey Bada$$ (Official Music Video) Hotney 10 Streams • 2 years ago

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Lyrics

Uh-huh, uh
Check, check, yeah
Uh-huh, yeah

Sitting on cloud nine but it's really my couch
Pierre Jeanerret's, the original ones
Not the ones they get for five hundred to dress up they house
I'm single boy, single boy, no girl or no spouse
Crib be quiet as a mouse, don't smoke but I can make it loud
With the push of a text, I'm texting your bitch
She exit your shit to push up and get hit
I need to tone it down
The neighbors complaining, the HOA sayin'
I'm sayin' I don't know what they sayin'
I'm never in town
Don't disrespect my intellect
My GLS be at the intersection when we intersect
She look like she innocent, I'ma change it in a sec
**** balling for they bitches till I come and intercept

Now they bawling for they bitches, Devin Booker with the tears
Cotton flower jeans to show you that spring in the air
Yeah, we see you sitting there, but your name ain't on this chair
Motherfucker, we don't care, yeah

I put my cheddar where my mouth is just to keep my mouth fed
Thought the green would get respect but all I got was grouches
**** getting grumpy 'cause they can't relate, it's funny
How they use the energy for winning on the hate
But when they see my clique, they turn to mouses
I'll show you how my clout hit every time your doubt hit
And realize the shit in which they really do amount hit
The motherfuckin' fad

'Cause I could never be the one
Tryna ball for these bitches, Devin Booker with the tears
Cotton flower jeans to show you that spring in the air
Yeah, we see you sitting there, but your name ain't on this chair
Motherfucker, we don't care, yeah

Sittin' on your whole year but it's really my couch
Pierre Paulin, this the original one
Cost fifty bands, all in just to put in my house
The replica like fifteen, you can check the amount
If we ain't talking money, IDK what we talking about
Fly shit, the house came with wings, ****
If they ain't laughing at your dreams, then you gotta dream bigger
I seen **** talking down when I was down, now I'm up
Copped the 911 just to tell these ****, "Eat my dust"
Keep a heater tucked for **** sneaking up, he think he tough
If he try my hand, then I'ma call his bluff
No, I don't believe in luck
Try to slime me out, I wipe his nose like his shit was stuffed
The jig is up, I'm the big the dog, you just a lil' pup
****, what? I'm back outside, never been one to hide
Streets said Unique might've died, but Joey still alive
Done playing games with you ****, ain't letting nothin' slide
What's the vibe?

I could never be the one
Tryna ball for these bitches, Devin Booker with the tears
Cotton flower jeans to show you that spring in the air
Yeah, we seen 'em sitting there, scratch his name up off the chair
Motherfucker, we don't care, yeah

EPMD - Da Joint Hotney 10 Streams • 2 years ago

From the album "Back In Business" (1997)

EPMD is an American hip hop group from Brentwood, New York. The group's name is a concatenation of the members' name "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars" (later "Erick and Parrish Millennium Ducats"), referencing its members, emcees Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith ("PMD"). The group has been active for more than 20 years (1986present), and is one of the most prominent acts in East coast hip hop. Diamond J, DJ K La Boss, and DJ Scratch were DJs for the group.

The word "business" is used in every title of the group's albums. Every album also has a track titled "Jane".

EPMD's first album, Strictly Business, appeared in 1988, which featured the underground hit "Strictly Business," based on a sample of Eric Clapton's version of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff." Many critics cite this first album as the group's most influential.[citation needed] The group's brand of funk-fueled sample-heavy hip-hop proved to be a major force in the genre. Unlike old school hip hop, which was originally based on disco hits but eventually became more electronic, EPMD based its music mainly on lifting funk and rock breaks for samples and helped to popularize their usage, along with Marley Marl and Public Enemy. "You're a Customer" combined snippets of Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle," Kool & the Gang's "Jungle Boogie," and the bass line from ZZ Tops "Cheap Sunglasses." "Jane," about a romantic rendezvous turned bad, would be revisited on no less than five sequels; a first for hip-hop, and, perhaps, rock and roll as well. "You Gots to Chill" used 1980s funk band Zapp's "More Bounce to the Ounce," which has become one of the most enduring sample sources for hip-hop. "I'm Housin'" was covered some 12 years later by Rage Against the Machine. Managed early on by Russell Simmons' RUSH Management, the group toured with such hip-hop luminaries as Run-DMC, Public Enemy, and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince.
Promotional EPMD t-shirt for their 1990 Business As Usual album

EPMD signed with Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records, which eventually released its debut album, Strictly Business, by electro funk pioneer Kurtis Mantronik. Propelled by several strong singles ("You Gots to Chill" and the albums title track), the album was eventually certified gold, selling over 500,000 copies[citation needed], as did 1989's follow-up, Unfinished Business. Financial frustrations followed when Sleeping Bag went under in 1992. The two EPMD albums and Nice & Smooths debut album were acquired by Priority/EMI Records before the label was sold to Warlock Records. The duos Sleeping Bag contract was acquired by Def Jam. EPMD returned in 1990 with Business As Usual and Business Never Personal two years later. By 1992, the group presided over an extended family dubbed the Hit Squad, which included Redman, K-Solo, Das EFX, Hurricane G, and Knucklehedz.

In 1992, EPMD had a hit with its song "Crossover," which lamented rappers making blatant concessions to pop sensibilities in order to get mainstream attention from music audiences. Ironically, the song became a crossover hit itself peaking at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in doing so becoming their biggest hit to date.

The duo split in January 1993, under controversial circumstances. According to interviews in The Source and Rap Pages, in late 1991, Smith's house was burglarized by armed intruders. According to Smith, in the ensuing police investigation, one of the apprehended culprits supposedly gave up Sermon's name as having allegedly paid them to do it. Sermon was arrested and briefly detained for questioning, but no charges were filed. Still, it led to lingering tensions, and by the time of the break-up, Sermon alleged financial impropriety on Smith's part. The duo found itself as solo artists by default: Sermon debuted in 1993 with No Pressure, followed by Double or Nothing (1995), Def Squad Presents Erick Onasis (2000), Music (2001), and React (2002). Smith made his statements on 1994's Shade Business, followed by Business is Business in 1996.

The duo reunited in 1997, recording a comeback LP, Back in Business. In 1998, a remix of the song "Strictly Business" appeared by the A&R man who signed the duo while at Fresh/Sleeping Bag, Kurtis Mantronik. Sermon released an album with Redman and Keith Murray as the Def Squad in 1998: El Niño was certified gold[citation needed] that same year. EPMD's last LP, Out of Business, was released in 1999 as both a single CD and a limited edition double CD. The limited edition double CD contained both new material and rerecorded versions of its greatest hits. Smith released The Awakening (2003) on his own Hit Squad label, and Sermon released Chilltown, N.Y. (2004) on Motown/Universal. A Hit Squad compilation LP (overseen by Smith, featuring a new EPMD track) was released on Nervous Recordings in 2004.

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (2021 Live Performance) Hotney 10 Streams • 2 years ago

Bette Davis Eyes (Donna Weiss/Jackie DeShannon)

De acordo com algumas referências, Jackie DeShannon terá sido levada a compor a canção depois de assistir ao filme “A Estranha Passageira”, de 1942, realizado por Irving Rapper e protagonizado precisamente por Bette Davis. O primeiro registo fonográfico deste tema foi gravado em 1974 e estava incluído no lado 2 do disco “New Arrangement”, de Jackie DeShannon. Este tema tinha uma abordagem mais distinta e um registo mais jazzy, e por isso mais distante da sonoridade que conhecemos desde 1981, quando a canção atingiu a popularidade global pela voz de Kim Carnes.
Donna Weiss, cantora e compositora também envolvida na composição do tema "Bette Davis Eyes" em co-autoria com Jackie DeShannon, embora já tivesse feito um novo arranjo para a canção, só quando se cruzou em estúdio, com Kim Carnes e Val Garay (produtor do LP "Mistaken Identity" onde está incluido o tema) é que o rumo desta icónica canção levaria outra direcção. No momento em que a canção lhes é sugerida, ambos reconheceram um enorme potencial ao tema, no entanto, o novo arranjo de Donna Weiss não tinha ainda a essência do que procuravam. A banda de suporte de Kim Carnes foi importante na criação de um novo arranjo, mais pop e com uma base eletrónica o mais simples possível, assegurada pelos sintetizadores que tão bem identificamos na versão de 1981. Embora Kim Carnes fosse conhecida como cantora country e mesmo de um universo mais pop, foi com a versão da cantora nascida em Pasadena (Califórnia) que a canção se transfigurou para um novo registo baseado numa new wave eletrónica com um forte apelo à dança e onde os sintetizadores desempenham um papel crucial.
Foi esta fórmula que levaria a que o tema "Bette Davis Eyes", inicialmente mais discreto, se tornasse um enorme hit mundial. Aliado a toda esta nova roupagem, o toque de midas viria com a voz sensualmente rouca de Kim Carnes, que divinizou e eternizou a nível planetário, e numa vasta geração, este belíssimo conjunto de notas musicais aglutinadas por uma letra de grande significado.
"Bette Davis Eyes", esteve várias semanas consecutivas no primeiro lugar do Top norte-americano de singles com mais de oito milhões de cópias vendidas do álbum onde se incluía a canção, tendo ganho o Grammy de canção do ano.
A actriz Bette Davis, falecida em 1989, era assumidamente uma fã do tema, tendo agradecido aos compositores por terem feito dela, uma parte dos tempos modernos.

Banda:
Kim Carnes – voz
Dave Ellingson – voz de apoio, percussão

Elementos do colectivo Sixwire:
Andy Childs – guitarra eléctrica, voz de apoio
John Howard – baixo eléctrico, voz de apoio
Steve Mandile – guitarra eléctrica, voz de apoio
Chuck Tilley – bateria
Steve Hornbeak – teclados, voz de apoio

LETRA:
Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes
And she'll tease you, she'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious, and she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on a throne
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you, when she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs, she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll tease you, she'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious, and she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please you
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you
When she snows you
'Cause she knows you, she's got Bette Davis Eyes
She'll tease you