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“I explore my own feelings going through the night. If I were a kind of music, no doubt I would call jazz.”
Curtis Mayfield
MOVE ON UP June,1971
“So hush now child and don’t you cry Your folks might understand you by and by Move on up for a greater day but just you gonna make it You put your mind to it, you can surely do it Move on up, we can to move on up Move on up, move on child I wanna move on up.”
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“Man thinks about a little baby girls and a baby boys, man makes then happy ‘cause man makes them toys. And after man has made everything, everything he can you know that man makes money to buy from other man This is a man’s world but it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl.
James Brown
MAN’S WORLD February,1966
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Arrested Development
PEOPLE EVERYDAY 1
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“See I was resting at the park minding my own business as I kick up the treble tone on my radio tape player box, right just loud enough so folks could hear it’s hype, see ? Outta nowhere comwmy black queen.”
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The Roots are an American Grammy Award-winning hip hop/neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are known for a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which includes live instrumentals. Malik B., Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, and Josh Abrams were added to the band, originally called The Square Roots.
The Roots
THE ROOTS
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Ice Cube
TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY 1
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“I got a beep from Kim, and she can fuck all night Called up the homies and I’m askin y’all Which park, are y’all playin basketball? Get me on the court and I’m trouble Last week fucked around and got a triple double Freakin niggas everyway like M.J. I can’t believe, today was a good day.”
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HELP YOURSELF 2
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“I can’t help ya if you won’t help yourself I can’t help ya if you don’t help yourself You can only get so much from someone else You can only get so much from me I can’t help ya if you won’t help yourself.”
Amy Winehouse
“For you I was a flame, Love is a losing game five story fire as you came Love is a losing game. Why do i wish I never played oh what a mess we made and now the final frame love is a losing game.�
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AT LAST 1
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“At last my love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song.�
Etta James
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Mos Def
“In she came with the same type game The type of girl givin out the fake cell phone and name. Big fame, she like cats with big thangs Jewels chip, money clip, phone flip, the six range I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once, ass so fat that you could see it from the front.�
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Sommario
Curtis Mayfield
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James Brown
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Arrested Development
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The Roots
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Ice Cube
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Amy Winehouse
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Etta James
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Mos Def
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Soundsgood, Lyrics songs of jazz artists.