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delossantosj
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this is jsut the thread to talk about some of the greatest songwriters of all time

heres some to start you guys off

1.trent rezner
2.mustane
3.mike pornoy/john petrucci

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I'd say Rob Halford... I mean, have you heard him in electric eye and leather rebel?
He's like some kind of mixture of himself and jesus... but with a kick-ass mustache

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I'd say Tupac.

All you rap haters listen to todays rap, but in the 90's it was on top of the charts. It had messages and not to mention, talent. Rap was always about Rhyme and Poetry, but todays rap is simply crap.

Tupac had messages relating to the conditions in the ghettos, to the government and to everyday life and how, woman should be treated with respect. (Compare that to the crap these days, honestly, I don't even listen to the new stuff)

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I would say Black Sabbath is the most influential band in metal history. They practically invented it. Not completely, but much of what metal holds dear is descended from them.

.\\,,/ Truer words were never spoken... I mean written...
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All you rap haters listen to todays rap, but in the 90's it was on top of the charts. It had messages and not to mention, talent. Rap was always about Rhyme and Poetry, but todays rap is simply crap

i disagree. not all rap today is shit sure there is stuff that just doesnt belong in the music industry (bed rock, party like a rockstar, etc.) but i think rappers like lil wayne and the joker are good legit rap.

sure they arent pollitical but who cares they pump you up make you feel good.

alot of todays *rap* as you like to call it isnt even rap.its pop will a big bass. and theres nothing wrong with that. they made the song for people to party and dance to. theres no harm in haveing fun with youre music. and lets be honest here people kurt was an amazing song writer theres no denying that, but you cant dance to nirvana.
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what the hell aint you all ever listen to green day i am a huge fan but whether you like them or not their lyrics are influential I don't give a d**n what you say

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that is just the thing with green day it is fun because they don't give a flying **** what the rest of the world thinks

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i love greenday jesus of suburbia jsut blew my mind with orgasim when i heard it for the first time

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todays rap is more about the freestyle though. saying how you are better then the other. its an insult contest and basically gloating lol. but theres nothing wrong with that. drake has about 60 mansions (EXAGERATION) so if i were him id be gloating too

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^No I mean the whole sense of it has gone - come, get with it, know what I mean? Being a rapper does not mean you have to gloat about your money, if you want to do that, man do it with actual vocabulary and words.

Immortal Technique is amazing, as are many other Underground rappers, while, compared to mainstream guys, they destroy them.

Check out Youtube, and compare the two below - IT has a damn flow man, while Wayne may be great when dancing - just not someone you would call on the same level as IT, and yet, who's mainstream and who's not?


***WARNING****

-Explicit Lyrics -



Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil

Something you should know about Dance With the Devil Lyrics

Title: Immortal Technique - Dance With the Devil lyrics

Artist: Immortal Technique Lyrics

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[Verse 1]
I once knew a nigga whose real name was William
his primary concern, was making a million
being the illest hustler, that the world ever seen
he used to fuck moviestars and sniff coke in his dreams
a corrupted young mind, at the age of thirteen
nigga never had a father and his mom was a feen
she put the pipe down, but forever yeah she was sober
her sons heart simultaneously grew colder
he started hanging out selling bags in the projects
checking the young chicks, looking for hit and run prospects
he was fascinated by material objects
but he understood money never bought respect
he build a reputation cause he could hustle and steal
but got locked once it didn't hesitate to squeal
so criminals he chilled with didn't think he was real
you see me and niggaz like this have never been equal
I dont project my insurecurity's at other people
he feeded for props like addicts with pipes and needles
so he felt he had to prove to everyone he was evil
a fever minded young man with infinite potetial
the product of a ghetto breed capatalistic mental
coincidentally dropped out of school to sell weed
dancing with the devil, smoked until his eyes would bleed
but he was sick of selling trees and gave in to his greed

[Hook]
Everyone trying to be trife never face the consequences
you propably only did a month for minor offences
ask a nigga doing life if he had another chance
but then again there's always the wicked at new and advanced
dance forever with the devil on a code cell block
but thats what happens when you rape, murder and sell rock
devils used to be gods, angels that fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot

[Verse 2]
So Billy started robbing niggaz, anything he could do
he'd get his respect back, in the eyes of his crew
starting fights over little shit, up on the block
stepped up to selling mothers and brothers the crack rock
working overtime for making money for the crack spot
hit the jackpot and wanted to move up to cocaine
for filling the scarface fantasy stuck in his brain
tired of the block niggaz treating him the same
he wanted to be major like the cut throats and the thugs
but when he tried to step to 'em, niggaz showed him no love
they told him any motherfucking coward can sell drugs
any bitch nigga with a gun, can bust slugs
any nigga with a red shirt can front like a blood
even Puffy smoked the motherfucker up in a club
but only a real thug can stab someone till they die
standing in front of them, starring straight into their eyes
Billy realized that these men were well guarded
and they wanted to test him, before business started
suggested raping a bitch to prove he was cold hearted
so now he had a choice between going back to his life
or making money with made men, up in the cife
his dreams about cars and ice, made him agree
a hardcore nigga is all he ever wanted to be
and so he met them friday night at a quarter to three

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
They drove around the projects slow while it was raining
smoking blunts, drinking and joking for entertainment
untill they saw a woman on the street walking alone
three in the morning, coming back from work, on her way home
and so they quietly got out the car and followed her
walking through the projects, the darkness swallowed her
they wrapped her shirt around her head and knocked her onto the floor
this is it kid now you got your chance to be raw
so Billy oaked her up and grapped the chick by the hair
and dragged her into a lobby that had nobody there
she struggled hard but they forced her to go up the stairs
they got to the roof and then held her down on the ground
screaming shut the fuck up and stop moving around
the shirt covered her face, but she screamed the clouts
so Billy stomped on the bitch, until he broken her jaw
the dirty bastards knew exactly what they were doing
they kicked her until they cracked her ribs and she stopped moving
blood leaking through the cloth, she cried silently
and then they all proceeded to rape her violently
Billy was meant to go first, but each of them took a turn
ripping her up, and choking her until her throat burned
a broken jaw mumbled for god but they weren't concerned
when they were done and she was lying bloody, broken and broos
one of them niggaz pulled out a brand new twenty-two
they told him that she was a witness of what she'd gone through
and if he killed her he was guaranteed a spot in the crew
he thought about it for a minute, she was practicly dead
and so he leaned over and put the gun right to her head

(Sample from "Survival of the Fittest" by Mobb Deep)
I'm falling and I can't turn back
I'm falling and I can't turn back

[Verse 4]
Right before he pulled the trigger, and ended her life
he thought about the cold pain with the platinum and ice
and he felt strong standing along with his new brothers
cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover
but what he saw made him start the cringine studder
cuz he was starring into the eyes of his own mother
she looked back at him and cried, cause he had forsaken her
she cried more painfully, than when they were raping her
his whole world stopped, he couldn't even contiplate
his corruption had succesfully changed his fate
and he remembered how his mom used to come home late
working hard for nothing, cause now what was he worth
he turned away from the woman that had once given him birth
and crying out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared
but only the devil responded, cause god wasn't there
and right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold
and so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul
they say death take you to a better place but I doubt it
after that they killed his mother, and never spoke about it
and listen cause the story that I'm telling is true
cuz I was there with Billy Jacobs and I raped his mom to
and now the devil follows me everywhere that I go
infact I'm sure he's standing among one of you at my shows
and every street cypher listening to little thugs flowe
he could be standing right next to you, and you wouldn't know
the devil grows inside the hearts of the selvish and wicked
white, brown, yellow and black colored is not restricted
you have a self destructive destiny when your inflicted
and you'll be one of gods children and fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot
so when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never
because the dance with the devil might last you forever


Lil Wayne - Lollipop

Ow... Uh huh Young Mula Baby
I say he so sweet make her wanna lick the wrapper
So I let her lick the wrapper

She lick me like a lollipop [x4]

[Chorus 1 (x2):]
Shawty wanna thug
Bottles in the club
Shawty wanna hump
You know I like to touch your lovely lady lumps

[Verse 1: Lil Wayne]
OK, little mama had a swag like mine
She even wear her hair down her back like mine
I make her feel right when it's wrong like lying
Man, she ain't never had a love like mine
And man I ain't never seen an ass like hers
And that pussy in my mouth had me loss for words
Told her back it up like erp erp
And I made that ass jump like jerk, jerk
And that's when she lick me like a lollipop (oh yeah I like that)
she lick me like a lollipop (I like that)
she lick me like a lollipop (I like that)
she lick me like a lollipop

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2:]
Shawty wanna thug (oh yeah I like that)
Bottles in the club (oh yeah I like that)
Shawty wanna hump
You know I like to touch your lovely lady lumps

[Static Major:]
OK after you back it up and stop
Drop it shawty drop it like it's hot
Oh, drop it like it's hot
Do it shawty don't stop

[Verse 2: Lil Wayne]
Shawty said the nigga that she with ain't shit
Shawty said the nigga that she with ain't this
Shawty said the nigga that she with can't hit
But shawty I'm a hit it hit it like I can't miss
And he can't do this
And he doesn't do that

Shawty need a a refund, need a bring that nigga back
Just like a refund I make her bring that ass back
And she bring that ass back
Because I like that

[Chorus 2]

she lick me like a lollipop [x3]
So I let her lick the wrapper
Like a lollipop

[x4]
Call me so I can make it juicy for you
Call me so I can get it juicy for you

[Chorus 1]

I get her on top she drop it like it hot
And when I'm at the bottom she Hillary Rodham
The middle of the bed
Giving getting head, giving getting head, giving getting head

I said mhm... I like that
Said u. I like that
I said mhm... I like that
Mhmm

Call me so I can come and do it for your
Call me so I can come and prove it for your
Call me so I can make it juicy for you
Call me so I can get it juicy for you

Shawty wanna lick me like a lollipop
she lick me like a lollipop
She said he's so sweet
Makes her Wanna lick the wrapper
So I let her lick the wrapper
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Definitely Elton John and Bernie Taupin. They started before 1980, but they're still going strong and have had a lot of really good songs. I really like their most recent album "Captain and the Kid."

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Eric Clapton, the only triple inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as member of both the Yardbirds and Cream and as a solo artist. Musical career spanning 4 decades, has won or shared in 18 Grammy's.
He also contributed to other artist's albums; in 1968 by adding guitar to George Harrison's Composition, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the "White Album" and The Beatles also on the "White Album". He can be heard on albums by Aretha Franklin, Steven Stills, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Plastic Ono Band, Ringo Starr, Sting and Roger Waters.

After conquering both a heroin and alcohol addictions by 1987, He announced the opening of Crossroad Centre, a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse on the Island of Antigua.

(info copied from ericlapton.com)

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