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Atlanta
Atlanta (
/ətˈlæntə/, stressed /ætˈlæntə/, locally /ætˈlænə/) is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia with a 2010 population of 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest in the U.S. It is a major component of a growing southeastern megalopolis known as the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County.
Atlanta began as a settlement located at the terminus of a railroad line, and it was incorporated in 1845. Today, the city is a major business city and the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States (via highway, railroad, and air), with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport since 1998. The World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University rated Atlanta as an "alpha(-) world city." With a gross domestic product of US$270 billion, Atlanta's economy ranks 15th among world cities and sixth in the nation. The city is a center for services, finance, information technology, government, and higher education. Metro Atlanta contains the country's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and is the world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Delta Air Lines. As of 2010, Atlanta is the seventh most visited city in the United States, with over 35 million visitors per year.
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Brentwood, Essex
Coordinates: 51°37′13″N 0°18′18″E / 51.620355°N 0.305006°E / 51.620355; 0.305006
Brentwood is a town and the principal settlement of the Borough of Brentwood, in the county of Essex in the east of England. It is located in the London commuter belt, 20 miles (30 km) east north-east of Charing Cross, and near the M25 motorway.
Brentwood is an affluent suburban town of 47,593 people and with a small, but expanding, shopping area and high street. Beyond this is extensive sprawling residential development entirely surrounded by open countryside and woodland; some penetrating to within only a few hundred yards of the town centre. It is perhaps most widely known for Brentwood School and for several businesses based in the town.
The name was assumed by antiquaries in the 1700s to derive from a corruption of the words 'burnt' and 'wood', with the name Burntwood still visible on some 18th century maps. However, "brent" was the middle English for "burnt". The name describes the presumed reason for settlement in the part of the Forest of Essex (later Epping Forest) that would have covered the area, where the main occupation was charcoal burning. An alternative meaning of "brent" is "holy one", which could refer to the chapel dedicated to Thomas Becket, for the use of pilgrims to Canterbury.
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Fulham
Coordinates: 51°28′36″N 0°12′50″W / 51.4767°N 0.2138°W / 51.4767; -0.2138
Fulham ( /ˈfʊləm/) is an area of southwest London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, SW6 (the successor to the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham) located 3.7 miles (6.0 km) south west of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the Thames, between Putney and Chelsea. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Fulham was formerly the seat of the diocese of "Fulham and Gibraltar", and Fulham Palace served as the former official home of the Bishop of London, (now a museum), the grounds of which are now divided between public allotments and an elegant botanical garden.
Having been through many transformations in its history, today it is a green London area within very close reach of many famously extravagant places such as Chelsea and Kensington and this is reflected in the high local house prices. It was included within Savills' 2007 list of "prime" London areas. Two Premier League football clubs, Fulham and Chelsea, are situated in Fulham. The former Lillie Bridge Grounds (which hosted the second FA Cup Final and the first ever amateur boxing matches) was also in Fulham.
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Harrods
Harrods is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Brompton, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011[update], with plans announced to reopen in 2013.
The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m2) of selling space in over 330 departments. The UK's second-biggest shop, Oxford Street's Selfridges, is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m2) of selling space.
The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique—All Things for All People, Everywhere. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall, are world famous.
Throughout its history, the store has had a total of five owners. On 8 May 2010, Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the store to Qatar Holdings for £1.5 billion.
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Islington
Coordinates: 51°32′38″N 0°06′10″W / 51.5440°N 0.1027°W / 51.5440; -0.1027
Islington ( /ˈɪzlɪŋtən/) is a neighbourhood in Greater London, England and forms the central district of the London Borough of Islington. It is a desirable residential district of Inner London, spanning from Islington High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the area around the busy Upper Street. The name is often applied to the areas of the borough close to Upper Street such as St Mary's, St Peter's, Barnsbury, and Canonbury, developed in the Georgian era.
Islington grew as a sprawling Middlesex village along the line of the Great North Road, and has provided the name of the modern borough. This gave rise to some confusion, as neighbouring districts may also be said to be in Islington. This district is bounded by Liverpool Road to the west and City Road to the south-east. Its northernmost point is in the area of Canonbury. The main north-south high street, Upper Street splits at Highbury Corner to Holloway Road to the west and St. Paul's Road to the east.
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Piccadilly
Piccadilly is a major street in central London, England, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is completely within the city of Westminster. The street is part of the A4 road, London's second most important western artery. St James's lies to the south of the eastern section of the street, while the western section is built up only on the northern side and overlooks Green Park. The area to the north is Mayfair.
It is the location of Fortnum & Mason, the Royal Academy, the Ritz Hotel, the RAF Club, and Hatchards book shop. Simpson's, once amongst the United Kingdom's leading clothing stores, opened on Piccadilly in the 1930s. The store closed in 1999 and the site is now the flagship shop of the booksellers Waterstone's.
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Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.
The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New Zealand, as well as their previously operated version in Ireland. Sky News is also offered in an international version without the British adverts under the name Sky News International available in Europe and Asia.
Based at a news centre in London, Sky News started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service. Sky News provides an hourly news radio service to multiple radio networks in the UK and Ireland. The channel currently has seven UK bases each with their own correspondents, and the channel can also call upon a wide range of resources and global bureaux provided by its parent company News Corporation such as reporters from Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network (its sister news and business channels).
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Leona Helmsley
Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley (July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was an American businesswoman and real estate entrepreneur. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname Queen of Mean. She was promoted by the Beber Silverstein Group and its co-founder Joyce Beber who persuaded her to call herself Queen of the Palace Hotel.
Following allegations by unpaid contractors that work done on her home had been charged to her company, she was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989. Although having initially received a sentence of 16 years, Helmsley was required to serve only 19 months in prison and two months under house arrest. Helmsley's fate was sealed when a former housekeeper testified during the trial that she had heard Helmsley say: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes...", a saying that became notorious and was identified with her for the rest of her life.
Leona Helmsley, daughter of a hatmaker, was born Lena Mindy Rosenthal in Marbletown, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants. Her family moved to Brooklyn while she was still a girl, and moved six more times before settling in Manhattan. She dropped out of Abraham Lincoln High School to seek her fortune. In a short time, she changed her name several times—from Lee Roberts, Mindy Roberts and Leni Roberts. Eventually, she decided on Leona Mindy Roberts. She legally changed her surname to Roberts.[1] She was a chain smoker, consuming several packs a day. Helmsley would later claim that she appeared in billboard ads for Chesterfield cigarettes, but her claim remains entirely unsubstantiated.
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karaoke
When you're alone with me
I know that this could be..
[Verse:]
I can't help myself baby although I try
You're the flame that turned into a fire
And baby there's someone else in my life
But what you got, it keeps on callin
When you're alone with me
I know that this could be
[Chorus:]
Trouble
But I'm down to take a chance
Trouble
Cause I kinda got a man
Trouble
And I don't know what to do
Trouble
Cause I'm really feeling you
When you're alone with me
I know that this could be
[Verse:]
You don't know if he finds just what he'll do
So I'm telling you that there's a lot to lose
If he knew what we did, he'd act a fool
So lets be smart about this baby
When you're alone with me
I know that this could be
[Chorus]
When you're alone with me
I know that this could be
[Bridge:]
As we proceed
(tell me if you're really sure)
I'm what you need
(can you handle what's in store)
I know it's wrong
(but the way I feel for you is strong)
If this keeps going on this could be dangerous
When you're alone with me
I know that this could be
Trouble
Trouble..
When you're alone with me
I know that this could be Trouble
I don't wanna move when I'm in her hands
There's nothing I can do or say. Uh!
Put everything on hold. Cancel all my plans
Tell everybody I'm away - Hey.
She may be bad, but she feels so good
I'll give her anything she wants.
She's trouble (I know it)
She only needs to touch me
I'm in trouble (I know it) Hee! Ow.
She's trouble (I love it)
I know just when she does it
I'm in trouble (I know it)
I never knew what's running through her mind
No telling what she's gonna do - Ee.
Her every move is like a danger sign
And daring me to come on through - Hey!
She may be bad, but she feels so good
I give her anything she wants.
She's trouble (I know it)
She only needs to touch me
I'm in trouble (I know it) Hee! Ow.
She's trouble (I love it)
I know just when she does it
I'm in trouble (I know it)
She's trouble
She knows what I like
I got a feeling I'm falling (Going in trouble)
Trouble
There's no hope in sight
I'm in way over my head.
She's trouble (I know it)
She only needs to touch me
I'm in trouble (I know it) Oo!
She's trouble (I love it)
I know just when she does it
I'm in trouble (I know it) Oo!
She's trouble (I know it)
Only needs to...(I know it)
(I know it)
call me sent confident
look at how the way we're staying
run the risk don't run your mouth
this is when you know it's playing
so stop the game play the game
rewind and go again
if it's all been said and it's all been done
where you gonna run
oh well when I'm with you
I ain't nothing but trouble
trouble with you is you are you
put down your fists and come with this
automatic as the air
don't join the ranks of losers
lonesome as the air
it's all been said it's all been done
where you gonna run
you got me held like a stare like stars
like a dog now look at me trying
it's not me you'd like to take
like fake and true and look at you crying
it's not supposed to bring you madness
it's not too far too cold forgiveness
we hold to truths so false like bibles
will you come and meet me here
call me sent confident
look at how the way we're staying
when it's all been said and it's all been done
where you gonna run
oh well when I'm with you
I ain't nothing but trouble
trouble with you is you are you
Another night in the city
Something's in the air
You feel it down in your column
Something you can't deter
Maybe its just a feeling
Something you can't shake
Whether it comes tonight or not
It'll get you make no mistake
It could come on a Wednesday evening
Or maybe on a Friday night
No sound no time no warning
No place to run and hide
Maybe its just a feeling
You can't stop the tide
You might be in fates crosshairs
Luck keeps you alive
Baby let me set you down
You look so troubled and I think I know
Just when you think you've come around
There you go
Now I know the business of the heart
And it'll get you anyway it can
And I need someone to walk with in the dark
I'm your man
I go to the trouble like a magnet
That's where I'll be
Trouble is just a place to sing
It's what you need
I swear you look like you're in jail
And all at once you're halfway out the door
One foot dancing, one foot nailed
To the floor
Chasing those circles in the ground
Same old shit is still the same old lie
Just when you think you've got it down
Watch it fly
I go to the trouble like a light
Or like a dare
Trouble is just a friend to me, I know
It'll always be there, be there
It's really hard to make your peace
So give me some credit for the hell I've paid
This world's a blessing and a beast
Everyday
So come on baby let me show you how
Less you know the more I comprehend
You don't have to drag me down
I descend
ANd I go to the trouble and I like it
That's where I'll be
'Cause trouble is just like love, if it's half the way
It's all I can see
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be trouble, somebody let them niggaz know
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be trouble, somebody let them niggaz know
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be trouble, somebody let them niggaz know
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be some trouble
Oh ain't no playin me, it's Twista
I gots to get mine, ya dig?
I need a stove and a pot from you, oh I need a jar from you
I'm 'bout to cook up somethin horrible
I make a big chunk and I chop it down to particles
and sell a part to you, get this money is what I'ma do, ooh
A tall dawg call me momma-do ooh, from sellin nuggets to your momma duke
Now I got money out the follicles
Try to stop me I'ma put your name up in the article
I turn a giant to a molecule
Peon and pussy were the man's parents
I see straight through you like you transparent
You ain't capo, you run your man's errands
Low on the totem pole, but me I hold the do'
I'm never freezin below zero, I can't go below a O
So now I got digits, got critics - fuck 'em
I got bitches that come back wit it, bust you in yo' cap fitted
You niggaz ain't know I was that siddick
The chain flick up, peep the (Chronicles) of Twista nigga, fuck Riddick
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be trouble, somebody let them niggaz know
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be trouble, somebody let them niggaz know
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be trouble, somebody let them niggaz know
I, want, my, dough
Or it's gon' be some trouble, somebody let them niggaz know
Uh-huh I rap scary, make A&R;'s get on they Blackberry
Type in to they boss that every track heavy
If rappers was reverends I'm that Jesse
Or comedians then I'm that Eddie, football I'm that Jerry
You could count on me when you throw the (Rice)
Married to the mob so throw the rice, you are just a prototype
Son of the devil call him Dolomite
I'm on another level but you wrote 'em, right?
You fiend for that 'dro to write
He ain't nothin I'm made, it's swift out the cuts when I daze him
Give him cuts and abrasions cause I'm too fuckin amazin
Huff don't get you paid and I'm makin big bucks off of haze and
My dope gon' keep on comin back like you fuckin with Jason
Vorhees, more ki's, get killed for the pies
They yours to serve but the hills have eyes - I'm watchin you
You should be through my money, huh?
Well when I come through have that money up
and I don't even wanna hear no funny stuff, hurry up
Buck buck, my guns fire horror
A lil' money you better wire momma because I am diaboli-cal
To your life I say sayanora
Better call God or hire Allah, cause nigga I am lava
Flow out the volcano to burn the village
These cooking utensils ain't given to you boy you gotta earn the skillet
When it come to a cap you gotta learn to peel it
When it come to a track you gotta learn to feel it
when it's your turn to kill it
Musical masturbation I'm feelin myself, I'm deadly and mannish
But I still'll leave you and your buddy damaged
Freakin on the tracks so nasty that you can't understand it
'Til you see me sippin dollars and eatin a money sandwich
And the new Jag be lookin so splendid
But I can't re-cop it 'til you get finished - it's been three days nigga
Give me mine, you know I gots to get paid nigga
I...sit on the stairs...got time on my hands
...have nowhere to go...feelin' good and I know...
Whatever you do don't make me come down...
Don't make me come down...
You will have trouble...
Why...do you hurt me...i'm such a nice guy
Put a knife in my heart...then turn it around
You laugh while I bleed...as I bleed to death...
If I bleed to death...you've got trouble...
(chorus)
Hit me again and I'll spit in your face...
Love me again and I'll cut you right back...
Smile at me and I'll Frown at you...
You will be in trouble....
I'm feeling alone...I pick up the phone...
when nobody's home...I need to go out
I'm runnin' the streets...no shirt on my back
no shirt on my back...lookin for trouble...
Hit me again and I'll spit in your face...
Love me again and I'll cut you right back...
Smile at me and I'll frown at you...
You will be in trouble...
I'm...coming to you...I wanna make love....
You're not in the mood...so I leave you alone...
I'll get magazines...go play with myself...
go play with myself...go play with trouble
I've got a disease...It's inside my head...
so I go to bed...to whom it concerns...
I haven't a clue...I haven't a clue...
well maybe it's you...givin' me trouble
(chorus twice)
Hit me again and I'll....etc...
Hold your breath when you see me walking by
I'm obsessed with movies, like Barbed Wire throw a stiletto in ya eye
I confess I'm like Jesse James in an Ames parking lot
Have humorous fun pullin numerous guns on consumers (Run!)
Your man-freaked that, I told John- Get Back
Broke your 8Track A-Dats stole your Kit Kats
Grab your fanny pack and gagged you with a six pack a six White Castle sack
Drip wax in your office fax changed a few facts in your contract
Your advance is axed and A & R is gonna write all ya new tracks
I'm on the dole with mad loot sellin bootlegs of poor artists
Got two legs to work but I beg for change to drink Bacardis
Hearty meals got these Hardy Boys hard then taught Nancy Drew and her dog
How to jerk off and how to steal from drug dealers
Ahh enough of this I killed Snuffalufagus
With pills and made a snuff film to prove to Big Bird he exists (See he is real!)
I'm ill cant deal with mere mortals
Got a portal in my knee to beam me to a balance beam but I just drank 3 Jim Beams
My Olympic team is gonna scream at me, is it my turn? I gotta pee
I'm 14 but haven't grown since I was three
Get my kicks feedin drinks to kids in rehab clinks
Minx took Pink to my sink and used her hair die to die my minks
Tattoo inks with Ajax I highjacked Pat Sajak
Sent him back to Wheel of Fortune with a bad limp and a crack habit
Silly rabbit this song is for kids, the way the messed up system is
If I was a black man I'd be up on a 8 year bid
Id ego you know I wish I owned those, but I sold em to buy nice speakers
(What kind?) Bose
Trouble-We like it like that
Trouble capital T stands for me punchin ya tummy cover you with honey and ants
Fatal Attraction boil a bunny while I breakdance
Fart in my hotpants in a crowded theatre at Sundance (must have been the hot ranch)
So let's dance because I killed Bowie's wife with a bowie knife
C'mon mon it was Iman and man Bowie's my man gimme one more night
I just upchucked my pills and Tom Collins on Phil Collins, I mean Phil it was just a spill-chill
Bad upbringing I made Jerry's kids phone stop ringing
I'm only kiddin with this sick singing I'm just givin what this track's bringin
Trouble I'm not subtle I need more air so I popped that kid and stole his bubble
Stuck him in some double Tupperware, A clean death inject ya with Crest and crystal meth
Obsessed with my own breasts won't look at you so don't get undressed for sex
I guess I'm on a rampage for underage idols
Did Malcolm's bro in the middle and little Kenny with subtitles
I strike quick like the emperor not the right temperature and I think it's too easy to make fun
of 98 Degrees
And now that you mention it Britney, Christina, and Nsync-
Looking out my window, I see Hell.
Looking out my window, I see you.
Staring through my door, I see Hell.
Burning in the flames, I see you.
Trouble my mind.
Trouble my soul.
Trouble in the youth.
Burning out of control.
Control control control control
Burning out of control
Playing with my mind, I see Hell.
Playing out of mind, I see you.
But, who the fuck can ever tell.
Burning in the flames, I see you.
Trouble my mind.
Trouble my soul.
Trouble in the youth.
Burning out of control.
Control control control control
Falling asleep into a dream.
Falling asleep, away, away.
Falling asleep, I'm falling down.
Wide awake, I see you.
Trouble my mind.
Trouble my soul.
Trouble in the youth.
Burning out of control.
Control control
(Lowell George)
You yelled ";hey";
When your car wouldn't start
Got real nervous, started to eat your heart out
You're so fat, your shoes don't fit on your feet
You got trouble
And it's tailor made, mama lay down your head in the shade
Coz your eyes are tired and your feet are too
And you wish the world was as tired as you
Well I write a letter and I nd it today
And put all the trouble in it you had today, had today
You yelled ";hey";
When your stove blew up
Upset, why yes
The footprints on your ceiling are almost gone
And you're wondering why
Mama lay your head down don't you
Your eyes are tired and your feet are too
And you wish the world was as tired as you
Well I write a letter and I send it away
And I put in it all the trouble you had today, had today
All the trouble in it
Well your telephone rang and you weren't home
You forgot about this and you forgot about that
Got to get to what you're doing
Goodbye click that so and so
You're an islander on your own, on your own
Uh, oh, we're in trouble, something's come along
And it's burst our bubble, yeah, yeah
Uh, oh, we're in trouble gotta get home quick
March on the double
We've been out all night
'Nd we haven't been home we're walking through
The back streets all alone
The party was great, yeah, we were really thrilled
And when we get in, we're gonna get killed
We couldn't get a cab 'cause we ain't got to money
We missed the last train bus but the night bus never come
We're eight miles from home and it's starting to
Uh, oh, we're in trouble, something's come along
And it's burst our bubble
Yeah, yeah, uh, oh, we're in trouble, book us a ticket
On the next space shuttle, yeah, yeah trouble
We tried to steal a car but we soon realized
We got down the road none of us could drive
A police car came along and they took us for a ride
And when we get home we're gonna get gonna get fried
Uh, oh, we're in trouble, yeah, yeah, uh, oh, we're in trouble
Uh, oh, we're in trouble something's came along
And it's burst our bubble, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, we're in trouble, book us a ticket
What you wait for baby
What you wait for baby
What you wait for baby
I'll be coming home next sunday
She was like mistletoe, a candle burning low
She made me wait in the rain and we spent hours in the snow
Last winter trouble crept up on you babe
I've been awake since last december
Hey trouble, will you come for me
You took my lady, you can't let me be
Hey trouble, will you come for me
You took my lady, and you left me
She was my fortune teller, she was the sweetest thing
Her daddy was foreman, her mama was crazy
Said she's been asleep since last december
Hey trouble, will you come for me
You took my lady, you can't let me be
Hey trouble, will you come for me
You took my lady, and you left me
What you wait for baby [x3]
I'll be comming home
I am needy. I am lazy. I am a turkey.
I am lonely. I am busy. I am a druggie.
They call me solve the problem.
'Cause I am a private eye!
She cries out. He gets mad. I say "FUCK YOU!!"
Big trouble in my life. [x3]
But I don't feel blue.
I am a jerky. I am a junkie. I am picky and dorky.
I am lonely. I am crazy.
HEY! I am a private eye!
Pass through the eye of a needle. [x2]
I'll get over saying "FUCK YOU!!"
Big trouble in my life. [x3]
But I don't feel blue.
Big trouble in my life. [x3]
But I don't feel blue.
Don't big up yourself and gwaan like you're a big timer
Don't big up yourself and gwaan like you're a big timer
Don't big up yourself and gwaan like you're a big timer
Your no saint
Tell this fool in my face I don't need enemies so I'm asking you to move back a little,
Why you bigging up your chest and you're thinking that you're tough
Don't you know that every bone is brittle?
Everything will be fine if you just cool out yourself and don't do no crime
Now I'm asking you to move mate! Step it back a little, step back a little
Warning
Explosive exhibition of brutality
Explosive exhibition of
Trouble's what you want then you're gonna get it
Trouble's what you seek do you really need it?
Trouble's what you want then you're gonna get it
Trouble's what you need then you will receive it.
Don't big up yourself and gwaan like you're a big timer
Why so close up to me, dangerous place to be and you're rocking halitosis a little
Do you think I wear a vest, putting me to the test?
You're gonna get yourself in a pickle
Now you're over the line! Something's ticking and yoot man you're out of time
Now you're taking the piss mate! Step it back a little, step back a little
Warning
Explosive exhibition of brutality
Explosive exhibition of
Trouble's what you want then you're gonna get it
Trouble's what you seek do you really need it?
Trouble's what you want then you're gonna get it
Trouble's what you need then you will receive it.
Well how long dem ah try come and test we out
We came fi warn dem yes we come fi warn dem
Well how lond de baldhead boy dem ah try test we out
We come fi warn dem yes we come fi warn dem
Explosive
Why so close up to me dangerous place to be
I don't wanna make war on no enemies
Why you bigging up your chest and you're thinking that you're rough
Explosive brutality
Trouble's what you want then you're gonna get it
Trouble's what you seek do you really need it?
Trouble's what you want then you're gonna get it
You're gonna get me into trouble
I knew it right off the bat
You're gonna get me into trouble
If you keep lookin' like that
I may be alone but there's someone at home
I just know I'm making a mistake
A woman like you walked in a place like this
You can almost hear the promises break
You're gonna make me need an alibi
You're gonna make me have to watch my back
You're gonna make me have to tell a bunch of lies
You're gonna make me have to cover my tracks
Well I told her I wouldn't, I thought I couldn't
Now, I'm so ashamed
When I look at you, it's all that I can do
To think about "What's her name"
You're gonna get me into trouble
I knew it right off the bat
You're gonna get me into trouble
If you keep lookin' like that
Don't look like that baby
No, no, no, no
[Solo Break]
You're gonna mix my emotions,
You're gonna tangle my net
You're gonna make me do something
That I'm afraid I won't regret
I may be alone but there's someone at home
I just know I'm making a mistake
A woman like you walked in a place like this
You can almost hear the promises break
You're gonna get me in trouble
You're gonna get me in trouble
You Know,You're gonna get me in trouble
Now don't ya?
Bits and pieces of love for you, so sweet and simple yet
I'm frightened by the way you feel
Little by little you touch my heart, where they had touched it too
And as I smile, I catch myself
Trouble me or I'll go, trouble me with you
Spider, Spider, crawl on the lake, guilty and poison free
I wish that I could be like you
Trouble me or I'll go, yeah I'm human too
Over and over the need needs food will human weakness
And as I act I hate myself
Bits and pieces of love for you, so sweet and simple yet
I'm frightened by the way you feel
And as I act, I hate myself
A ship comes in from africa
Carrying forbidden cargo
Gonna bring somebody lots a trouble
Theres a family out in ohio
Gonna step on it and make it grow
Gonna fool some people at the double
Let it all go round
And it all comes down
A captain down in florida
Knows a man back in chicago
Every deal you know hes makin money
Rico comes from texas way
With a senorita from el paso
Glad hes found the land of milk and honey
Let it all go round
And it all comes down
g man down in panama
Cuts a trail to barcelona
Dip-lo-matic bag will be no hassle
Sails into the big t.o.
Thru the pipeline to alaska
Shes the one in town with something special
Maybe you maybe me maybe them
Look at you look at me look at them
Cut it out
You dont need it anyway
Sees its face in tennessee
Knows a place in casablanca
Detroit city never was a stranger
On the streets of amsterdam
London town and all around us
Everywhere we look we see the danger
Let it all go round
So now that you're lying face down in the concrete
It seems to me that, you didn't understand these streets.
No respect for me.
Well you should think before you speak.
I ain't even gonna try to lie, you see
I really don't like to start fights
But I guess sometimes, I gotta be the bad guy
That's why...
No matter where we go
Everybody says we start trouble...not true
It's just...Everywhere we go trouble seems to find me, I know
Everywhere we go they say we're violent I know
So I'm out with the crew on a Saturday night
Trying to live down the sterotype
Just friends and fam having fun tonight
Drink a brew with Hips and Mike, we're alright
Here they come knocking again
Shameless warriors of the weekend
It's the same old story with the same old end
Now you on the floor, sleeping again
No matter where we go
Everybody says we start trouble...not true
It's just...Everywhere we go trouble seems to find me, I know
(I know everywhere we go)
Everywhere we go they say we're violent I know
(everywhere, everywhere we go)
So I see you're feeling uptight tonight. Don't do it
And you're looking at me like you want to fight. Don't do it
Because DMS is in the house tonight. So don't
No please not tonight. No. No please no not tonight. Come on!
Mother fuckers wanna try and play around.
No matter where we go they wanna fuck around with me and you
So true. Fuck you.
Whatcha gonna do?
Everywhere we go trouble seems to find me, I know
(I know everywhere we go)
Everywhere we go they say we're violent, I know
(everywhere, everywhere we go) (Repeat)
What can I do now? Everywhere we go trouble seems to find me, I know
(I know everywhere we go)
Everywhere we go they say we're violent, I know
Trouble that's what we had
And everything that goes around
Comes around in a bittersweet lament
Well me heart's already broken down
Looking for a sweeter sound
Looking for a brighter day
I'm face down on the pavement
Step aside, see the light, close your eyes
And let us live our lives
As they rally 'round the sinking ship
Looking for a better way
It was just the blind leading the blind
I got my feet back on the ground
It's better than being alone
Funny
We tried it all
You left me standing on the brink
Looking down, down, down
There's a little bit of truth in every lie
You were so above us all
It was just the blind leading the blind
I got my feet back on the ground
It's better than being alone
It's better than being alone
We stranded on the vine
Destitute and shaken
Looking for a sign
Left hung out to dry
Our backs against the wall
Stond out of our minds
Ooh yeah, I've got my feet back on the ground
But you know, it's better than being alone
It's better than being alone
Trouble
Don't you see
That in your bed
I find no sleep
I confess you came because of me
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Cold wet stone
Deep river bed
Once so clean and clear now runs red
You know to well
Was me that called you here
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Oh sweet day
Leave me behind
I will never call on you
Until the day I die
Pray your mercy shine on me
Pray your mercy shine
Here I stand
Head bowed for thee
My empty heart begs you
Leave me be
But I confess
You know too well
That I have fallen
Pray your mercy give to me
Pray your mercy shine
Trouble
Trouble thee
Let your mercy shine
Cold wet stone
River deep and red
Your cold heart beats inside my head
You know too well
It was me that brought you here
Ohhh trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
I pray your mercy shine on me
Trouble let me be
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga I'm never gonna change (gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga I'm never gonna change (gonna change)
When the singer Rob calls the police on me y'all niggaz ran out and copped the CD
see what I discovered is y'all snitch lovers I might speak, but I don't fuck with nobody
see What Doug, Jimmy & L.A. don't know, these youngins crossed the line with Hov, I'm letting it blow
had the papers writing stories like: "didn't they know, this what happen when they made that rapper CEO"
I know, its just a matter of time before the steady hate start to overflow then the leavey breaks
and my conscience go, you escape the rico, why throw everything away over ego?
you paper chasing, they paper hating, billionare Hov you on the pace to make it
fuck that exclamation comma quotations I love drama period
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga I'm never gonna change (gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga I'm never gonna change (gonna change)
smelling like Petrone singing dirty rap songs, tip-toeing in the crib like 6 in the morn
every day its the same I said in blueprint that I'd never change its just a part of the game
respect me I'm a thug, I might cool out for a sec but expect me to bug its in my blood
but if my chick leave me she gonna leave me for something, she gone leave me cuz Halie,
she ain't gonna leave me for nothing, picture me gettin up with something sleazy
something something so easy you could take out its beat like nothing something
soon as you finish cuttin you like leave me please, not me I need Angilina Jolize company,
so I ain't gonna make a move unless I got I got a plan b, that'll happen the day i have a baby by free,
not to say that anything is wrong with free, just to say that ain't nothing wrong with me
If my hands in the cookie jar, know one thing, ima take the cookie not leave my ring
if my hands in the cookie jar know one thing ima take (laughs) y'all know what I mean
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga I'm never gonna change (gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga I'm never gonna change (gonna change)
unh, you little niggaz ain't deep you dumb, you niggaz ain't gangsta you gum, I chew little niggaz
hock-too, spew little niggaz, I can only view little niggaz like little niggaz
but in lieu of little niggaz trying to play that boy, I phew phew little niggaz with the latest toy
unlike you little nigga, I'm a grown ass man, big shoes to fill nigga, grown ass pants
prolly hustled with your pops, go ask your parents its apparent you're staring at a legend
who, put a few little niggaz in the they place before trying to eat without saying they grace before
blasphemous bastard get your faith restored you're viewing your version of the lord god
mc little nigga, applaud, or forever burn in the fire that I spit at y'all I rebuke you little nigga
the meek shall parish, ill roof you little nigga, Im a project terrorist, cute you little niggaz
think you in my class subsitute little niggaz soon feel my wrath, I mute you little niggaz
you a little nigga, I shall abuse you little nigga, I'm a ill nigga, now shoot you little niggaz
go somewhere and play, cuz the day I loose to you little niggaz, no day
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga I'm never gonna change (gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I got trouble every day
Looks like it won't go away
Because I know I got my stuff
If I can hold on long enough
Yeah, now just a little while longer
Well everybody looks at me
They all think I'm trouble free
But here's some news - you're not alone
Let's get together and bitch and moan
Well if you need a helping hand
I'm always here to understand
After all is said and done
We'll get that trouble on the run
Trouble is something
That can happen to any old anyone
Trouble is something
That you hope doesn't hang around very long
Yeah, whoa...
Do do do do do I got trouble
Do do do do do I got trouble
Do do do do do I got trouble
Do do do do do I got trouble
Do do do do do I got trouble
It just won't go away
Do do do do do I got trouble
It's got me every day
Do do do do do I got trouble
Help me, help me, help me
Do do do do do I got trouble
Whoa
Gpg 4
Keep raining on these niggaz man
I'm for the streets ya heard me
Yea, yea
Amazona piranhas concrete jungle
Christmas time on the humble kill chris cringle
I got dope on the streets fuck another single
My shiney a.p got her on my d.I.c.k
Enforcer like rebay
Kabo 10 weather no time for envy
Bounce through l.a, blue and red pelle
In and out burger, porn star in the tele
And she my motivation like kelly
Reverse cowgirl it, smoking on the swishay
Mack mentality all you niggaz squares
Capkin red bottoms got a million pairs
Christian lebouers I'm off that
Lavids on my feet cost a nigga some more rats
All the real niggaz, are dead or in jail
And the fed system tryin to kill niggaz with them cells
Bail jumper judge sayin I'm a flight risk
1 squad out gotta play the night shift
Cops wanna taze me beat me with they night sticks
Oh no, I see
A spider web is tangled up with me
And I lost my head
The thought of all the stupid things I'd said
Oh no, what's this?
A spider web and I'm caught in the middle
So I turn to run
And thought of all the stupid things I've done
And oh, I never meant to cause you trouble
And oh, I never meant to do you wrong
And oh, well if I ever caused you trouble
Oh no I never meant to do you harm
Oh no, I see
Spider web and it's me in the middle
So I twist and turn
But here am I in my little bubble
Singing and oh I never meant to cause you trouble
And I never meant to do you wrong
And oh what if I ever caused you trouble
Oh, no I never meant to do you harm
They spun a web for me
They spun a web for me
I'm in trouble
I'm an addict
I'm addicted to this girl
She's got my heart tied in a knot
And my stomach in a whirl
But even worse
I can't stop calling her
She's all I want and more
I mean damn
What's not to adore?
I've been playing too much gigs
I, I've been listening to jazz
I called so many times
I swear she's going mad
And that cellular will be the death of us
I swear, I swear
And oh
O-oh, o-oh, o-ooh
Ooooh
I'm running my mouth
Just like I got her
But I surely don't
Because she's so
O-oh, o-oh, o-ooh
Rock 'n roll
And out of my league
Is she out of my league?
Let's hope not
I'm in trouble
I'm so clich©
See that word just wears me out
Makes me feel like just another boy
To laugh and joke about
But even worse
I can't stop calling her
I love to hear that voice
And honestly
I'm left with no choice
I've been playing too much gigs
I, I've been listening to jazz
I called so many times
I swear she's going mad
And that cellular will be the death of us
I swear, I swear
And oh
O-oh, o-oh, o-ooh
Ooooh
I'm running my mouth
Just like I got her
But I surely don't
Because she's so
O-oh, o-oh, o-ooh
Rock 'n roll
And out of my league
Is she out of my league?
Let's hope not
And oh
O-oh, o-oh, o-ooh
Ooooh, oooh
Trouble oh trouble set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much for me
Trouble oh trouble can't you see
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing left of me
I've drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair
So won't you be fair
I don't want no more of you
So won't you be kind to me
Just let me go where
I have to go there
Trouble oh trouble move away
I have seen your face
And it's too much for me today
Trouble oh trouble can't you see
You have made me a wreck
Now won't you leave me in my misery
I have seen you eyes
And I can see deaths disguise
Hanging on me
Hanging on me
I'm beat I'm torn
Shattered and tossed and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see
Trouble oh trouble move from me
I have paid my debt now
Won't you leave me in my misery
Trouble oh trouble please be kind
Don't wan't no fight
No attorneys
To plead my case
No orbits
To send me into outta space
And my fingers
Are bejeweled
With diamonds and gold
But that ain't gonna help me now
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I disturb my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
You think your right
But you were wrong
You tried to take me
But I knew all along
You can take me
For a ride
I'm not a fool out
So you better run and hide
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
If you see me coming
Down the street then
You know it's time to
Go (and you know it's time to go
cause here comes trouble)
No attorneys
To plead my case
No orbits
To send me into outta space
And my fingers
Are bejeweled
With diamonds and gold
But that ain't gonna help me now
You think your right
But you were wrong
You tried to take me
But I knew all along
You can take me
For a ride
Cause I'm not a fool out
So you better run and hide
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I disturb my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
So if you see me coming
Down the street then
You know it's time to
Go (go-oh-oh..I got)
Trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
Trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I got trouble in my town
I got trouble in my town
No attorneys
To plead my case
No orbits
To send me into outta space
And my fingers
Are bejeweled
With diamonds and gold
But that ain't gonna help me now
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I disturb my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
You think your right
But you were wrong
You tried to take me
But I knew all along
You can take me
For a ride
I'm not a fool out
So you better run and hide
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
If you see me coming
Down the street then
You know it's time to
Go (and you know it's time to go
cause here comes trouble)
No attorneys
To plead my case
No orbits
To send me into outta space
And my fingers
Are bejeweled
With diamonds and gold
But that ain't gonna help me now
You think your right
But you were wrong
You tried to take me
But I knew all along
You can take me
For a ride
Cause I'm not a fool out
So you better run and hide
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I disturb my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
So if you see me coming
Down the street then
You know it's time to
Go (go-oh-oh..I got)
Trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
Trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble ya'll
I got trouble in my town
I got trouble in my town
I got trouble in my town
You and I, left alone cannot be trusted
There's a lust we can't control
Slowly undress, chest to chest
And unless I say goodnight,
I know we're only gonna go too far
Please, I'm not quite ready for that next level
One kiss and that spells trouble (Trouble)
[Chorus:]
But you could talk me in, talk me into it
If you wanted to
You could talk me in, talk me into it
If you only knew
Yeah I'm likin', I'm likin' the way you do-o-o (Do-o-o)
What you do-o-o to me
I, I don't wanna lose control
Control, control, control
But then again I,
I think I wanna lose control
Control, control, control
Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
You and me that equals...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of
I get down, I surprise you
Don't you push me
Let me in your crib today,
Next day I'll snatch the goods away
You're not listenin', watch me now,
'Cause I'm a good girl but I could be bad
You're not quite there, you're not on my level
Trust me, for you I 'm trouble
(Chorus)
This is a warning, I'm warnin' ya
You're taking too long, (Too) too long
Tryin' play look back and be cool
But boy you're playin' it wrong,
Playin' it wrong
Now it's in your eyes, (Eyes)
You're really-really (Really-really)
Lookin' (Lookin') like you wanna do somethin'
Like-like you wanna do somethin' (Do somethin')
Boy you better get right (Get right)
If you don't (If you don't),
You're gonna mess around and lose somethin'
You're mess around and lose somethin' (Lose somethin')
I, I don't wanna lose control
Control, control, control
But then again I,
I think I wanna lose control
Control, control
Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
You and me that equals...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble been doggin' my soul since the day I was born
Worry...
Worry, worry, worry, worry
Worry just will not seem to leave my mind alone
We'll I've been...
saved by a woman
I've been...
saved by a woman
I've been...
saved by a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
Trouble...
Oh, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Feels like every time I get back on my feet
she come around and knock me down again
Worry...
Oh, worry, worry, worry, worry
Sometimes I swear it feels like this worry is my only friend
We'll I've been saved...
by a woman
I've been saved...
by a woman
I've been saved...
by a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
Oh..., Ahhhh....
Ohhhh
She good to me now
She gave me love and affection
She good tell me now
She gave me love and affection
I Said I love her
Yes I love her
I said I love her
I said I love...
She good to me now
She's good to me
She's good to me
(Cat Stevens)
Trouble
Oh trouble set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much too much for me
Trouble
Oh trouble can't you see
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing much left of me
I've drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair
So won't you be fair
I don't want no more of you
So won't you be kind to me
Just let me go where
I'll have to go there
Trouble
Oh trouble move away
I have seen your face
And it's too much for me today
Trouble
Oh trouble can't you see
You have made me a wreck
Now won't you leave me in my misery
I've seen your eyes
And I can see death's disguise
Hangin' on me
Hangin' on me
I'm beat, I'm torn
Shattered and tossed and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see
Trouble
Oh trouble move from me
I have paid my debt
Now won't you leave me in my misery
Trouble
Oh trouble please be kind
I don't want no fight
And I haven't got a lot of time
I only know you by reputation
It's time I found out face to face
'cause if your sugar, I'll fight temptation
But if you're poison, I need a taste
(1st Chorus)
Girl, I heard you're Trouble with a capital "T"
One look in your eye spells trouble to me
We're talkin' danger, just too blind to see
You're Trouble just waitin' to happen to me!...Trouble...I'm talkin' Trouble!
I'm not the first, no, I've got to face it
But I ain't the last to take the bait
A silver spoon hangs on your bracelet
T-R-B-L on your license plate
(2nd chorus)
Girl, I heard you're Trouble with a capital "T"
I'm new here in town, come on and spell it out for me
We're talkin bad news, I been too blind to see
You're Trouble just waitin' to happen to me!.......Trouble.....
...you're gettin closer, baby
....I see Trouble..
....Trouble's comin over me....
...Yeah, with a capital "T"
T-R-O-U-B-L-E...it's Trouble!
I only know you by reputation
It's time I found out, baby, face to face
'cause if your sugar, I'll fight temptation
But if you're poison, I need a little taste
Tell me, baby, how bad is bad
How mad is mad
Girl, are you all that they say
Yeah, just one touch, is a touch too much
Just one hit goes straight to my head
(3rd Chorus)
Girl, I heard you're Trouble with a capital "T"
One look in your eye spells trouble to me
We're talkin' bad news, I been too blind to see
You're Trouble just waitin' to happen to me!...
We're talkin Trouble...
Bad news....(...yes I'm a victim)
Oh, you're Trouble just happens to me...(here she comes!)
I was raised a gambler's son
And before I could walk,
I had to learn how to run
And I never, never ever
Played a loaded dice
But, I rolled a lot of women
With a heart as cold as ice
On the run again
Looking for a place to hide,
Everywhere I look there is trouble,
Always coming my way,
Trouble always coming my way
Baby I'm lonely, I'm out of control,
I need someone to understand
The badness in my soul
Though I never, I never
Stole another man's wife
But, I fooled around plenty enough
And I got what I paid for
On the run again
Looking for a place to hide,
Everywhere I look there is trouble,
Trouble always coming my way
Trouble
On the run again
Looking for a place to hide,
Everywhere I look there is trouble,
Trouble always coming my way
Trouble always coming my way, trouble always coming...
I wouldn’t say I didn’t see her coming
A light that bright’s hard to miss in a place that dark
She said yes to a drink while her fingers fumbled
With a cross on a chain that was swinging above her heart
When the morning sun set the midnight sky on fire
She left me like a thief not knowing what she took
I wish trouble always looked that good
I wish trouble always looked that good
I was still a little nervous when I got the courage to call
That bright red number she’d written on the back of my hand
A bottle of wine rode shotgun with a rose
While I was driving cross town thinking about turning back
Now there’s a porch light burning a hole right through my windshield
There’s a silhouette standing at the screen door waiting for me
I wish trouble always looked that good
I wish trouble always looked that good
I know a million reasons not to go where I’m headed
Oh but when she smiles I can’t even think of one
I wish trouble always looked that good
Trouble, oh trouble set me free,
I have seen your face and it’s to much for today
Trouble, oh trouble cant you see
Eating my heart away, and there’s nothing much left of me
I drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won’t you be fair
Oh won’t you be fair
I don’t no more of you
So wont you be kind to me
And let me go there
I have to go there
Trouble oh trouble move away,
I have seen your face and it’s to much for me today
Trouble oh trouble can’t you see
You have made me a wreck now won’t you leave me in my misery
I’ve seen your eyes
And I have seen death disguised, oh hanging on me
Oh hanging on me
I’m deep and torn
Im shattered and lost and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see
Trouble oh trouble please be kind
I don’t wanna fight and I havn’t got a lot of time.
I got a letter in the mail sayin' I'm gonna go to jail
Someone's got an axe
Lookin' it out for me
Well I was feelin' pretty nice didn't have to think twice
Finders keepers baby, keep it away from me
You got nothin' that I need
Stay away from me
I'll quicken your pace to heaven
You try to give me your lot
Well I hope you rot
Gonna tell the devil about you
You're gettin' me in trouble
You're gettin' me in trou...
Gettin' me in trouble
Every day and night
I'm alright
Well I'm a high speed king I never think about a thing
All I can do is moan
Everybody takes a turn from the trash I have learned
But why the hard way for me, I don't know
I'm gonna get you back
Stab you in the fat
I'll make you wish you never met me
I gonna make you sing the blues
You're gonna lose
Show you what you got yourself into
You're gettin' me in trouble
You're Gettin' me in trouble
Gettin' me in trouble
Every day and night
I'm all...
You try to put the weight of the world
On top of my shoulders
You got to know that you're a little girl
Who wants to feel older, feel older (watch out)
Trouble, yeah
Trouble, yeah yeah
I'm in trouble baby (oh yeah)
You're gettin' me in trouble
Gettin' me in trouble
Gettin' me in trouble
Every day and night
I'm in trouble, trouble, trouble (alright)
I'm in trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
D East
Out in the west the sun goes down
It's just a town like any other town
People wear an innocent facade
Oh, such pretty things to heal a broken heart
Don't tell me, I know it, they all play the game
No questions, no answers, faces without names
You can drive right into a town called trouble
The fun is free but the price is double
Walk right into a town called trouble
The night is waiting for you
But in the morning you'll be gone
As nothing changes life goes on
And every day's like any other one
Never try to change the broken rule
Take, what you get, be sure to play it cool
Don't tell me, I know it, they all play the game
No questions, no answers, faces without names
I said people
You should have listened
To your mother
Cause she told you now
The world is full of trouble
But hold on
To your dreams
Don?t let
Them slip from your hands
Into another
The world is full of trouble
The world is full of trouble.
So now people
You need to help one another
Cause blame don?t matter now
When your families
In trouble
Get on up
Don?t let your worries
Keep you down
Cause tomorrow
Tomorrow?s only hours from now.
The world is full of trouble
The world is full of trouble.
Don?t need no hate
Don?t need no fear
Don?t need no AIDS
Don?t need no anti queer
We got to love one another
We got to get it together
We need love, love love love
Listen to your mother
Cause you know
The world the world the world is
Cities, streets, that's where I learned
Play with fire, you'll get burned
When the heat was on, I turned
Turned to trouble... trouble
Yeah, yeah, C three, yeah
New Orleans baby, a street called Eagle
And everybody's ill, yeah, illegal
People steal cars, we steal people
We eat like dogs, but we still people
And even when ya lost, trouble still see you
And even if ya dead broke, we are still equal
One time for the lil people
Eat ya meal, don't let ya meal eat you
(I run with trouble... trouble)
Street runner we crazy with dis one
I run... with... trouble
And just the other day, my nigga Chris killed his self
I pray to God, that I never feel the way he felt
Where do we go when there's no help?
He figured Heaven, so he went left
Ya'll know that ain't right
Plus, he was high as a plane that same night
Shit, I probably been on that same flight
Shit, I probably had that same fight
I just kept swingin
Twelve rounds comin, bells ringin
(I run with trouble... trouble)
Introduced to the game, when I was just a child
Mama love a drug dealer, straight quit her job
And took his life, and along with him, I died
And she died, we died
Then came my daughter, to my bed side
Told me daddy, don't cry, I'm alive
I look her in the eyes, and see me with no sins
But this is how the note ends
Ya know, let's kick it back
I can't call it
(I run with trouble... trouble)
Ya know, heheh
Yeah, yeah
The tool, it poke out the jeans
The coke smell just like a bunch of coffee beans
Ya nah mean? and everything ain't what it seem
Ya nah mean? and don't play that game, without your team
Kill for my bread, kill for my G's, kill for my cream
I will have that red beam on hot beam
Now I hear sirens, wait I think I see one behind me
I ain't trippin baby, money got me
(I run with trouble... trouble)
And fuck the police, fuck the feds, too
I ain't jumpin in that jump suit
A one, I'm on my one, two
Check me out, I fuck around and check you
Respect due, pay yours nigga
Mines under the seat, by my feet, where's yours nigga?
Too much hoarse liquor, huh?
Too much pressure, too much force
Too much money, never heard that before
Shit
And we stop the snitches at the door
Cut that tail off the rat, he won't rat no more
(I run with trouble... trouble)
Shit, that's right, get trapped fuck with my G's
Keep shootin, 'til I burn my sleeves
Nigga please, these boys is G's
Represent New Orleans, like a Florida leaf
Shit, what you know about it, we more than thieves
We steal from the rich, so the poor can eat
Yeah, niggas act up, my niggas act accordingly
Hey soldier, don't war with me
Sweet, she like to model for me
The way she wear it is dangerous
She walk around me like a predator
And i'm something to eat
Nothing to her but a treat
Something she play with and leave alone
And i can't help it but to let her use me
Every little thing about her says shes trouble (trouble)
And every little thing she do just makes me want her more
More and more
She melts, melts herself all over me
As sexy candle but so much hotter
Pain is just pleasure with the volume up
I want it louder
Oh, I'm spending all my money on her
No matter where i go there she is
Half-naked waiting for me (waiting for me)
Waiting for me (waiting for me, oh)
Every little thing about her says shes trouble (trouble)
But every little thing she do just makes me want her more
More and more
More and more, Hey
More and more
More and more, Oh
Every little thing about her says shes trouble (trouble)
But every little thing she do just makes me want her more
Oh, Every little thing about her says shes trouble (trouble)
But every little thing she do just makes me want her more
More and more
More and more, Hey
More and more
It's gon' be trouble, trouble
It's gon' be trouble, trouble
It's gon' be trouble, trouble
It's gon' be trouble, trouble
Say man, she don't stop, she get it, get it, baby girl, the way she did it
Way she works her body makes a playa' wanna hit it
Did it up and down then she shook it all around
Shorty look at that and then she dropped it to the ground
Now I'm thinking I done found her panties roaming in the town
This girl was cuchie down, backside wasn't leaving ground
I was on it like a hound, got at her on the double
But been all up on her bubble, say man this girl is trouble
Baby girl, you know you're sexy the way you move you're body
Hope the music never stops, I like the way you wind
Don't pay me no attention, I'm just admiring that body
I'm enjoying my view strictly from behind
You're back, you're cold, you're good at what you do
Don't stop, it's working on the pole
You don't know what you 'bout to get into, do you, girl?
You better watch yourself
It's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she don't stop dancing on me like that, the way she pushing me back
I'm just saying it's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she get any closer I'ma have somethin' for her to grind on, grind on
Trouble, trouble
If she don't stop dancing on me like that, the way she pushing me back
I'm just saying it's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she get any closer I'ma have somethin' for her to grind on, grind on
Baby girl, you something else with the way you move yourself
If you wanna get closer baby, it's alright
I'd like to thank you shawty for coming to this party
'Cause I'm enjoying my view and baby I got you back
You're back, you're cold, you're good at what you do
Don't stop, it's working on the pole
You don't know what you 'bout to get into, do you girl?
You better watch it come
It's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she don't stop dancing on me like that, the way she pushing me back
I'm just saying it's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she get any closer I'ma have somethin' for her to grind on, grind on
Trouble, trouble
If she don't stop dancing on me like that, the way she pushing me back
I'm just saying it's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she get any closer I'ma have somethin' for her to grind on, grind on
Girl you gonna get it if you keep on doin' that
You must wanna get it
You better watch it girl 'cause it's gon' be trouble
It's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she don't stop dancing on me like that, the way she pushing me back
I'm just saying it's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she get any closer I'ma have somethin' for her to grind on, grind on
Trouble, trouble
If she don't stop dancing on me like that, the way she pushing me back
I'm just saying it's gon' be trouble, trouble
If she get any closer I'ma have somethin' for her to grind on, grind on
T R O U B L E spells trouble, trouble, trouble
T R O U B L E spells trouble, trouble, trouble
It's been a while now, been around the block many miles
Many faces, many places, that I found friend's traces
Where I spend time, places where my mind roam
Places I can call home, places I can get stoned
I just wanna be alone, when I'm feelin' in my zone
People wanna knock me down, 'cuz they never have their own
They won't get the best of me, but they try hopelessly
Why you wanna fuck wit' me? I'm not, what you s'posed to be
You did not give a damn, coulda just killed a man
Sawed off in my hand, but I had to kill the plan
Think I've found my piece of mind, feet planted on the ground
I just had to redefine, what I thought to myself
It all goes around me, and others who would down me
Who I don't give a fuck about, trouble always found me
I know I used to welcome it, with my arms open wide
Trouble's hand's on the door, but it can't come inside
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
Trouble on the line, all the fuckin' time
Got me contemplatin' the solution, the fusion my wicked mind
Got suckers that hate me, but it don't really matter
I'm like a gat when I bust, niggaz run and scatter
Movin' in circles, throwin' elbows and fists
You got to be a real nigga in the Cypress Hill pen
Like the critics talkin' shit, but I'm not concerned
A hundred G's for sixty minutes is the bank I earn
I try to put it to you bluntly, so you bitches can learn
That nobody get tired when it's time to burn
With so many phonies out there, a lot of you have been fooled
Into actually believin', that some shit is cool
Take the blinders off and go look for yourself
Fuck hearin' about shit, from somebody else
I'm down for myself, I back up myself
Put in all on the line, make sure that I'm felt
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble? No)
Look, the wall's closin' in, and my shoe's wearin' thin
Had to be the biggest clown, that you couldn't comprehend
Some hated on my game, said I wouldn't be the same
Called me, Rock Superstar, Insane In The Brain
But I know I haven't changed, so I brush you to the side
Trouble's knockin' on the door, anxious jus' to come inside
Times I gotta block it out, no one likes to talk it out
Trouble keeps comin' in and I can't seem to lock it out
Got my hands on the phone, I don't wanna have to talk
If you're feelin' froggy son, then I guess you gotta jump
I can see it in your eyes, you don't seem to recognize
I wouldn't fall into your trap, for many lives to compromise
I'm not fallin' for your shit, you ain't gonna take me there
You can talk all you want, but I don't got your weight to bare
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
(You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?)
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
No, trouble's at my door
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
(You want trouble right now? C'mon)
You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?
You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?
You want trouble? C'mon, you want trouble?
Ah yes
I remember too well
How hard
I tried avoiding your spell
It was a cold October night
It was a far from sober night
And I was taken at first sight
And this was much to your delight
I'd heard
That you were looking for prey
Hungry for a different girl everyday
But you were so sly in coming in
I wouldn't fight, I let you win.
All of the blood upon your chin
Told me exactly where you'd been
Trouble Trouble
Troublemaker
Who would have thought I'd ever let somebody get to me
Who would have thought I'd ever give a damn
I gave to you the one thing that I can never retrieve
And I am leaving my heart bleeding in my hands
You told me all about your dreams
You were so deep,
Or so it seemed
Although I'm young, I'm not naive
I am not easy to deceive
I see the danger that lies beyond your eyes
And I wanna scream when you're rubbing on my thighs
I know I should but I can't say no, I won't.
Troublemaker, gotta let you go, ooh
Trouble trouble
Troublemaker
Who woulda thought I'd ever let somebody get to me
Who woulda thought I'd ever give a damn
I gave to you the one thing that I can never retrieve
And you're leaving my heart bleeding in my hands
I thought I knew you well
I thought you'd catch me if I fell
But when I fell you never came
That's when I knew this was a game
I thought, Because I knew that I'd won
But honey, that's easier said than done
Cuz I lose my breath when you're kissin' on my neck
Boy you've got me in check, but I haven't lost yet
Trouble Trouble
Trouble maker
Don't you bring it round here
Partied at a house 'til four,
came out from a closet door, makeup all over my face.
We just do what people do, how was I to know that you
were gonna turn around and say,
"Somethin's not right", somethin' that night.
Since you gave in, I gave out.
I put in, you put out.
and you screamed and I shouted.
Now we're both in lots'a trouble.
You gave in, I gave out
I put in, you put out.
And now somethin' about it says
we're both in lots'a trouble.
Both in lots'a trouble, yeah yeah.
No one knows about the mess we got ourselves into, I guess,
responsibility slapped my face.
and how I'll never look at you, without being a part of you.
I know you're scared of what we gotta face.
But I'll hold you tight, and be your nightlight.
Cause you gave in, I gave out.
I put in, you put out.
And you screamed and I shouted
now we're both in lots'a trouble.
You gave in, I gave out
I put in, you put out
And now something' about it says
we're both in lots'a trouble
Both in lots'a trouble,
Both in lots'a trouble,
Intro- Oh Ho Ho Hooooo
Oh woooo
1st Verse- Some people got that (Je Ne Se Quoi)
I don't know where you just have to look back(two times,two times)
A walking invitation(into the fire)
Or higher ground,a mystical combination(It's like,it's like)
Pre Chorus- Deep wide eyes reflecting the planets
In the outer space
Swaggering down the block
like Saturn's rings around your waist
God was good to you but she done
went an extra mile
he slapped on those heart-shaped lips of which
when they form a smile
I'm in
Chorus- Oooo, trouble
Oooo,trouble
(repeat 2x)
2nd verse- Words have not been spoken(you might hate Jazz)
I may not be a big fan of Beethoven(it's alright,alright)
I have been captured(you hold the key)
In those lovely hands conducting this rapture(Lord have mercy)
Pre Chorus
Chorus
Bridge- Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy,cherie
what have you conjured up on me
me nah ac' a fool for nobody
Lord have mercy on me
q'est que tu me fais,cherie
Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy
When it comes to trouble
I don’t think twice
When it comes to trouble
I’ve paid the price
I ‘ve let my guard down
And I been caught
There ain’t a lesson baby
I ain’t been taught
Chorus:
Comon’ trouble
Ah hoo
I’m in trouble
Ah ooh, hoo, hoo hoo
I call 9, 1, 1, when I’m in a fix
When I need you baby I call 6, 6, 6,
I’m in trouble
VerseII
You might be the last
You sure ain’t the first
I could be the best for you baby
Or I could be the worst
If we let it slide
It’d be a crying shame
We got the same bad blood runnin’ through our veins
Chorus:
Tag:
Trouble, trouble ‘round the bend
Trouble, I’m gonna get in you
I ain’t lyin’ baby,
Ah ooh, hoo,hoo hoo,
Comon’ touble , damn that trouble
Comes to trouble, I need a fix,
I call 6, 6, 6, oh yeah, I’m in trouble again....
[Intro: Drag-On]
HAHHHHHH! Uhh, yeah
It's your boy Drag-On, and I'm back
You feel me? C'mon
[Chorus: Fiend]
{Uh-ohhhhhhh! } (You're in trouble)
(You done messed with them boys, now you're in trouble)
Yeah, back up back up, get him get him, back up back
up, HIT HIM
Back up back up, get him get him, back up back up, HIT
[Drag-On:]
Y'all boys in trouble, fuckin with that boy Drag
The way my bullets fly I got jet lag
Y'all second guess Drag but I'm keepin up the R
I ain't talkin 'bout when I'm fat when I'm squeezin out
the car
I'm talkin 'bout, me, mashin the corner
But your block broke, y'all still goin half on a
quarter
Big boy, y'all ain't makin no noise
Nature raised me a thug y'all, gangsta's by choice; I'm
back boy
Get used to my poise, get used to my pain, get used to
my name
I don't even cop automatics cause I don't usually aim
Fuck with them country boys that's why I got the
country swang
Stand a bunch of beef, that's why I keep a bunch of
thangs
I eat your face like a lunch box
And let my ox munch on it, then let my gun cock
Listen cap daddies, haha; I got a big mac patty
Gotta put you in the back of that big black Caddy -
feel me?
[Chorus x2]
[Drag-On:]
Y'all askin for trouble, y'all done brung the wrong
nigga back
My chrome on me homie, go on nigga act
Y'all ain't seein no real money, I spend 20 I make back
Y'all spend 40 and make back 50 - y'all some real
dummies
I see y'all still remember Drag when he was real bummy
Now I'm real rich, now ain't that real funny (haha)
I'm still real hood and y'all ain't no real gangstas
Y'all don't think I'm still real? I'll show you a real
banger
So gon' get your bounce boy, gon' flip your ounce boy
Live as long as you don't come up short up on the block
Woulda thought I was Baby the way I give you these +Hot
Boys+
Cops can't stop this boy - I have 'em all like WHAT
[Chorus x2: w/ ad libs]
[Drag-On:]
Y'all up in a heap of trouble, you dig it you get the
shovel
Got flip it then get it double
You count it and hit the club and pop the bubble
Look at shorty lookin sporty with the fitted cap (OH)
Soon as her man leave I'm a get at that (WHOA)
I'm a take her to the crib, you can't get her back (NO)
And if her man start problems we gon' finish that
Your man just saw me hug ya
Now look what you done did, you done got him in trouble
Sit back (c'mon!)
[Chorus x2]
{Uh-ohhhhhhh! }
I'm in a place
Where nothing ever happens
I'll try one day to walk away, but
But now I'll hand around
I am a fool
Without exception
I break every rule
But I never break away
(Trouble)
It's walking my way
I feel it moving closer day after day
(Trouble)
I'm talking to you
It's getting hot in here but what can I do?
Sometime, someplace
I'll make it happen
Yours is the face
To help me set this time ablaze
I always thought
There's no protection
You'll walk through the door
And I'll never want for more
(Trouble)
Again and again
It's not so simple and I never know when
(Trouble)
For me and for you
The trouble's double now we're fighting for two
We'll take this place
We'll make it happen
We'll leave them behind
We'll leave them all to change their minds
The trouble is
With the solution
One's not so strong
But with two of us we can't go wrong
(Trouble)
I'm talking to you
It's getting hot in here but what can I do?
(Trouble)
(Trouble)
Again and again
It's not so simple and I never know when
(Trouble)
I'm talking to you
It's getting hot in here but what can I do?
(Trouble)
La Rouge lies awake at night
Doesn't sleep for days
Guess he's carryin somethin
The pillows can't take away
I feel just like him
'Cept for me it's double
Baby I got you, and you're
Trouble
Trouble
I used to not need nothin
Now trouble is all I need
Well Tessie loves excitement
Can make a dull moment a thrill
She does whatever she wants
Then puts it on my bill
But that ain't so expensive
Got it covered in my sleep
See dawlin' I got you
And baby you're
Trouble
Trouble
I used to not need nothin
Now trouble is all I need
I wouldn't bet against myself
In a poker game
Or build a house
In a hurricane
And lose everything I had
And spend the rest of my life gone mad
In a way it would be a relief
It really wouldn't be so bad
See dawlin' I got you and baby you're
Trouble
Trouble
I used to not need nothin
I used to not need nothin
I used to not need nothin
Trouble tracks me down
It's been draggin me around
Since my feet first touched the ground
And I'm kickin like a kid
Cause I can't get rid of it
And it's never going nowhere now
I duck-dodge to my left
I slide-step to my right
But it nails me every time
And I'm finished throwin fits
Yea, I've learned to live with it
Marching steady, straight, and by my side
And trouble makes no seam
Just sweeps in surgical and clean
Leaves me begging on my hands and knees
And she's always on the clock
But she doesn't only watch
Cause she wrecks me straight into my sleep
When I drift into a dream
And I'm sailing on some sea
Shootin' whiskey with my Irish bride
Til Amy Goodman wakes me up
I'm alone in Brooklyn broke as fuck
Splitting headache and some bloodshot eyes
And I've known trouble all my life
And I'm sick of asking why
It's like screaming at a set of dice
They're gonna roll the way they roll
And man you're never gonna know
So gettin' crazy's just a waste of time
I just see trouble track me down
It keeps pushin' me around
Til I'm deep inside the ground
And then I'll smile in sleep
Cause in that box I'm finally free
And ain't no trouble gonna find me now
No oh oh, ain't no trouble gonna find me now
Trouble
Oh trouble, set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much too much for me
Trouble
Oh trouble, can't you see?
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing much left to me
I've drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair?
So won't you be fair?
I don't want no more of you
So won't you be kind to me?
Just let me go where
I'll have to go there
Trouble
Oh trouble, move away
I have seen your face
And it's too much for me today
Trouble
Oh trouble, can't you see?
You have made me a wreck
Now won't you leave me in my misery?
I've seen your eyes
And I can see death's disguise
Hangin' on me
Hangin' on me
I'm beat, I'm torn
Shattered and tossed and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see
Trouble
Oh trouble, move from me
I have paid my debt
Now won't you leave me in my misery
Trouble
Oh trouble, please be kind
I don't want no fight
Take a look into tomorrow
And see yesterday return
So much pain and so much sorrow
Will mankind ever learn
I would like to write a song
And tell the world
What's wrong with it today
I would write a book
If that were all it took
To make it's troubles go away
trouble for me is when i got no money
not at all
when i'm loosing my confidence
including that everyone
when i'm late to coming home
without permission
i'm so conclude that everyone
is got to get trouble enough
trouble !!...show me the way
i think we should be suspicious
if there someone who got no trouble
I went to church on Sunday, I swung my chariot low
Reached up to kiss the deacon, he said "You'd better go"
Trouble, I'm in trouble with him
Trouble's where I'm going
Trouble's the only place I've ever been
Let's buy a watermelon, swallow all the seeds
Forget what Mama told us, do everything we please
Trouble, trouble again
Trouble's where we're going
Trouble's the only place we've ever been
Let's pour a little whiskey, drink a little gin
Listen to Merle Haggard like he's loving me again
Trouble, I'm even in trouble with him
Trouble's where I'm going
Trouble's the only place I've ever been
Let's turn off the TV, I'm tired of CNN
Let's throw a little party, invite some sinners in
Trouble, trouble again
Trouble's where we're going
Trouble's the only place we've ever been
I'll paint your toenails baby, you paint my toenails too
We'll take a walk down Main Street and watch what people do
Trouble, let's get in trouble with them
Trouble's where we're going
Trouble's the only place we've ever been
There's people building prisons for people like you and me
Some people just can't stand people like us being free
Trouble, what's trouble with them
Trouble's where we're heading
Trouble's the only place we've ever been
Sooner or later, darling, everybody's gotta go
Let's you and me leave early, get a seat on the first row
Trouble, trouble again
Trouble's where we're going
Do not promise
What you cannot give
Abandoned with
A guilty love or and endless fear
Hold tight, the memories of the secret sunrise
But things change and the end, nears
Do not promise you can abandon your wild seas
Giving me hope I will find again the quiet breeze
Been in this to long, to much to hold on
We just keep going and it's getting harder to let go
Give me a reason not to love you
Give me a reason not to leave
Give me a reason not to love you
Cos you were, you were trouble
You pull me closer under the guise of your lies
You pull me inwards until I've lost my will to leave
Give me a reason not to love you
Give me a reason not to leave
Give me a reason not to love you
Cos you were, you were trouble
I hoped I would shine in your eyes
Should I stay? should I go? it's not up to me no more
I can't decide the way my heart feels
Pouring down on me like when under the sunshine
I can't believe it it's so unreal
And am all messed up, drunk on her
The more a get the more a want
And a can't explain what's happenin
But everytime I try to leave
Shes pulling me back in her arms
And'
I don't have the strength to resist her
There's no escapin her love
Cause it's everywhere I turn
Can't get away
I'm in trouble trouble trouble
I think I'm in trouble trouble trouble
I know I'm in trouble trouble trouble
This time am in trouble
I don't even know myself
Turnin into someone else
Can't concentrate can't even think clear
She got me dialing 143 everytime shes not with me
I'm countin seconds till she gets here
And am all messed up, drunk on her
The more a get the more a want
And a can't explain what's happenin
But everytime I try to leave
Shes pulling me back in her arms
And'
I don't have the strength to resist her
There's no escapin her love
Cause it's everywhere I turn
Can't get away
I'm in trouble trouble trouble
I think I'm in trouble trouble trouble
I know I'm in trouble trouble trouble
This time am in trouble
Don't even wanna hang out with my friends no more
Can't even see myself with someone else no more
And'
I owe it all to her, and now she got me singing
Ah ah ah ohh
Ah ah ah ohh
Ah ah ah ohh
Ah ah
Man shes pulling me back in her arms
And'
I don't have the strength to resist her
There's no escapin her love
Cause it's everywhere I turn
Can't get away
I'm in trouble trouble trouble
I think I'm in trouble trouble trouble
I know I'm in trouble trouble trouble
This time am in trouble
Yeah yeah
Ah trouble ah trouble ah think am in trouble
Ah trouble ah trouble ah think am in trouble
Ah trouble ah trouble ah think am in trouble
Slept through the alarm got out the wriong side of the bed
Missed the bus 'cause I was running late
When I finally got to work the boss was waiting thee
He had that firing look upon his face
CHORUS
I'm in trouble again
Seems to be my only friend
The chips are down I can't pretend
Looks like I'm in trouble again
My boyfriend dropped arround wiht a brand new set of wheels
I asked if I could take it for a criuse
I never saw the truck that was backing down the drive
I don't know how I'm gonna break the news
CHORUS
Landlord's on my bak got his hand out for the rent
Said that eh wont wait another week
I've used to best excuses I've tried every trick
Now he's at the door and turnign up the heat
CHORUS
Look out here comes trouble
Baby you're the only one, trust me you're the only one,
I used to do dump shit for fun, but now I found the one,
And I promise I ain't letting you go, I just thought I let you know,
Me and you for the end for sure, my... 24.
[Chorus:]
I used to want love her more, but now I say fuck em all,
Girl I need you to know, all the girls lead to this trouble, trouble,
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble.
I ain't fucking with... no more, trust me you're the only one,
Baby you're the only one, all the girls... to this trouble, trouble
Trouble, trouble.
I ain't fucking with... no more, trust me you're the only one,
Baby you're the only one.
[Chorus:]
I used to want love her more, but now I say fuck em all
I used to want love her more, but now I say fuck em all
Girl I need you to know, all the girls lead to this trouble, trouble,
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble.
I ain't fucking with... no more, trust me you're the only one,
Baby you're the only one, all the girls... to this trouble, trouble
Trouble, trouble.
I ain't fucking with... no more, trust me you're the only one,
She rode the cough felt in the air
Smelled the cops before they cared
Knew the time before wasn’t fair
She’s the she you’ll always be
Hey trouble, I hear you call my name
Hey trouble, I’m coming down again
One black cloud catching all those lights
One bright fire hiding in the night
One real devil blowing through the air
Take my hand and run
(trouble)
Why you sing that song to me
Hold my arm and walk for me
(Hey, trouble)
Take my blood when it ain’t time to bleed
Christine haven’t I been good to you?
And always done just what you asked me
I know you’re busy
And you’ve got a lot of friends
Help me I’m coming down again
I’ll do anything for you
Just tell me what you want me to
I’ll do anything it’s true
Just answer me when I call you
I know you're busy
And you've got a lot of friends
Help me I'm coming down again
Trouble, I hear you call my name
Hey Trouble, It’s feeding time again
(trouble)
Why you sing that song to me
Hold my arm and walk for me
(Hey, trouble)
Take my blood when it ain’t time to bleed
Trouble, I hear you call my name
(Hey Trouble)
Trouble, I'm coming down again
(Hey Trouble)
I'm not there
If ever I was there
I'm sure I was never so bold
If ever I spoke so - I'm sure it's trouble
Not my trouble
I'm not so sure if I control this laughter
Everything herafter
Everything is bound to be trouble
Yeah, not my trouble
Trouble
No, not my trouble
If I was to blame
I'm sure we'll work it out
If I was to blame
I'm sure it was about
Trouble
Not my trouble
It's not my game
It's not mine
It's not my game
There is a tired face
A hiding to nothing face
A face that you keep to explore this trouble
You trouble me more and more
Trouble me more
I'm not certain
I ever could explain
Never certain
But I do need to explain
Trouble
Not my trouble
Trouble
Looking out on the city tonight and I'm wondering why
Trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong
I am lost in an ocean of mixed emotions now
Everything I held sacred now has gone
Here am I far from home
Learning how to be alone
Silly me, I should of guessed
Never settle on second best
Time for me to re-assess
Heading into trouble
I am always heading into trouble
Sideways, down ways
Heading into trouble
Now, I'm losing you
It's gonna be a lonely summer without you 'round
I'll even miss the way you sing off key
Down in the market the reggae bands won't sound the same
Old Joe says without you they just don't believe
Now, I am no longer sure
Who's gonna open every door
The love I take and couldn't share
The warmth I had but didn't care
To give myself I never dared
Heading into trouble
I am always heading into trouble
Sideways, down ways
Heading into trouble
Now, I'm losing you
Heading into trouble
I am always heading into trouble
Sideways, down ways
Heading into trouble
Now, I'm losing you
Hope it all goes well in the future for you my dear
Hope you find where your heart truly belongs
I don't know about me and tomorrow
'Cause you're gonna be a hard act to follow
I'll miss you baby every day even though you're far away
Here's to you in every way
Heading into trouble
I am always heading into trouble
Sideways, down ways
Heading into trouble
Now, I'm losing you
Heading into trouble
I am always heading into trouble
Sideways, down ways
Heading into trouble
Now, I'm losing you
Heading into trouble
I am always heading into trouble
Sideways, down ways
Heading into trouble
Now, I'm losing you
Heading into trouble
I am always heading into trouble
Sideways, down ways
Heading into trouble
[x2:]
I'm in trouble ups I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble ups I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
Listen yeah
I was at this club one time with a couple of mates
We were moving to the music
we were busting some shakes
I said i wanted a fag
But they were loving the bass
So i headed to the smoking bit to puff in and wait
And then this kiddy, obviously had summin to say
started moving to me, tried to get all up in my face
and the his friends intervened
like yeah you called him a mug
I didn't have a clue but then they started punching
away i thought well
[Hook:]
A wiseman said to me the recipe for life
Is to conserve your energy unless you feel it's right
Oh oh don't dance with the devil unless he's in your
mind
Take hold of the rebel
And take this fight outside
I thought damn, this puts me in a difficult position
three against one, but then my mates came in my vision
fully backing it became the obvious decision
And its funny how these idiots were acting kind of
different like nah
Brother you were giving it the biggun
All of a sudden somebody calls chief Wigan
And now to the custody center I'm being driven
Don't you have to do a crime to be here, when I didn't?
Police are so bad it's kinda gotten old
Like respect was an order they really wasn't told
and when the blues act jazzy you wanna slap em to the
floor like
yeah bitch that's what I call a rock and roll
[Hook]
Maybe I do maybe I don't
Maybe I do maybe I don't
I'm in trouble woops I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble Everything was going well and now
I'm in trouble woops I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble could somebody explain just how?
I'm in trouble woops I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble I just lost my head and i found
I'm in trouble woops I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble pow
[Hook]
[x2:]
I'm in trouble woops I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble woops I'm in trouble
[Royce Da 5'9"]
Uhh, yeah
Royce 5-9, my nigga Bow Tie
My nigga Cee, Six July
Gangsta, what, gangsta, what, uhh
Gangsta, niggaz is gangsta
Yo, I'm out here all day
From when you hear the sounds of the car skiddin
Then start dickin, gangsta from start to the finish
Whassup - never socialable, nigga we too disposable
If I get close to you it's probably to dispose of you quicker
Go 'head, try somethin - live or die by these numbers
I'd rather live paralyzed than to die runnin, you feel it
Stay out his path, he's chaotic and mad
Pull a K out and blast, and treat every day like his last
I'm just a street nigga rhymin some words
Dabble in the finest of furs, cowboy minus the spurs and saddle
Prefer for battle; most deserved
in highest level in cowboy status is not from herdin cattle
One strange guy, I'm – nuttin like you mayn
Guns all look the same to the un-trained eye
Easy to find, tell me how a gorilla can hide
The realest nigga breathin, ain't no nigga realer alive
[Chorus x2: Royce]
Y'all niggaz in trouble (in trouble)
Y'all niggaz in trouble (in trouble).
Y'all niggaz in trouble (in trouble)
Y'all niggaz in trouble, you don't want this
[Bow Tie]
It's the black Elmer Fudd, fuck a mansion and a yacht
I got a project buildin, weed runnin on the block (c'mon)
A sweet tooth for chronic, shit got me speakin in ebonics
Killer cracker, respect me for my talent
Sniff 'em out like a bloodhound
Like they bag mills out in Vegas on the Greyhound
I never plead guilty, come to court filthy
Lawyer drunk off Henny, parole violators with me
And still I walk cause it's real
Take they ass to trial then they lose a quarter mil', now that's a deal
Filthy rich at his best
Love hell I write, with a 7 on my chest
I come, real street knowledge, boulevard trade school
Paid dues, cause niggaz know I honor the rules
Left no clues, X found, case is closed
While you go against the grain, with a plane of fo's
Take that slang to go, with the rubber handle steel
Spit dum-dums at labels, with a 50-50 deal
Explode to your guts, that part left hollow
Show the world your nuts, I'm the hoodlum role model
To all the competition that'll follow
Just remember damage to the 99th power
No one knows the hour, that the Bow will strike
Took the sword from Hitler, that they stuck in Christ
Now who's nice? .. Now who's nice?
[Chorus]
[Cee]
Yo, you see the press is too hot (uh-huh) when you rush my flows
I got, three for twenty-five, rhymes flip like blows
What you never heard this voice, it's big Cee from the state
(where you from nigga?) Where we pimp hustle hard, bang it out for the weight
Eyes wide, cause me and my niggaz organize crime
You either get it in the streets, or runnin from the jail lines
My game's at command, I show the world my status
It's filthy to the death blastin black automatics
You niggaz talk pain, he will catch these shells
Twenty-three hours on lockdown, one out your cell
I know it sounds sick, when you deal in this form
My city, the home where the killers is born
Close capture, East and West, now that you have to
leave a little room for this Midwest rapture
And there's no endin, to the words I spit
I sacrifice my soul for this filthy rich shit (gangsta shit)
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Y'all niggaz know it's trouble, y'knamsayin?
I got my Detroit niggaz
I got my New York niggaz
I'm a Chi-Town nigga
tho i been thinking about it, I live with the idea
the way we where would last forever
yeah it all seemed pretty clear.
but when the foundations shook
and the cracks started to appear
Saw the light in each others eyes
as the whole world disappeared.
My history has come and gone
I'll drive late at night
the only car on empty streets
no welcome sun in sight
If its trouble that you're looking for,
its trouble that you'll find.
Sometimes trouble finds you no matter where you hide
We got back from the party on a comedown for a week
Where we out there making history? Or was it just a
lack of sleep?
It seemed like we were waiting in the wings to take our
bow...
The outsiders are whispering this is our moment now.
My history has come and gone
sometimes I think I see
Your face in the rear view mirror, yeah,
looking back at me
If its trouble that you're looking for,
its trouble that you'll find.
Sometimes trouble finds you no matter where you hide
If its trouble that you're looking for,
its trouble that you'll find.
Sometimes trouble finds you no matter where you hide
It was important to us
to do more than just survive
surviving sometimes took up too much of our time
If its trouble that you're looking for,
its trouble that you'll find.
Sometimes trouble finds you no matter where you hide
Alright let's do this
Yeah, J-Weezy Bozzy J Well
Yeah, Young Sco Cal Holmes
We about to do it real big
Take it somewhere
We ain't never took it to before, outside
I just rolled up in my Benzo
I just rolled up some of that you know
I just popped out of nowhere like whadday know
And I ain't going nowhere you know
Y'all don't know half of my scenario
I got niggas all up in my cereal
And don't know if it's Applejacks or Cheerios
Y'all don't hear me though
It ain't no clothes in your ear to scope
See I just took over your stereo
Eighteen year old college material
Puttin' Philly on the map, Philly on my cap
The imperial superior
And all the skirts wanna give it to Sco
Till these shirts, mini skirts wanna give it to Sco
Stick works, skinny work but I'd rather have a fatter
If she pay 'em like she weigh 'em, give it to Sco
See, me my crew ain't nothing but trouble
And we be coming through like nothing but trouble
And niggaz tell us we ain't nothing but trouble
Especially, me, I ain't nothing but trouble
See, me my crew ain't nothing but trouble
And we be coming through like nothing but trouble
And niggaz tell us we ain't nothing but trouble
Especially, me, I ain't nothing but trouble
Yeah, Philly in the house, Philly in this mount
Fitted on perfect, vest on the surface
I did it on purpose, fresh out the circus
I spit it so murderous, I'm crazy
Going through a tough time, got me sippin' JD
Seeing in 3-D, see me in a G3
Coastin', postin' roast it toast it off
E & J, G & J
I hit the VMAs with THC
All in my DNA I'm B A D
Till the bone with the chrome
Once again it's on
Club hoppin' once we in the zone
We gonna blaza, guzzle, ray, bubble, shizzle
Misbehave and start trouble
Spark, chug, bark, buzz
Dippin', smashin' Y ain't it up
See, me my crew ain't nothing but trouble
And we be coming through like nothing but trouble
And niggaz tell us we ain't nothing but trouble
Especially, me, I ain't nothing but trouble
See, me my crew ain't nothing but trouble
And we be coming through like nothing but trouble
And niggaz tell us we ain't nothing but trouble
Especially, me, I ain't nothing but trouble
I rock the party that rocks the body
Me, Young Gotti, we rock the party
Now we all in the cleezy no ideezy
Young Sco Gotti help me somebody
High loaded, fly molded
Fry, floatin', shining, glowing
Signing, flowing, rising, blowing
Crackin', poppin', stackin', dropping
Platinum product alive in your ride up
For all my survivors and riders
We gets wasted faded
Nice today, enough for the rest of the night
Triple XT but my vest just right
Tech to my right with my neck full of ice
I'ma link up with you later, aight?
Take it or leave it I'm a playa for life
See, me my crew ain't nothing but trouble
And we be coming through like nothing but trouble
And niggaz tell us we ain't nothing but trouble
Especially, me, I ain't nothing but trouble
See, me my crew ain't nothing but trouble
And we be coming through like nothing but trouble
And niggaz tell us we ain't nothing but trouble
Trouble...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble been doggin' my soul since the day I was born
Worry...
Worry, worry, worry, worry
Worry just will not seem to leave my mind alone
We'll I've been...
saved by a woman
I've been...
saved by a woman
I've been...
saved by a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
Trouble...
Oh, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Feels like every time I get back on my feet
she come around and knock me down again
Worry...
Oh, worry, worry, worry, worry
Sometimes I swear it feels like this worry is my only friend
We'll I've been saved...
by a woman
I've been saved...
by a woman
I've been saved...
by a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
Oh..., Ahhhh....
Ohhhh
She good to me now
She gave me love and affection
She good tell me now
She gave me love and affection
I Said I love her
Yes I love her
I said I love her
I said I love...
She good to me now
She's good to me
I'm in trouble, I'm an addict
I'm addicted to this girl
She's got my heart tied in a knot
And my stomach in a whirl
But even worse I can't stop calling her
She's all I want and more
I mean damn, what's not to adore?
I've been playing too much guitar
I've been listening to jazz
I call so many times
I swear she's going mad
And that cellular will be the death of us
I swear, I swear
And oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I'm running my mouth just like I got her but I surely don't
Because she so uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, rock and roll
And out of my league, is she out of my league? Let's hope not
I'm in trouble, I'm so cliche
See that word just wears me out
Makes me feel like just another boy
To laugh and joke about
But even worse I can't stop calling her
I love to hear that voice
And honestly I'm left with no choice
I've been playing too much guitar
I've been listening to jazz
I call so many times
I swear she's going mad
And that cellular will be the death of us
I swear, I swear
And oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I'm running my mouth just like I got her but I surely don't
Because she so uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, rock and roll
And out of my league, is she out of my league? Let's hope not
Trouble in the city, trouble in the farm
You got your rabbit's foot, you got your good-luck charm
But they can't help you none when there's trouble.
Trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Nothing but trouble.
Trouble in the water, trouble in the air
Go all the way to the other side of the world, you'll find trouble there
Revolution even ain't no solution for trouble.
Trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Nothing but trouble.
Drought and starvation, packaging of the soul
Persecution, execution, governments out of control
You can see the writing on the wall inviting trouble.
Trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Nothing but trouble.
Put your ear to the train tracks, put your ear to the ground
You ever feel like you're never alone even when there's nobody else around ?
Since the beginning of the universe man's been cursed by trouble.
Trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Nothing but trouble.
Nightclubs of the broken-hearted, stadiums of the damned
Legislature, perverted nature, doors that are rudely slammed
Look into infinity, all you see is trouble.
Trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Oh no, I see,
A spider web is tangled up with me,
And I lost my head,
The thought of all the stupid things I'd said,
Oh no, what's this?
A spider web, and I'm caught in the middle,
So I turned to run,
The thought of all the stupid things I've done,
I never meant to cause you trouble,
And I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
O no, I never meant to do you harm.
O no, I see,
A spider web and it's me in the middle,
So I twist and turn,
But here am I in my little bubble
Singing, I never meant to cause you trouble,
I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
Although I never meant to do you harm.
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me,
If you came to make some trouble
Better make it good
Your sexy cocktail hour stubble
Is doing what it should
Looks may be sweet and subtle
I think it?s trouble, honey, I think it?s good
If you came to make trouble
Make me a double honey, I think it?s good
Novices have expectations
?Cause they think they should
Experts have their revelations
Like they knew they would
What may seem complicated
Is overstated, downright misunderstood
Love will not be outdated
Maybe placated but it?s got to be good
We?re so precarious with semantics
I think this could be trouble
I think it?s trouble honey, I think it?s good
If you came to make trouble
Make me a double honey, I think it?s good
What may seem complicated
Is overstated, downright misunderstood
Love will not be outdated
Maybe placated but it?s got to be good
We?re far too serious
I think we could be
Such nefarious pyromantics
I think this could be trouble
I think it?s trouble honey, I think it?s good
If you came to make trouble
Make me a double honey, I think it?s good
I think it?s good, I think it?s good, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, I think it?s good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I think it?s good
Said, I think it?s good, yeah, I think it?s good
No attorneys, to plead my case
No opiates, to send me into outer space
And my fingers are bejeweled
With diamonds and gold but that ain't
Gonna help me now
I'm trouble, yeah trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I disturb my own town
I'm trouble, yeah, trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble in my town
You think you're right, but you were wrong
You tried to take me, but I knew all along
You can't take me for a ride
I'm not a fool now, so you better run and hide
I'm trouble, yeah trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble my own town
I'm trouble, yeah, trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble in my town
If you see me comin' down the street
Then you know it's time to go
Hey you know it's time to go
And you know it's time to go
'Cause here comes trouble
No attorneys, to plead my case
No opiates, to send me into outer space
And my fingers are bejeweled
With diamonds and gold but that ain't
Gonna help me now
You think you're right, but you were wrong
You tried to take me, but I knew all along
You can't take me for a ride
Well I'm not a fool now, so you better run and hide
Mmm trouble, yeah trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I disturb my town
I'm trouble, yea, trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble in my town
So if you see me comin' down the street
Then you know it's time to go, go
Well I've got trouble, yeah, trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble, yeah, trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble, yeah trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble, yeah, trouble now
I'm trouble y'all, I got trouble in my town, yeah
I'm trouble in my town, yeah, yeah
I'm trouble in my town, yeah, yeah
Here comes trouble walking the streets again
She's looking for someone to latch on to someone to
call a friend
You know she's never happy when she's all alone she
needs some company
Her heart is aching but her soul's not cold she's
drowning in a sea of misery
And that's what's going down
You'd better watch out fellas
When trouble comes around
Don't you get dragged down
There goes trouble she's chasing her tail again
Well she's long and lean she's a young man's dream she
only break your heart my friend
The truth's just a dream of yesterday but belongs to
someone else
Her heart is aching and her soul's so frail the girl
can't help herself
She come unwound
And that's what going down
You'd better watch out fellas
When trouble comes around
(instrumental break)
You'd better watch out fellas
You'd better watch out fellas
You'd better watch out fellas
When trouble comes around
You'd better watch out fellas
You'd better ohh ohh fellas
You'd better watch out fellas
When trouble comes around
Don't you get put down
When she comes around
Here she comes
There goes trouble she's losing her mind again
You know talking is cheap but when you can't sleep
soothing words are your only friends
She's caught in a life of yesterday it belongs to
someone else
Her heart is aching but her soul's so frail the girl
can't help herself
She come unwound
And that's what going down
You'd better watch out fellas
When trouble comes around
You'd better watch out fellas
You'd better watch out fellas
You'd better watch out fellas
When trouble comes around
You'd better watch out fellas
You'd better oooooh fellas
You'd better watch out fellas
When trouble comes around
Don't get put down
When she comes around...lord
Comes around
When she comes around...lord
Trouble comes around
When she comes around
Well let me tell you all a little story
'Bout the man who lives down at the top of the stairs
Well he worked all his life for his children and his wife
And he opened up a little store down there
Well one night late while he was lockin' the gate
A kid came in and said
"You know what I want" and he said
"I ain't lookin' for trouble
And I know what you came here to do
I ain't lookin' for trouble"
And the kid said
"Trouble's come lookin' for you"
Well I swore that I would find him
I said that I would track him down
And in a dirty darkened alleyway I said
"Today is your day whatever you do don't turn around"
Well he looked up to me and said that I can see
That you know who I am and where I've been
And he said
"I ain't lookin' for trouble
And I know what you came here to do
I ain't lookin' for trouble"
And I said
"Trouble's come lookin' for you"
Well I've spent four years of my life here
In this cold gray prison cell
With my cigarettes and my magazine
And my life, it feels like hell
Well I hear footsteps in the hall
And I know they're takin' me away and all
And I said, "I don't wanna die"
And I said
"I ain't lookin' for trouble
And I know what you came here to do
I ain't lookin' for trouble"
And he said
I don't want to go out
You don't wanna stay in
I guess we're gonna argue again
There's a tear in your eye
I guess we're gonna argue again, wooohooo
But what I do is always
To you my heart is all so true
But I might argue again
You know that it's true
I'm loving you, I know, not again, we're arguing
You drink more than you used to
Fell in love how could you
Trust your heart like only fools do
Go on let it bleed
You smoked ten now it's twenty
Bet you wish you never met me
To stick around you must be crazy
Go on let it bleed
I told you never to get used to me
I still awake when you fall asleep
I'm a whole lot of trouble
We're in a whole lot of trouble
I told you you should never follow me
But here we are, and you're into deep
I'm a whole lot of trouble
We're in a whole lot of trouble
You shout louder than you used to
And you hold on tighter in the bedroom
Stick around like i'mma change soon
Go on let it bleed
As you stand there trying to save me
Use your head and babe believe me
Gonna take much more than a heart to save me
Go on let it bleed
I told you never to get used to me
I still awake when you fall asleep
I'm a whole lot of trouble
We're in a whole lot of trouble
I told you you should never follow me
But here we are, and you're into deep
I'm a whole lot of trouble
We're in a whole lot of trouble
But is it lyin' if you know that they don’t want the truth
Is it cheating if you work it while she in the room
Now you mad at the screen
We were something together
I wouldn't call it a team, just big trouble and little kindness
When I know the best parts are so behind us
Keep the pride tough, more than bad luck
I ain’t messed up, I’m just wishing what we needed was a less us
I fell in love with the wrong dream
Crying in my arms what’s it all mean?
I used to know those things and flow both wings
Thoughts where neverending and no Nuvaring’s
And we fought for a patent pending on my new jack swing
Cool, calm and collected keep the Kool Moe Dee
Here is hoping you satisfy that like an addict
I had thought we’d never had to do those things
I told you you should never follow me
But here we are, and you're into deep
I'm a whole lot of trouble
Trouble in the air
I don't want it
But I´ve to breathe
It´s coming through the door
Behind the shadows that surround me when I sleep
Somehow I know
that I can´t pray this away
I´ll keep my head down and get up on this train
This train
Ooo ...
I´m gonna ride this pain like a wave
Lord, make me over I don´t wann e afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go
What if I get lost
I call out to you and you don´t save me?
The water comes too close
I don´t have the time to give
what you gave to me?
Well, as long as my name don´t change, I´ll be the same
I loved you more than time
Forever can´t take that away
Ooo ...
Can´t take that away
Just let me ride this pain like a wave
Lord, make me over I don't wanna be afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go
Yeah, yeah, yeah
There is a river
Running by the train
It ain´t troubled
It´s just laying there, wading in the wind
Wading in the wind
Wading in the wind
Just let me ride this pain like a wave
Lord, make me over I don't wanna be afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go
Let me ride this pain like a wave
Make me over I don't wanna be afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go
Yeah, yeah
I´ll move on
Yeah, yeah
Ride
Yeah, yeah
Two, ah-three, ah-four
Two, ah-three, ah-four
Two, ah-three, ah-four
I really should be saying goodnight
I really shouldn't stay anymore
It's been so long since I held ya
I've forgotten what love is for
I should run on the double
I think I'm in trouble
I think I'm in trouble
So come to me darlin' and hold me
Let my heart keep you warm
Been so long since I held ya
I've forgotten what love is for
I should run on the double
(I, I think I'm in)
I think I'm in trouble
Woh oh oh
(I, I think I'm in)
I think I'm in trouble
Woh oh oh
Trouble came around here
Here in the South we fix something to eat
Steam risin' up off the greenery and we welcome the strangers we meet
Alien sick growing in these walls
Like moss in a crack that time made
I brush a guy in the airport whistling it's a small world after all
And the prices are higher but the kids still selling lemonade
Get to the point of it get to the sense of it
I'm in a hurry to get through it
Hurricane flag flappin' in a bad storm
Same color of the spider underneath my nail
That bit me in my dream
And who would take out the Dominican Republic
And send God's sweet children floating down a poison stream
Secret society of conference rooms
I pledge my allegiance to the dollar
And when the clergy take a vote all the gays will pay again
Cause there's more than one kind of criminal white collar
Get to the point of it get to the sense of it
I'm in a hurry to get through it
One day the war will stop & we'll grow a peaceful crop
And a girl can get a wife & we can bring you back to life
Sacks of flour and rice or poker chips greasy palms and systems underhanding
And maybe we'll take a walk on Pluto
But be no closer to the understanding
Get to the point of it get to the sense of it
If you're looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you're looking for trouble
Just look right in my face
I was born standing up
And talking back
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me
I've never looked for trouble
But I've never ran
I don't take no orders
From no kind of man
I'm only made out
Of flesh, blood and bone
But if you're gonna start a rumble
Don't you try it on alone
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me
I'm evil, evil, evil, as can be
I'm evil, evil, evil, as can be
So don't mess around don't mess around don't mess around
with me
I'm evil, I'm evil, evil, evil
So don't mess around, don't mess around with me
I'm evil, I tell you I'm evil
So don't mess around with me
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble only bring you pain and sorrow
Don't want that, can't help our children tomorrow
We want for them a brighter future
So we rather to teach them rasta leisure
Like to read and write and measure
So that way they can have their own pleasure
So Babylon can't push them around
Whole heap a youth and youth
Is found in a Babylon pound
You can hear the sound
How dem a howl
The leaders of the world, they don't know better
Bring the evil seed, leave it in the street
Right at the children feet
The leaders of the world, they don't know better
All they see lust, greed, war, blood, slaughter
Naugh show no light
For the future
All dem give poor pressure, poor pressure
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
The leaders of the world, they don't know better
All they see lust, greed, war, blood, slaughter
Naugh show no light
For the future
All dem give poor pressure
What do you expect
The children to do
Because they are looking up to you
Most of the time, they follow what the see
Can't make it right, they're the children of plight
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
When you see trouble
Or walk away from trouble
Or walk away from trouble
Or you get it pon the double
Get it pon the double
'Cause sometimes it triple
The leaders of the world, they don't know better
All they see lust, greed, war, blood, slaughter
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
When you see trouble
Or walk away from trouble
Or walk away from trouble
'Cause trouble come double
Well it come double
Sometimes it triple
The leaders of the world, they don't know better
All they see lust, greed, war, blood, slaughter
Trouble, trouble
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
Trouble never set like rain
want those leaves untouched
bypass time
shouldn't need a crutch
to hold me
leaves fell
and you're here with me
all things must pass eventually
seems good
and we knew that it would
holding back
cut me loose
here's the axe
it's no trouble
since when was it trouble?
i'm right you'll see
it's all i can think about
if it's trouble you want
could it take my place?
'cause trouble
has more destination
trouble has more fun
and sometimes
it seems my only destination
trouble
want those leaves untouched
lay no roads
don't put those buildings
up around me you'll see
there so damn ugly right?
makes you crazy
steals my gift of symmetry
Here's the face of trouble
It’s the face I wear
And it may invite you in
But I won’t go there
Here’s a working model
That generates despair
And this baby cranks it out
And it will take you out
And I won’t care
It’s a beauty
It’s the mark of someone
Who’s beyond repair
He’ll refuse to help himself
Thinking only of himself
And though he isn’t by himself
Well it’s your job now
There’s a conversation
We’re about to have
And it’s full of twists and turns
Half truths and vague concerns
From one who never learns
To one who never learns
And I never learn
Out by the dunes down under the stars
far away from the houses and cars
and all the people posted up at the bar
under the great moon we call ours
tangled in the sheets with the sand from the sea
you're walking through the wet grass with me
in the early brightness and i can see
don't fight this, just let it be
Trouble
you can't catch me now
I've got luck on my side
I've been turned around
Worry,
no don't bother me
she's always on my mind
I'm stepping carefully
And the voices in my head are all the same
but every single one of them I can name
A revolving cast living up in my brain
spending my cash faster than it's made
And I'm walking barefoot through the rain
naked in the park and dirty again
under the street lamps around the bend
I keep on walking till my feet get wet
Trouble
you can't catch me now
I've got luck on my side
I've been turned around
Worry,
no don't bother me
she's always on my mind
I'm stepping carefully
Sleeping in the shade I awoke from a dream
Walking in my bare feet down in the stream
burning in the bright sun i was redeemed
diving for bread with the birds behind the bakery
Trouble
you can't catch me now
I've got luck on my side
I've been turned around
Worry,
no don't bother me
she's always on my mind
You've lived your life and how you survived
I'll never know people talk of hardships
What do they know what do they know?
Of the strength you had to show
To stop yourself from crying out
To keep you head above the sand
Those times when you were in dispair
When trouble seemed your only friend
Somehow you kept your spirits high
You told him straight don't call again
Now there were times, when it seemed I didn't care
Don't misjudge my silence you had my sympathy
I had sympathy and I admired how you
Stopped yourself from crying
Kept your head above the sand
When trouble seemed your only friend
Somehow you kept your spirits high
You told him straight don't call again
And now the future's looking bright
You fought alone and won the fight kept your faith
When times were hard you made it through
Trouble seemed your only friend
Somehow you kept your spirits high
You stopped yourself from crying out
You kept your head above the sand
Those times when you were in despair
Trouble seemed your only friend
Somehow you kept your spirits high
Trouble comes and trouble she goes
And trouble's got a key to my front door
And you come and you stay just as long as you please
Even when I ask nicely for you to leave
Yeah trouble
Yeah trouble
Well trouble if you ain't got nothin' nice to say
Then trouble why don't you go away
Well trouble I need your help this time
See there's this beautiful girl and she's with some
stupid guy
If they could break up, oh and I could move in
Then I think you and me well, we could be friends
Yeah trouble
Yes trouble
Well trouble if you would just help me win
Then trouble you could go away again
Trouble I've asked you repeatedly
But you just won't move you won't even humor me
So I'm only gonna tell you one more time
If you don't leave then I guess I'll cry
Well if you don't leave then I guess I'll cry
Cry trouble
Cry trouble
Well trouble I hope that you've enjoyed your stay
Now trouble why won't you go away
Yeah trouble why don't you go away
Yeah trouble why don't you go away
Go away
[Bei Maejor]
I I I I
I told you, not to wear that dress at the club tryna dance up on me
I told you, not to push that thing on me
If you know I want it
[Hook]
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
Go up to my room, you've been such a, such a bad girl
Such a sexy naughty girl
You know what you doing baby
Go up to my room girl
You've been such a, such a bad girl
Such a sexy naughty girl
(Oooh, oooh)
Baby I told you, not to wear them heels that make your legs look so sexy
I I I I
I told you
Not to wear them heels that say I'm ready come get me
Ay Ay,
They gon get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
They gon get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
They gon get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
[J. Cole]
Yeah, invitations in the whirlwind
We both bad at it
Told myself no more hittin' niggas girlfriends
That's my old bad habit
Here you go, round that
Already know, what I'm staring at
I mean from top to bottom your body is problem so
Somebody better take care of that
And who
Better than, the nigga let 'em in
When your man ain't home, you can let him in
Late night Letterman
I ain't gon tat-a-tale
Damn your ass bad as hell
[Hook]
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
It's gon' get you in trouble
(Oooh, oooh)
I told you not to stare at me like that when I'm performing
I-I-I-I told you
That's that's gon' make us til the early morning
party people
yeah!
let's go some trouble
yeah, hey hey
at night that i've planned to enjoy aha
go ..all of my boy
let ..by the toy
and watch them ladies all get ..
i hear the whispers in the boys
sayin that i'm the perfect choice
she says she want a bad boy
to make a ..joy
chorus:
you remind me of my favorite girl
who loves to party and it's ..girl
and when she's tipsy she ..girl
and i just wanna know if you're just like her
chorus:
and so let's get trouble
i'm in the ..trouble
let's ..some trouble
i'm ..trouble
got something here to ..sleep
so sexy that you can't believe
call on her when i'm in need
she said just ask charlie sheen
i watched her croll up on her knee
she had me begging pretty please
no my .. she follows
but this time i stay down beneath
I play an old guitar from nine 'till half past one
I'm just trying to make a living watching everyone else have fun
I don't miss much if it happens on the dance hall floor
I said mercy look what just walked through that door
Hello T-R-O-U-B-L-E
What in the world are you doing A-L-O-N-E
Hey good L-O-O-K-I-N-G
I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E
I was a little bitty baby when my papa hit the skids
Mamma had a time trying to raise nine kids
She taught me not to stare cause it was impolite
She did the best she could trying to raise me right
But mama never taught me bout nothing like Y-O-U
I Bet your mama must have been a good lookin' honey too
Hey, good L-O-O-K-I-N-G
I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E
You sweet talking sexy walkin honky tonkin' baby
The men are gonna' love you, the women are gonna' hate you
Reminding them of everything they're never gonna' be
It maybe the beginning of the world war three
'Cause the world ain't ready for nothing like Y-O-U
Bet your mama must have been a good looking honey too
Hey, good L-O-O-K-I-N-G
Yes, give thanks and praise
To the most high Jah Rastafari
Yeah, you know
As I would say ya, you know
The father is the strong hold for the oppressed
The stronghold in the time of trouble, you know
And those who put their trust in him
Shall endure for iver, you know
As I and I would say, you see
Bless my eye this morning
Jah sun is on the rise once again
Way earthly things are going
Any thing can happen, you see
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
You see, we've got to face the day
Ju Ju, hoo we come what may
We the street people talking, true, true
We the people struggling, you see
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
[Jr. Gong]
So much trouble, so much violence
Nah say loving, better you keep silent
So much trouble, so much violence
Nah say loving, better you keep silent
Got to face the day no matter the consequence
World ain't getting better, ain't no improvement
Everywhere you go that's another problem
Work everyday still you can't find a cent
Land lord a hunt cause you don't pay no rent
No mother, no father, you are a lone parent
Everyone all around such a bad temperament
Have no chain round your feet still you can't free yourself
Laws cause crime and violence, so much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
And all we've got to do
Is give a little
Take a little
Give a little
One more time
Yeah, yeah
So they sitting on their time bomb
Now I know the time has come
Telling you what goes up is coming on down
Goes around and comes around, yeah
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
[Jr. Gong]
So much trouble, so much violence
Nah say loving, better you keep silent
So much trouble, so much violence
Nah say loving, better you keep silent
Got to face the day no matter the consequence
World ain't getting better, ain't no improvement
Everywhere you go that's another problem
Work everyday still you can't find a cent
Land lord a hunt cause you don't pay no rent
No mother, no father, you are a lone parent
Everyone all around such a bad temperament
Have no chain round your feet still you can't free yourself
Laws cause crime and violence, so much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
Trouble always follows me
But trouble ain't a bad place to be
I'll get my shit by it, if I can
But I stand on my own, and I'm
my own man
The only age I know is the
dark age
All the people I know put me in a
cage
The only age I know is the
dark age
The only light I know is in this dark
space
I'm the portrait of your patroniza-
tion
Have you ever looked at my face?
They try to make a mess out of me
They're heading for a social cata-
strophe
They try to make a mess out of me
Alienation, false masturbation,
incrimination
My soul salvation, discrimination,
isolation
No consolation here
Always follow me
Always follow me
Always follow me
Always follow me
Always follow me
Always follow me
You yelled "Hey!"
When your car wouldn't start
You got real nervous
And started to eat your heart out
You're so fat your shoes don't fit on your feet
You've got trouble
And it's tailor made
Mama, lay your head down in the shade
chorus:
Cause your eye's are tired
And your feet are to
You wish the world was as tired as you
Well I'll write a letter
And I'll send it away
Put all the trouble in it you've had today
Well your telephone rang
And you yelled "No!"
Well you forgot about this and you forgot about that
Got to get back to what you're doing
Goodbye, quit that, so and so
You're an island and on your own
And you yelled "Hey!"
When the stove blew up
Upset? why yes
The footprints on your ceiling are almost gone
And you're wonderin' why
Mama lay your head down
Now don't you cry
Trouble
Don't you see
That in your bed
I find no sleep
I confess you came because of me
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Cold wet stone
Deep river bed
Once so clean and clear now runs red
You know to well
Was me that called you here
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Oh sweet day
Leave me behind
I will never call on you
Until the day I die
Pray your mercy shine on me
Pray your mercy shine
Here I stand
Head bowed for thee
My empty heart begs you
Leave me be
But I confess
You know too well
That I have fallen
Pray your mercy give to me
Pray your mercy shine
Trouble ??
Trouble thee
Let your mercy shine
Cold wet stone
River deep and red
Your cold heart beats inside my head
You know too well
It was me that brought you here
Ohhh trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
I pray your mercy shine on me
If you're looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you're looking for trouble
Just stare in this face
I was born looking out
From my Momma's sack
My Daddy was the
Demon Werewolf Jack
Because I'm evil
My middle name is Misery
Said, "I'm evil, child"
Yeah, don't you mess around with me
Never look for trouble
And I never am
I don't take no orders
From no kind of man
I'm only made out
Of flesh and blood
But if you're looking on for some trouble
Why don't you try it on your own?
Because I'm evil
My middle name is Misery
Said, "I'm evil, child"
Yeah, don't you mess around with me, yeah
And I'm evil
My middle name is Misery
Well I'm evil, child
Yeah, don't you mess around with me
I said, "I'm evil"
I said, "I'm evil, evil, evil, evil, woah"
Don't mess around, yeah, don't' mess around with my evil
I said, "I'm evil"
I said, "I'm evil"
I said, "I'm evil"
I said, "I'm evil, evil, evil, evil, woah"
My dreams are waking up now
I'm heading for the top
The topless dream awaits there
Think I should pick it up
But I'm dying for some trouble
Yeah I'm dying for some trouble
Double trouble, triple double, gimme trouble
Oh, double trouble, see I'm dying for some trouble
Well my time is coming up soon
Think I should make it rock
It's never been so perfect
Still I want to fuck it up
'Cause I'm dying for some trouble
Yeah I'm dying for some trouble
Double trouble, triple double, gimme trouble
Oh, double trouble, see I'm dying for some trouble
You and I, left alone cannot be trusted
There's a lust we can't control
Slowly undress, chest to chest
And unless I say goodnight,
I know we're only gonna go too far
Please, I'm not quite ready for that next level
One kiss and that spells trouble (Trouble)
[Chorus:]
But you could talk me in, talk me into it
If you wanted to
You could talk me in, talk me into it
If you only knew
Yeah I'm likin', I'm likin' the way you do-o-o (Do-o-o)
What you do-o-o to me
I, I don't wanna lose control
Control, control, control
But then again I,
I think I wanna lose control
Control, control, control
Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
You and me that equals...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of
I get down, I surprise you
Don't you push me
Let me in your crib today,
Next day I'll snatch the goods away
You're not listenin', watch me now,
'Cause I'm a good girl but I could be bad
You're not quite there, you're not on my level
Trust me, for you I 'm trouble
(Chorus)
This is a warning, I'm warnin' ya
You're taking too long, (Too) too long
Tryin' play look back and be cool
But boy you're playin' it wrong,
Playin' it wrong
Now it's in your eyes, (Eyes)
You're really-really (Really-really)
Lookin' (Lookin') like you wanna do somethin'
Like-like you wanna do somethin' (Do somethin')
Boy you better get right (Get right)
If you don't (If you don't),
You're gonna mess around and lose somethin'
You're mess around and lose somethin' (Lose somethin')
I, I don't wanna lose control
Control, control, control
But then again I,
I think I wanna lose control
Control, control
Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
You and me that equals...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Tro-uble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Something someone said to you. Know what you're thinking.
Know it's true. But it's not the time or place. Nothing
you can say to save face.
Trouble has fallen on you. Sometimes trouble will make
you strong. Standing by the paths you choose. Keep it
steady it won't be long.
Call it selfish call it vain. I know no one. Who wouldn't
feel this way. Throwin' it all down. Baby don't lose
faith. Step away.
Enemies beckon – beckon us all. Don't you worry baby.
'Bout anything at all. Sweetest and fruitful dream. Baby
what you believe. Is gonna break your fall.
Trouble has fallen on you. Sometimes trouble will make
you strong. Standing by the paths you choose. Keep it
when in the night you wander
into my dreams, there you stay
look at the walls of ice and anger
you build around my day
i can feel you everywhere
you’re like venom in the air
impossible, impossible to bear
into your eyes of amber
i’ll stare until you’re gone
‘cause i know the way out of you, trouble
into the glare of the sun
ah!!!
i can feel you everywhere
you’re like venom in the air
impossible, impossible to bear
‘cause i know the way out of you, trouble
into the glare of te sun
ah!!!
i can see you everywhere
you’re like venom in the air
impossible, impossible to bear
you can hear it everywhere
while i sing it to the air
Do you think your really hard when you scream at each other?
Do you think your really hard ????
Do you think your really hard ????
Dou you think your really hard when you end up dead?
[Chorus]
Screaming at each other
Kicks to the head
Brother against brother
Until you end up dead
[x2]
You prove the papers right by the way you fucking act
You prove the papers right when your sniffing glue
You prove the papers right and that's a sad fact
(Troubleeeee)
("Hypocritical")
(Troubleeeee)
They say my beats are (troubleeeee)
"Hyp-hyp-hypocritical"
(Troubleeeee)
It's got to be (troubleeee)
("Hyp-hyp-hypocritical")
(Troubleeeee)
("Hyp-hyp-hypocritical")
[Verse 1: Classified]
Yeah, now I'll admit it, I'm a hypocrite (yeah)
Tryin to get a grip (what?), let me flip the script
(ha)
I'm seein things a little different (uh), I was the one
to never hit a spliff
Now it's like everytime it's lit, I need to get a bit
I go on fishing trips (yeah), but hate fish and chips
(what?)
Never handle business but always busy in the midst of
it (ha)
Shit I'm a animal but tamer than a house cat
Cheese don't concern me but I'm caught up in this mouse
trap
Still unsure what I stand for (uh)
I'm just a man torn, walkin blind, caught up in a
sandstorm (ha)
I always say that I'm a one man band
But I got more guys on stage than you can count on one
hand
Damn I'm confusin, roll up the hydro
I hate cigarettes but I'm addicted to tobacco
(troubleeeee)
Won't break the bank but I'll break some bread
And I don't want to lose my hair but then I shave my
head
[Chorus: Classified]
Whether wrong or right, I'm a give you what you need
'Cause my whole life, I had to keep up to the beat
So I hold tight, I got to get in where I fit in
Hit 'em with the rhythm and when the beat goes on it's
- (troubleeeee)
And when the beat goes on
And when the beat goes on it's - (troubleeeee)
("Hypocrit")
And when the beat goes on
("Hypocritical")
[Verse 2: Classified]
Uh, yeah, now I don't do what I used but do things I
never did
Still got my values but switched up my etiquette
This industry don't come with benefits
That's why I'm savin for a rainy day and tryin to stay
ahead of it
I freeze time when I reach mine
And each line (yeah) is universal like a peace sign, so
keep tryin (keep tryin)
I ain't a fighter but I love pretendin (uh huh)
Don't get it twisted bud I ain't a bitch, I ain't
surrenderin (nope)
I ain't your everyday rapper with a love for foreign
whips (yeah)
At the club scorin chicks (yeah), it ain't a skill I
was born with (nope)
I usually stay at home payin off these mortgages
Watch a couple porn flicks, eatin bags of corn chips
(ha)
[Chorus: Classified]
Whether wrong or right, I'm a give you what you need
'Cause my whole life, I had to keep up to the beat
So I hold tight, I got to get in where I fit in
Hit 'em with the rhythm and when the beat goes on it's
- (troubleeeee)
And when the beat goes on
And when the beat goes on it's - (troubleeeee)
("Hypocritical")
[Verse 3: Classified]
Yeah, now take a minute (uh huh) and take a listen
(yeah)
From Enfield straight spittin, originate from Great
Britain
Proud +Martimer+, drinkin in my neighbor's kitchen
Empty out the fridge, usually we overstay our visit
Used to think I didn't care what people said
'Til I double checked message boards before I went to
bed and
I always said this fame won't go to my head then
I catch myself thinkin I'm that Dude like Devin
Shit, I know I'm goin to grow
'Cause it a love/hate relationship, some things will
come and go (troubleeeee)
But yo, I learned to live, live and learn (yeah)
We all hypocritical, as far as I'm concerned
[Chorus: Classified]
Whether wrong or right, I'm a give you what you need
'Cause my whole life, I had to keep up to the beat
So I hold tight, I got to get in where I fit in
Hit 'em with the rhythm and when the beat goes on it's
- (troubleeeee)
And when the beat goes on ("hypocrit")
And when the beat goes on it's - (troubleeeee)
And when the beat goes on ("hypocrit-hyp")
It's got to be (troubleeeee)
("Hyp-hyp-hypocritical")
("Hyp-hyp-hypocrit")
(Troubleeeee)
("Hypocritical")
It's got to be (troubleeeee)
I didn't know what
Everybody was talking about, oh, no
So I went down to the water
Tried to figure it out, oh, no
Everybody was looking down at the empty ground
Except you baby
And you turned to me with a strange look in your eye
And whispered in my ear
You said, "Oh, ooh, everybody's got a trouble"
You said, "Oh, ooh, everybody's got a trouble"
Just like me
There I met a man scorched by the sun
He had a ring above his head
And with eyes of chrome
With a voice of steel, he drew his breath
And he said, "Oh, ooh, everybody's got a trouble"
He said, "Oh, ooh, everybody's got a trouble"
Just like me, just like me
He said I should just go on, oh
Oh, he said I should just go on, ohh
Oh, ooh, everybody's got a trouble
He said, "Oh, ooh, everybody's got a trouble"
It's what he said, everybody's got a trouble
Just like me, just like me
Just like me, ooh, just like me
He said I should just go on
He said I should just go on
He said I should just go on
Oh, he said, he said, he said
Yeah, he said I should just go on
Oh, he said,I should just go on
Trouble, trouble
Uh oh, uh oh
She knows just the way to walk on by that makes my heart stop
I don't know the way to say good night, cause she don't want me
To go nowhere, without her there, she's everywhere
I don't need trouble just some music and a little chance to sing my song
That girl is trouble, trouble from her head to her toes
Uh oh, uh oh, always takin off her clothes
Trouble, trouble when her lips touch mine
Only had to happen one time that girl is
Trouble, trouble like a sting from a bee
Uh oh, uh oh and she's takin over me
Trouble, trouble even blind men can see
That's why I gotta run, why I gotta run baby
Trouble, trouble (baby)
Uh oh, uh oh
I woke up to hear on my telephone, talking crazy
She said, come over now, nobody's home, I said, baby,
I don't know if I should go, trying to take it slow
I don't need trouble but I choose it, at least that's the way it seems (yeah)
That girl is trouble, trouble from her head to her toes
Uh oh, uh oh, always takin off her clothes
Trouble, trouble when her lips touch mine
Only had to happen one time that girl is
Trouble, trouble like a sting from a bee
Uh oh, uh oh and she's takin over me
Trouble, trouble even blind men can see
That's why I gotta run, why I gotta run
Mama always said there'd be girls like this
Never did I know they'd be this fine
First a passing glance turned into a kiss
Now she's running through my mind
That girl is trouble, trouble
She is uh oh, uh oh
That girl is trouble, trouble
Only had to happen one time
That girl is trouble, trouble from her head to her toes
Uh oh, uh oh, always takin off her clothes
Trouble, trouble when her lips touch mine
Only had to happen one time that girl is
Trouble, trouble like a sting from a bee
Uh oh, uh oh and she's takin over me
Trouble, trouble even blind men can see
That's why I gotta run, why I gotta run baby
Trouble, trouble
Uh oh, uh oh
It only had to happen one time (trouble, trouble)
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Leona Lewis - Trouble
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Pre-Order your copy of the NEW Leona Lewis album 'Glassheart' now at smarturl.it Music video by Leona Lewis performing Trouble. (C) 2012 Simco Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
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Pre-Order your copy of the NEW Leona Lewis album 'Glassheart' now at smarturl.it Music video by Leona Lewis performing Trouble. (C) 2012 Simco Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Music video by Taylor Swift performing I Knew You Were Trouble. © 2012 Big Machine Records, LLC
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Music video by Taylor Swift performing I Knew You Were Trouble. © 2012 Big Machine Records, LLC
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 3260844
- author: TaylorSwiftVEVO
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble Full Video
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- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
taylorswift.es Intro here: youtu.be Please, buy RED!
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taylorswift.es Intro here: youtu.be Please, buy RED!
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 487969
- author: Pablo Kutavyz
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble (Lyrics on Screen)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Hope you like it :) this is a pitched one. Please buy the original one on iTunes bitly.com/TtJ1iC and please support Taylor's new album "RED" the best selling album in a week for almost a decade :) No copyright infringement intended.
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Hope you like it :) this is a pitched one. Please buy the original one on iTunes bitly.com/TtJ1iC and please support Taylor's new album "RED" the best selling album in a week for almost a decade :) No copyright infringement intended.
- published: 09 Oct 2012
- views: 12285584
- author: 13swiftly
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Ringtone Here: TaylorRingtones.com 30000 Likes? Please Share This Video! Only a true Swiftie would :) I have 2 Strikes! If I get 3, this channel will be deleted! I made a back-up of this channel: www.youtube.com Please subscribe to gain access to this channel again. Taylor Swift's new 4th Promotional Single, from her upcoming album, "Red". No copyright intended. No copyright infringement intended. I DO NOT OWN THIS. This is slightly pitched to avoid copyright. My Twitter: twitter.com "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." No copyright intended. This song is slightly pitched to avoid copyright. Lyrics: Once upon a time a few mistakes ago I was in your sights you got me alone You found me you found me, you found me I guess you didn't care, and I guess I liked that And when I fell hard you took a step back Without me without me, without me And he's long gone when he's next to me And I realize the blame is on me Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me now Flew me to places I've never been Till you put me down oh I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me now Flew me to places I've never been Now I'm lying on the cold hard ...
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Ringtone Here: TaylorRingtones.com 30000 Likes? Please Share This Video! Only a true Swiftie would :) I have 2 Strikes! If I get 3, this channel will be deleted! I made a back-up of this channel: www.youtube.com Please subscribe to gain access to this channel again. Taylor Swift's new 4th Promotional Single, from her upcoming album, "Red". No copyright intended. No copyright infringement intended. I DO NOT OWN THIS. This is slightly pitched to avoid copyright. My Twitter: twitter.com "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." No copyright intended. This song is slightly pitched to avoid copyright. Lyrics: Once upon a time a few mistakes ago I was in your sights you got me alone You found me you found me, you found me I guess you didn't care, and I guess I liked that And when I fell hard you took a step back Without me without me, without me And he's long gone when he's next to me And I realize the blame is on me Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me now Flew me to places I've never been Till you put me down oh I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me now Flew me to places I've never been Now I'm lying on the cold hard ...
- published: 09 Oct 2012
- views: 6882793
- author: Moodrilyric2
Coldplay - Trouble
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Music video by Coldplay performing Trouble. (C) 2000 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2000 EMI Records Ltd
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Music video by Coldplay performing Trouble. (C) 2000 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2000 EMI Records Ltd
- published: 07 Mar 2009
- views: 9157313
- author: emimusic
I Knew You Were Trouble - Taylor Swift (Alex G Ft Eppic Cover) Official Music Video
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
iTunes: itunes.apple.com Check out Eppic's alternate version here! www.youtube.com This was one of the most fun videos I've ever created! Eppic and I had a great time (cold too...) making this for you. It's one of my favorite songs off the RED album :). Thanks so much for watching and please share this with everyone you know! It really does help more than you know! Subscribe to the amazing Eppic!! (www.youtube.com Thanks so much to Shaun Reynolds for producing this for us! You are seriously the man. Everyone go subscribe to him! He's super talented :) www.youtube.com Thanks so much to Sehler for filming and being the package deliverer in the video. You are awesome :) Thanks also to Jackie (www.youtube.com for being in my video as well. You're a cool sister. Facebook: www.facebook.com http//www.facebook.com/EppicInvasion Twitter: www.twitter.com www.twitter.com Keek: www.keek.com www.keek.com Song Produced by: Shaun Reynolds Video Filmed by: Sehler, Eppic, Alex G Video Edited by: Alex G "I Knew You Were Trouble" -- originally by Taylor Swift Written by: Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback Published by: Sony ATV Music Publishing & Kobalt Music Publishing
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iTunes: itunes.apple.com Check out Eppic's alternate version here! www.youtube.com This was one of the most fun videos I've ever created! Eppic and I had a great time (cold too...) making this for you. It's one of my favorite songs off the RED album :). Thanks so much for watching and please share this with everyone you know! It really does help more than you know! Subscribe to the amazing Eppic!! (www.youtube.com Thanks so much to Shaun Reynolds for producing this for us! You are seriously the man. Everyone go subscribe to him! He's super talented :) www.youtube.com Thanks so much to Sehler for filming and being the package deliverer in the video. You are awesome :) Thanks also to Jackie (www.youtube.com for being in my video as well. You're a cool sister. Facebook: www.facebook.com http//www.facebook.com/EppicInvasion Twitter: www.twitter.com www.twitter.com Keek: www.keek.com www.keek.com Song Produced by: Shaun Reynolds Video Filmed by: Sehler, Eppic, Alex G Video Edited by: Alex G "I Knew You Were Trouble" -- originally by Taylor Swift Written by: Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback Published by: Sony ATV Music Publishing & Kobalt Music Publishing
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 239887
- author: AlexGMusic7
P!nk - Trouble
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Music video by P!nk performing Trouble. (C) 2003 Arista Records, Inc.
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Music video by P!nk performing Trouble. (C) 2003 Arista Records, Inc.
- published: 20 Oct 2010
- views: 3557065
- author: PinkVEVO
Leona Lewis - Trouble (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Music video by Leona Lewis performing Trouble. (C) 2012 Simco Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
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Music video by Leona Lewis performing Trouble. (C) 2012 Simco Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
- published: 05 Sep 2012
- views: 1254825
- author: leonalewisVEVO
Chris Rene - Trouble
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Chris Rene debut EP "I'M RIGHT HERE" out now smartURL.it Music video by Chris Rene performing Trouble. (C) 2012 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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Chris Rene debut EP "I'M RIGHT HERE" out now smartURL.it Music video by Chris Rene performing Trouble. (C) 2012 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
- published: 13 Aug 2012
- views: 2441615
- author: ChrisReneVEVO
Benny Banks - Trouble (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Video for the new street track 'Trouble'. Song Produced By Show N Prove Video filmed, edited & directed by Ashur Yelda of Phatline Productions
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Video for the new street track 'Trouble'. Song Produced By Show N Prove Video filmed, edited & directed by Ashur Yelda of Phatline Productions
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 328904
- author: mrbennybanks
Leona Lewis - Trouble (Feat. Childish Gambino)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Leona Lewis's brand new single "Trouble" featuring Childish Gambino. Releasing on 'Glassheart' album. Buy 'Trouble' here: itunes.apple.com Preorder 'Glassheart' album here: Play: bit.ly Amazon: amzn.to HMV: bit.ly For Promotion Use Only. No copyright infringement intended. All rights and respects to Leona Lewis and her label Syco Music, RCA and Sony Music Entertainment.
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Leona Lewis's brand new single "Trouble" featuring Childish Gambino. Releasing on 'Glassheart' album. Buy 'Trouble' here: itunes.apple.com Preorder 'Glassheart' album here: Play: bit.ly Amazon: amzn.to HMV: bit.ly For Promotion Use Only. No copyright infringement intended. All rights and respects to Leona Lewis and her label Syco Music, RCA and Sony Music Entertainment.
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 512931
- author: Leona Lewis Memes Page
Bei Maejor feat. J.Cole - Trouble
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Music video by Bei Maejor feat. J.Cole performing Trouble. (C) 2011 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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Music video by Bei Maejor feat. J.Cole performing Trouble. (C) 2011 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
- published: 19 Sep 2011
- views: 7047618
- author: BeiMaejorVEVO
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - Z100 Jingle Ball 2012 HD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
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Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - American Music Awards 2012
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- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - AMA Awards 2012
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Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - AMA Awards 2012
- published: 19 Nov 2012
- views: 2898779
- author: kmttmn
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - ARIA Awards Australia 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Taylor Swift singing "I Knew You Were Trouble" live at the ARIA Awards in Australia - 29th November 2012. HQ Audio and Video.
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Taylor Swift singing "I Knew You Were Trouble" live at the ARIA Awards in Australia - 29th November 2012. HQ Audio and Video.
- published: 29 Nov 2012
- views: 462711
- author: HQVideoDude S
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - Music Video Parody (With Lyrics) Haylor
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
So in case you haven't heard, Taylor Swift & Harry Styles may be dating... Share this video if you enjoy it! Haha. Check out Taylor Swift!! (Annie) www.youtube.com Huge thanks to my pal Nikki for producing: www.youtube.com MY LINKS: TWITTER: www.twitter.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com INSTAGRAM: CoolStoryJon SHIRTS: simplyspoons.spreadshirt.com
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So in case you haven't heard, Taylor Swift & Harry Styles may be dating... Share this video if you enjoy it! Haha. Check out Taylor Swift!! (Annie) www.youtube.com Huge thanks to my pal Nikki for producing: www.youtube.com MY LINKS: TWITTER: www.twitter.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com INSTAGRAM: CoolStoryJon SHIRTS: simplyspoons.spreadshirt.com
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 357744
- author: SimplySpoons
Vintage Trouble - Blues Hand Me Down - Late Show with David Letterman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Vintage Trouble performing "Blues Hand Me Down" on the Late Show with David Letterman 12/6/2012
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Vintage Trouble performing "Blues Hand Me Down" on the Late Show with David Letterman 12/6/2012
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 42010
- author: Musicfantasy2
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble Performed Live 2012 American Music Awards AMA
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- Duration: 4:01
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Taylor Swift performs I Knew You Were Trouble at the 2012 AMA. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING IGNORE: t swizzle t-swizzle American Music Awards Live awesome performance clothes change amazing Red new album 2012 lyrics
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Taylor Swift performs I Knew You Were Trouble at the 2012 AMA. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING IGNORE: t swizzle t-swizzle American Music Awards Live awesome performance clothes change amazing Red new album 2012 lyrics
- published: 19 Nov 2012
- views: 785408
- author: FBruinedmylife
Trouble feat. Gucci Mane, Rocko & Travis Porter - "You Don't Deserve Dat" (Remix) (Offical Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:16
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Trouble (@TroubleDTE ) feat. Gucci Mane (@gucci1017 ), Rocko (@Rocko4Real) & Travis Porter (@TravisPorter ) - You Don't Deserve Dat (Remix) DIECTED BY RED AUDIO @RED_AUDIO WWW.REDAUDIOFILMZ.COM https The Third visual to Trouble's [@TroubleDTE] mixtape - "431 Days" - the sequel to "December 17th." brought to you by Duct Tape Entertainment "431 Days" is available for free download on LiveMixtapes.com .
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Trouble (@TroubleDTE ) feat. Gucci Mane (@gucci1017 ), Rocko (@Rocko4Real) & Travis Porter (@TravisPorter ) - You Don't Deserve Dat (Remix) DIECTED BY RED AUDIO @RED_AUDIO WWW.REDAUDIOFILMZ.COM https The Third visual to Trouble's [@TroubleDTE] mixtape - "431 Days" - the sequel to "December 17th." brought to you by Duct Tape Entertainment "431 Days" is available for free download on LiveMixtapes.com .
- published: 30 Jul 2012
- views: 134286
- author: Red Audio
'Trouble' Official Lyric Video
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Pre-order your copy of 'Trouble' here: bitly.com Out October 7th Like Leona on Facebook: www.facebook.com Follow Leona on Twitter: twitter.com
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Pre-order your copy of 'Trouble' here: bitly.com Out October 7th Like Leona on Facebook: www.facebook.com Follow Leona on Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 29 Aug 2012
- views: 313604
- author: leonalewis
Trouble With The Curve - Official Trailer (HD)
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- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
www.joblo.com - "Trouble With The Curve" - Official Trailer An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip. Director Robert Lorenz Writer: Randy Brown (screenplay) Stars: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman Copyright @ Warner Bros. Pictures
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www.joblo.com - "Trouble With The Curve" - Official Trailer An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip. Director Robert Lorenz Writer: Randy Brown (screenplay) Stars: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman Copyright @ Warner Bros. Pictures
- published: 08 Aug 2012
- views: 684781
- author: joblomovienetwork
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble Live Performance 2012 Aria Awards HD
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- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
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 Lewis at the 2009 American Music Awards |
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| Birth name | Leona Louise Lewis |
| Born | (1985-04-03) 3 April 1985 (age 27) Islington, London, England, UK |
| Genres | Pop, R&B |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, recording artist |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | Syco, J, RCA |
| Website | leonalewismusic.co.uk |
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer and songwriter.[1] Lewis came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor.
Lewis has released two albums to date, Spirit and Echo, in 2007 and 2009 respectively. A multi-platinum selling artist and three-time Grammy Award nominee, her most successful single, "Bleeding Love", reached number one in over thirty countries around the world, and was the best-selling single worldwide in 2008.[2] Other notable singles include "Better in Time", "Happy" and "I Got You". She was proclaimed 'Top New Artist' by Billboard magazine in 2008.
Lewis's debut tour, The Labyrinth, took place in 2010, and her third album, Glassheart, is scheduled for release in 2012. It was preceded by "Collide", a single from the album, which became her seventh top-five hit in the United Kingdom. Lewis's net worth was estimated at £12 million in April 2012.[3]
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Early life[link]
Lewis was born in the London Borough of Islington, to Aural Josiah "Joe" Lewis of Afro-Guyanese descent, and Maria Lewis of Welsh, Irish, and Italian descent.[1][4][5] Her parents enrolled her at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. From there she attended the Italia Conti Academy and the BRIT School, where she learned to play instruments, such as the guitar and piano, in the hope of becoming a singer-songwriter.[6][7] Lewis wrote her first full-length song at the age of 12.[8] She initially trained in opera, but went on to singing jazz and blues, eventually leading to popular music, citing Minnie Riperton, Eva Cassidy and Stevie Wonder as her main influences.[5] After leaving the BRIT School at 17, following a year abroad in Boston, Massachusetts in a transfer program,[5] she took a number of jobs to fund studio time,[9] recording a demo album called Twilight.[10] The album, almost exclusively comprising her own compositions, was recorded under Spiral Music, a production company based in Fulham. "I tried to secure a record deal by doing things my own way. I worked very hard but I never managed to land a contract", said Lewis.[11] Other demos were recorded under licence from UEG Entertainment, later included on an album called Best Kept Secret.[12] None of Lewis's demos brought her significant attention, however, and she considered taking a hiatus from her music career to attend university. Then her boyfriend persuaded her to enter The X Factor which subsequently severed her connections with UEG.[13]
Music career[link]
[edit] 2006: The X Factor
Main article: The X Factor (UK series 3)
Lewis auditioned for the third series of The X Factor in 2006, singing "Over the Rainbow". She was mentored by Simon Cowell and was announced the winner on 16 December 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract.[14]
Her debut single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This", was released on CD on 20 December 2006, and was available as a digital download from midnight on 17 December. It broke a world record after it was downloaded 50,000 times in thirty minutes.[15] On 24 December, "A Moment Like This" was crowned the 2006 UK Christmas number-one single, having sold 571,253 copies, outselling the rest of the Top 40's sales combined.[16] The single became the most downloaded song in 2006; it stayed at No. 1 for four weeks and stayed at the top spot in the Irish Singles Chart for six weeks.[17]
[edit] 2007–09: Spirit and international breakthrough
Main article: Spirit (Leona Lewis album)
In February 2007 Lewis signed a £5 million (US$9.7 million) five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records,[18] and showcased for several American music executives.[18][19][20] A press release described how Cowell and Davis would work together in a "first-of-its-kind" partnership on both the song and producer selection for Lewis's debut album, entitled Spirit.[21] Lewis recorded tracks for the album in London, Miami, Los Angeles, New York City, and Atlanta,[22] where she worked with several songwriters and record producers including Dallas Austin, Walter Afanasieff, Salaam Remi,[23] Steve Mac,[24] Stargate[25] and Ne-Yo.[26] It was released in November 2007 and entered both the Irish Albums Chart and the UK Albums Chart at number one, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in both countries, and the United Kingdom's fourth fastest selling album of all time.[27][28][29] It was released in several other nations in January 2008, and went to number one in New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Germany, South Africa and Switzerland.[30] Two more tracks were recorded in 2008 for the US release of the album: "Forgive Me", produced by Akon, and "Misses Glass", produced by Madd Scientist.[31] It was released in the United States in April 2008 and entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, making Lewis the first British artist to reach number one with a debut album.[32] A special edition of Spirit was re-released in November 2008 in Europe, including the songs "Forgive Me", "Misses Glass" and a cover of the Snow Patrol song "Run". The album again went to number one in the UK Albums Chart. To date the album has sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide[33] and has a 9× platinum certification in the UK.[34]
Lewis's second single, "Bleeding Love", produced by Ryan Tedder and written by Tedder and Jesse McCartney, was released in October 2007 in the UK, where it sold 218,805 copies in its first week, giving it the biggest first-week sales of 2007 to date.[35][36] It entered the UK Singles Chart at number one, where it stayed for seven weeks,[37] and in the Irish Singles Chart it remained at number one for eight weeks.[38] It reached number one in the singles charts of New Zealand, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Canada and the United States. "Bleeding Love" won The Record of the Year in December 2007.[39] In February 2008, "Bleeding Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 85 and then went on to peak at number one for four non-consecutive weeks. The song became the first track by a UK female to reach number one since Kim Wilde's "You Keep Me Hangin' On" in 1987.[40] Lewis's third single, a double A-side featuring "Better in Time" and "Footprints in the Sand", was released in the United Kingdom in March 2008, in aid of Sport Relief, and she visited South Africa for the charity.[41] The single reached a peak of number two in the UK singles chart selling over 40,000 copies in its first week of physical release. "Better in Time" was released as Lewis's second single in the US, where it peaked at number 11 in the Billboard Hot 100.[42] "Forgive Me" was released as Lewis's fifth single in November 2008; it reached number five in the UK.[43] "Run" was released as a download-only single in the UK, reaching number one, and becoming the UK's fastest-selling download-only single with 69,244 copies sold in two days.[44] Lewis's last single from Spirit, "I Will Be", was released in January 2009,[45] only in North America; it peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100. In August 2008, she performed "Whole Lotta Love" with guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin at the 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Beijing, representing the handover to London as the host of the 2012 Summer Olympics.[46] In September 2008, she joined several female singers to perform a single for the anti-cancer campaign Stand Up to Cancer. The single, titled "Just Stand Up!", was performed live during the one-hour telethon that aired on all major US television networks.[47] Lewis received three nominations for the 51st Grammy Awards in December 2008. "Bleeding Love" was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Spirit was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album. She was nominated for four BRIT Awards, in the categories British Female Solo Artist, British Breakthrough Act, British Album for Spirit, and British Single for "Bleeding Love",[48] but despite being the favourite to win the most awards, she received none.[49] She won two awards at the 2008 MOBO Awards: Best Album for Spirit and Best Video for "Bleeding Love".[50] In December 2008 Lewis was named 'Top New Artist' by Billboard magazine.[51]
[edit] 2009–10: Echo and The Labyrinth
Main articles: Echo (Leona Lewis album) and The Labyrinth (tour)
Lewis's second album, Echo, was given a worldwide release in November 2009.[52] Production took place throughout 2009, including work with Ryan Tedder,[53] Justin Timberlake,[54] Max Martin,[55] Arnthor Birgisson,[56] Kevin Rudolf,[57] and John Shanks.[58] It was recorded in Los Angeles and took nine months to produce.[59] Lewis described the album as "more guitar-driven" compared to Spirit.[60] Lewis performed her first full UK show at the Hackney Empire in London on 2 November 2009, performing songs from Spirit and Echo.[61][62] Echo reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and the top ten of Austria, Ireland and Switzerland.[63] Despite previous attempts from Lewis's lawyers to ban the release of Best Kept Secret by UEG Music, claiming that the singer had not given her consent, the album was released in January 2009 when the label insisted it owned the rights to the music and Lewis would receive a 50% share of the album's profits. However, a television advert for the album was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority, who said in a statement: "We considered that the claim 'Leona Lewis's new album' misleadingly implied it was the singer's latest recording rather than a new CD of tracks recorded some years ago."[64] The album was released to iTunes in standard and deluxe editions, and two EPs, "Private Party" and "Dip Down"/"Joy", were released in September 2009. The first single released from Echo was "Happy", which was written by Lewis, Tedder and Evan Bogart and produced by Tedder.[65] The single was released on 15 September 2009,[66][67] peaking at number two in the UK,[68] and reaching the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Japan and Switzerland.[69] Lewis also recorded the theme song for the 2009 science fiction film Avatar, directed by James Cameron.[70] The song, "I See You (Theme from Avatar)", was written by James Horner and Simon Franglen. It was nominated for Best Original Song at the 67th Golden Globe Awards.[71] In January 2010, Lewis provided vocals on a cover of "Everybody Hurts", released to help raise money for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[72] The second single from Echo, "I Got You", was released in February 2010. The song "My Hands" was used as the theme song for Final Fantasy XIII[73] In April 2010, she featured on a duet with Italian singer Biagio Antonacci, called "Inaspettata (Unexpected)", from his album Inaspettata.[74] They performed the song on the Italian TV show Io Canto on 22 October 2010.[75] Lewis performed a 13-piece set list at the Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 May 2010, including songs from Spirit and Echo.[76] Her first tour, titled The Labyrinth[77] supporting Spirit and Echo, started in May 2010,[78] with a theme based on the film Labyrinth.[79] Lewis was scheduled to tour North America from July to August 2010 supporting Christina Aguilera's Bionic Tour,[80] however, Aguilera cancelled the tour, leaving Lewis's plans unknown.[81] A DVD of the tour, along with a ten-track CD, was released with the title The Labyrinth Tour Live from The O2 on 29 November 2010.[82]
[edit] 2010–present: Hurt and Glassheart
Main articles: Hurt: The EP and Glassheart
Lewis began work on her third album shortly after she had completed The Labyrinth tour.[83] She suggested the album would be "a bit different from what people have heard" from her before, adding that she planned to "go in and create and just see what happens".[84] Lewis later described the album as "more progressive", "more eclectic", "more uptempo" and "a bit darker".[85] Reports suggested that the album had taken a dubstep direction, with songwriters asked to submit dance songs and no ballads.[86] It was also reported that Simon Cowell had set a deadline for the album for a summer 2011 release.[87] On 25 May 2011, Lewis was named as an ambassador for BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012, the BBC's biggest ever free-ticketed live music event, and one of the artists confirmed to be performing at the event, which will take place on 23 and 24 June 2012.[88][89] Following the announcement, she performed a special Live Lounge at the Hackney Empire, with a reggae version of "Better in Time", which incorporated Rihanna's "Man Down", and a cover of Labrinth's "Let the Sun Shine".[90][91] In June 2011, when asked about the upcoming album, Lewis described it as "energetic, deep, [and] unique". She also commented that it would have a darker tone and that she would be putting her "heart into [her] lyrics". She cited Tracy Chapman, Kate Bush and Tears for Fears as the album's primary influences.[92]
On 14 July 2011, it was confirmed that "Collide" would be the first track to be taken from Lewis's third studio album, Glassheart. The dance-pop anthem, written by Autumn Rowe and produced by Sandy Vee, had its first UK radio play on The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1 on 15 July 2011. It was released in the UK on 4 September 2011 and Germany on 9 September 2011.[93][94][95] The single courted controversy after it was plagiarised from Swedish musician Avicii's 2010 song "Penguin".[96] Berg took the case to the British High Court.[97][98] Collide debuted on the official UK top 40 singles chart at number 4.
For the album, Lewis has worked with numerous writers and producers including: Ammo, Jonas Quant, Chuck Harmony, Claude Kelly, Ryan Tedder, Fraser T. Smith, Al Shux, Steve Robson,[95] Dallas Austin,[87] Rico Love[99] and Ne-Yo.[100] In May 2011, it was reported that Lewis had recorded a track called "Trouble" written by Emeli Sandé and Naughty Boy. Lewis also recorded a track called "Mountains" written by Sandé, Naughty Boy and Blazin' Squad members Flava (James Murray) and Mus (Mustafa Omer).[99][101] It has been confirmed that the album is entitled Glassheart. Though originally announced to be released on 28 November in the UK, it has since been announced that the album will be released on 26 March 2012. However, it was later announced in January 2012 that the album would be delayed again to the 26 November 2012.[102]
On 7 October, RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records. With the shutdown, Lewis (and all other artists previously signed to these three labels) will release her future material (including Glassheart) on the RCA Records brand.[103][104]
On 29 October, Lewis performed as the featured performer for the closing of the 2011 Doha Film Festival, where she sang a setlist of ten songs, including 'Collide' and covers of OneRepublic's Apologize, Seal's Kiss from a Rose and Boney M's Rivers Of Babylon.[105]
Before the release of Glassheart, Lewis released an EP on 9 December 2011, entitled Hurt: The EP, containing three covers as a holiday gift for her fans.[106] On 22 December, Lewis performed a version of Snow Patrol's "Run" at the season finale of the U.S. X Factor.[107][108] It was announced on 25 January 2012 that the album would be delayed again until late November 2012.[109]
Artistry[link]
Voice[link]
A mezzo-soprano,[110][111] Lewis is often compared with other singers such as Celine Dion, Whitney Houston[112] and Mariah Carey.[113] Lewis is also known to sing opera, stating that she practises operatic scales every week.[112] Music critic Neil McCormick, of The Daily Telegraph, has praised Lewis's technical skills, writing, "Her mezzo-soprano range allows her to take melodies from luxurious low notes to high-flying falsetto, gliding with elegant power and impressive control through all kinds of fluctuations and modulations."[110] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic adds, "Lewis can hit [high belted] notes but make it seem easy, never straining her voice and building nicely to the climax."[114] In the same vein, Slant describes Lewis's vocals as "technically unimpeachable".[115]
Influences[link]
Lewis credits Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston as her major influences. She said, "when I was growing up I used to listen to Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, those kind of big powerful kind of singers so that influences a lot my music and a lot of the songs I like to sing."[116]
Other activities[link]
In October 2008, The Times reported that Lewis had turned down a seven-figure sum from Mohamed Al Fayed to open a Harrods sale. Lewis commented in the press that she turned down the deal on the grounds that Harrods is the only UK department store which continues to stock clothing made from animal fur.[117] "It wasn't a million pounds that I was offered, as the papers reported, but even if it had been, I still would have turned it down."[118] "I got a lot of flak for that. There were people who said I should have done it and given the money to charity, but that would have been such a contradiction."[119] She announced in October 2008 that she was in the "bargaining period" of launching her own ethical line of accessories through Topshop,[5][117] and that she was in the late stages of releasing her own perfume for Europe.[120] Her perfume, Leona Lewis, was launched by LR in July 2009.[121] In 2010, she set up a fashion company with her then boyfriend, Lou Al-Chamaa, called LOA Clothing Ltd.[122]
Lewis signed a book deal in January 2009 to release an illustrated autobiography in October 2009. The book, entitled Dreams, contains mostly pictures taken by photographer Dean Freeman.[123] In May 2012, Lewis returned to The X Factor as a guest judge during auditions in London for the ninth series.[124]
Personal life[link]
Lewis lives in Hackney. She lived with her boyfriend Lou Al-Chamaa, former electrician turned A&R scout for Sony records, until their split in June 2010.[125] Lewis and Al-Chamaa knew each other since she was approximately ten years old.[126] A vegetarian since she was 12,[23] Lewis won PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian along with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis in 2008,[127] and Europe's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2009 with actor Scott Maslen.[128] She also was named PETA's Person Of The Year for 2008.[129] Lewis is a supporter of the World Society for the Protection of Animals[130] and is a patron of Brentwood's Hopefield Animal Sanctuary.[131]
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At a book signing for Dreams on 14 October 2009 at the Piccadilly branch of Waterstone's book store in central London, Lewis was assaulted by a 29-year-old man from south London[132][133] who was arrested at the scene;[133] Lewis suffered bruising.[134] The assailant was sectioned under the Mental Health Act[133] and was charged with common assault,[134] He admitted to the offence and was hospitalised for an indeterminate period.[135]
Discography[link]
Main article: Leona Lewis discography
- Albums
- 2007: Spirit
- 2009: Echo
- 2012: Glassheart
Tours[link]
- 2010: The Labyrinth
Awards and nominations[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Leona Lewis
References[link]
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| Name | Lewis, Leona |
| Alternative names | Lewis, Leona Louise |
| Short description | English singer–songwriter |
| Date of birth | 3 April 1985 |
| Place of birth | Islington, London, England |
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 Swift performing during the Australian leg of her Speak Now Tour in 2012 |
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| Birth name | Taylor Alison Swift |
| Born | (1989-12-13) December 13, 1989 (age 22) Reading, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Country-pop, pop, country, alternative rock |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, piano |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | Big Machine |
| Website | TaylorSwift.com |
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
Swift's work has earned her numerous accolades, including six Grammy Awards, ten AMAs, seven CMAs, six ACMs and 13 BMI Awards. She has sold over 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Swift has endorsement deals with Target, CoverGirl, Sony, Elizabeth Arden, Walmart and American Greetings. As a philanthropist, Swift has placed particular emphasis on arts education, children's literacy and natural disaster relief funds. In addition to her music career, Swift has appeared as an actress in the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009), the romantic comedy Valentine's Day (2010) and the animated film The Lorax (2012).
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Early life[link]
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania.[1] She is the daughter of Scott Swift, a Merrill Lynch financial adviser,[2][3] and Andrea (née Gardner), a homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.[1][4] Swift was named after singer James Taylor; her mother believed a gender-neutral name would help her forge a successful business career.[5][6] She has a younger brother, Austin, who attends Vanderbilt University.[7] She spent the early years of her life on an eleven-acre Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and was educated at the fee-paying Wyndcroft School.[8] When Swift was nine years old, the family moved to Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,[9][10] where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.[11] Swift spent her summers at her parent's vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey[12] and has described it as the place "where most of my childhood memories were formed".[10]
Swift's first hobby was English horse riding. Her mother Andrea put her in a saddle when Swift was nine months old and she later competed in horse shows.[13][14] Her family owned several Quarter horses and a Shetland pony.[14] At the age of nine, Swift turned her attention to musical theatre and performed in Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions of Grease, Annie, Bye Bye Birdie and The Sound of Music.[15][8] She travelled regularly to Broadway, New York for vocal and acting lessons. However, "after a few years of auditioning in New York and not getting anything”, Swift became interested in country music.[16] She was inspired by LeAnn Rimes's Blue[17] and her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, an opera singer.[8] When she was in fourth grade, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem, "Monster in My Closet".[18] At the age of eleven, after many attempts,[19] Swift won a local talent competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes’s “Big Deal”, and was given the opportunity to appear as the opening act for Charlie Daniels at a Strausstown amphitheater.[15] She spent her weekends performing at local festivals, fairs, coffeehouses, karaoke contests, garden clubs and Boy Scout meetings.[20][4] This interest in country music isolated Swift from her middle school peers.[21][22]
After watching a Behind the Music episode about Faith Hill,[23] Swift recorded a demo of karaoke covers, and travelled with her mother to Nashville, Tennessee for spring break to leave a copy of the demo with record labels along Music Row. She received label rejections and realized that "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different".[23] Swift began performing the "The Star Spangled Banner" at many sporting events, hoping she would be offered a recording contract. On one occasion, an eleven-year-old Swift high-fived Jay-Z after singing the national anthem at a 76ers game in Philadelphia.[24] At the age of twelve, Swift was shown by a computer repairman how to play three chords on a guitar, inspiring her to write her first song, "Lucky You".[25][26] She then recorded a second demo of original songs.[15] In 2003, Swift and her parents began working with music manager Dan Dymtrow, after he spotted her singing at the US Open.[27] Swift's second demo then caught the attention of RCA Records, who offered the eight-grader an artist development deal. In 2004, Swift modelled for Abercrombie and Fitch as part of their "Rising Stars" campaign and had an original song included in a Maybelline Cosmetics compilation CD.[28]
When Swift was fourteen, her father transferred to the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch and the family relocated to a lake-shore house in Hendersonville, Tennessee.[1] Swift has said her parents "presented it as a move to a nice community" rather than as her chance to become a star.[29] Her mother has said, "We've always told her that this is not about putting food on our table or making our dreams come true."[30] In Tennessee, Swift attended Hendersonville High School for her freshman and sophomore years.[31] Later, to accommodate her touring schedule, Swift transferred to the Aaron Academy, a private Christian school which offered homeschooling services, and earned her high school diploma in 2008.[32]
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[edit] 2004–08: Nashville songwriting sessions and Taylor Swift release
Swift moved to Nashville at the age of fourteen, having secured an artist development deal with RCA Records. Her musical influences included the Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill,[29] Tom Petty,[33] Sheryl Crow,[34] Melissa Etheridge, Pat Benatar,[35] Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks,[36] Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette.[37] Swift had writing sessions with experienced songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally and the Warren Brothers,[38][39] but eventually formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose.[40] Swift saw Rose performing at an RCA songwriter event and suggested that they write together.[41] They began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school.[42] Rose has said that the sessions were "some of the easiest I've ever done. Basically, I was just her editor. She'd write about what happened in school that day. She had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say. And she'd come in with the most incredible hooks".[43][42] Swift also began recording demos with producer Nathan Chapman.[41] After performing at a BMI Songwriter's Circle showcase at The Bitter End, New York,[39] Swift became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house.[44]
Swift left RCA Records when she was fifteeen; the company wanted her to record the work of other songwriters and wait until she was eighteen to release an album, but she felt ready to launch her career with her own material.[45][19] She also parted ways with manager Dan Dymtrow, who later took legal action against Swift and her parents.[28] At an industry showcase at Nashville's The Bluebird Café in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a Dreamworks Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records.[40] Swift was one of the new label's first signings.[40] As an introduction to the country music business, Borchetta arranged for Swift to intern at the CMA Music Festival; she acted as the artist escort for Darryl Worley.[46][47]
Swift began working on her self-titled debut album shortly after signing her record deal. After experimenting with veteran Nashville producers, Swift persuaded Big Machine to hire her demo producer Nathan Chapman.[19] It was his first time to record a studio album but Swift felt they had the right "chemistry".[19] In the end, Chapman produced all but one of the tracks on Taylor Swift.[19] She has described the album as the "diary" of her early teens[48] and most songs were written during her freshman year of high school.[19] As a result, the songs describe coming of age experiences such as insecurity, young love, and teenage angst.[19] She has said that, although "it sounds like I've had 500 boyfriends", a lot of the songs are observational.[19] Swift wrote three of the album's songs alone, including two singles, and co-wrote the remaining eight with writers such as Liz Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall and Angelo Petraglia.[49] Musically, the album has been described as "a mix of trad-country instruments and spry rock guitars".[50]
Taylor Swift was released in October 2006 and received generally positive reviews from music critics.[51] PopMatters hoped Swift would be "able to find an accomodation between the country tradition and her very obvious pop sensibilities, because Taylor Swift suggests she has much to offer".[52] The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones described Swift as a "prodigy". She noted that "Our Song" "stop[ed] me in my tracks" and praised the lyrics: “He’s got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel, the other on my heart".[53] Country Weekly felt Swift demonstrated "an honesty, intelligence and idealism with which listeners of any age will be able to connect" and noted that "the more thoughtful material suggests a talent poised to last well past high school".[54] AllMusic stated that, while listening to the album, it was "never in doubt" that "Swift is a talent to be reckoned with".[55] Rolling Stone described Swift as "bright-eyed but remarkably seasoned", and admired "Our Song"'s "insanely hooky sing-song melody that's as Britney as it is Patsy".[50]
Big Machine Records was still in its infancy upon the release of the lead single "Tim McGraw" in June 2006, and Swift and her mother helped "stuff the CD singles into envelopes to send to radio".[30] She spent much of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift in a radio tour and later commented, "Radio tours for most artists last six weeks. Mine lasted six months."[19] Swift painted canvases (inspired by Jackson Pollock) to gift to radio station managers who played her music.[56] She took part in "GAC Short Cuts", a part-documentary, part-music-video series designed to introduce her to country music fans.[57][58] She also made television appearances on Good Morning America,[59] The Megan Mullally Show,[59] America's Got Talent,[60] and TRL.[61] Swift, a self-described "kid of the internet",[62] used MySpace to build a fanbase. She wrote her own blog posts, left comments on her fans' accounts and personally respond to the messages that were sent to her.[63] This was, at the time, "revolutionary in country music".[64][57] Borchetta has said that his decision to sign a sixteen year old singer-songwriter initially raised eyebrows among his record industry peers[57] but Swift tapped into a previously unknown market: teenage girls who listen to country music.[1][57]
Following "Tim McGraw", four further singles were released throughout 2007 and 2008: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No". All were highly successful on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, with "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" both reaching number one. "Our Song" made Swift the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one country song.[65] "Teardrops on My Guitar" became a minor pop hit; it reached number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100.[66][67] The album sold 39,000 copies during its first week[68] and, as of March 2011, has sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide.[69] Swift also released a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, in October 2007 and an EP, Beautiful Eyes, in July 2008.[70][71]
Swift toured extensively in support of Taylor Swift. In addition to festival and theater dates, Swift performed as an opening act for several country artists' concert tours. She opened for Rascal Flatts on several dates in late 2006.[59][72] In 2007, she served as the opening act on twenty dates for George Strait's 2007 United States tour,[73] several dates on Kenny Chesney's tour[74] and selected dates on Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour.[75][76] Also in 2007, Swift appeared as the opening act on several dates for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's joint Soul2Soul II Tour.[77] Swift again opened for Flatts for their Still Feels Good Tour in 2008.[78] In addition to performing her own material, Swift played covers of songs by Beyoncé and Rihanna.[79] She conducted meet-and-greet sessions with fans before and after her concerts; these lasted for up to four hours.[80][81]
In 2007, Swift and Alan Jackson were jointly named the Nashville Songwriters Association's "Songwriter/Artists of the Year". Swift was the youngest person ever to be honored with the title.[82] She also won the Country Music Association’s Horizon Award for Best New Artist.[83] In 2008, she won Top New Female Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards[84] and Favorite Country Female Artist at the American Music Awards.[85] She won seven BMI Awards for songs featured on Taylor Swift.[86] Swift was also nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, but lost to Amy Winehouse.[87]
[edit] 2008–10: Fearless release, MTV VMA incident and media backlash
Swift's second studio album, Fearless, was released in November 2008.[88] She wrote seven of the album's songs alone, including two singles, and co-wrote the remaining six with songwriters Liz Rose, John Rich, Colbie Caillat and Hillary Lindsey.[49] While Swift wrote many of the songs on tour, she made a conscious effort not to include "road songs": "As a 16-year-old girl, I could never relate to those songs about playing a different city every night. I want to write about feelings and love and the lack of love".[89] She has said that the album title "means you’re afraid of a lot of things, but you jump anyway".[90] She co-produced the album with Nathan Chapman.[49] Musically, the record is characterized by "loud, lean guitars and rousing choruses", with the occasional "bit of fiddle and banjo tucked into the mix".[91]
Fearless received generally positive reviews from music critics.[92] The New York Times described Swift as "one of pop's finest songwriters, country’s foremost pragmatist and more in touch with her inner life than most adults".[93] The Village Voice felt she displayed "preternatural wisdom and inclusiveness", "masterfully avoiding the typical diarist's pitfalls of trite banality and pseudo-profound bullshit".[94] Rolling Stone described her as "a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture" whose "squirmingly intimate and true" songs seemed to be "literally ripped from a suburban girl's diary".[95] USA Today found it "a pleasure to hear a gifted teenager who sounds like a gifted teenager, rather than a mouthpiece for a bunch of older pros' collective notion of adolescent yearning."[96] The New Yorker described it as an album "without a bad track", adding that "the album’s finest effort, "Fifteen", will feature in yearbook quotes for years".[97] Entertainment Weekly noted that the album would appeal mainly to young girls – "she sounds like a real teen, not some manufactured vixen-Lolita" – but predicted it would be "exciting to watch her precocious talent grow".[98] Music critic Robert Christgau described Swift as "an uncommonly-to-impossibly strong and gifted teenage girl".[99]
Swift promoted Fearless heavily upon its release. An episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show was dedicated to the album launch[57] and Swift appeared on many other chat shows.[100] She communicated with fans using social media platforms such as twitter and personal video blogs.[57] In October 2008, she appeared at the CMT Giants: Alan Jackson event, performing a cover of Jackson's "Drive (For Daddy Gene)".[101] In November 2008, Swift took part in a joint, televised concert with rock band Def Leppard in Nashville.[102][103] She performed her song "Fifteen" with Miley Cyrus at the 51st Grammy Awards in February 2009.[104] In April 2009, she performed a cover of George Strait's "Run" at a televised ACM event honoring Strait as Artist of the Decade.[105] Swift hosted and appeared as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live in November 2009.[106] The lead single from the album, "Love Story", was released in September 2008 and became the second best-selling country single of all time, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[67][107] Four more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me" was the album's highest-charting single, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.[108] The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart with sales of 592,304 and has since sold over 8.6 million copies worldwide.[109][110] It was the top-selling album of 2009 and brought Swift much crossover success.[111]
Swift carried out her first headlining tour from April 2009 to June 2010. As part of the 105-date Fearless Tour, Swift played 90 dates in North America, six dates in Europe, eight dates in Australia and one date in Asia.[112] The stage show included multiple costume changes, dancers and a fairy-tale castle set.[113] She sang a cover of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around... Comes Around" nightly, intertwined with her own "You're Not Sorry".[114] Swift invited John Mayer, Faith Hill and Katy Perry to perform one-off duets with her at various dates during the North American tour.[115][116][117] Justin Bieber, Kelly Pickler and Gloriana were the support acts.[118] The tour was attended by more than 1.1 million fans and has grossed over $63 million.[119] Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless, a concert film, was aired on television and later released on DVD and Blu-ray.[120] Also in 2009, Swift performed as a supporting act for Keith Urban.[121]
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Kanye West taking the microphone from Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009
In September 2009, Swift became the first country music artist to win an MTV Video Music Award when "You Belong with Me" was named Best Female Video.[122] Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Kanye West, who had been involved in a number of other award show incidents.[123] West declared Beyoncé's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", nominated in the same category, to be "one of the best videos of all time." Many audience members booed West,[124][125] prompting him to flip off the crowd.[126][124] He then handed the microphone back to a speechless Swift.[124][127] Backstage, Swift was seen "hysterically crying".[124] According to Rolling Stone, when Swift's mother confronted West, he gave "a half-hearted apology in which he added he still thought Beyoncé's video was superior".[128] West was removed from the event.[124][126][129] When Beyoncé later won the award for Video of the Year, she invited Swift onstage to finish her speech.[124][130] In the event's press room, Swift, who in 2008 had expressed a desire to sing a hook on a Kanye West rap song,[131] was asked if she had "any hard feelings" towards West: "I don’t know him, and I’ve never met him, so... I don’t want to start anything because I had a great night tonight."[128][132]
The incident received much media attention and inspired many Internet memes.[133] President Barack Obama, in an "off the record" comment, called West a "jackass".[134] Former US President Jimmy Carter said West's interruption was "completely uncalled for".[135] West's behavior was criticized by celebrities, including Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Lady Gaga.[126][136][137][128] The following day, West apologized for his verbal outburst both in a blog entry and during an appearance on The Jay Leno Show.[124][125] He maintained that, while Swift was "very talented", "Beyoncé's video was the best of this decade!!!! ... I gave my awards to Outkast when they deserved it over me ... I'm not crazy y'all, I'm just real."[138] Two days after the VMAs, Swift told an interviewer that West had not spoken to her since the ceremony.[139] West then contacted her to offer a personal apology, which Swift accepted: "Kanye did call me, and he was very sincere in his apology."[122][139] It has been said that the incident and subsequent media attention turned Swift into "a bona-fide mainstream celebrity".[140]
Swift released a cover of Tom Petty's "American Girl", exclusively through Rhapsody in June 2009[141] and continues to make her stage entrance to Petty's recording of the song.[142] Swift contributed backing vocals to John Mayer's "Half of My Heart", featured on his fourth album, in November 2009.[143] Mayer wrote the song as a tribute to Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac: "I thought, 'Well, if this is going to be my love letter to that style of music, who's going to be the Stevie Nicks in this equation?' And I thought, 'This Taylor Swift girl is going to be around for a long time."[144] The song received positive reviews from music critics.[145][146][147] Swift and Mayer performed the song live at Madison Square Garden, New York in December 2009.[148] It was released as the album's third single in June 2010 and peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.[149] Swift collaborated with a number of other artists in 2008 and 2009. She co-wrote and recorded "Best Days of Your Life" with Kelly Pickler.[150] She co-wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack – "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" and "Crazier" – with Martin Johnson and Robert Ellis Orrall, respectively.[151] Swift also provided vocals for Boys Like Girls's "Two Is Better Than One", written by Martin Johnson.[152][153][154][155] In January 2010, Swift contributed two songs – including "Today Was a Fairytale" – to the Valentine's Day soundtrack[156] and recorded a cover of Better Than Ezra's "Breathless" for the Hope for Haiti Now album.[157]
In November 2009, Swift became the youngest ever artist, and one of only six women, to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.[158] Fearless also won the Association's Album of the Year award.[158] The album won many other accolades and has become the most awarded album in country music history.[159] Swift was the youngest ever artist to win the Academy of Country Music's Album of the Year honor.[160] The American Music Awards honored Swift with Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album plaudits.[161] She was awarded the Hal David Starlight Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame[162] and was named Songwriter/Artists of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association.[163] She won four BMI Awards.[164] Billboard named her 2009's Artist of the Year.[165] Swift was included in Time's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in 2010.[166]
In January 2010, Swift won four Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Best Country Album, Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song, from a total of eight nominations.[167][168] She was the youngest ever artist to win Album of the Year.[169] During the ceremony, Swift sang "Rhiannon" and "You Belong with Me" with Stevie Nicks. Her vocal performance received negative reviews and sparked a widespread media backlash.[140][170] Her vocals were described variously as "badly off-key", "strikingly bad" and "incredibly wretched".[171][172] While The New York Times found it "refreshing to see someone so gifted make the occasional flub" and described Swift as "the most important new pop star of the past few years",[169] music critic Bob Lefsetz predicted that her career would end "overnight".[173][174] In April 2010, Stevie Nicks, writing in Time, defended the singer: "Taylor reminds me of myself in her determination and her childlike nature. It's an innocence that's so special and so rare. This girl writes the songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John ... The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business."[166]
[edit] 2010–12: Speak Now release, 13-month world tour and collaborations
Swift released her third studio album, Speak Now, in October 2010.[175] She wrote all twelve songs alone: "I'd get my best ideas at 3 a.m. in Arkansas and I didn't have a co-writer around."[176] Album recording sessions took place in California, Tennessee and Kentucky over a two year period.[177][178] Swift, who co-produced the record with longtime collaborator Nathan Chapman,[179] has described it as "a collection of confessions—things I wish I had said when I was in the moment".[180] She originally intended to call the album Enchanted but Scott Borchetta, her record label's CEO, felt the title did not reflect the album's more adult themes: "She had played me a bunch of the new songs. I looked at her and I'm like, 'Taylor, this record isn't about fairy tales and high school anymore. That's not where you're at'".[181] Musically, it has been said that the album "expands beyond country-pop to border both alternative rock and dirty bubblegum pop".[182]
Speak Now received generally positive reviews from music critics.[183] USA Today felt that Swift's songwriting skills would remind listeners "what all the fuss was about in the first place", with the album capturing "the sweet ache of becoming an adult".[184] The Los Angeles Times praised her ability as a songwriter to "hit on common experiences that feel unique".[182] The New York Times described the album as savage, musically diverse and "excellent too, possibly her best".[179] The Village Voice found that the album demanded "a true appreciation of Swift's talent, which is not confessional, but dramatic: Like a procession of country songwriters before her, she creates characters and situations—some from life—and finds potent ways to describe them."[185] Entertainment Weekly noted that while love may confound her, "the art of expert songcraft clearly doesn't".[186] Music critic John Christgau found the album's songs "overlong and overworked" but remarked that "they evince an effort that bears a remarkable resemblance to care—that is, to caring in the best, broadest, and most emotional sense".[99] Rolling Stone described Swift as one of the best songwriters in "pop, rock or country": "Swift might be a clever Nashville pro who knows all the hitmaking tricks, but she's also a high-strung, hyper-romantic gal with a melodramatic streak the size of the Atchafalaya Swamp".[187]
Swift carried out an extensive promotional campaign prior to Speak Now's release.[188] She appeared on various talk shows and morning shows, and gave free mini-concerts in unusual locations, including an open-decker bus on Hollywood Boulevard and a departure lounge at JFK airport.[189][190] She took part in a "guitar pull" alongside Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and Lionel Ritchie at LA's Club Nokia; the musicians shared the stage and took turns introducing and playing acoutic versions of their songs to raise money for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.[191][192] The album's lead single, "Mine", was released in August 2010 and five further singles were released throughout 2010 and 2011: "Back to December", "Mean", "The Story of Us", "Sparks Fly" and "Ours".[193] Speak Now was a major commercial success, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Its sales of 1,047,000 copies made it the sixteenth album in United States history to sell one million copies in a single week.[194] As of February 2012, Speak Now has sold over four million copies in the US[195] and over 5.7 million copies worldwide.[196][197] In her career, as of May 2012, Swift has sold over 22 million albums[198] and 50 million digital tracks worldwide.[199]
In September 2010, Kanye West's 2009 VMA interruption once again became newsworthy when West used his twitter account to apologize to Swift, referring to her as "just a lil girl with dreams like the rest of us": ""I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that's so beautiful and I want her to have it. If she won't take it then I'll perform it for her." Later that month, both artists performed at the 2010 VMAs. Swift sang "Innocent", a song widely believed to be about West, which The Washington Post has described as "a small masterpiece of passive aggressiveness, a vivisection dressed up as a peace offering".[200] Music critics found Swift's performance overly serious and "petty".[201][202] Speaking in November 2010, West said he failed to see what was "so arrogant about that moment" and described his actions as "selfless". He added that "if it was the other way around" and Swift were an established artist who had "made the video of her career, do you think she would have lost to a brand new artist? Hell no!"[203][204] Also that month, he claimed that, "If I wasn't drunk, I would have been on stage longer ... Taylor never came to my defense at any interview. And rode the waves and rode it and rode it".[205][206] At the Costume Institute Gala in May 2011, Swift and West came face-to-face on the red carpet. West was observed to hold "a hand out, and the two exchanged a studiedly casual, “down low” high five".[1]
Swift toured throughout 2011 and early 2012 in support of Speak Now. As part of the thirteen-month, 111-date world tour, Swift played seven shows in Asia, twelve shows in Europe, 80 shows in North America and twelve shows in Australasia.[207] Three dates on the US tour were rescheduled after Swift fell ill with bronchitis.[208] The stage show was inspired by Broadway musical theatre, with choreographed routines, elaborate set-pieces, pyrotechnics and numerous costume changes.[209][210] Swift invited many musicians to join her for one-off duets during the North American tour. Appearances were made by James Taylor, Jason Mraz, Shawn Colvin, Johnny Rzeznik, Andy Grammer, Tal Bachman, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, Nelly, B.o.B., Usher, Flo Rida, T.I., Jon Foreman, Jim Adkins, Hayley Williams, Hot Chelle Rae, Ronnie Dunn, Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney.[211][212] The tour was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has grossed over $123 million, becoming one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time.[207] Swift's first live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live, featuring all seventeen performances from the North American leg of the tour, was released in November 2011.[213]
During the North American and Australasian tour legs, Swift wrote different song lyrics on her left arm for each performance. She has said that the lyrics should be viewed as a nightly "mood ring"[214] and The New Yorker has cited the practice as an example of Swift's "keen understanding of what fuels fan obsession in the first place: a desire for intimacy between singer and listener".[1] Artists quoted include Tom Petty, Carole King, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, Band of Horses, Jimmy Eat World, Death Cab For Cutie, Alanis Morrissette, Rachael Yamagata, Erin McCarley, Mindy Smith and Martina McBride.[215][216] Swift also performed many acoustic cover versions during her North American tour. In each city, she paid tribute to a homegrown artist.[217] She has said the cover versions allowed her to be "spontaneous" in an otherwise well-rehearsed show: "You'll have a lot of people who will come to more than one show, and I want them to get a different experience every time."[218] Artists covered include Justin Timberlake, Tori Amos, TLC, Pink, Fall Out Boy, Dave Matthews Band, Michelle Branch, Jordin Sparks, Maroon 5, Train, John Mellencamp, Kim Carnes, Avril Lavigne, The Jackson 5, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Gwen Stefani, All American Rejects, Britney Spears and Eminem.[219]
At the 54th Grammy Awards in February 2012, Swift's song "Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance.[220] She also performed "Mean" during the ceremony. The song is believed to be a rebuttal to Bob Lefsetz, one of the most vocal critics of her 2010 Grammy performance.[174] Lefsetz had previously been a supporter of the singer's career,[221] and Swift and Lefsetz had corresponded occasionally by email and telephone.[174] Time felt she "delivered her comeback on-key and with a vengeance"[222] while USA Today remarked that the criticism in 2010 seemed to have "made her a better songwriter and live performer".[223]
Swift was named Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association in both 2010 and 2011. During the 2011 ceremony, she played an acoustic version of "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" in honor of Alan Jackson, a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee,[224] who later thanked Swift in his speech for "the prettiest version I've ever heard".[225] Swift won various other awards for Speak Now. She was named Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in both 2011 and 2012[226] and was named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association in 2011.[227] Swift was the American Music Awards's Artist of the Year in 2011, and Speak Now was named Favorite Country Album.[228] She was also the recipient of two BMI Awards.[229] Billboard named Swift 2011's Woman of the Year.[230] Also that year, Billboard ranked her at number 15 in a list of the Top 20 Hot 100 Songwriters 2000–2011; she was the second highest ranking woman.[231] Swift was ranked second on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 16 "Queen Of Pops" of the decade.[232]
Swift contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album in March 2012. "Safe & Sound" was co-written and recorded with The Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett.[233] John Paul White has said working with Swift was "a revelation. She had some great ideas. We had complete freedom. It truly was a collaboration. We brought the melancholy and the darker angle. Taylor was bringing the melody and the chords."[234] Rolling Stone described the song as "Swift's prettiest ballad" and wondered whether the alt-country folk song was "a one-off novelty, a trial balloon cred-move, or the stirrings of a "grown-up" style".[235] Swift and The Civil Wars debuted a live version of the song at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville in January 2012.[236] It was released as the album's lead single and, as of April 2012, has sold 970,000 copies in the United States.[237] Swift's second contribution to the album, "Eyes Open", was written solely by the singer and produced by Nathan Chapman.[238] In May 2012, Swift contributed vocals to "Both of Us", a Dr. Luke-produced song on B.o.B's second album Strange Clouds.[239][240][241][242]
2012–present: Untitled fourth studio album[link]
Swift is currently working on her fourth album with producer Nathan Chapman.[243][244] It is scheduled for release in the fall of 2012.[245] Swift intends to keep writing and recording throughout 2012 "because I'm having so much fun".[246] After writing her third album alone, Swift is now collaborating with people "from all different places in music",[246] including songwriters Lori McKenna,[247][248] Butch Walker,[249][250] Ed Sheeran,[251] and Dan Wilson.[252] The album will detail "the rise and fall of a relationship",[253] as well as the resulting "absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak".[254] She has described the album's mood as "sad, if I'm being honest."[255]
Artistry[link]
Songwriting style[link]
Swift has said she writes songs as an "open letter".[256] She has said songwriting is "is a way of verbalizing those things that I feel that I can’t say".[47] Swift has said she is "very interested in any writing from a child's perspective" and has cited To Kill a Mockingbird as one of her favorite books.[257] Neil Young has described Swift as "a great writer" and follows her career.[258][259] Kris Kristofferson has said that "she blows me away. It's amazing to me that someone so young is writing such great songs. She's got a great career ahead of her".[260][261] Dolly Parton has said her songs are "great" and that she has "the qualities that could last a long time".[262] Stevie Nicks has said Swift writes "songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John".[166]
Vocal abilities[link]
In studio recordings, the Los Angeles Times identifies Swift's "defining" vocal gesture as "the line that slides down like a contented sigh or up like a raised eyebrow, giving her beloved girl-time hits their air of easy intimacy".[182] In a review of Speak Now, The Village Voice noted that her phrasing was previously "bland and muddled, but that's changed. She can still sound strained and thin, and often strays into a pitch that drives some people crazy; but she's learned how to make words sound like what they mean".[185] Slate, reviewing Speak Now, described Swift as "a technically poor singer": "Though she does vary her phrasing in ways that attempt to mask her limited voice (the way she sneers, "She looks at me like I'm a trend/And she's so over it," on "Better Than Revenge" is especially effective), Swift is still noticeably off-pitch at least once on every song on the album".[263]
In an interview with The New Yorker, Swift characterized herself primarily as a songwriter: “I write songs, and my voice is just a way to get those lyrics across”.[1] "I'm not trying to go out there and do vocal acrobatics. I'm just trying to write good songs".[264] However, her vocal presence is something that concerns her and she has "put a lot of work" into improving it.[265] She has said that she only feels nervous performing "if I'm not sure what the audience thinks of me, like at award shows".[266]
Public image[link]
Swift has been described as "America's sweetheart" and "a role model".[267][268] The singer considers it her "responsibility" to be conscious of her influence on young fans.[269] However, she insists that "I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free".[270] Swift does not drink alcohol because she worries that "I might come off in a way that I can't control. Maybe I should just lighten up!" "It's not like I judge people who [drink] or that I don't hang out with people who drink".[270] She refuses to take part in overly sexualised photo-shoots.[9] The lyrical content of her songs is regarded as appropriate for young audiences. A New Yorker journalist who attended a Swift concert recounted watching "sixteen-year-old girls holding hands and swaying, and a girl in a hijab sobbing as she sang the words. It was hard not to be a little moved, and not to feel relieved that the words being sung were, more or less, safe ... One can attend a concert by Katy Perry and listen to a stadium full of thirteen-year-olds chant along with the song “Peacock” which goes, “I want to see your peacock-cock-cock! Your peacock-cock!"[1]
A Rolling Stone journalist who profiled Swift in 2009 remarked upon her polite manners: "If this is Swift's game face, it must be tattooed on because it never drops".[271] A 2012 Vogue cover story described Swift as "clever and funny and occasionally downright bawdy" in person, but noted that she "asks if her cursing can be off the record".[272] Grantland.com describes Swift as "talkative and openly neurotic in a way you'd never see from a blonde country princess like Faith Hill or Carrie Underwood. She is more like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall: overly gracious and eager to please but full of a nonstop, nervous, fluttering energy".[273]
There has been much media commentary about Swift's reactions when she is recognized at award ceremonies.[274] In 2011, The Hollywood Reporter remarked that she "seems to be consistently shocked and wonderstruck by each awards win, despite racking up an ever-growing collection of Grammys, CMAs, MTV Moonmen and AMAs".[275] Kristen Wiig parodied Swift's surprised facial expressions during a Saturday Night Live sketch in February 2012.[276] Swift later said she had seen the sketch: “I was laughing the entire time and then I realized that, as I was watching it, I was making the face she was making”.[277] At the Academy of Country Music Awards in April 2012, the ceremony's host Blake Shelton joked in his opening monologue that Swift should release a perfume called "I can't believe I smell this good". When Swift later presented Shelton with the Academy's Best Male Vocalist award, "the two faced off, showing each other their ultra-surprised looks".[278][279]
Feminist discussion[link]
The merits of Swift as a feminist have been widely discussed.[280] She has been described by Jezebel as "a feminist's nightmare": "Her image of being good and pure plays right into how much the patriarchy fetishizes virginity, loves purity, and celebrates women who know their place as delicate flowers".[281] However, a Village Voice music critic dismissed this criticism as "shallow and gross, in that special way that things get gross when you cram shaded and living work through an ideological sieve like you're mechanically separating chicken".[282] He continued: "Criticisms include: She's a conformist stooge of the patriarchy (she's now had two hits about defying fathers); she idolizes chastity (she's coy about sex, but only the willful could miss the fucking in the new "Sparks Fly," which includes the line "Gimme something that'll haunt me when you're not around"); and she sells girls corrupt and shallow fairy-tale notions of romance (one of the two fairy-tale songs on Fearless mocked a guy for trying to white-knight her, and the only mention of such things on Speak Now is "I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you"—note the tense)."[282]
The song Fifteen has been the subject of particular scrutiny. It has been said that the song contains a "feminist message" in the lyrics "Back then I swore I was gonna marry him some day, but I realized some bigger dreams of mine” and "In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team".[283] Feminist critics claim the use of the word "everything" in the lyric "Abigail gave everything she had to a boy, who changed his mind, and we both cried" is a reference to virginity: "Songs like "Fifteen" dig up the ancient Puritan ideal that girls can only access power by confidently and heterosexually denying access to their pants."[284] However, others interpret "everything" as trust: "Abigail trusted and opened up to a boy for the first time, only to be let down. Maybe that includes sex, maybe it doesn’t."[283]
When asked by The New York Times in 2010 whether she considered herself a feminist, Swift replied, "I have never really thought about that".[285] In December 2011, Billboard's Tom Roland asked Swift whether the marginalization of women in country music, prevalent in the 1950s, was still an issue: "I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them. I was always playing just as many shows as they were and playing on the same shows as they were. I was willing to pay my dues as an opening act, playing in clubs and bars and playing in tiny venues. The new male artists were doing the same thing, so I never saw an issue there."[286]
Philanthropy[link]
Arts education[link]
In September 2010, Swift donated $75,000 to Nashville's Hendersonville High School to help refurbish the school auditorium's sound and lighting systems.[287] In May 2012, she pledged $4 million to fund a new education center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. The two-storey, 7,500-square foot space will have its own exterior entrance and museum officials have decided to name it The Taylor Swift Education Center.[288] It will feature three classrooms and a children's exhibit gallery, and will house interactive activities such as a musical petting zoo and a “wet” classroom space to make concert posters and other art projects. New programs and workshops for teenagers and senior citizens will also be accommodated within the space. The Center is scheduled to open in early 2014 and Swift will be involved in an advisory capacity.[289]
Children's literacy[link]
In December 2009, Swift donated $250,000 to various schools around the country that she had either attended or had other associations with. The money was used to buy books, fund educational programs and pay teachers' salaries.[290] In October 2010, she took part in a live webcast, Read Now! with Taylor Swift, broadcast exclusively in US schools to celebrate Scholastic's Read Every Day campaign.[291][292] In October 2011, Swift donated 6,000 Scholastic books to Reading Public Library, Pennsylvania[293] and, in February 2012, she donated 14,000 books to Nashville Public Library, Tennessee.[294] Most of the books were placed in circulation; the rest were gifted to children from low-income families, preschools and daycare centers.[294] In March 2012, she co-chaired the National Education Association's Read Across America campaign and recorded a PSA encouraging children to read.[295][296]
Natural disaster funds[link]
In June 2008, Swift donated all the proceeds from her merchandise sales at the 2008 Country Music Festival to the Red Cross's disaster relief fund.[297] Swift donated $100,000 to the Red Cross in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to help the victims of the Iowa flood of 2008.[298] Swift lent her support to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal by joining the lineup at Sydney's Sound Relief concert,[299] reportedly making the biggest contribution of any artist playing at Sound Relief to the Australian Red Cross.[300]
In response to the May 2010 Tennessee floods, Swift donated $500,000 during a flood relief telethon hosted by WSMV, a Nashville television station.[301] In August 2010, she donated $100,000 to help rebuild a playground in Hendersonville, Tennessee, which was damaged by floodwater.[302] In May 2011, Swift transformed what was to have been the final dress rehearsal for the North American leg of her Speak Now tour into a benefit concert for victims of recent tornadoes in the United States southeast region, raising more than $750,000 from proceeds from ticket sales, merchandise and other facets of the show.[303] The benefit concert for tornado relief was subsequently honored at the 2011 Do Something Awards.[304] In July 2011, Swift further aided the cause by donating $250,000 to Alabama football coach Nick Saban's charity Nick's Kids to aid in the tornado relief efforts of West Alabama.[305] In April 2012, Swift donated $1,500 to a fund to help a man left permanently paralyzed by the tornado to make his house wheelchair-accessible.[306]
Other charitable endeavors[link]
In September 2007, Swift helped launch a campaign to protect children from online predators, in partnership with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police.[307] In January 2008, Swift donated a pink Chevy pick-up truck given to her by her record label to the Victory Junction Gang Camp.[308] Swift has teamed up with Sound Matters to make listeners aware of listening "responsibly".[309] Swift supports @15, a teen-led social change platform underwritten by Best Buy to give teens opportunities to direct the company's philanthropy through the newly-created @15 Fund.[310] She appeared in a Got Milk campaign in July 2010.[311]
Swift donated her prom dress, which raised $1,200 for charity, to DonateMyDress.org.[312] In November 2009, after a live performance on BBC's Children in Need night, she donated $20,000 to the cause.[313] Swift donated a pair of her shoes to the Wish Upon a Hero Foundation's Hero in Heels fundraiser for auction to raise money to benefit women with cancer. In June 2011, as the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year, Swift donated $25,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Tennessee. This figure was matched by the Academy.[314]
Other work[link]
Acting[link]
Swift made her acting debut in a 2009 episode of CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, playing a rebellious teenager.[315] The New York Times noted that the character allowed Swift to be "a little bit naughty, and credibly so".[316] Rolling Stone felt she "held her own" and "does a good job with the script"[317] while the Chicago Tribune said she "acquits herself well".[318] Later that year, Swift both hosted and performed as the musical guest for an episode of Saturday Night Live.[319] Entertainment Weekly described her as "this season’s best Saturday Night Live host so far", noting that she "was always up for the challenge, seemed to be having fun, and helped the rest of the cast nail the punchlines". Proving "admirably resilient in a wide variety of sketch roles", "Swift inspired more of a female, girly-in-the-best-sense sensibility in SNL than it’s shown since the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler days".[320]
In 2010, Swift made her feature film acting debut in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day and won the Teen Choice Award for Movie Female Breakout.[321] In 2012, she voiced the character of Audrey in the animated film The Lorax.[322] Swift is in talks to star as Joni Mitchell in the film adaptation of Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us, which follows the careers of Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King.[323]
Product endorsements[link]
Jakks Pacific released a celebrity doll of Swift in late 2008.[324] Swift was the face of L.E.I. jeans in 2008.[325] In 2007, Swift launched a line of sundresses at Wal-Mart.[326][327] In 2009, Swift became the National Hockey League's newest celebrity spokesperson and appears in commercials for the Nashville Predators.[328] In 2011, Swift partnered with Elizabeth Arden to launch a fragrance, "Wonderstruck".[329] Swift works with American Greetings, Inc.[330] She also has endorsement deals with companies including Target, CoverGirl and Sony.[331]
In May 2009, Swift filed a lawsuit (kept sealed until August 2010) against numerous sellers of unauthorized counterfeit merchandise bearing her name, likeness, and trademarks, where she demanded a trial by jury, sought a judgement for compensatory damages, punitive damages, three times the actual damages sustained, and statutory damages, and sought for recovery of her attorney's fees and prejudgement interest.[332] Nashville's U.S. District Court granted an injunction and judgment against the sellers, who had been identified at Swift's concerts in several states. The court ordered merchandise seized from the defendants to be destroyed.[333][334][335]
Personal life[link]
Swift's main residence is a duplex penthouse in Midtown Nashville, Tennessee.[336][1] She also owns a house in Beverly Hills, California.[337][338] According to Forbes, Swift earned $18 million in 2009,[339] $45 million in 2010,[340] $45 million in 2011[341] and $57 million so far in 2012.[342]
Relationships[link]
Swift writes autobiographical songs and has said that, "I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record".[343] Listening to music as a child, Swift felt confused "when I knew something was going on in someone’s personal life and they didn’t address it in their music".[344]
Swift dated singer Joe Jonas from July to October 2008.[345][346] She dated actor Taylor Lautner from October to December 2009.[347][348] She was romantically linked to musician John Mayer from late 2009 until June 2010.[349][350] They first met in 2008 and recorded a duet, "Half of My Heart", in late 2009.[351][352] Swift dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal from October 2010 to December 2010.[353][354][355][356][357] On December 9, 2011, Gyllenhaal called the LAPD for assistance, after a large number of photographers followed the couple's car in Los Angeles.[358] Following their break-up, they were seen together in January and February 2011.[359][360]
Politics[link]
On her eighteenth birthday, "the first thing" Swift did was register to vote.[361][362] After casting her vote in the 2008 US presidential election, Swift declined to inform journalists which candidate she had supported.[363] However, following Barack Obama's inauguration, she told Rolling Stone: "I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive. I'm so glad this was my first election."[364] In 2009, after Swift's MTV VMA acceptance speech was interrupted by Kanye West, President Obama described West's behaviour as "really inappropriate. The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person. She’s getting her award. What is he doing up there? He’s a jackass."[365] Former US President Jimmy Carter said West's interruption was "completely uncalled for".[366]
In 2010, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush attended the taping of a Swift television special in Kennebunkport, Maine,[367] and later described Swift as "unspoiled" and "very nice".[368] In 2012, Swift was presented with a Kids' Choice Award in recognition of her charitable work by Michelle Obama, who praised her as someone who "has rocketed to the top of the music industry but still keeps her feet on the ground, someone who has shattered every expectation of what a 22-year old can accomplish".[369] Swift later described the First Lady as "a role model".[370]
Swift is an admirer of the Kennedy family and has spent time with Rory, Caroline and, particularly, Ethel Kennedy.[371] When asked about her friendship with Swift, Ethel replied, "Oh, she is amazing! Such good company."[372] Rory has said, "There is a mutual admiration society between my mother and Taylor Swift and I just love it! I think it says so much about Taylor – she has that ability to connect and cross generations ... She's terrific and such a great role model for young girls, as well as for all women, really. ... She's just so curious and interested".[372] In January 2012, Swift travelled to Utah to attend the Sundance premiere of the HBO documentary Ethel.[373]
In a 2012 interview, Swift remarked that she was "very cautious" about using her public profile to address political issues, adding that she hoped to "gradually" become more outspoken: "I don't feel that I am in a place to sing about politics or anything like that. I don't know enough at this point".[374]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience | Herself | Cameo |
| 2009 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Haley Jones | Episode: "Turn, Turn, Turn" |
| 2009 | Hannah Montana: The Movie | Herself | Cameo |
| 2009 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Also appeared as the Musical Guest |
| 2010 | Valentine's Day | Felicia | Movie acting debut |
| 2012 | Lorax, TheThe Lorax | Audrey | Voice only |
Discography[link]
Main article: Taylor Swift discography
- Taylor Swift (2006)
- Fearless (2008)
- Speak Now (2010)
- Untitled Fourth Studio Album (Fall 2012)
Tours[link]
- Fearless Tour (2009–10)
- Speak Now World Tour (2011–12)
Awards and nominations[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Taylor Swift
Swift has won 109 awards from a total of 162 nominations. She has been the recipient of ten American Music Awards, six Grammy Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards, six Academy of Country Music Awards and 13 BMI Awards.
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Academy of Country Music Award for Top New Female Vocalist 2008 |
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Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year 2011–2012 |
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Country Music Association Award for Horizon Award 2007 |
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Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year 2009 |
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Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year 2009 |
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| Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) |
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| Born | Donald McKinley Glover (1983-09-25) September 25, 1983 (age 28) Edwards Air Force Base, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Silver Lake, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Childish Gambino |
| Occupation | Actor, writer, comedian, musician |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Home town | Stone Mountain, Georgia, U.S. |
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Donald McKinley Glover[1] (born September 25, 1983) is an American actor, writer, comedian, and musician. Glover first came to attention for his work with Derrick Comedy. He is best known for being a writer for 30 Rock, and for his role as college student Troy Barnes on the NBC comedy series Community. In 2011, Glover signed to Glassnote Records under the stage name Childish Gambino; his first studio album, Camp, was released on November 15, 2011.
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Early life and education[link]
Glover was born on September 25, 1983 on Edwards Air Force Base, California[2] to parents Beverly and Donald Sr. and raised as a Jehovah's Witness in Stone Mountain, Georgia.[3] Contrary to a persistent rumor, he is not related to actor Danny Glover.[4] In addition to a biological brother and sister, Glover grew up alongside foster children taken in by his parents.[3] Glover attended Rockbridge Elementary School and DeKalb School of the Arts before studying at New York University, graduating with a degree in Dramatic Writing in 2006.[5]
Career[link]
TV and Film[link]
Glover is known for his work on the NBC show Community with Joel McHale and Chevy Chase. Glover was a writer for the NBC series 30 Rock from 2006 to 2009, where he also had an occasional cameo appearance. He was presented the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Candace Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season of 30 Rock.[6]
In 2008, rumors surfaced that Glover was to become a cast member of Saturday Night Live and that he would portray Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Glover denied the SNL rumors on his Facebook profile, stating, "Just to let people know. I was NOT asked to SNL. I just auditioned and there's been a rumor spreading around the web. Just trying to clear the air."[7]
Glover's stand-up special aired on Comedy Central on March 19, 2010.
In May 2010, Glover started a campaign on Twitter to be allowed to audition for the role of Peter Parker in the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man film, encouraging his supporters to retweet the hashtag "#donald4spiderman".[8] The campaign, originally started to see how far social networking could carry a message, quickly gained a large following.[9] The call for Glover to be allowed to audition for the role was supported by Spider-Man creator Stan Lee.[10] Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis, who announced an African-American version of Spider-Man a year later, said he had conceived of the character before Glover's campaign went viral.[11] Bendis gave credit to Glover for influencing the new hero's looks; on seeing him dressed as Spider-Man on Community (a nod to the campaign) Bendis said, "I saw him in the costume and thought, 'I would like to read that book.'".[12]
In June 2010, it was announced that Glover would receive the Rising Comedy Star award at the Just for Laughs festival in July.[13]
Glover was featured in Gap's 2010 Holiday ad campaign.
On March 16, 2011, Glover hosted the mtvU Woodie Awards held live at South By Southwest.
On March 24, 2011, Glover taped his one hour comedy special Weirdo for Comedy Central; it aired on November 19.[14][15]
Donald appeared at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 9 in the 'This Tent' as Childish Gambino and June 11 at 'The Comedy Theater' with Bill Bailey performing stand up. Comedy Central streamed the comedy live on their website.[16]
Derrick Comedy and other projects[link]
Glover is a member of the sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy, along with Dominic Dierkes, Meggie McFadden, DC Pierson, and Dan Eckman. Derrick's YouTube videos gained the group nationwide attention[citation needed] and have contributed to Donald Glover's recognition, as well as his newfound success in the television business. The group wrote and starred in a feature-length film, Mystery Team, released in theaters in 2009.
In January 2012, Donald made a cameo as himself in the YouTube webseries (Episode 12) "The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl". He was on the show to meet the main character who is a big fan of Donald Glover and was taken backstage at one of his concerts.[17]
Music[link]
Donald Glover DJs and produces his own music under the moniker "mcDJ". His music is of the electronic/remix variety and is often made available for free download via his official site. His current album releases include Love Letter in an Unbreakable Bottle and Utterances of the Heart.
Glover raps and performs under the stage name Childish Gambino,[18] a name he found from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator.[19] He released an album entitled Sick Boi on June 5, 2008. On September 17, 2009, Childish Gambino released the album Poindexter. A pair of mixtapes entitled I Am Just A Rapper, and I Am Just A Rapper 2 were released in close succession in early 2010. Robert Scahill added his producing expertise helping with the majority of the tracks. The track listings for those albums consist of the name of the song "he" raps, followed by the song he raps over. His third album, Culdesac, was set to be released on July 2, 2010, but a couple of last minute additions caused the album to be delayed for a day. The album was made available on July 3.[20] Glover has stated in interviews that on Sick Boi and Poindexter he felt he had to hide behind gimmicks, such as pink hoodies, but with his subsequent projects, he has touched on more personal subject matter, including family, schoolyard bullying, troubled romantic relationships, suicidal thoughts and alcoholism. He has disowned his 2005[21] album, The Younger I Get, as the too-raw ramblings of what he calls a "decrepit Drake."
On December 1, 2010, Glover released the first track off of his EP titled "Be Alone". He released the next track, "Freaks and Geeks", as well as a five-song track list, on February 11, 2011. On February 25, Donald released the dates for the IAMDONALD tour and also his very first music video for "Freaks and Geeks".[22] The music video was shot by Dan Eckman, the director of the DerrickComedy troupe. This song would later be used in an Adidas commercial featuring Dwight Howard which brought the song, and Donald, more recognition. On March 8, 2011 Donald released his newest EP via his official website.[23]
On May 4, 2011, in an interview with TheHipHopUpdate, Glover revealed that he was working on an LP, to be released in September.[24]
During the weekend of the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, Donald performed with his band and his DJ, SoSuperSam, at the House of Blues in San Diego.[25] Donald performed a new song from his LP and explained why he had not used Twitter or Tumblr in a while.[26]
On July 25, 2011, Donald Glover announced that his new album would be entitled Camp. On October 8, 2011, during his Orlando concert, he announced Camp would be released on November 15, 2011.
On August 20, 2011, at the Los Angeles Rock The Bells concert, he gave an interview to allhiphop.com, and announced to the crowd that he had signed with Glassnote Records.[27] This means that his music will be published onto physical media for the first time including cds and vinyl.
In September 2011, Childish Gambino played at the BruinBash festival at UCLA. On September 20, he released his first official single, "Bonfire". It received much praise on blogs and music message boards.[citation needed]
On November 15, 2011, he performed "Heartbeat" from his album Camp on Conan.
On January 11, 2012, Childish Gambino announced on his website that a new mixtape would be coming out soon. Pictures of Stone Mountain appear to be the cover for his mixtape. On April 2, he released a new song, "Eat Your Vegetables", through his website IAmDonald.com. He said that he has recorded 25 songs for the mixtape and that it will be released "extremely soon." Because of his frequent use of the word on his site and Twitter account, many believe the new mixtape will be titled "Royalty". This was later cleared up by Donald on the BET show, 106 & Park, on May 1, where he stated that "Royalty" was just the name he gave to the group of his friends/musicians that he travels and performs with. On May 14, Funkmaster Flex premiered "Unnecessary", featuring Schoolboy Q. On May 16, Gambino released an untitled track (dubbed "We Ain't Them" by fans) through his website, produced by himself and frequent collaborator Ludwig. On May 22, Donald appeared on Das Racist's radio show "Chillin' Island" where he premiered a new song, "Tell Me", which featured Himanshu Suri, aka Heems from Das Racist. On May 26, Donald released another untitled track (dubbed "Black Faces" by fans) through his website, featuring Nipsey Hussle and produced by Boi-1da. On May 30, he released a third track through his website which he named "Silk Pillow" (via his Twitter account), featuring Beck and produced by both Glover and Beck.
Tours[link]
IAMDONALD Tour[link]
The IAMDONALD tour made 23 stops in 33 days, beginning with Ames, IA on April 16, and finishing with Minneapolis, MN on May 19. In between, this included performances in music venues in cities such as Las Vegas, Houston, Washington, and Atlanta. The tour's shows in New York at the Bowery Ballroom on May 10, and in Brooklyn at Williamsburg Music Hall on May 14, both sold out in three hours after tickets were released on March 4.[3]
Sign-Up Tour[link]
The Sign-Up Tour was Donald's next pre-tour. He visited 11 cities over the course of 38 days in October and November 2011.[28]
CAMP Tour[link]
Donald's next tour will be nationwide. He made a website for the tour called "Camp Gambino" on November 19, four days after his album released.[29] The tour will also feature special guest Danny Brown. The tour will make 20 stops during the course of 32 days along a dates in California in December.[30] As reported on his website on March 14, 2012, several dates on the CAMP tour have been postponed due to a fractured foot Donald Glover suffered on March 10, while performing in Tampa, Florida. The tour will now begin in Austin, Texas on April 5 and end August 3 in Detroit, Michigan.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2006 | Channel 101 | Various | Television film |
| 2009 | Mystery Team | Jason Rodgers | |
| 2010 | Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III | Stormtrooper Scout Trooper Mace Windu |
Voice only Television film |
| 2011 | Muppets, TheThe Muppets | Junior CDE Executive | |
| 2013 | To Do List, TheThe To Do List | Adam | Post-Production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2005 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Criminal | 1 episode |
| 2006–2008, 2012[31] | 30 Rock | Homosexual Kid Producer Young P.A. Young Tracy Jordan |
Writer Cameo in 3 episodes Guest Star in 1 episode; Writers Guild of America (2008, 2009 & 2010, for Comedy Series - 30 Rock - shared with: writers of 30 Rock)[32] Nominated - Writers Guild of America (2007, for Comedy Series - 30 Rock - shared with: writers of 30 Rock)[33] |
| 2007 | Bronx World Travelers | Scoopy Brown | Short film |
| 2007 | Human Giant | College Webcam Guy | 1 episode |
| 2009–present | Community | Troy Barnes | Main role; TV Guide Awards Favourite Ensemble (Shared with cast) (2012)[34] Nominated - Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (2011)[35] |
| 2010 | Comedy Central Presents | Himself | Stand-up special |
| 2011 | Woodie Awards | Host | |
| 2011 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Childish Gambino (musical guest) | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Conan | Childish Gambino (musical guest) | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Regular Show | Alpha-Dawg | Guest voice |
| 2011 | Weirdo | Himself | Stand-up special |
| 2011 | Late Show with David Letterman | Childish Gambino (musical guest) | |
| 2012 | Hip Hop Squares | Childish Gambino | Guest Star |
Discography[link]
As Childish Gambino[link]
Studio albums[link]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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US R&B [36] |
US Rap [36] |
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Independent Albums[link]
- Sick Boi (2008)
- Poindexter (2009)
- Culdesac (2010)
Extended Plays[link]
- EP (2011)
Mixtapes[link]
- I Am Just a Rapper (2010)
- I Am Just a Rapper 2 (2010)
- Unknown Title (2012)[38]
Singles[link]
- Break (AOTL) (2011)
- Untouchable
- It's On
- The Longest Text Message
- Eat Your Vegetables (2012)
- Unnecessary (ft. ScHoolboy Q) (2012)
- Tell Me (ft. Heems) (2012)
- Black Faces (ft. Nipsey Hussle) (2012)
- Silk Pillow (ft. Beck) (2012)
Collaboration Songs (as featured artist)[link]
- Who Dat Pt. 2 with J. Cole & Spencer Datt (2011)
- Womyn 2 with Heems (2012)
- Level Up (International Remix) with Sway (2012)
- Tricks with Ludovin (2012)
- Giants with Josh Osho (2012)
mc DJ[link]
- Love Letter in an Unbreakable Bottle
- Utterances of the Heart
- Fuck Yaselves
- The Works
- New Year's Eve Mix
- Illin-Noise
- Apple Sauce: Fiona Apple Remix Album
- A Charlie Brown X-mas EP
As An Actor[link]
- "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" from 30 Rock: Official Soundtrack (2010)
- "101 Rap", "Somewhere Out There" from Community: Music from the Original Television Series (2010)
- "Troy and Abed's Christmas Infiltration Rap" Community (2011)
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| Place of birth | Edwards Air Force Base, California |
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| Bei Maejor | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Brandon Michael Green[1] |
| Origin | Southfield, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | R&B, hip hop |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, producer, record producer, Rapper |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Jive, RCA |
| Website | beimaejor.com |
Brandon Green, better known by his stage name Bei Maejor (pronounced Bee Major), is a Grammy nominated American recording artist, songwriter and record producer, signed to Jive/RCA Records.
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Life and career[link]
Maejor has produced and written for many artists including; Trey Songz, Tinie Tempah, Ciara, Sean Kingston, Cody Simpson, Lloyd, Kid Ink, Chrisette Michelle, Keri Hilson, Drake, T-Pain, Bow Wow, New Boyz, LeToya Luckett, Ne-Yo, Wiz Khalifa, Bun B, Monica, Ginuwine, Plies, Soulja Boy, Rock City and Travis Porter and Australian rapper Iggy Azalea's debut single "Murda Bizness" featuring T.I..
He has produced soundtracks for Bratz: The Movie in 2007 and The Princess and the Frog in 2009, and the television series Jersey Shore (TV series) in 2011. He received his first Gold Plaque for production on Bun B's Trill in 2005 while still in college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He was nominated for a Grammy for his work on Trey Songz' album in 2010 and Monica's album in 2011.
He graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2008. After graduation he moved to Atlanta and joined the Compound Entertainment team working with Ne-Yo. Maejor was signed by Jive Records in January 2010 as a recording artist. Maejor released his first mixtape titled Upside Down on August 4, 2010, which featured Keri Hilson, Trey Songz, Drake and T-Pain. He produced and is featured on the official remix for Ciara's "Ride" with André 3000 and Ludacris. He was also featured on Plies' "She Got It Made". Maejor's debut single is titled "Trouble", which features rapper J. Cole and was released August 12, 2011.[2] Maejor released his fourth mixtape, maejorMaejor on September 12, 2011. A collection of 20 tracks including a piano remix of Frank Ocean’s "Swim Good" and a remix of Foster the People’s "Pumped Up Kicks" dedicated to the "Little Haters.”[3]
Maejor was named one of Rap-Up's 10 artists to watch in 2012.[4]
Creative Works[link]
Singles[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B [5] |
AUS | CAN | |||
| "Trouble" (featuring J. Cole) |
2011 | 124 | 34 | — | — | |
| "Lights Down Low" (featuring Waka Flocka Flame) |
2012 | — | 76 | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory. | ||||||
Movie Credits[link]
- Think Like a Man (2012)
- "Need a Reason"[6] Also featured as a singer.
- The Princess and the Frog (2009)
- "Never Knew I Needed"[7]
- Bratz: The Movie (2007)
- "It's My Party"[8]
TV Credits[link]
- Jersey Shore (2011)
- "The Tequila Song" aired in the season finale on March 24, 2011. Written and sung by Janine the Machine.
Producer Credits[link]
| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Hold You Down" | 2005 | Bun B | Trill |
| "Ur Behind" | Trey Songz | I Gotta Make It | |
| "Spend Some $" | 2007 | Chingy | Hate It or Love It |
| "Intro: Trey Day" | Trey Songz | Trey Day | |
| "Long Gone Missin'" | |||
| "Not Anymore" | LeToya Luckett | Lady Love | |
| "On My Own" | 2009 | Chrisette Michele | Epiphany |
| "Show Me the Way" | Ginuwine | A Man's Thoughts | |
| "Black Roses" | Trey Songz | Ready | |
| "Good Girls Like Bad Boys" | Jadyn Maria, featuring Flo Rida | ||
| "Stay or Go" | 2010 | Monica | Still Standing |
| "Ride (Remix)" | Ciara, André 3000 | Basic Instinct | |
| "Great Expectations" | Diggy Simmons | Airborne | |
| "Passion (Interlude)" | Trey Songz | Passion, Pain & Pleasure | |
| "Blind" | |||
| "Speakers Going Hammer" | Soulja Boy | The DeAndre Way | |
| "Blowing Me Kisses" | |||
| "Buyou" | Keri Hilson | No Boys Allowed | |
| "Gimme What I Want" | |||
| "Fearless" | |||
| "Hustler" | |||
| "Start Me Up" | 2011 | New Boyz featuring Bei Maejor | Too Cool To Care |
| "Rooftops" | Wiz Khalifa | Rolling Papers | |
| "Center of the Stage" | T-Pain featuring Bei Maejor and R. Kelly | reVolver | |
| "Dust" | Frank Ocean | Nostalgia, Ultra | |
| "Birthday Girl" | Travis Porter featuring Bei Maejor | ||
| "Murda Bizness" | 2012 | Iggy Azalea featuring T.I. |
Songwriting Credits[link]
| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "On My Own" | 2009 | Chrisette Michele | Epiphany |
| "Black Roses" | Trey Songz | Ready | |
| "Good Girls Like Bad Boys" | Jadyn Maria, featuring Flo Rida | ||
| "Feel It" | 2010 | Tiesto, Sean Kingston, Three 6 Mafia | Laws of Power |
| "Iyiyi" | Cody Simpson | 4 U | |
| "She Got It Made" | Plies | Goon Affiliated | |
| "Great Expectations" | Diggy Simmons | Airborne | |
| "Speakers Going Hammer" | Soulja Boy | The DeAndre Way | |
| "Blowing Me Kisses" | |||
| "So Addicted" | 2011 | Tinie Tempah | Disc-Overy US Edition |
| "Radio" | Hot Chelle Rae | Whatever | |
| "Cupid" | Lloyd | King of Hearts | |
| "Naked" | |||
| "Hello World" | 2012 | Diggy Simmons | Unexpected Arrival |
| "Only One" | Sammy Adams | ||
| "Summertime" | Sammy Adams | ||
| "Murda Bizness" | Iggy Azalea | The New Classic |
Mixtapes[link]
- ǝpısdn uʍop (Presented by Clinton Sparks & Monsters Ink) (2010)
- ǝpısdn uʍop 2 (Presented by Clinton Sparks, DJ ill Will & DJ Rockstar) (2010)
- Throwback (2011)
- maejorMaejor(Presented by DJ ill Will & DJ Rockstar) (2011)
- Upscale (March 2012)
Featured Singing Artist on[link]
- 2012 – "Need a Reason" by Kelly Rowland, movie Think Like a Man
- 2012 - "Magazine Cover" by Jae Millz
- 2011 – "So Addicted" by Tinie Tempah, album Disc-Overy
- 2011 - "Start Me Up" by New Boyz, album Too Cool to Care
- 2011 - "Center of the Stage" by T-Pain featuring R. Kelly
- 2011 - "Radio" by Hot Chelle Rae, album Whatever
- 2011 - "They Call Me" by Bei Maejor featuring Mike Posner
- 2011 - "I Wish" by Nelly
- 2011 - "Birthday Girl" by Travis Porter
- 2010 – "She Got It Made" by Plies
- 2010 – "Great Expectations" by Diggy Simmons
- 2010 – "Ride Remix" by Ciara featuring Bei Maejor, André 3000
Music Video Credits[link]
- 2012 - "Mesmerized"
- 2012 - "The Truth"
- 2011 - "Trouble (feat. J.Cole)"
- 2011 - "Still Ballin"
- 2011 - "Hit Me Up Angel"
- 2011 - "Sing A lil Song"
- 2011 - "The lala Song"
- 2011 - "Upside Down (feat. Jack Johnson)"
- 2011 - "Abduction"
- 2011 - "Upside Down (Bonus Track)"
- 2011 - "Impressed"
- 2011 - "Racks (Piano Remix)"
- 2011 - "I'm On One (Piano Remix)"
- 2011 - "Bout That Life"
- 2011 - "It's On U"
- 2011 - "Swim Well"
- 2010 - "She Was (A Broken Love Story)"
- 2010 - "July"
- 2010 - "Lemme Get That Freestyle"
- 2010 - "Facelifts & Waterfalls"
References[link]
- ^ Anthony Baber (February 23, 2006). "Beat Maejor". Michigan Daily. http://www.michigandaily.com/content/beat-maejor. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "Trouble: Bei Maejor feat. J. Cole at Amazon". Amazon.com. 2011-8-12. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FQUD6U. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- ^ "New Music: Bei Maejor – ‘maejorMaejor’ [Mixtape"]. RapUp.com. 2011-9-12. http://www.rap-up.com/2011/09/12/new-music-bei-maejor-maejormaejor-mixtape/. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
- ^ Rill (January 17, 2012). "Rap-Up's 10 Artists to Watch in 2012". Rap-Up. http://www.rap-up.com/2012/01/17/rap-up-10-artists-to-watch-in-2012/. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ http://creativedisc.com/top-charts/billboard-hot-100-singles/billboard-hot-rb-hip-hop-songs-12-sep/
- ^ "Keri Hilson, Kelly Rowland Join ‘Think Like a Man’ Soundtrack". http://www.rap-up.com. http://www.rap-up.com/2012/03/23/keri-hilson-and-kelly-rowland-join-think-like-a-man-soundtrack/.
- ^ "Randy Newman – The Princess And The Frog (An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack) (CD) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 2009-11-23. http://www.discogs.com/Randy-Newman-The-Princess-And-The-Frog-An-Original-Walt-Disney-Records-Soundtrack/release/2073222/. Retrieved 2010-09-24.
- ^ "Bratz: The Movie". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804452/soundtrack.
External links[link]
- Official website
- Bei Maejor on Myspace
- Bei Maejor on Twitter
- "Beat Maejor" – The Michigan Daily
- "A Maejor Star is Born" – The Michigan Daily
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| Name | Maejor, Bei |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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