High Price
"High Price" is a song by American recording artist Ciara from her third studio album, Fantasy Ride (2009). Featuring rapper Ludacris, it was written by Ciara, Ludacris, Terius Nash, and Christopher Stewart, and was produced by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart. The song was initially chosen as the lead single from the album and was due for release in June 2008, but after leaking to a mixed reception from fans, its release was subsequently cancelled and it was replaced by "Go Girl".
Composition
"High Price" is a crunk-influenced R&B song, with booming, low-end, creature-feature synths, which features Ciara singing in operatic soprano. Macpherson of The Guardian magazine commented that the song sees the singer "combining outraged soprano braggadocio with thunderous crunk baselines.". Lyrically, the song is an "ode to acquisitiveness" and a "dramatic, swaggering celebration of flashiness"
Critical reception
GZA
Gary Grice (born August 22, 1966), better known by his stage names GZA (/ˈdʒɪzə/ JIZ-ə) and The Genius, is an American rapper and songwriter. A founding member of the hip hop group, the Wu-Tang Clan, GZA is known as the group's "spiritual head", being both the oldest and the first within the group to receive a record deal. He has appeared on his fellow Clan members' solo projects, and since the release of his critically acclaimed solo album Liquid Swords (1995), he has maintained a successful solo career.
In 2012, The Source placed him on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.
An analysis of GZA's lyrics found that he has the second largest vocabulary in hip hop music, behind Aesop Rock, in a sample of 75 rappers. The Wu-Tang Clan, as a collective, and several of its individual members were also in the top 10.
Biography
Early life
Gary Grice developed an interest in hip-hop by attending block parties as a child in the early 1970s. He formed a three-man group with his cousins, Robert Diggs and Russell Jones, who would later be known as RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard, respectively. The group, FOI: Force of the Imperial Master, saw the three rapping and DJing, switching off names and performing local shows; since they lived in different boroughs, GZA and Ol' Dirty would travel from Brooklyn out to Staten Island to meet up with their cousin RZA, after which the three would travel across New York City and challenge other MCs to battles. After some years of this, GZA was signed to Cold Chillin' Records as a solo artist under the name The Genius. He put together an album called Words from the Genius, produced mostly by Easy Mo Bee, but after it failed to sell—and his rocky experience on tour—Grice became fed up and asked for release from the label.
GZA (disambiguation)
GZA is a hip hop artist and member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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by Ciara
High Price
by: Ciara(Ludacris)
Ciara on the track and she from the, the (A!)
Ludacris once again and i'm from the, the (A!)
Ciara, Ludacris and we gon rep that (A!)
(A, A, A, yep!) Let's Go!
(Ciara-verse 1)
See me in the club rockin Christian Louboutin
I should be a Iraq shawty, cause I am the bomb
I got a million-dollar house on my earlobe
Boy i know you want it, but what do you got on it?
You know me
See the vuitons all on my rim
You know me
Yeah we all singers but I'm not quite like them
You know me
If he's a buster then you won't see me with him
Yeah I know you want it, but what do you got on it?
(Hook)
Cause I'm high price
Better have on a hot pair of nikes,
Better buy me anything I like
Cause i'm already holdin, holdin
High price
Better have on a hot pair of nikes,
Better buy me anything I like
Cause I'm already holdin, holdin
Already,
A- A- A- Already (holdin)(yep!)
A- A- A- A- A- Already (holdin)
I got money,
I, I, I got (Money)(yep!)
Already holdin (Already holdin!)
(Yep!)
(Verse 2)
See me in the drop-head, fresh up out the hair salon
Booty look softer than a McDonalds hamburger bun
I got the edible dessert on my wrist
Please believe im a ten, yeah shawty im the shit
You know me
See the vuitons all on my rim
You know me
Yeah we all singers but I'm not quite like them
You know me
If he's a buster then you won't see me with him
Yeah I know you want it, but what do you got on it?
(Hook)
Cause I'm high price
Better have on a hot pair of nikes,
Better buy me anything I like
Cause i'm already holdin, holdin
High price
Better have on a hot pair of nikes,
Better buy me anything I like
Cause I'm already holdin, holdin
Already,
A- A- A- Already (holdin)(yep!)
A- A- A- A- A- Already (holdin)
I got money,
I, I, I got (Money)(yep!)
Already holdin (Already holdin!)
(Yep!)
(Ludacris)
Now you can have anything that you want
and imma keep throwin ya, throwin ya, throwin ya stacks
Do everything that he want
Just keep throwin it, throwin it, throwin it back
I'm holdin, holdin a hundred grand in my left hand
rocks with the right
285 horses, drop-top porsches
yep i box through the night
Floatin' like a butterfly
Sting like a bee for my honey pie
I'm Southern-Fly
Soon as CiCi sees me
she sings me a lullaby
And other guys can't match up to my bank account
and its hard to see
How I don't work hard for the money
but my money works hard for me (me!)
Let's go on a shopping spree to an expensive place
Then I lick you up and I lick you down
cuz I love your expensive taste
So sweet, Yes bon appetite'
I'm a freak, you can see me smilin'
Took the money that I got from the verse
flew me and CiCi to the Fiji Islands
Wildin' all on the beach
all in the sheets, preach!
Straight shots of saki,
I'll speaks for my team,
No papparazzi you freaks
Big plans
And you know what they say about a man with big hands
And my woman is my number-one fan Hotdamn!
(Ciara)
Cause I'm high price
Better have on a hot pair of nikes,
Better buy me anything I like
Cause i'm already holdin, holdin
High price
Better have on a hot pair of nikes,
Better buy me anything I like
Cause I'm already holdin, holdin
Already,
A- A- A- Already (holdin)(yep!)
A- A- A- A- A- Already (holdin)
I got money,
I, I, I got (Money)(yep!)
Already holdin (Already holdin!)
(Yep!)
(Ludacris)
Ciara on the track and she from the, the (A!)
Ludacris once again and i'm from the, the (A!)
Ciara, Ludacris and we gon rep that (A!)