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On January 17, 2020, a music video of the song was released on Eminem's YouTube channel. The video follows the same plot as the lyrics. The first two verses alternate between showing Eminem in a dark room wearing a hoodie and an unidentified person in a hotel room wearing the same hoodie, surrounded by alcohol and ammunition.
In August 2004, the song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. [2] With the tagline "The gun is the tool, the mind is the weapon", in this track the band satirised the perceived link between American hip hop and gun violence , referencing several rap murders.
Tony Cross from Smash Hits gave 'Give It Up' a full score of five out of five and named it Best New Single, writing, "'Give It Up' is about destruction on the street: fighting for self-respect and unity against the evils of crack and gratuitous gun violence. This could only be carried off in such a homie party style by a band as masterly as this.
"m.A.A.d city" is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar, from his second studio album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012). The song, which appears as the eighth track on the album, features a guest appearance from fellow Compton native and West Coast rapper MC Eiht.
"We are deeply disappointed by your decision to base expulsion on emails between two classmates who both showed a willingness to talk about guns based on a song’s lyrics," wrote the parents in ...
The 1980s were hip-hop’s first full decade as a documented musical genre on record, and from ’80 to ’89, rap grew from single to albums, from party songs to social commentary, from simple ...
Further inspired by the recent murder of fellow BDP founding member Scott La Rock, he assembled many contemporary East Coast hip hop rap stars of the time to record a song about anti-violence. With production assistance by bandmate D-Nice and Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad , the product of the session was the chart-topping song "Self Destruction".
In court, the rapper was accused by prosecutors from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office of brandishing a gun and firing shots that grazed his former friend's knuckles as Rocky's ...