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"Ghetto Qur'an (Forgive Me)" is a song by American rapper 50 Cent from his unreleased Columbia Records debut album Power of the Dollar and the song itself was leaked in early 2000. The song mentions drug dealers from the 1980s in his neighborhood of South Jamaica , Queens .
"Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" is a single from American rapper Jay-Z's third album Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life , released on October 27, 1998. It features a vocal and pitch-modified instrumental sample [ 1 ] of the song " It's the Hard Knock Life " from the 1977 musical Annie .
The music video was filmed in Rock's hometown of Watts, Los Angeles.The music video features Jay Rock walking around his old neighborhood or on a billboard, rapping alongside Lil Wayne. will.i.am does not appear in the video, however, despite this, the video features cameo appearances from Rock's TDE label-mates and then-unknown fellow West Coast rappers, Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar.
The song's title originally came from the lyrics of fellow West Coast rapper, Spice 1's 1992 song, "Welcome to the Ghetto", [1] and contains a direct sample of Cameo's 1978 song, Two of Us. [2] Many of the song's lyrics were reused in 2Pac's 1992 single "Changes" .
The lyrics of "Ghetto Life" reflect James' youth in Buffalo, New York. [1] [2] According to cultural historian Craig Werner, after many factories in Buffalo closed at the time "there was no hope of making any kind of a living. So you could see the hustling culture developing at the time. And Rick catches that beautifully."
The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community at the base of Mount Hood.
West Coast hip hop; Conscious hip hop; Length: 5: 02: Label: Jive: Songwriter(s) Todd Shaw; Al Eaton; ... "The Ghetto" is a song by American Oakland-based rapper Too ...
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