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🗓️ 20 January 2021
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Blu & Exile - "The American Dream" from the 2020 album Miles on Dirty Science Records.
Rapper Blu and hip hop producer Exile returned last year for their first new full-length in eight years: Miles: From An Interlude Called Life (or just Miles for short), an expansive 20-track double LP. “We planted the seeds of creativity and grew about 40 plants,” Exile said in a press release. “We picked the ones that we thought were the best for an album, but that didn’t mean that the other flowers weren’t beautiful.”
Today's Song of the Day is a reflective, yearning track features guest vocals from The Last, Artful Dodger, and Blu‘s childhood friend Miguel, now a Grammy Award winning artist in his own right.
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0:00.0 | Yeah. No, uh-huh, check it. Oh, uh-huh, check it. Oh, is the whole world to say it's my world. |
0:23.0 | I want the American dream. I want the blonde girl. |
0:26.0 | I just want the mansion in the yacht. I want to make it to the top of the hill, |
0:29.0 | and I want to stay real. |
0:31.0 | All I want is like 88 male that I can flip into at least 8 bills. |
0:35.0 | Straight skills, pay bills and taxes. |
0:37.0 | I want to have mad kids and I want all my kids to have mad kids. |
0:41.0 | I want the masses. |
0:42.0 | Just say my album is a classic and I want all my albums to go platinum |
0:45.4 | I want to stop rapping and start acting. Look at our movies and let my kids get into fashion. |
0:51.8 | All I want is the American pop. You know a big fat slice of that American lie. |
0:56.0 | Same dream they sold that made America fly into the sky to the moon back to Houston, |
1:01.0 | bullshit. I can't sleep. |
1:03.0 | My mind's catching up to me. |
1:05.0 | Dreams keeping me away. |
1:08.0 | You see everything in order to know them. |
1:12.0 | I can't sleep. My dreams catching up to me |
1:15.2 | loosely leave me a well |
1:18.2 | I can't sleep my mind's catching up to me |
1:25.8 | dreams keeping me away |
1:31.8 | Is everything that you got, |
1:35.0 | you got, because by now everyone knows I ain't had a lot. |
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