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It's all songs considered.

I'm Robin Hilton.

Here is Stephen Thompson talking about our number one songs of the past 25 years.

We're doing a different year each week.

Hey, Stephen.

Hello, Robin.

So we're up to 2017, and we've been trying to sort of play a little bit of Stump the Chump, playing something for each other. Like, here's my pick. Do you even, do you, dig through the cobwebs of your mind? They're going to get less cobwebby as we get closer and closer to the president. At least I hope so. Do you remember this one, this deep cut? I think for 2017, we're 100% in agreement.

Certainly on the album, if not the song, we would pick.

And we'll just go with this one.

I got, I got loyalty, I got royalty inside my DNA.

Cocaine, quarter piece, got war and peace inside my DNA.

I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA. I got hustle, though, ambition flow inside my DNA. I was born like this and born like this, emaculent conception. I transformed like this, perform like this, with yoshu a new weapon. I don't contemplate. I meditate. They off your fucking head. this that put the kids to bed this that i got i got i got i got i got i got i got i got i got i remember when this record

first came out i listened to it and then uh i just started it all over again right then in the same

sitting in the same sitting in the same sitting all over again second time and I

literally put a do not disturb sign up and I listened to this four times all the way

through without before you even took a break before I took a break from it walked away

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