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I Need a Dollar. " I Need a Dollar " is a song performed by American singer Aloe Blacc, written by Blacc, Leon Michels, Nick Movshon and Jeff Dynamite. [2] It is the intro song for the HBO show How to Make It in America, and was featured as the iTunes Single of the Week. [3] It also featured in the game Fight Night Champion.
Kala is the second studio album by British hip hop artist M.I.A. It was released on 8 August 2007 by XL Recordings. M.I.A. named the album after her mother and said her mother's struggles in life are a major theme of the recording. It was mainly written and produced by M.I.A. and Switch, and features contributions from Timbaland, Diplo, Afrikan ...
Harry Warren. Lyricist (s) Mort Dixon, Billy Rose. " I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store) " is a popular song . The music was written by Harry Warren, the lyrics by Mort Dixon and Billy Rose. The song was published in 1931, though a song using the same title, with a similar lyric by Rose and different music, had been ...
Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) " Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) " is a 1985 song by the alternative rock band Dramarama released as the first single from their debut album Cinéma Vérité. Written by John Easdale in the mid-1980s, "Anything, Anything" features a steady beat and lyrics about the breakdown of his marriage.
The above-mentioned "similarities" are revealed in the song's chorus: "hotter than a two-dollar pistol," "the fastest thing around," "long and lean," "every young man's dream," "turned every head in town," "built and fun to handle." The song was a fixture in Jones' live set in the 1980s and 1990s and appears on the 1999 LP Live with the Possum.
The song is sampled by Swizz Beatz in the song "I'm Supposed to Ball" and by the Very Best in a cover version on the mixtape Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best. Wale would go on to record and release the song " Chillin " featuring Lady Gaga in 2009, in which M.I.A. and her song lyrics are referenced, and Gaga emulates the artist by ...
Doug Stone singles chronology. "I Never Knew Love". (1993) " Addicted to a Dollar ". (1994) "More Love". (1994) "Addicted to a Dollar" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Doug Stone, who wrote it along with Ray Hood, Kim Tribble and Ray Maddox. It was released in February 1994 as the second single from his album ...
—M.I.A., Clash M.I.A. attributes much of her success to the "homeless, rootlessness" of her early life. Due to her and her family being displaced from Sri Lanka because of the Civil War, M.I.A. has become a refugee icon. The EMP Museum's 2008 Pop Conference featured paper submissions and discussions on M.I.A. presented on the theme of "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change." She has ...