Goldie Lookin Chain are a Welsh comedy hip hop group from Newport, Wales. The group produces humorous, controversial and often explicit songs that satirise hip hop, today's consumer society, the "chav" culture and life in Newport and South Wales in general.
"Self Destruction" is the only single by the Stop the Violence Movement formed by American rapper KRS-One in 1988 in response to violence in the hip hop and African American communities.
"Hate It or Love It" is a single by American rapper and West Coast hip hop artist the Game, featuring vocals from his former G-Unit member 50 Cent. It was released as the third official single from the Game's debut studio album The Documentary (2005). The song features production from duo Cool & Dre, with additional production from Dr. Dre. The song features a music sample of "Rubber Band" by the Trammps from their debut album The Legendary Zing Album (1975). "Hate It or Love It" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, becoming the Game's second top ten song on the chart as a lead artist and 50 Cent's eighth. It is the Game's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 to date. The song was kept from the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 by 50 Cent's single, "Candy Shop",. "Hate It or Love It" reached the number one spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, making it yet again another top ten hit on the chart alongside "How We Do" which also featured 50 Cent. Outside of the United States, "Hate It or Love It" peaked within the top ten of the charts in multiple countries, including the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
"You Got Me" is a song by American hip hop band the Roots, featuring vocals from Erykah Badu and Eve, then known as Eve of Destruction, who raps the second verse but does not appear in the music video. The track was released as a single from the band's fourth studio album, Things Fall Apart (1999), in January 1999.
Andrew Major, known professionally as Maggot, is a Welsh rapper.
"Changes" is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Talent. The song makes references to the war on drugs, the treatment of black people by the police, racism, the perpetuation of poverty and its accompanying vicious-cycle value system in urban African American culture, and the difficulties of life in the ghetto.
"On Fire" is the first single from Lloyd Banks' debut album, The Hunger for More. It quickly became a nationwide hit and cemented Lloyd Banks' name in the hip hop scene. The single peaked inside the top ten in the U.S., reaching #8. The song samples "The Champ", performed by The Mohawks.
"Superfly" is a song by Curtis Mayfield, the title track from his 1972 soundtrack album for the film of the same name. It was the second single released from the album, following "Freddie's Dead ", and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart. The lyrics celebrate the craftiness and determination of the film's main character. The song plays over the film's closing credits.
Slow Life is an EP by the Welsh alternative rock band Super Furry Animals, released in 2004. The EP was made available as a free download and also saw a limited CD release, bundled with remix album Phantom Phorce. Lead track "Slow Life" appeared on the 2003 album Phantom Power and was originally composed as a purely electronic song by keyboardist Cian Ciaran several years earlier. The band were keen to finish the track and Ciaran encouraged them to jam over his original version—this jam was then edited and made into the finished song. The track "Motherfokker" is a collaboration between the Super Furry Animals and rap group Goldie Lookin Chain.
"Good Life" is a song by American rapper Kanye West released on October 2, 2007 as the third single for his third studio album Graduation (2007). The song features vocals by singer T-Pain and was produced by West and DJ Toomp. It is a hip hop song that contains a sample of the keyboard outro to "P.Y.T. " performed by Michael Jackson. The song features additional drum programming by Timbaland and additional production by Mike Dean, as well as background vocals by John Legend and Ne-Yo.
B.V.S.M.P. was an American hip hop group, formed in the 1980s. The band consisted of Percy Nathan Rodgers, Calvin Williams and Frederick Eugene Byrd.
"Lookin Ass" is a song by American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj. It was produced by Detail and Choppa Boi. It was recorded by Minaj for the Young Money Entertainment compilation album Young Money: Rise of an Empire (2014). The music video for the track was released on February 14, 2014. The track is a hip hop song which lyrics criticize stereotypical behaviors commonly associated with men.
The phrase "suicide, it's a suicide" was first used by rapper KRS-One in the song "Moshitup" in 1987. It has since entered into hip hop music as a meme, and has been used by artists such as Ice-T, Gravediggaz, Redman, Fabolous, Ras Kass, Jay-Z, Jedi Mind Tricks, Snoop Dogg, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Krayzie Bone, Wyclef Jean, Pusha T and Lil Wayne. It serves as a good example of the intertextual nature of the genre, where quoting older works serves as a form of homage to other artists.
"Your Mother's Got a Penis" is a song by the British rap act Goldie Lookin Chain from their Greatest Hits album, released In November 2004. The song reached number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart.
"Half Man Half Machine" is a song by the Welsh Rap act Goldie Lookin Chain from their Greatest Hits album. In May 2004, the song reached #32 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Goldie" is a song by American hip hop recording artist ASAP Rocky. It was released on April 27, 2012 as the lead single from his debut studio album Long. Live. ASAP (2013). The song was produced by Hit-Boy, who wanted to play off Rocky's laid-back style of rapping, accompanied by intentional vocal distortions, to produce a sound bordering along comatose. Beneath the beat, Hit-Boy added a reverberating chant meant to add a sinister atmosphere to the track.
"Bad Things" is a song by American singer and rapper Machine Gun Kelly and Cuban-born American singer Camila Cabello. The song was released on October 14, 2016, and was produced by The Futuristics. Its music video was directed by Hannah Lux Davis and premiered on December 1, 2016. The song features an interpolation of Fastball's 1999 single "Out of My Head". The single peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming both Machine Gun Kelly and Cabello's first top ten single as solo artists.
"Bodak Yellow" is the major-label debut single by American rapper Cardi B. It was written by Cardi B, Jordan Thorpe, Klenord Raphael, and produced by J. White Did It and Laquan Green. It was released on June 16, 2017, by Atlantic Records as the lead single from her debut studio album Invasion of Privacy (2018). The hip hop song was influenced by and interpolates the flow of American rapper Kodak Black's song "No Flockin".
"Killshot" is a diss track by American rapper Eminem and produced by IllaDaProducer. The song is Eminem's response to Machine Gun Kelly's "Rap Devil" that was released in 2018 after Eminem dissed MGK in his song "Not Alike" from his tenth studio album Kamikaze. The song received positive reception for its lyrics and production. Following the release of "Killshot", Machine Gun Kelly admitted he could not respond to the song with an additional diss track and criticized it in interviews.
Michael Ian Olmo, known professionally as Iann Dior, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Olmo is most notably well-known for his 2020 hit single "Mood", a collaboration with fellow American rapper 24kGoldn. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became his first and highest-charting song to date.
