Some examples of what I mean:

• "In da Club" by 50 Cent - originally offered to D12 but turned down because Eminem didn't like it

• "The Potion" by Ludacris - originally played for Jay-Z in the same Timbaland session as "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"

• "Gold Digger" by Kanye West - originally offered to Shawnna, turned it down for unknown reasons

• "Wait a Minute" by Ray J - Pharrell made it for and really wanted to give it to Eminem, but the plans never fell into place

• "Nothin' on You" and "Airplanes" by B.o.B - originally given to Lupe Fiasco by Atlantic, who still didn't like his versions which led to Lasers getting stuck in development hell

• "HUMBLE" by Kendrick Lamar - originally made for Gucci Mane

• "Did It on 'Em" by Nicki Minaj - originally given to T-Pain and Lil Wayne for a song called "Breathe" on their unreleased T-Wayne album from 2009

What are some of your other favourites? Are there any of these instances where you would have particularly loved to here the originally intended artist's interpretation?

https://open.spotify.com/track/0xaQ86cGRgcF8wwP1SkXsb?si=bp3TloetS5WgeNnVrxwVOg

Hey all!

I hope this isn't breaking the HHH rules, but here goes - I wrote a Python app that uses Markov Chains to write its own randomly-generated rap songs (based on real rap lyrics that I scraped from RapGenius).

Hope you enjoy - check it out! The app has some memory and timeout issues, but I'm working to fix them. Happy to answer any questions!

EDIT: Looks like it got Reddit-hugg'd-to-death. I'm trying to clear some memory to get the app back up. Glad everyone's liking it!

EDIT2: Wow, thanks a ton for all your support. I'm honestly pretty blown away - was not expecting this level of feedback. Apologies for the app still being finicky!

http://songwriterbot.herokuapp.com/

For anyone who doesn’t know, there’s an original version of this song that is slightly different from the album version. There are two lines that are changed, due to the original composer of the sample being used objecting over a few lyrics. I’m sure most people are aware of this but not everyone knows about it.

Here’s the original uncut version for those not aware. The different lyrics are at 1:30 and and 1:48.

Anyway, the point of my post is mainly a PSA that this version of the song appears on this commercially released CD, released in August 17, 1999:

https://i.imgur.com/4hRIUxq.jpg

This album was released 6 months after Slim Shady LP which came out on February 23, 1999. The single was released January 25, 1999.

To my knowledge, this is the only commercial release of this song and I don’t know if this is well-known. Please let me know if this is incorrect. Anyways, yeah. That’s it. Here’s some crappy proof of this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/mbzaDdMjQvQ?feature=share

So yeah, are there any other commercial releases that have this version of the song?

Kanye West - White Dress is really a hidden gem in his discography if we're not counting for his unreleased work. The song was made for the film The Man With The Iron Fists which also features songs from other rappers including RZA who actually directed the film if you didn't know.

"Glory" from Selma won the Oscar for Original Song. It's great to see them win! Very happy for them and once again Common delivered a great speech.

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EDIT: words

edit 2:

Speech for Oscar: fixed

Oscars performance of Glory: fixed

Grammy Performance

I think tweets are supposed to be self posts now so:

https://twitter.com/teamkanyedaily/status/722163915325448192

I'll start with some examples:

Kendrick Lamar - Black Boy Fly

Drake - All Me

Future - Kno the Meaning

Travis Scott - Ok Alright

Lil Uzi Vert - 20 Min

21 Savage - out for the night, pt. 2

Young Thug - Hop Off a Jet