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Music is powerful and I love the power music gives with the rollercoaster of emotions that comes with it. There is music for every mood and if you can't find one for your mood, you haven't searched music long enough to know it.

Thank you, @cescajove for making me remember to share my tunes with this amazing community. Music lovers, gather here...

I listened to a lot of music while growing up even though I don't know a lot of those lyrics them. I painstakingly browsed them at the cyber cafe and learned the music through that means. Music is a universal language and when you are in love with it, you will go through any length to have it close and add meanings to it.

I'm taking a trip down the memory lane and bringing out some old classic tunes. If you know these songs, let's just humble ourselves and accept that we are old but if you are young and still know these songs, definitely, you have appreciation for old times and I respect you even more for your ability to explore and pick up songs from everywhere.

The first song for today is:

Artist: "Jay Z"
Title of Song: "Hardknock Life"

One of the very few songs of Jay Z that I love. I can even remember wearing one baggy jeans back them that a lot of people call Hardknock life because "Hard Knock Life" was inscribed at the tip of that Jean. It kinda makes you feel like a good "bad boy" kind of feeling, you know?

In all honesty, everything I love about this song was the beat. I love the tunes so much and the uniqueness of the song. It was a strange and different kind of song back then and I just fell in love with the intro and the beat of the song. The first time I would appreciate a rap without understanding a word that was being said in that rap.

Despite not understanding the rap then, I managed to understand what the chorus says.

He spoke about his life's struggles and how he had to overcome the ghetto life to become a success. Indeed, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. If you want to become a success, you have to grind, you have to dig deep, you have to go all out and try to do things differently while focusing on who you are, not who the world tells you that you are. This song is still one of my favourites till date.

The second song for today is:

Artist: "Shaggy"
Title of Song: "Angel"

It took me a lot of dedication to be able to know this song and rap it back then. Till today, I can still rap this song. It stayed with me. Listening to it again now, I still sang along with it because it's one of the many songs that made growing up fun. I love this song because it speaks about tribute to women who sticks with their men regardless. It opens the eyes of guys to appreciate what they have because they are not supposed to leave gold while chasing stones. Most guys would want to have fun when they were young forgetting that there is always that one person that was there through thick and thin.

I might have to do this song for Hive Open Mic one day hahaha. It's a sweet song and I absolutely love it.

The last song for today is:

Artist: "Sade Adu"
Title of Song: "Sweetest Taboo"

I love Sade Adu a lot. It has nothing to do with the fact that she's a Nigerian and from my place of birth; Ibadan...but it has everything to do with her style of music which describes who she is perfectly; elegant, classy, soft and amazing. She's as beautiful as her songs and her style of music captured my heart beyond the words I can say.

Sade speaks about the pleasure she gets from a certain man and how this man effortlessly gets her to that pleasurable state. Every day is special because of this man and that's the thing with love. When you are in love with the right person that gives you the same energy back, love is sweet and everything just clicks but when it's with the wrong person, you soon turn into a philosopher. Love is capable of giving you the sweetest taboo especially when you have that person who just know how to get you to that point and you are willing to give that same energy back, at least.

This is what we say in my language that "they have gotten you" which means the arms of love has caught up with you and you are helpless to do anything about it. Her lyrics were deep and that's coming from a deeper place of love.

Which one is your favourite? Which one have you heard of before now? Which one brought back memories for you?

Thank you for your time.

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