The True Meaning [Explicit Lyrics]

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In an era of celebrity rappers and prefabricated beef, Cory McKay speaks much needed truth. Picking up where his long-awaited debut The Realness left off, 'Mega's latest set of rhymes address the type of reality most MCs only pretend to live and don't necessarily even understand. Songs like "Live Ya Life" and "Soul Food" deal with the specifics of street life, while "Verbal Graffiti" and "Take These Jewels" focus on Cormega's evolution as an artist and a man. For those who like public drama, the appearance of Illmatic and Stillmatic producer Large Professor on "The Come Up" adds validation to "Love in Love Out," 'Mega's quiet yet firm rebuttal to the heated name-calling of Nas's "Destroy and Rebuild." Listen to The True Meaning and you'll be able to grasp how Cormega's street credibility has enabled him to sell 100,000 records without any major radio airplay or having a video in heavy rotation. Outrunning the clichés, Cormega's a genuine thug poet, and The True Meaning is an album worth owning. --Rebecca Levine

The True Meaning,Cormega,Landspeed,East Coast Rap,Hip-Hop,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop

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Anti-Social Garcia Manufacturer: Detonator ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002VEWSS Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. COME GET IT
2. I RUN THIS feat. DJ INFAMOUS
3. PRIDE
4. A DOUBLE L ATTACK feat. DA ALL
5. STARVING ARTISTRY
6. DARKEST DAYS feat. ADRIANNE
7. ANTI-SOCIAL feat. DYNAS
8. NONE OF DEM
9. MIAMI LIFE
10. LET'S GET IT POPPIN
11. NO WAY TO STOP US
12. ACOUSTIC SOUL feat. STREET ACOUSTICS
13. LIFE & ENTERTAINMENT feat. HECKLER

Average customer rating: What pop should sound like... great buy listen to this cd Landmark album of experimental music Decently massaging and excessively thought reducant

The True Meaning of Boodleybaye Mice Parade Manufacturer: Bubble Core ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Obrigado Saudade Bem-Vinda Vontade Mice Parade Mokoondi All Roads Lead to Salzburg ASIN: B00000DCZ0 Release Date: 2000-07-25

Tracks:

1. A Dance By Any Other Name
2. Dasher, Prancer, Donner & Blitzen
3. Surprise! The Slippery Sled Went Down
4. In The Water There Are Islands, In The Land There Are Lakes
5. My Workday In May
6. Dub Interlude #1 (Boodley)
7. Tag
8. Headphonland: The Gangster Chapter
9. My Funny Friend Scott
10. Trudging Through The Freshly Cut Grass
11. Peeking Around The Corner
12. Purple Blather (High End Remix)
13. Shalom
14. ? (It's A Joke; It's Supposed To Be Funny)

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What pop should sound like..........2001-08-25

...plenty of melody, heaped on top of some great drumming and best of all: no singing! Well, OK a little singing, but its either buried in the background under My Bloody Valentine-style guitars (on "Trudging Through The Freshly Cut Grass") or harmonizing with the organ in a sort of round (on "Shalom"). None of that verse-chrorus-verse ... here! There are a few failed experiments here, but thats what skip buttons are for. Its still one of the most overlooked albums in the past few years.

great buy.......2000-07-21

Great cd. I've never heard of the dylan band, or adam pierce but when I heard this album on a web radio station i had to get it and have not regreted it.

listen to this cd.......2000-01-09

MR. PIERCE AS A SOLO ARTIST IS UNMATCHED IN CREATIVE ENDEAVOR AND RAW EXPRESSION. THE SOUNDS YOU COULD BE HEARING ON THIS CD ARE ALL LIVE TAKES RECORDED WITH MIC'S. THIS CD GIVES MORE MEANING TO THE MINAMALISTS CLAIM OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC'S LAZY PRODUCTION. THIS RECORD IS THE BEST NON-ELECTRONIC ELECTRONIC ALBUM I'VE EVER HEARD. HE CHOOSES HIS TONES AND SOUNDS WITH MORE TASTE THAN IV'E HEARD IN YEARS. SMOOTH MELODIC BASS LINES, AND THE UNBELIEVABLE PERCUSSION IV'E COME TO EXPECT FROM ADAM ARE REASONS ENOUGH TO OWN THIS PIECE OF BUTTER. MUSIC LOVERS OF EVERY KIND; BRIAN WILSON TO KEVIN SHIELDS ARE INVITED. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO WATCH THE PARADE.

Landmark album of experimental music.......1999-09-27

This album is amazing. Adam Pierce assembles each song, fairly minimally, yet still builds them up into glorious melodies that haunt you after you listen to them. It is an album to listen to all the way through, although each track holds it's own. There's not much more I can say about it, it's beautiful.

Decently massaging and excessively thought reducant.......1999-03-18

I listen to alot of this new electronic expression and I'm beginning to think that we are doomed to stagnate with simple melodies and either simple or slightly complex drum beats.

Literary void as far as lyrics are concerned.

Average customer rating: Cormega - The True Meaning A lyrical gem Ooops! Cormega did it again TO MANY PEOPLE TAKING A NAP ON THIS DUDE!!!!!!! ill poetic

The True Meaning Cormega Manufacturer: Landscape Germany ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rap & Hip-Hop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Realness Legal Hustle The Testament Doe or Die Hustler/Rapper ASIN: B000066RMS Release Date: 2002-06-25

Tracks:

1. Verbal Graffiti
2. Live Ya Life
3. Ain't Gone Change
4. The True Meaning
5. A Thin Line
6. The Legacy
7. Love In Love Out
8. The Come Up feat. Large Professor
9. Built For This
10. Soul Food
11. Take These Jewels
12. Endangered Species
13. Therapy
14. Therapy

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In an era of celebrity rappers and prefabricated beef, Cory McKay speaks much needed truth. Picking up where his long-awaited debut The Realness left off, 'Mega's latest set of rhymes address the type of reality most MCs only pretend to live and don't necessarily even understand. Songs like "Live Ya Life" and "Soul Food" deal with the specifics of street life, while "Verbal Graffiti" and "Take These Jewels" focus on Cormega's evolution as an artist and a man. For those who like public drama, the appearance of Illmatic and Stillmatic producer Large Professor on "The Come Up" adds validation to "Love in Love Out," 'Mega's quiet yet firm rebuttal to the heated name-calling of Nas's "Destroy and Rebuild." Listen to The True Meaning and you'll be able to grasp how Cormega's street credibility has enabled him to sell 100,000 records without any major radio airplay or having a video in heavy rotation. Outrunning the clichés, Cormega's a genuine thug poet, and The True Meaning is an album worth owning. --Rebecca Levine

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Cormega - The True Meaning.......2007-02-26

Cormega's (A.K.A. Corey Mckay) sophomore independent album was "The True Meaning" (2002) an impressive fourteen track release. Queensbridge's Cormega opens the album up with "Introspective", a cut where Mega rhymes about himself. Next up is "Verbal Graffiti", Mega let's the raw lines rain backed by some basic production. One of my early favorites's is the somber "Live Ya Life" an outstanding track, Mega shines on this joint telling life tales backed by some premium production. "Aint Gonna Change" is a short freestyle where Mega reflects on incarceration, overcoming, and relates to being an emotional chameleon similar to Donny Hathaway, while ending the joint by calling himself "Queensbridge most respected Rapper". Mega then delivers another first class cut with title track "The True Meaning". Cormega then rhymes about a snitch on "A Thin Line", while remembering various queensbridge people and years past on "The Legacy". Cormega then explains his relationship/falling out with Nas on "Love In, Love Out", another quality track which was made in response to Nas "Destroy & Rebuild". I was happy to see that Nas/Cormega formally killed their beef recently as they are both MC's I like. Mega collaborates with Large Professer on "The Come Up" backed by some smooth production. "Soul Food" is a track about a women who's in a relationship with two men. Cormega then kicks knowledge on the Hi-Tek produced "Take These Jewels", the "Jewels" being his advice to those in the game. The J.Love produced "Endangered Species", is another highlight track on this release which Mega kills. Cormega closes this album off strong with "Therapy" lacing the track with some more introspective lyrics. "The True Meaning" is a substantial & memorable release from a slept on MC.

A lyrical gem.......2006-08-23

Cormega is one of hip hop's most underrated lyricists, definitely one of the best out there and never receiving his due respect. Like other Queensbridge rappers like Nas, AZ, Prodigy, and Noreaga, Cormega is a true street poet and almost as good as any of the aforementioned. What I really admire about Cormega is that although he is as intelligent and lyrical as any, he always keeps his lyrics at a street level that you can feel, unlike others who sometimes are too lyrical for their own good. Mega has been used and abused by the major labels, so 7 years into his career, he released only his second album, 2002's "The True Meaning" independently. This album is one of the best lyrical albums of the last 5 years, he puts so much feeling into every verse and always speaks the truth. The production here is also good, he maintains a nostalgic tone musically with lots of instrumentation and vocal sampling. The album is very short, almost like an EP, he keeps the songs very short, saying his message and ending the song, and I like that. I highly recommend "The True Meaning" for all fans of real lyrical hip hop.

"Verbal Graffiti" begins the album, a raw, simple track musically and Mega tears the bars apart. "Live Ya Life" is a very heartfelt track, Mega gives advice to people in hard times and the chorus is very good. Cormega recites a capella on "Ain't Gone Change". The title track is another raw streets track, he speaks of experiences and what he knows, very well produced too. "A Thin Line" has an awesome beat, great guitar, it feels hard. He verbally murders someone who "snitched" to the DA in trial, it's great to listen to. He shouts out lost friends and his childhood in "The Legacy" and paints a short Queensbridge hip hop history. "Love In Love Out" is the response to Nas's diss on "Destroy and Rebuild" from "Stillmatic". It has great production, and he responds to it well. He doesn't try to shoot Nas down, he really explains how the beef happened and almost reaches out to his friend, saying he will continue to support, not really wanting the beef. It's easy to almost support Mega with this track, it's great to listen to. My favorite track might be the Large Professor collaboration "The Come Up", an awesome song lyrically and musically. "Soul Food" has grimy production and verses to match. "Take These Jewels" is another very heartfelt track, an excellent one, and "Endangered Species" is also very strong.

"The True Meaning" is incredibly consistent, a really great album. I think it is embarrassingly underrated, this album is at least as good as "Stillmatic" and yet very few people know about it. I highly recommend it to fans of this type of grimy, lyrical rap, because it really shines.

Ooops! Cormega did it again.......2006-01-09

This album, The True Meaning is as good as The Realness.His beats are fresher,and the lyrics are still hot.Also won the Best Independent Album of the year.Cormega,Stay Real Never Change

TO MANY PEOPLE TAKING A NAP ON THIS DUDE!!!!!!!.......2005-12-19

CORMEGA RAW FOR EVER!!!!!!!!COP DISS SH*T

ill poetic.......2005-07-31

Mega' made a flawless album. His rhymes are very much needed in the hip hop world. His songs are made straight from the heart & soul of a young man in a dangerous environment. Dope listen all the way through!

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Seven Manufacturer: Erick Pagan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAE6IU Release Date: 2001-01-02

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Christmas: The True Meaning ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005JG48 Release Date: 1998-12-02

Tracks:

1. Angels From the Realms
2. It's So Good To Have You Home
3. Mary Wrapped a Present
4. Mary's Little Boy Child
5. Footsteps
6. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
7. O Come O Come Emmanuel
8. Glory To God in the Highest
9. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
10. Silent Night

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Little Italian Girl Bree Noble & Jerry Allen Manufacturer: Gevania Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001RZFFC Release Date: 2004-01-01

Tracks:

1. Don't Cry For Me Italy (Overture)
2. Can You See The Stars
3. Just Around The Corner
4. Yesterday Flies
5. Ave Maria
6. Don't Think I Don't Love You
7. We'll Be Okay
8. Break Free
9. Follow My Rainbow
10. Don't Cry For Me Italy (Duet)
11. TearDrops In The Wind
12. My Special Love
13. Rosas Enchanted Evening
14. More Than Love
15. Where Would I Be
16. I Believe In You
17. Don't Cry For Me Italy

Album Description

This CD can be described as crossover / classical and some pop, which tells about a true story that I've witnessed with my family. The events in this story are sprititual, and have a true meaning to every word written and sung.

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True Meaning of Christmas Reno & Smiley Manufacturer: King ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music ASIN: B00001O32N Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

1. True Meaning of Christmas
2. Jingle Bells
3. Blue Christmas
4. Frosty the Snowman
5. Christmas Doll
6. Christmas Reunion
7. It Won't Seem Like Christmas
8. Joy to the World
9. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
10. Silent Night

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True Meaning (Of Love) Jomanda Manufacturer: Big Beat / Ada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DPV7 Release Date: 1992-02-27

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The First Leon: Uncovering the True Meaning of Christmas Dennis & Nan Allen ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000TR2I2W

Product Description

A Children's Christmas Musical. In this charming new musical you will see the Christmas story through the eyes of Leon. You see, Leon is...special. Ever since he discovered that his name spelled backwards is Noel, he's felt called to tell the world the true meaning of Christmas. But when he tries out for every role in the annual pageant, he finds that he's the only one who doesn't get a part. Rejected. Now Leon understands better than anyone how Mary and Joseph must have felt when they heard the words, "No room" that night in Bethlehem. Without really trying to, however, Leon does uncove the true meaning of Christmas when he identifies the real Star of Bethlehem. The First Leon is a dramatic 35 minute musical, created by Dennis & Nan Allen, which allows you to keep your production simple or take it over the top.

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True Meaning of Survival Saints of Everyday Failures Manufacturer: Saints of Everyday Failures ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA780S Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

1. Bury the Hatchet
2. Day of the Weak
3. No Question
4. This Is for Life
5. Sorrow's Son
6. World of Lies
7. Walking Wounded
8. Common Cold Blood Feat. Brad B
9. Wheel of Eyes
10. Silently Dreaming
11. See Hear Speak No Evil
12. What It Is

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