Academy Award Winning Songs -- this year, these great songs are joined by the *itches & hoes song

dancemetonight.com ^ | 3-5-06 | dfu

[doug from upland]

Some of our greatest music has come from film. Hollywood didn't disappoint this year. It gave the Oscar to a wonderful and wholesome song for the whole family to enjoy. The song comes from Hustle & Flow and is entitled "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."

You will just love the lyrics and the music. They have really added something special to our culture. After the lyrics, we have presented a list of the previous winners. You can decide if the *itches and hoes song will be remembered as a great classic along with Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, My Heart Will Go On, White Christmas, Flashdance, Beauty and the Beast, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, and When You Wish Upon a Star.

IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP

[Chorus 2X: Shug - singing] + (Djay)
You know it's hard out here for a pimp (you ain't knowin)
When he tryin to get this money for the rent (you ain't knowin)
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent (you ain't knowin)
[1] Because a whole lot of *itches talkin sh** (you ain't knowin)
[2] Will have a whole lot of *itches talkin sh** (you ain't knowin)

[Djay]
In my eyes I done seen some crazy thangs in the streets
Gotta couple hoes workin on the changes for me
But I gotta keep my game tight like Kobe on game night
Like takin from a ho don't know no better, I know that ain't right
Done seen people killed, done seen people deal
Done seen people live in poverty with no meals
It's f***** up where I live, but that's just how it is
It might be new to you, but it's been like this for years
It's blood sweat and tears when it come down to this sh**
I'm tryin to get rich 'fore I leave up out this *itch I'm tryin to have thangs but it's hard fo' a pimp
But I'm prayin and I'm hopin to God I don't slip, yeah

[Chorus]

[Djay]
Man it seems like I'm duckin dodgin bullets everyday
Niggaz hatin on me cause I got, hoes on the tray
But I gotta stay paid, gotta stay above water
Couldn't keep up with my hoes, that's when shit got harder
North Memphis where I'm from, I'm 7th Street bound
Where niggaz all the time end up lost and never found
Man these girls think we prove thangs, leave a big head
They come hopin every night, they don't end up bein dead
Wait I got a snow bunny, and a black girl too
You pay the right price and they'll both do you
That's the way the game goes, gotta keep it strictly pimpin
Gotta have my hustle tight, makin change off these women, yeah

[Chorus]

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Academy Awards^® for Original Song
1934-2004
Where are the official Academy web sites? Answer

Year	Song	Film
2004	Al Otro Lado Del Rio	The Motorcycle Diaries
2003	Into the West	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002	Lose Yourself	8 Mile
2001	If I Didn't Have You	Monsters, Inc.
2000	Things Have Changed	Wonder Boys
1999	You'll Be in My heart	Tarzan
1998	When You Believe	The Prince of Egypt
1997	My Heart Will Go On	Titanic
1996	You Must Love Me	Evita
1995	Colors of the Wind	Pocahontas
1994	Can You Feel the Love Tonight	The Lion King
1993	Streets of Philadelphia	Philadelphia
1992	A Whole New World	Aladdin
1991	Beauty and the Beast	Beauty and the Beast
1990	Sooner Or Later	Dick Tracy
1989	Under the Sea	The Little Mermaid
1988	Let the River Run	Working Girl
1987	(I've Had) The Time of My Life	Dirty Dancing
1986	Take My Breath Away	Top Gun
1985	Say You, Say Me	White Nights
1984	I Just Called to Say I Love You	The Woman In Red
1983	Flashdance...What A Feeling	Flashdance
1982	Up Where We Belong	An Officer and A Gentleman
1981	Arthur's Theme	Arthur
1980	Fame	Fame
1979	It Goes Like It Goes	Norma Rae
1978	Last Dance	Thank God It's Friday
1977	You Light Up My Life	You Light Up My Life
1976	Evergreen	A Star Is Born
1975	I'm Easy	Nashville
1974	We May Never Love Like This Again	The Towering Inferno
1973	The Way We Were	The Way We Were
1972	The Morning After	The Poseidon Adventure
1971	Shaft	Shaft
1970	For All We Know	Lovers and Other Strangers
1969	Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1968	The Windmills of Your Mind	The Thomas Crown Affair
1967	Talk to the Animals	Doctor Doolittle
1966	Born Free	Born Free
1965	The Shadow of Your Smile	The Sandpiper
1964	Chim Chim Cheree	Mary Poppins
1963	Call Me Irresponsible	Papa's Delicate Condition
1962	Days of Wine and Roses	Days of Wine and Roses
1961	Moon River	Breakfast at Tiffany's
1960	Never on Sunday	Never on Sunday
1959	High Hopes	A Hole in the Head
1958	Gigi	Gigi
1957	All The Way	All The Way
1956	Que Sera, Sera	The Man Who Knew Too Much
1955	Love is a Many Splendored Thing	Love is a Many Splendored Thing
1954	Three Coins Iin a Fountain	Three Coins in a Fountain
1953	Secret Love	Calamity Jane
1952	High noon	High noon
1951	In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening	Here Comes the Groom
1950	Mona Lisa	Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1949	Baby It's Cold Outside	Neptune's Daughter
1948	Buttons and Bows	Paleface
1947	Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah	Song of the South
1946	On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe	The Harvey Girls
1945	It Might As Well Be Spring	State Fair
1944	Swingin' On A Star	Going My Way
1943	You'll Never Know	Hello, Frisco, Hello
1942	White Christmas	Holiday Inn
1941	The Last Time I Saw Paris	Lady Be Good
1940	When You Wish Upon A Star	Pinocchio
1939	Over the Rainbow	The Wizard of Oz
1938	Thanks for the Memory	The Big Broadcast of 1938
1937	Sweet Lellani	Waikiki Wedding
1936	The Way You Look Tonight	Swing Time
1935	Lullaby of Broadway	Gold Diggers of 1935
1934	The Continental	The Gay Divorcee
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[doug from upland]

Oh, yes. One of the thugs thanked Jesus during the acceptance.

[originalbuckeye]

What an embarrassment! I can't believe this show was considered a family show. I was completely disgusted that this song won.

[doug from upland]

I am really glad Hollywood did this. It made them all look like pimps.

[twippo]

Interesting to remember that it was initially not rap or hip-hop, but rock/metal music that was the reason albums even started receiving "explicit lyrics" warning labels in the first place.

[bandleader]

Dear Doug,How's about"Homos,Homos On The Rump"?

[Old Sarge]

And look at all of the Disney tunes that are award-winning.

I could press a battalion's worth of uniforms with that mucy iron-y...

[dead]

Didn't you hear Clooney? Hollywood's cutting edge and they don't care what the mainstream thinks.

They gave a black woman an Oscar back in 1938 and Clooney's still bragging about it, even though they didn't give another one out to a black woman for sixty something years. And she wasn't even all black.

This best song Oscar will assuage their white guilt for like two centuries or something. The next black guy to win Best Song hasn't even been born yet. Neither has his daddy, most likely.

[doug from upland]

WILL "WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN" DO?

[doug from upland]

I had the show on in the background while I scraped and painted the ceiling. Yep, he is glad to be out of the mainstream. If he had his way, we would not have defeated the Soviets and won't defeat the Islamofascists.

[My2Cents]

The Oscars has turned into an annual event whereby Hollywood pats itself on the back for opposing everything mainstream and decent in American culture.

[newzjunkey]

In fairness, the Eminem rap "Lose Yourself" seems to have "motherf*****" in its lyric.

But this work is not even on that piece's level. Something's most definitely changed at the Oscars.

[cgk]

The next black guy to win Best Song hasn't even been born yet. Neither has his daddy, most likely.

If this keeps up: Murder by Deception: Black Genocide, there's a good chance that the next black guy to win anything Oscar won't be born at all.

[jazusamo]

When I started reading I thought it was a joke. I see it's not. Asked my wife if she knew, she said she heard some song with dirty language might win. Unbelievable!

[indcons]

The Oscar version is supposed to have been the cleaned-up, family-friendly version of the original. Wonder how "creative" the original one was.

[cgk]

Oscar finds it hard to stomach 'Pimp' lyrics in new flick. Guess this guy isn't going to be consulted for possible winners next year.

[fatima]

But they picked him up at his Mom's house and he had bling for teeth but they had fun and really -really enjoyed their reward .I thought this group was fun-no pretend.

[D-fendr]

Yes, Hollywood, the self-righteous moralizing defenders of the downtrodden minorities and battered women.

Gives their highest award to a song that glamorizes pimps.

Fitting.

[King Prout]

well... many of the previous winners are tunes I would not choose to listen to, either

[perez24]

The only part of the show I saw was Dolly Parton singing a fairly religious-sounding song. From what movie was it?

[DollyCali]

great post doug.. and thanks for the archives of music!

As sound is not a primary (it is tertiary) input for me, I often am not even aware of the music in movies the first time I see them.. but on subsequent viewings usually do note music. And yes, movie fanatic that I am, I see most movies I like multiple times on big screen.

I have a lot of sound tracts of movies .. often there is just one theme or song that is to me key.. Like the sound tract of Price of Egypt..

I hope to eventually make my own CD of these favorite clips.

appreciate the thread .. will read thru rest of posts later..