"If you ain't talkin' money, we ain't talkin'!" "We'll be legendary!" When DJ Khaled speaks up on a record, you can expect an exclamation point (or six) to be attached. Khaled isn't exactly a musician. He's a personality, a ringleader, a brand. He gets just three co-producer credits here. Mostly his job is to gather A-list MCs and singers (Drake, Cee Lo, Mary J. Blige, Lil Wayne), reel in skilled producers (Danja, Lex Luger) and bellow exclamatory catchphrases over enormous beats. As usual, his imperial victory-march hip-hop songs are fun, and mildly exhausting.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."