The typical mood of this crew (which is signed to Eminem's Shady Records) is lunchroom-table dour. Here, though, while a sampled Biggie shouts a mantra ("Lyrically, I'm untouchable"), member Royce da 5'9" points a way forward: "We not social/On Twitter, we block Oprah and Deepak Chopra." Guys! Was that . . . a joke?

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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."