10 Worst Hip-Hop Love Songs

Welcome to hip-hop week here at VSB.com. I decided that I might as well take a week to look at “love” from a hip-hop standpoint since hip-hop is what I do.

Panama = Hip-Hop.

Bounce bitch.

I’m also sexxy, but you already knew that.

Ahem.

So, today we shall examine some of the worst hip-hop love songs out there.  Ready?  Mmkay.  Allons-y.

What does that mean?  Well, it means that the songs don’t quite exemplify love like as we think of it.ilovehiphop

By the by, this isn’t to say that these songs are bad, they just suck as love songs.  Follow the leader.

(All links are to youtube and will open in a new window.)

10)  LL Cool J – I Need Love

Mostly because I just hate this song.  Like for real.  Hate it.

9)  Luke -  I Wanna Rock (Doo Doo Brown)

I mean, this song isn’t even about love.  Plus, Luke’s too demanding, always shouting out directions.  What woman would stick around (no pun intended) with a man who was always telling her what to do.  That’s not love.

8)  Cam’ron – Hey Ma

What list about love songs is complete without Cam’ron?  And if you consider that “Hey Ma” was supposed to be their softer side song and it still ended up being about getting dome on the Westside Highway, well, love isn’t in the air.  Might be all over the car though.

Heh heh heh.

7)  Ying Yang Twins – Wait (The Whisper Song)

Great song. Just misguided on the love tip.  For one, they whisper too much and women like it when a man proclaims his love loudly.  Then again, if that’s not your thing, then you can just wait til you see his (oooh).

6)  DJ Quik – Sweet Black P*ssy

I mean, one COULD look at it as an ode to Black women everywhere.  Then again, one COULD look at HIV as population control.  It’s not really recommended, however.

“…when we’re hugging and kissing and you want to get mushy girl, you best be prepared to f*ck…”

So impatient.

Great song though.

And since we’re talking about DJ Quik…

5)  Snoop Doggy Dogg and Family – Ain’t No Fun

Sharing is caring and all relationships need more sharing.  Though somehow, I just don’t think this is what Ms. Manners has in mind. The funny thing is that this song is “dedicated” to all the ladies.

4)  AMG – B*tch Betta Have My Money

Now this just happens to be one of the greatest songs of all time.  Of course, you can’t exactly tell your date that and she’ll be like, ‘oh yeah, that song is beautiful’.  Then again, this song is about coming correct with the money and isn’t finances one of the reasons that marriages are failing?  If she comes with the money then they can get their finances straight and people will stay married.  Right???  Heh heh heh.

3)  Poison Clan – I Hate Hoes

First line, “life’s a b*tch, so I married one/but a n*gga in love with a b*tch is very dumb”

Okay then.  You can see where this one is going – nowhere good.  Great damn song though, just kind of down on the love tip which sucks so much since the music just makes me want to hug unicorns.

2)  Dr. Dre – B*tchez Ain’t Sh*t

You know, the sad thing here is that Snoop’s verse is about him having to kill his girl because she was cheating with Daz.  It’s about a gangster who’s heart gets broken and has to pick himself up and overcome.  If it wasn’t for the murder, this song would be on the greatest hip-hop love songs list.

1) RZA – Domestic Violence

Any song where these lyrics figure front and center is on some Ike and Tina stuff.  Gander:

What the fuck y’all birds talking about?
Get the f*ck out my house
‘Fore I grab you by your hair and slap d*ck to your mouth
Bob Digi, yeah you know who is he
Girl, I fucking slave trade your ass like Kizzy Kinte
You wish you could f*ck
Bitch, all you can do is d*ck suck

And just in case you haven’t heard this song, here’s a few lines from the “hook”, and this just RZA’s issues, this doesn’t even mention what his chick is saying:

‘Cause you ain’t shit, and your mother ain’t shit
And your sister ain’t shit, and your pussy ain’t shit
That weave ain’t shit, your ass ain’t shit
Girl you ain’t shit, your daddy ain’t shit

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I actually have a list with at least 30 more songs on it.  So my hip-hop headers, what are some other hip hop songs that are terrible as long songs?

Keep bangin.

-VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka TANGLE JIG P aka YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGBHORHOOD 3

222 thoughts on “10 Worst Hip-Hop Love Songs

  1. you’s a hater.. I need love is a great hip hop love song. Its poetic and soft yet not to in your face or demanding.. its not about s.e.x its about LL needing a chick to hold him …PLUS he used Unfurl …… get outta here..
    I thought you were going to list songs that were billed as love songs but after further interpretation were not. I mean forgive me if Im wrong, but none of the songs besides LL and possibly the camron joint were “love songs” …so making a list saying this non love songs arent love songs is a bit redundant… right?

  2. Soulja Boy’s “Kiss me Through the Phone” —-um, what?

    and Webbie and Letoya had another song about kissing through phones (pronounced as “phoam,” of course) that also made me gag myself with a spoon.

    • @charli skipper, I like kiss me through my phone.. I think its age appropriate and the type of shyt 14 year olds should be listening to

    • @charli skipper, you know Soulja Boy is a genius. he knows how to make songs that suck, but most 12 to 15 years olds dont realize it so they eat it up. and they get their parents to spend money, or they spend their parents money for them.

      and thus, soulja boy is a millionaire and he turns his swag on every morning.

      me? usually around 3pm, if i’m lucky.

  3. oh, and that hurricane chris song. i can’t think of the name or the lyrics but it’s the one that samples some older (good) song and he talks about chex without a rubber with some girl in the jacuzzi. ewwwww.

  4. David Banner and Lil Flip- Like A Pimp
    Nelly ft Kelly Rowland- Dilemma (i mean, if we adding songs we just hated)
    Plies- Bust It Baby (Like for real…who even understands what the h_ll he is even saying?? And then he sampled “Come Back To Me”…everytime the intro was played on the radio i would get all happy, then immediately my stomach turned when i heard his voice)
    DMX- What these B_tches Want? (Mad cuz my name was number 25 on the list…and who wants to be #25?…let me rephrase, cuz it wasnt me in particular he was talking about, but whenever i hear the name Katrina I tend to take it personally)

    • @trin-trin, Plies- Bust It Baby
      and all of the remixes.. I mean he named them different things but all of his radio singles after this one aint nothing but bust it baby over and over and over again……

      • @shay_d_lady, Bust It Baby is one of the best worst songs of all time. hands down its going into the pantheon of terribly great horrible songs.

        that and, “i got monaaaay”

    • @trin-trin,

      DMX- What these B_tches Want? (Mad cuz my name was number 25 on the list…and who wants to be #25?…let me rephrase, cuz it wasnt me in particular he was talking about, but whenever i hear the name Katrina I tend to take it personally)

      lol, anyone who can make a hit song by just naming names for an entire verse is aces in my book

      • @The Champ,
        LOL!!!
        It’s kinda like that Drake/Lil Wayne song where Wayne just starts reciting the alphabet on a verse.

    • AND HOW CAN I FORGET

      21 QUESTIONS- 50 CENT

      THAT JAWN WAS FLAMING HOT DOO-DOO SHYT ON A STICK!!!! AND WOULD BE STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR DAYS IN 11TH GRADE

  5. ummmm cant think of any hip hop songs at the moment but def
    Let’s Get Married by Jagged Edge. thats some bull ISH…

    “we aint gettin’ no younger.. we might as well do it” ??? really, N*gga?!

    • @CoCo,
      I lovededed that song. But I definitely did have to side eye that part. I wish a nucca would try to propose to me like that.

    • @CoCo, ummmm cant think of any hip hop songs at the moment but def
      Let’s Get Married by Jagged Edge. thats some bull ISH…

      “we aint gettin’ no younger.. we might as well do it” ??? really, N*gga?!

      LOL can we also put all of their singles after the first one on this list? its like they made 1 good song and decided to just make sub par versions for the rest of their career…smh

      • @shay_d_lady,

        Thank you!

        I’ve been saying for years that after “Gotta Be,” Jagged Edge’s songs were all the same — in theme, in [slightly off-] key, in everything. I thought I was the only one.

        • @WordSmith,

          jagged edge messed with a lota girls brains on that song I swar after “lets get married came out” breezys was playin it nonstop tryna drop hints. I played along a few times jus ta get some lol

    • @CoCo,

      “we aint gettin’ no younger.. we might as well do it” ??? really, N*gga?!

      Exactly! When I heard people playing that sh*t at weddings I was sooo confused. WTH is romantic or loving about that. “Well, I’m past my prime. Nobody else is checking for me or will put up with my lameness. I might as well go ahead and get with you. Aren’t you happy?!? You should be happy!” Eff that.

    • @CoCo,

      I honestly never caught that until you just mentioned that. Does seem like a terrible reason to get married to say the least. Might as well have a baby too I ain’t got nothin to do Sunday lol

    • @CoCo, VSB: Where kneegrows extrapolate meanings out of songs that the writer clearly did not intend

  6. First of all, when I’m alone in my room I DO sometimes stare at my wall and in the back of my mind I DO hear my conscience call…so stop hating!

    But hip-hop love songs that suck.

    1.) ’03 Bonnie and Clyde – Boooo!
    2.) Shawty by Plies – Double Boooo!
    3.) What’s Luv by Fat Joe & Ashanti – Triple Booooo!
    4.) Hey Lover by LL Cool J – I prefer videos/songs where LL eats peaches and watches a peep show. (I’m all about that. Word)
    5.) All I Need by Meth & Mary J. Blige – I might catch h*lla flack for this but you don’t mess with Marvin. Period. Though I can’t fade Meth I want to choke MJB throughout. YOU DON’T MESS WITH MARVIN.

    Bonus track (though actually R&B not hip-hop) –

    My Boo – Usher & Alicia Keys. I hate overproduced, simple-minded, made specifically to get mainstream airplay, trying too hard to be a hit tracks. Alicia Keys really lowered herself on this song. Its like when Eddie Murphy followed his performance in Dreamgirls with Norbit.

    • @Madame Zenobia,
      yass. this is a good list. i had forgotten all about “what’s luv.” i’m so glad those two jumped the shark.

    • @Madame Zenobia,

      “I hate overproduced, simple-minded, made specifically to get mainstream airplay, trying too hard to be a hit tracks”

      so basically you hate when professional artists try to actually make money?

      • @The Champ,
        Naw, I’m not saying I hate it when people try to make loot. I just hate a song like that where its made specifically to be on the radio every half hour on the half hour and has no substantive value whatsoever out of an artist like Alicia Keys. I guess I can let that sh*t slide with Usher, but Alicia can actually play and sing. Don’t get me wrong I’m not knocking “pop” truth be told I’ve felt Britney Spears’ last two singles (Womanizer & that Circus song) but there’s a difference to me between tracks like “The Real Slim Shady” or “Without Me” that have catchy hooks and are radio-ready but are still quintessentially Eminem versus a song like “My Boo” which is just some manufactured, overproduced beats paired with recycled mad-libs lyrics bullsh*t track marketed to dumba** sophomores in high school who think they’re so mad in love and My Boo is the deepest sh*t since Footsteps in the Dark.

    • @Madame Zenobia,

      “5.) All I Need by Meth & Mary J. Blige – I might catch h*lla flack for this but you don’t mess with Marvin. Period. Though I can’t fade Meth I want to choke MJB throughout. YOU DON’T MESS WITH MARVIN”

      Blasphemy. I rebuke you for that comment.

      • @mssmtaylor,
        REBUKE!?! That’s funny. I’m sorry. I grew up listening to Marvin and all the old school. Honest to goodness I wasn’t allowed to listen to hip-hop until I was 14. No BS. So while I dig Meth’s lyrics, MJB drives me nuts. Though I heard them perform it live somewhere and I did like it – that one time.

    • @Madame Zenobia,
      Hey Lover!?! You just hated!! That song was fire….

      But i think the was song EVER is by some chick I don’t know her name but I know the corny a** line:

      “I’m not afraid of lions and tigers and bears, but I’m afraid of loving you…”

      WTF! B**** are you serious ?

  7. Not a hip-hop song but I think it was R. Kelly who made that song Half on a Baby. Seriously. Half on a Baby. Tell me I’m not the only one who sees a problem with this.

    • @A-Town Genius,

      But it’s such a good chex song! LOL I do agree tho, he makes it seem like they’re going out to dinner and wanna go dutch.

    • @A-Town Genius,

      Everyone always talks about how much a genius Chester R. Kelly is but he has some pretty terrible songs in his catalogue:

      -Half On a Baby
      -You Remind Me of My Jeep
      -Ignition (Remix)
      -Move Your Body Like a Snake
      -Feeling on Your Booty
      …etc….

      F-ck R. Kelly (yeah i said it)

      • @Naturally Alise,
        I hate that Feeling on Your Booty song. It’s so dumb and juvenille (then again look who we are talking about). Kelly was almost a senior citizen when he wrote it.

      • @Naturally Alise,
        I dunno Kells used ta have the panties droppin hella quick. Chocoalte factory was the shizzzzzzz. I like Kells on the mic but cant co-sign for him off the mic

      • @Naturally Alise, and these are just a sampling of Kels’ hits… he also has a lesser known song about making jungle love that I had the displeasure of hearing a little while ago… complete with jungle noises such as “oooh oooh oooh ahh ahh ahh”

      • @Naturally Alise,

        I feel you. I’ve always felt R. Kelly’s genius was in the melodies he used and never ever the lyrics. Not gonna lie though some Kells and a VSS makes for a long and successful night

  8. 1. 504 Boys: I Can Tell (just too explicit)
    2. Jaime Foxx: Just Like Me (why is T.I. rapping about cheating?)
    3. Rick Ross: Here I Am (Rawse- ‘nough said)
    4. Jadakiss: Knock Yourself Out (it’s a hot song, but there’s nothing romantic about it)

  9. Anything that the Black Eyed Peas have made since adding Fergie to the group.

    Mystikal’s “P(You fill in the blanks) Crook”-Even though it makes me laugh uncontrollably.

    Two Recent ones that have made me say WTF?
    Plies f/Ashanti “Want It Need It”-I think I’m more upset they jacked up that sample by the Deele
    Mike Jones f/ Ashanti “Next To You”- You see where I’m going with Ashanti?

    Duice-Dazzey Dukes—I still have this cassette single. *wall slide*

    That’s all I got right now…lol

  10. 1) Luke – Work It Out

    2) Kool G Rap – Talk Like Sex

    3) Mase – Tell Me What You Want
    (I still have beef with this dude and Jay-Z for making pretty boys think they could be hard)

    4) Hot Boyz – I Need A Hot Girl

    5) Missy Elliot – Hot Boyz
    (How are you going to make a song about liking street dudes and have Ginuwine in the video?)

  11. Killa – Suck it or not

    This song is easily one of the greatest worst hip hop love songs of all time. Plus any chick getting wild to it in the club is down for the slide.

      • @The Champ,

        1. Hey Ma
        2. Dead or Alive
        3. Down and Out
        4. Suck it or Not
        5. Crunk Muzik
        6. Dipset Anthem
        7. Certified Gangstas (remix or original) (Outstanding Cam line quoting Wizard of Oz)
        8. S.A.N.T.A.N.A Town
        9. S.A.N.T.A.N.A Town Part II
        10. Birds Fly High

        In fact that entire mixtape where Weezy and Jeezy were honorary members of dipset. I’m bout to dig into the iTunes crate….

    • @Dorian G., great great selection. i actually fought with myself for a while about which Cam song was going to make it. i just knew that at LEAST one Cam song was going to make it.

  12. *”Ice Cream” by Raekwon and the Wu – Although it’s a great song, the love quality gets lost in lines like “Watch these rap n*ggas get all up in yo’ guts” and “Ice cold b*tches melt down when in my clutch / And want they t*tties sucked, ice cream”.

    *”Have You Seen Her” by MC Hammer – I, for one, can really appreciate Hammer and what he did for the game, but this has got to be in the top five worst songs ever. From beginning to end, there is not one redeeming quality in this song.

    *”Georgie Porgie” by MC Lyte – Am I the only one that ever notices how this song starts off really nice and suddenly takes a drastic change for the worse? It’s like one minute, she’s talking about how great this guy is and then she flips the script talkin’ ’bout how he has cancer and he kills himself in a car accident. It just came out of the blue to me.

    *Off topic*
    The best hip hop love song of all time is “What’s On Your Mind” by Eric B. And Rakim.

    • @Monk,
      *”Georgie Porgie” by MC Lyte – Am I the only one that ever notices how this song starts off really nice and suddenly takes a drastic change for the worse? It’s like one minute, she’s talking about how great this guy is and then she flips the script talkin’ ’bout how he has cancer and he kills himself in a car accident. It just came out of the blue to me.

      You’re not the only one…lol
      Remember the video? Tragedy.

      • @Carver The Great!,

        mine is “i love you like i love my d*ck size”.

        actually, on second thought, i prefer “i want you for self like wealth” because of its efficiency.

      • @Carver The Great!,
        Speaking of Adina Howard…I just a picture of her on TMZ and all I can say is wow.

    • @Monk,

      ice cream is the shizzzzz
      i like ” can you turn around again, dam backyard banging……..”

      dont hate on hammer
      -except for that one video he made with a speedo on he got kicked outa oakland for that

    • @Monk, great observations. and you’re right about Ice Cream. it’s a veritable smorgasboard of ghetto love isms.

      what’s sad is that, is you can say some of that shit to some women and they’ll think its sweet. kind of like the gift that keeps on giving.

  13. DJ Somebody (can’t remember his name) and Hurricane Chris – Superstar (Halle Berry)

    I mean, it’s nice you’re attempting to flatter me, but please don’t compare me with quite possibly the most beautiful mostly black woman on the planet. I’m a bad b*tch, but not that bad. And you’re getting my hopes up.

  14. LL’s song was a classic!! I remember back in the day a dude who liked me played that to me over the phone. I cried LOL!

    Heavy D’s “Dont You Know” has to be the worst love song from back in the day.

    Most of the new LOVE songs are horrid. That BIRTHDAY SEX song makes me cringe. I heard a version with Weezy (I THINK??) singing that actually scared me!!

      • One guy in high school tried to quote it to me because he thought my middle class self didn’t listen to rap music.

        That Ninja was serious too, talkin bout some, “You know Aif…I like you. When I’m alone in my room, sometimes I stare at the wall, blah blah blah”

        And I was like “Sir…I know that’s LL Cool J. Please try again.”

        The phone was quiet for like 2 minutes after that while he re-thought his strategy, lmao

  15. Chickenhead by Project Pat…

    best line ever: what? you need some gum, breath like some thunder, what you lookin at, i don’t want yo phone number

  16. how could you leave off my all-time favorites?

    1. choke me spank me pull my hair – xzibit

    “i know you love the way i’m diggin it out / i know it’s hard to talk with all this dyck in ya mouth”

    “just look how she fit in them jeans, it ain’t fair / she get off too quick when i’m pullin her hair / i’m the only ninja that can take ya there / i ain’t the only one flucking and i don’t care”

    2. wildflower – ghostface

    the first line of the song is:
    “yo bytch i flucked your friend! yeah, you stank ho!”

    shall i continue? of course i shall…he then goes on to say…

    “my dyck’s the bomb baby / marvelous hard snake / plus i’m conceited / i make the biggest ho call rape”

  17. I’ll trump you all…
    The greatest love song was ” I luh huh” by Akinyele before his “Put It In Your Mouth” fame.

    “My girl is pregnant, I’m ready to start splitting
    All around the town on the down low was the girl that I was hitting
    Everyone knows I used to luh huh
    I don’t want this pregnant talk to get back to my mother
    Shit! I just can’t believe it
    I thought me and this lady had came to a mutual agreement
    But I was dead wrong, her trick was evil and ill
    All along girlfriend I though you was still on the pill
    Step to the G-Y-N
    The gynecologist, miss, so we can put this to an END ”

    Oh yeah it gets better

    “That belly blows up, it’s gonna be trouble
    Imma have to play like a pin and come pop that bubble
    Find Chucky if you want child’s play
    I’ll give your azz a hanging and drop you off in an alleyway
    This is a diary of a black man
    By making no alimony payments due to no wedding bands
    So ax that talk about MARRAGE
    Miss, you must of misunderstood, I want you to have a MISCARRAGE
    I’m fed up, and sorry that I’ve done it
    I’m ready to set her up and have my little man kick her in the stomach
    Or punch my fist through that naval
    Cause I’ll be damned if this be the hand that rocks the cradle
    Or push her down a flight of steps
    I don’t care or give a heck ”

    This dude got paid off of PIYM so here’s one for misogyny.

  18. the champ’s top five that haven’t been mentioned yet

    1. “dogsh*t” by odb

    basically, any song that contains the following…

    “here comes grover sniffing at your ass/pardon me b*tch while i sh*t on your grass/that means, ho, you’ve been sh*tted on/i’m not the first dog that sh*tted on your lawn”

    …deserves recognition

    2. “is that yo b*tch” by jigga, bleek, and missy

    3. “wouldn’t get far” by the game and kanye west

    4. “oochie wally” by nas and the bravehearts

    5. “b*tches from eastwick” by the lox (any track where you bag, bone, rob, and murder a crew of chicks also deserves recognition)

    ***dishonorable mention*** “kim” by eminem (the most vicious of the numerous songs where he references his babymomma)

  19. **temporarily de-lurking**

    I just really feel Luv in Ya Mouth by Kilo Ali should get a mention…that is all….**goes back to lurking**

  20. Good get it poppin songs

    1) twista – get it wet- dont hate ya know ya chick likes it
    2) Ghost Face- Camay- extra smooth
    3) 2pac- thug passion/toss it up/gimme a call/are you still down w.jon b/- yea tha 90′s was poppin
    4) TI – lets get away- mayne that one used ta get it crackin
    5) Juve- Slow motion- mayne nuff said

    bad poppin songs

    1) anything from dipset
    2) anything from a rapper under 21
    3) anything from plies/jaime foxx/ ross/
    4) anything from puffy/jayz

    • @BLUNTBLAZER, AYE YO! chiiiiiiiiil talkin about Foxx like that. Yeah the last album was some trash. but his first album (I mean the FIRST one “Peep This”) was crack for the ladies “infactuation” “love wont let me wait” and then “Unpredictable” say what you will…but some of those tracks got the vagina panties droppin all over my dorm room. Stop fakin Jax.

  21. I believe there was a song by the 69 boys that was wildly popular in my college days at good old FAMU called “D**k in ya life” that might deserve an honorable mention even though it’s no more a love song than “B*&%^ better have my money”….

    As an aside both of those songs could swiftly get me on the dance floor back in the day….. come to think of it they both probably still could…especially if I’ve had a drink or two

  22. Some older ones…

    NWA – Just Don’t Bite It/She Swallowed It
    MC Ren – Behind the Scenes
    Too Short – Freaky Tales
    Geto Boys – Gangster of Love
    Stetsasonic – Faye
    Diamond D – Sally Got A One Track Mind
    King Sun – Undercover Lover

  23. WARNING: this has absolutely nothing to do with anything but since we’ve covered this topic before and i have nothing else to add since i need love is the sh!t…..

    i love her and all and the actual message was nice but…

    my mama just sent me a jesus is watching so pass this on or your life will end at 2:03 pm text.

    *wail*

    *wall slide*

    *delete*

      • @blackberry molasses,

        lol. i think that little skit was one of my best works. it still makes me chuckle.

        but what if i didn’t really erase it so much as read it and think ‘awwwww’ and then immediately rolled my eyes at the tacked on jesus threat and closed it?

    • @SouthernGirl,

      You know religion has infiltrated everything when you can be fired and brimstoned through text.

  24. Nobody mentioned “F*ck Faces” by Scarface and that weird looking guy who couldn’t really sing…

  25. i HAVE to add SPLACKAVELLIE.
    wth is that crap? i was like in elem school when it came out and i thought it was dumb then… lol

  26. You probably didn’t realize it (or maybe you did because I remember you saying you a wu tang stan) but the whole Bobby Digital thing was a whole character for RZA, not just an alias. Bobby Digi is his characterization of a hedonistic cat that only cares about his shit. The whole album is basically a return to baser instincts. Not to be on some rhodes scholar shit, but I’m a big wu tang stan.

  27. Wow, Some Of You Guys Dont Know What REAL Hip Hop Is.

    Bunch Of F U C K I NG
    Mainstream Bullshit.

    You Want A Good Love Song?
    Check Out Atmosphere, The Roots, Tonedeff, Jean Grae, Blue Scholars,
    Thats REAL Hip Hop For You, Not That Stupid LL Cool J, Plies, Soulja Boy Bullshii.

    My Sources?
    Im An Underground Hip-Hop Head ;)

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  29. Your smokin bass with some of the songs u put on there…Skinny jeans must be cuttin off your oxygen

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