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Top 15 Hip-Hop Songs Referencing Steve Jobs

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Even in death, Steve Jobs will continue to be a key player in the hip-hop and R&B world. By cementing the foundation of the musical digital age we live in, artists of any age, sex and race are able to create and perfect their craft anywhere, even in their parents' garage, as Jobs once did.

 

In memory of the Apple icon, here are The Juice's top 15 songs referencing Jobs and his impact as a tech innovator, in no specific order.

 

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1. Jay-Z - "The Prelude"

 

"Head and shoulders, my invisible neck/ You see Hova, wasn't digital yet/ Befo' Steve Jobs, made the iPod/ Was getting head, jobs, we call that intimate."

 

2. Diggy Simmons - "Made You Look" (Freestyle)

 

"I made you look/ Y'all are slaves to a page in my MacBook/ They didn't know I could rap/ I had them all shook."

 

3. Jamie Foxx feat. Kanye West, The-Dream - "Digital Girl"

 

"I want to see what's under there/ There now put it in the air/ Yeah load it on my MacBook Air/ It's a new form of macking, don't be old fashioned."

 

4. Rick Ross feat. Lil Wayne - "9 Piece"

 

"I'm smoking dope, I'm on my cell phone/ I'm selling dope, straight off the iPhone."

 

5. Fabolous feat. Paul Cain- "Steve Jobs"

 

"Getting mo' money it come with mo' problems, man/ I used to be Mac'ing but now I'm Steve Jobbin,' man"

 

6. Mindless Behavior feat. Diggy Simmons - "Mrs. Right"

 

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"Let me kiss ya back/ Open up your MacBook/ Put me on your lap/ Stay sending smiley faces on the chat"

 

7. Common - "Southside"

 

"Back in '94 they call me Chi-town's Nas/ Now them ni**as know I'm one of Chi-town's gods/ We eatin', yo, you still talking no carbs/ A conscious ni**a with mac like Steve Jobs"

 

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