Ain't What You Do
"Ain't What You Do" is a single released in 2003 by the UK hip hop/R&B group Big Brovaz. The single is the fifth and final single taken from Big Brovaz' 2002 debut album, Nu-Flow.
"Ain't What You Do" became Big Brovaz' fifth UK hit but their first to miss the top ten, peaking at number fifteen and spending seven weeks inside the top seventy-five of the UK Singles Chart. The single was not released in Australia.
"Ain't What You Do" is based on Fun Boy Three and Bananarama's collaboration "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)".
Track listing
UK CD 1
UK CD 2
References
Epiphany (Chrisette Michele album)
Epiphany is the second studio album by American R&B and soul singer–songwriter Chrisette Michele, released May 5, 2009 on Def Jam Recordings in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2008 to 2009. In January 2009, the title track "Epiphany" was released as its lead single.
Epiphany debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, while selling 83,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics, based on an aggregate score of 71/100 from Metacritic.
Background
Chrisette Michele told Billboard's Mariel Concepcion that her new album would be "more upbeat and youthful". Production for the album was handled by Chuck Harmony, Claude Kelly, Bei Maejor, and Ne-Yo.
Michele says one of her favorite tracks is the piano-based "Blame It on Me", in which she croons, "Blame it on me/Say it's my fault/Say I left you out in the cold with a broken heart/I really don't care/I'm not crying no more/Say I'm a liar, a cheater, say anything that you want/As long as it's over." "On My Own", Michele says, reminds her of her father. "I'm very close to my dad, but recently I've learned how to handle situations on my own, without having him step in for me, and it took a lot of me to be able to do that", she admits.
You Do
"You Do" is a McAlmont and Butler single, released in November 1995 and part of their debut album The Sound Of... McAlmont & Butler. The single charted at number 17 on the UK singles chart.
Single track listings
CD1
CD2
References
Ain
Ain (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃]; Arpitan: En) is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. Being part of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and bordered by the rivers Saône and Rhône, the department of Ain enjoys a privileged geographic situation. It has an excellent transport network (TGV, highways) and benefits from the proximity to the international airports of Lyon and Geneva.
Ain is composed of four geographically different areas (Bresse, Dombes, Bugey and Pays de Gex) which – each with its own characteristics – contribute to the diversity and the dynamic economic development of the department. In the Bresse agriculture and agro-industry are dominated by the cultivation of cereals, cattle breeding, milk and cheese production as well as poultry farming. In the Dombes, pisciculture assumes greater importance as does wine making in the Bugey. The high diversification of the department's industry is accompanied by a strong presence of the plastics sector in and around Oyonnax (so-called "Plastics Valley").
Ayin
Ayin or Ayn is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʿAyin 
, Hebrew ʿAyin ע, Aramaic ʿĒ 
, Syriac ʿĒ ܥ, and Arabic ʿAyn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). ﻉ comes twenty‐first in the New Persian alphabet and eighteenth in Arabic hijaʾi order.
The ʿayin glyph in these various languages represents, or has represented, a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/), or a similarly articulated consonant, which has no equivalent or approximate substitute in the sound‐system of English. There are many possible transliterations.
Origins
The letter name is derived from Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- "eye", and the Phoenician letter had an eye-shape, ultimately derived from the ı͗r hieroglyph
To this day, ʿayin in Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, and Maltese means "eye" and "spring" (ʿayno in Neo-Aramaic).
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Ο, Latin O, and Cyrillic О, all representing vowels.
The sound represented by ayin is common to much of the Afrasiatic language family, such as the Egyptian, Cushitic, and Semitic languages. Some scholars believe that the sound in Proto-Indo-European transcribed h3 was similar, though this is debatable. (See Laryngeal theory.)
Ain (spring)
An ain is a spring in North Africa, which reaches the surface as a result of an artesian basin and is of particular importance in arid regions. It can produce a flow of water directly or result in evaporitic saline crusts. Known examples are found in the oases of the Tunisian region of Bled el Djerid and in the entire area around the depressions of Chott el Djerid and Chott el Gharsa. Here, there are water-bearing strata, usually of sand or sandstone, that act as aquifers in their function.
Podcasts:
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by Big Brovaz
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Ain't What You Do
by: Big BrovazLadies and gentlemen,
they're back once again
and I hope you've all been listening
The Big Brovaz collective are definitely here to stay
And here is what they have to say
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
That's right, I mean that's why we love you guys
You're so creative and very innovated... really
And that's what gets results
BIG BRO YEAH!
If you put your mind to it
you can do what you want
you can see that we did it look
what we've gone through
It wasn't easy but we did what
we had to, just to get results
You need to understand
anything is possible
Don't be afraid to show who
you are and what you know
Just do your own thing,
go ahead and find the time to
perfect what you do in life
Freeze pauze, let
me show y'all
Who's simply the best
it's Big Bro y'all
We always come correct
we never go phoney
And that's what makes
us hot, we won't stop
We came here to school you,
because life's an exam
You wanna pass, being
best is crucial
Now these are just a couple of
words you should get used to
It ain't what you do it's how
you do what you do do
Chorus:
It ain't what you do it's
the way that you do it
It ain't what you do it's
how best you can do it
It ain't what you do it's
the time that you do it
And that's what gets results
So you want the
whole enchilada
Evisu and the prada
New car new house
that's more hotter
That's more money so
you've gotta work harder
And that's what gets
results trust me
You wanna wake up
to breakfast first thing
And all them ice and
jewels that go bling
So you gotta just put
the work in
Cause that's what gets
results trust me
People listen to the
rhythm as we take control
Moving to the beat
like never before
Click your fingers
and nod your head
Let me know that
you're feeling this
Stop this, is what I
hear you saying
Stop this, I'm driving you
insane I say stop this
Music keeps the vibe when
we live it our timing
It's our way that
we're doing this
Chorus
Bridge
I'm just keeping it real
The same me like
before the deal
Still rip up beats the
same street appeal
Still making it hot the
heat you can feel
People like damn Rocky
man you need to chill
Big Brovaz blowing up
now switch the game
Nu Flow was rowdy but
can y'all do it again
No doubt and even better
put the raps together
With the R&B everybody
telling me
Chorus
Outro