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chart and put the rapper’s real name — Montero Lamar Hill — right up front in the title, though not in the lyrics.
Shakira also gave it a shot on her 2005 global smash “Hips Don’t Lie,” in which she made her name into an incantation in the first verse, but outsourced the self-love to Wyclef, who intones, “No fighting/ We got the refugees up in here / No fighting/ Shakira, Shakira,” then going on to name-check the topliner no less than 10 times total.
And rockers aren’t immune to naming themselves in tunes, either.
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