By Eska Mtungwazi (2013)
On album ESKA (2013)

…to do?
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I'm just another shade of blue
Baby, baby, baby, baby
No matter how we try to
Shake it baby, break…
…it baby
I'm just another shade of blue
Baby, baby, baby, baby
[Verse 2]
Pretty darling
If it's over then we've got to leave it, and learn to let it go
This is only…
…baby
No matter how we try to
Shake it baby, break it baby
I'm just another shade of blue, yeah
Baby, baby, baby, baby
[Post-Chorus…
By Tarnation (1997)
On album Mirador (1997)

…lie behind an awful shade of blue ?
In a place of reckoning I keep returning to.
And we return back to the place where words belong…
…in an awful shade of blue.
I sit and listen to an awful shade of blue,
And through the creeping dust that I am listening…
…words belong, in an awful shade of blue.
There's no sense in cryin', it is only a shade of blue.

…[Verse]
Photographs of yard sales
Taken way back when
Zoom in on the details
I remember us
Starting our collections
Buttons…
On our backs we carried around
All the bits that felt like they'd be sticking around a while
End of summer laying around…
…on my backpack
It's the only one I've gotten on my own
Your's is blue (mine is blue)
My favourite shade (your favourite shade)
Yes it's…

…[Chorus: Tia Tia]
I spin a shade of blue
I don't know what to do
But I'll see you in the morning
Baby, I'm no fool
Yeah, you…
…can't think, water in my ears
It's hard to еnd a story we been livin' in for years, yeah
[Chorus: Tia Tia, Powfu & Both]
I spin a shadе of blue…
…that sticky note that said we never could last, we didn't
[Chorus: Tia Tia]
I spin a shade of blue
I don't know what…

…-Chorus: V]
At a dusky park
A nameless bird that sings
Where are you
Oh you
Why are you crying
You and I are the only ones here
Me…
…and you
Oh you
[Chorus: V]
Following into the deep night
The sound of you singing
Brings the red morning
A step, and another step…
…the red morning
A step, and another step
The dawn passes
And when that moon falls asleep
The blue shade that stayed with me disappears…

…-Chorus: V]
At a dusky park
A nameless bird that sings
Where are you
Oh you
Why are you crying
You and I are the only ones here
Me…
…into the deep night
The sound of you singing
Brings the red morning
A step, and another step
The dawn passes
And when that moon falls asleep
The blue…
…the red morning
A step, and another step
The dawn passes
And when that moon falls asleep
The blue shade…

…the ones we forget and the ones we've forgiven
In a world of confessions
How simple this could be
If we only learned our lessons
Are we…
…seein ghosts
Or is this real love
[Chorus]
I want you to know
Because of you
My world is now returning to
The right shade of blue…
…]
I want you to know
Because of you
My world is now returning to
The right shade of blue
And I just want to say
Thank you
There's…

Hello, blue roses, won't you dance a while?
A kiss to burn beneath your smile
Hello, blue roses, if you only knew…
That roses, roses, roses, roses
Don't grow
That shade of blue
Really, merely, where we going to next?
Save me from this town's hex
Oh, whoa…
Hello, blue roses, if you only knew
That roses, roses, roses, roses
Roses, roses, roses, roses
Roses, roses, roses, roses
Don't grow
That shade of blue…
By LJ III
On album Ginosko

One time for the dead ancestors that survived the stretch over
It's hard when they start from the middle passage
To have a frame of…
To be blind is disrespectful to the God that made us
If He had kings
Then we reigned too
Whether (weather) you agree
We feel the rain blue
Winds on us
Just…
…they say are lies and invented
Then I guess the news is only a source of truth when it's relevant
Don't you realize you're bragging on something that you inherited…

Bunko & Wavey Davey]
S-H-A-D-E the bakers mobbin' in the streets (Okay)
We throw so much shade you think you find us…
…in the trees (We up there)
We throwing shade
We throwing shade (Too much shade)
We throwing shade (Yeah yeah)
Don't give a fuck what you say…
…but you killed it with a fight
Said you didn't want to catch feelings but you'll catch these hands tonight
We throwing shade
Don't give a…

Thompson, mobbin', with a green plastic shade
Over my visor, watchin' thesе cops inside of that purple Datsun
Keep the door locked, man…
…they can keep knockin'
I got a briefcase full of cash and a paper bag full of oxycontin
Light up a rollie and I drop a deuce
I…
…cock a twenty-two, I'm the trailer park 2Pac off of "Juice"
Plus I got Memphis blood, don't knock the blue suede shoes
I got…
…[Verse 1]
This call is just a small thing to you
And I am just a phase you're going through
This shade of blue nearly makes me…
…to watch the light we were losing
This shade of you nearly makes me want to stay, stay, stay
Another girl
Another day
[Interlude]
"Yet…
…in those first weeks, time seemed to have frozen. The city felt familiar though I knew next to nothing about it. We had landed, it seemed, in the landscape of a…
By Yung Mal (2019)
On album Iceburg (2019)

…maze
One of one jeans, these the only ones made (One of one)
All of this ice, it must be a ice age (Ice age)
My future too bright…
…gotta keep us some shade (Shade, ah)
She wan' rock the mic, put the dick in her face
I fuck with your type, we can fuck and get paid…
…it up)
[Chorus: Gunna]
We got too many sticks, yeah, we ready for war
Sippin' that syrup out the pint, oh
I got blue cheese out the bank, oh…

…dress is richly figured
And the train
Makes a pink and silver stain
On the gravel, and the thrift
Of the borders
Just a plate of…
…current fashion
Tripping by in high-heeled, ribboned shoes
Not a softness anywhere about me
Only whalebone and brocadе
And I sink on a seat in the shade
Of a…
…waterdrops
In the marble fountain
Comes down the garden-paths
The dripping never stops
Underneath my stiffened gown
Is the softness of a…
By Ideal, Benny The Butcher, October London
…? We all from the sewer (We all from the hood)
'Cause bein' an entrepreneur is like a narcissist to 'em
But I broke down…
…acrobats at circuses
'Cause they lack the facts they had to have to capture that we purchased it
Before I had a rap sheet, we ran…
…that had us worrying
My path was that of a trap king 'til this rap dream diverted it
I learned your past ain't permanent, it's action…