most pathetic excuse for wordplay in Young Money's "Bedrock"

I can't even

i feel like these kids must sit on the tourbus all day making hamfisted puns and then laughing way too hard at them

and then saying "how can we shoehorn that into an R&B song?"

I am kinda lmbo at the grocery bag line

the way some dude wrote it, i imagine it all by Jim Jones

call me Mr. Jim Jones, I can make your head hurt

great poll

call me Jim Jones... I can
http://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/Kool-AidMan.jpg

ha ha, I was just talking about the strained shit going on in these lyrics with my friends yesterday, I reckon it's gotta be Nicki Minaj. The hook is catchy as fuck tho, tbh

Kill at Will? Solid water? Ice Cube!

solid water/ice cube is like high art compared to some of the shit in this song

ONCE AGAIN TIGHT PRODUCTION MAKES UP FOR SHORTCOMINGS ELSZEWHERE

I am in awe of the grocery bag line. What's the context in the song?

brb Youtubing

Do you know who makes ladies hottt?

http://madmonq.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/fred_flintstone.jpg

okay lmbo right along with Rev, this is wau

"maybe it's time to put this pussy on ya sideburns" - you know, maybe it is!

Went with Mr. Flintstone cuz I think it's weird calling Fred Mister.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d41K4PBWQJg

just so everyone is on the same page here

ASBESTOS!!!!

hahaha i'm fucking dying @ this poll - <3 u ship

i think we might need to poll ever song on the young money album, such entertainment

anyway, i voted for this

I keep her running back and forth...SOCCER TEAM!!! (Lil Wayne)

really anything lil wayne has rapped in the past year applies, but sheesh - minaj is really fucking bad at this too of course - the bedrock/stevie wonder lines are bad but so commonplace that they don't even scan

the worst example of this imo is drake in "forever"

swimmin in the money, come and find me - NEMO/ if i was in the club you know i'd ball - CHEMO

if i ever met drake i would wretch his torn acl for those two

the way she hems and haws and fills the whole first bar of her verse with "okay i get it let me think i guess it's my turn" drives me insane xpost

even though i think Jae Millz in Young Money is kind of weird and depressing and he doesn't seem to have any idea what he's doing there, i kind of like that the NYC battle rapper is somehow the only guy on the song that doesn't drop some boneheaded wordplay

yeah i think they should kick him out for papoose

haha i'm listening to the Fall Out Boy song where Lil Wayne goes "dear gravity, you held me down" and wondering if maybe Pete Wentz is his full-time ghostwriter now

"hot as a summer's eve" O_O

is that ricky bobby line in the rappers lovin will ferrel thread?

haha yes, posted it a few weeks ago

i basically thought i'd misheard all of these at first - SADLY NOT - even as a minaj stan i have to say her verse here is terrible (and yet one of the better ones) and the "ok, let me think about it" first line pisses me off as much as it does shipz

I Love your sushi rolls
hotter then wasabi
i race for your love
shake-n-bake
ricky bobby

the grocery bag is easily the funniest for sheer confusion

but i refuse to believe that someone actually just said "she's watchin that oxygen, i'm watchin espn"

this just continues to boggle the mind

all i know at this point is that it's not the mr. flintstone line, which at least is an actual bad pun instead of an attempted bad pun that isn't even a pun.

Lyrically, this song is a poster child for the "stay in school" movement.

i feel like these kids must sit on the tourbus all day making hamfisted puns and then laughing way too hard at them

― some dude, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 8:56 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do i detect some professional jealousy here

just fyi i think the "grocery bag" line is referring to the fact that grocery bags "got" things, inside them

Thanks for clearing that up!

i make bad puns irl all the time but i feel sufficiently embarrassed about it and my wife usually rolls her eyes. puns are like promiscuity or junk food, it's just not right to enjoy them without feeling at least a little but of shame.

just fyi i think the "grocery bag" line is referring to the fact that grocery bags "got" things, inside them

still don't understand

he's got a girl like a bag's got ketchup

mariah already did "we can ketchup like tomato" on her album

R&B singers trying to do punchlines is such a :( trend -- still can't believe Trey Songz said "tryna get you home-r, would you be Marge Simpson?"

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

just fyi i think the "grocery bag" line is referring to the fact that grocery bags "got" things, inside them

i was actually kind of going "what? huh?" at this. i'm still not entirely convinced

apparently the full line in the explicit version is "I got her, nigga...grocery bag." this doesn't really clear anything up, though.

im not really standing by the "grocery bags 'got' things" interpretation but its the only one that even approaches the world of meaning to me

The best I can come up with that is an incredibly clumsy riff on the slang term "bag", although what "grocery" is supposed to add is a total mystery to me unless Gudda Gudda is an ILX lurker and that is a reference to his grocery groin.

yeah, you're definitely right. still, the gulf between intent and execution has left us all pondering the mysterious synapses firing off in Gudda Gudda's brain.

xpost

btw GG's "I'll let you be the judge/ and I'm the case" was a glaring omission on my part when making this poll

puns are like promiscuity or junk food, it's just not right to enjoy them without feeling at least a little but of shame.

i think you mean "it's wrong to enjoy puns without feeling a little shame...JUNK FOOD!!!"

I feel like we should be blaming Kanye for this type of rhyme construction but that's probably not right.

this guy

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_imUzo8FIZDw/ShdxmPmeYRI/AAAAAAAAEho/avnHmHOYKrU/s400/guddagudda.jpg

gudda gudda island

i think Wayne himself kinda pioneered the new school of shamelessly stupid punchlines and juvenile poop/pop culture references and Kanye, Young Money, etc. are mainly following his lead, although he may have been following Cam'ron's lead to an extent too. There's always been a strain of this stuff in rap, though, it just used to be more in balance. Biggie would say "girls pee pee when they see me" but he'd also say something actually clever in the same song.

ha yeah, I was specifically thinking the "rambling sentence to set up... ARBITRARY UNFUNNY PUNCHLINE PHRASE" construction but you are right, dumb/clever has been an eternal yin/yang in hip-hop lyrics since forever

(mostly because in reading half of these I kept getting flashes of "This bad, real bad... MICHAEL JACKSON/Now I'm mad, real mad... JOE JACKSON" from them)

I think the only thing for certain is that the answer is not the flintstone line. Gonna try to avoid this for as long as possible

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

I love the pop culture stuff. What do you want-- emo? or Leonard Cohen style ?

wtf why would those be my only two options?

still can't believe Trey Songz said "tryna get you home-r, would you be Marge Simpson?"

― some dude, Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:25 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest

i for one can believe this

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

good pop culture references are one thing-- I'M SWIMMING IN THE MONEY.... NEMO *wink!* or IT'S GOING DOWN LIKE THE CATALINA WINE MIXER *wink!* are a different thing

I'M SWIMMING IN THE MONEY.... NEMO

irl lol

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

I love the pop culture stuff. What do you want-- emo? or Leonard Cohen style ?

― curmudgeon, Thursday, January 7, 2010 7:49 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't care if you're white black a bitch or a fucking bum off of the streets. If you rap about shooting people, smoking blunts, wearing timbs, drinking hennessy, and whatever else, I'll buy your music. If you rap about your girl, but don't call her a bitch, fuck you. If you rap about the economy and how its hurts migrant workers, fuck you. If you rap about your rap telekenisis or some equally retarded nerd shit, fuck you. That basically how I break it down to an extent.

― dat nigga delmar, Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:55 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

FUCK why did i not think of posting that

and the problem with those two is that cheesy dad puns like that are not hard to do -- i mean if you're bored, honestly, because i do this, just look around the room or whatever and create lil wayne/drakeified punchlines - i got her bouncing up and down... desk chair! - we got her sandwiched in between... bookends! - i'm rare, and worth a lot of money... commemorative helmet signed by dan marino that my grandmother got me for hannukah! etc

either that or the references - like the catalina wine mixer one, which i hate so much - don't even make sense, they're just there to be "wacky!" and "different!" *soft punch to the bicep* without any regards to a. making sense b. actually being funny/interesting

i'm rare, and worth a lot of money... commemorative helmet signed by dan marino that my grandmother got me for hannukah!

ok lol

these type of punchlines fall into the "equally retarded nerd shit" class of the dat nigga delmar taxonomy IMO

so tired of these underlined puns, the thing that was great about that biggie line upthread is that its tossed off, its part of the structure of rapping, not the point of it.

this is what happens when ppl go apeshit for ludacris guest spots for an entire decade

hahahahaha sadly that is very likely OTM

morelike, this is what happens when lil wayne sells 3 million albums but no one bothers to tell him that he's fallen off

this is what ppl didnt get i think about gucci fandom, its not like we think his imagery was super clever shit, its that he raps in a way that doesnt draw attention to what hes actually doing, where silencer long like a pringles can isnt a GET IT???? type punchline, its just creative in a way that is part & parcel of rapping well

i mean - people acting like 'no ceilings' isn't lazy & contemptible dogshit aren't too far off from thinking that there is dope wordplay in 'bedrock'

oh plz plz plz don't turn this into another Gucci Mane thread

also there is a weird taxonomy going on where like... drake kind of came up as a wayne biter, but also had an element of like joe budden/papoose style ny cheesy punchline rap going on (which is why i think the nah right crowd embraces him) and then he started to become super popular and then wayne started copying drake's style like crazy which is how we end up with SOCCER TEAM

p'ussy on your sideburn' is great though. also "let me think" etc., the rhythm of it. nicki does good here

unless "sideburn" is slang I don't know, that is one of the last places on my body that I want a woman to place her pussy, ranking up there with "elbow", "armpit" and "back of knee"

yeah it makes it seem like her pussy is so loose that it can just engulf your face sideburn to sideburn

you haven't really lived

oh plz plz plz don't turn this into another Gucci Mane thread

― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Thursday, January 7, 2010 2:18 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh chill out its not going to.

some dude mentioned it in passing but dipset deserve their share of blame for this crap

yeah the occasional dumb line can be fun but too many and it just gets old...COLOSTOMY BAG!!!

at a certain point it just seems like wayne is totally washed up and done for....DELHOMME!

rap music... SARAN

i think Wayne himself kinda pioneered the new school of shamelessly stupid punchlines and juvenile poop/pop culture references

Nathan Rabin once tweeted that wayne's style these days is "I shit in your vagaina, now your vagina is shitty"

I love this song but I realized last night I don't need to hear it anymore because i have the fucking thing MEMORIZED which is really painful.

RE: "grocery bag"; I believe the line is "and I got her nigga.... grocery bagged."
I think he's saying she's ready to go. This in no way diminishes the stupidity of this line.

maybe fieldy is ghost writing for wayne nowadays

maybe forks is writing for wayne now

i'm blogging for wayne now

the censored version has nicki saying "maybe it's time to put this punis on your sideburns" which is extra-special fucked up.
Voted for asbestos because there's a dozen different ways that line could've been even slightly better and she utterly flubs it.

has weezy done a "fountains of wayne" punchline yet?

im lil wayne baby... COMMA FOUNTAINS OF

This kind of shit is sort of endearing when ICP does it because their entire persona is predicated on them being awkward losers; I don't think that undercurrent is a good look for these guys/gals.

wayne fucks with older bitches....STACY'S MOM

the asbestos one really confuses me, am i missing something obvious?

wayne so powerful... POWER POP

wayne hotter that a nuclear reactor....RADIATION VIBE!

Matt: asbestos is (was) in insulation and it gets "taken off the top" of buildings
it is just the dumbest bit of wordplay imaginable

haha didn't he already do some treadmill like OK GO line already?

Matt: asbestos is (was) in insulation and it gets "taken off the top" of buildings
it is just the dumbest bit of wordplay imaginable

― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:48 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah okay that's kinda what i thought but was like that too much of a push

oh plz plz plz don't turn this into another Gucci Mane thread

― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Thursday, January 7, 2010 2:18 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh chill out its not going to.

― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, January 7, 2010 3:28 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm bringin Gucci on this thread...SHOEHORN

didn't Amil do "pussy on your moustache first"?....PLACE IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO PUT YOUR COOCH!!

when I played the youtube of this I was saddened that the lines weren't delivered in jim jones' style

amil was something something something "can't get around on your BUS PASS, nigga put this pussy on your MOUS-TACHE" i think

ha that was supposed to read "pussy on your moustache" first? I misplaced the endquote

"you ain't gotta be rich but fuck that, how we gon get around on your bus pass?"

"before i put this pussy on your moustache/can you afford me"

nice of matt to imagine the n-word in there tho

yeah sorry bout that :\

damn matt that was racist... KU KLUX KLAN

haha yall are killin it in this thread... SCARECROW

flying over my head... SUPERMAN

feel like biting posters styles...DRAKE

i really h8 this one:

now we murderers, because we kill time (Lil Wayne)

LOL @ "no Stevie Wonder"

I form coherent thoughts, no Gudda Gudda

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Nathan Rabin once tweeted that wayne's style these days is "I shit in your vagaina, now your vagina is shitty"
― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

sounds like mack maine on new shit:

"we on sum other shit
they on the same shit
bitch, im mack maine
im mack maine, bitch"

http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvxs67uHot1qacilao1_500.jpg

none of them is a GL but mack maine rocking sweater vests and horn rims is an especially sad NAGL

who's the urkle version of wayne on far right?

why, it's lil' chuckee; cash money's answer to hurricane chris
http://www.myspace.com/lilchuckee504

you've got to be kidding me

PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE TAGS FROM ANY OF OUR IMAGES

are you heartless bastards really gonna hate on lil chuckee...CHILDS PLAY

so a weird side-effect of this thread is that it has made me want to pay more attention to these guys....UNINTENTIONAL COMEDY

it also makes conversation between a man and his wife about what's for dinner about a million times more entertaining...SPAGHETTI

xpost

i'll laugh at anything on the internet no matter how much of a bad person it makes me....SOMETHING AWFUL!

it also makes conversation between a man and his wife about what's for dinner about a million times more entertaining...SPAGHETTI

killing me. For some reason the ALL CAPS of the punchlines seals it

he's not doing it right tho, since spaghetti doesn't make conversation more entertaining

I guess he really gotcha.... GOAT

he's not doing it right tho, since spaghetti doesn't make conversation more entertaining

that's what you think...FOOD PLAY

you dudes are crazy with the lame jokes...GALLAGHER

guess whiney doesn't know how I'm amused...EASILY

comparing our lame jokes to theirs I've got to give them props, no Carrot Top

I guess that seems fair, like Chicago '33

killing self right now for that one, sorry everybody

i dont think you guys have really got the rhythm down... BLIND COLLEGE BAND COWBELL PLAYER GIRL WHO WAS A VIRAL VIDEO STAR

you dudes are crazy with the lame jokes...GALLAGHER

― an american hippie in israel (Jordan), Friday, January 8, 2010 6:05 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pfff...this post is totally full of shit...COLOSTOMY BAG!

hey guys this joke isn't funny anymore THE SMITHS

haha i did colostomy bag upthread.

basically when I read ilx these days I mainly plot out how I'm gonna pre-reserve space in whatever retirement home all the MPLS ilxors are gonna end up in because that joint is going to be statler & waldorf lol central

btw i read this today:

Minaj is the most consistent (and consistently amusing) MC on the entire album. She's as outrageously raunchy as vintage Lil' Kim ("flow tighter than a dick in a butt") and as randomly hilarious as, um, Lil Wayne ("Switch my name, now I'm celebratin' Hanukkah/ Lewinsky, bitches, Young Money Monica/ I been hot since Hedgehog-- Sonic, the").

so yes, "randomly hilarious"

damn my post was totally derivative...WOLFMOTHER!

wouldn't it be "hedgehog, sonic the" XPOST

Switch my name, now I'm celebratin' Hanukkah/ Lewinsky, bitches, Young Money Monica/ I been hot since Hedgehog-- Sonic, the

omg

adam sandler rolling around in his grave that nicki minaj found the final rhyme to hannukah that eluded him for so many years

also I have been thinking about this and laughing ever since reading it:

Nathan Rabin once tweeted that wayne's style these days is "I shit in your vagaina, now your vagina is shitty"

Hedgehog - Sonic, The is a gift to all mankind

hedgehog, sonic the, celebrates hanukkah

wait adam sandler is dead?

...BOB WEIR!

the Hedgehog - Sonic

'hedgehog, sonic the' is pretty good imo

ha yeah i like that line actually

i dont much like most of the songs ive heard from this album

Icing on my fingertips, I be getting cake in

seriously who cares what these guys have to say abt anything

im listening to this david banner produced track ryan d said was a 'highlight' in his pfork review & im not feeling it either. hes right that this is doing a good job of making nikki minaj seem like more of a star

whats an actual good beat from this album

NICKI IS BETTER THAN THIS I PROMISE

:(

dude Nicki is coming across like an all star at the moment, no Smashmouth

not anymore man

xp

really? cuz i liked some earlier stuff i remember people talking about when she seemed more like a throwback to scrappy, dirty mouth lil kim stuff but anything i've heard from here recently seems like she's become a part of wayne's bullshit gobbledegook rhyming cult

(xpost to lex)

"hedgehog, sonic the" just sold a copy of this album

i can never find the "oh lord pac" thing to c&p when i need it

all the beats on this ive heard are like competent but not really anything i can imagine bumping over & over
like, even if you can put up w/ this rap style ..

i dont get this stuff, or drake, or why ppl think this stuff is so fresh. its so safe & watery & boring, running into first and yr butt's about to burst .... DIARRHEA

i've posted a ton of really genuinely great nicki verses in I'm Nicki Minaj, Nicki Lewinsky, Nicki the Ninja, Nicki the Boss, Nicki the Harajuku Barbie

i think she's realising that pulling wacky faces and doing dumb gobbledegook (as opposed to really great surrealist stuff) is selling her far more than her tougher, more menacing look - still got hope for her own album though

from here down I'm Nicki Minaj, Nicki Lewinsky, Nicki the Ninja, Nicki the Boss, Nicki the Harajuku Barbie

jose Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 10:52 pm

ohhhh lord 2pac big please talk to this sucker cause they killing hip hop they taking the pain and struggle of life of hip hop the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

If all evidence you have of Nicki's greatness is this song, and the only thing you've ever heard of Gucci Mane's is that terrible one with Mario (they don't even play Wasted around here), I could definitely see being skeptical about Atlanta's recent exports.

When I was trying to convince Simon R that Rap has still got a lot of life in it this is not one of the songs I sent him. You can all blame me for that whole mess then if you like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hee_eASVCU
i mean the same shit, ashley and mary kate
sometimes i wish i was blind, MR RAY

i'm trying to think of old school examples of this and am coming up blank

I keep her running back and forth...SOCCER TEAM!!!

not going to listen to the song just in case the actual delivery of this line is less hilarious than how i'm imagining it

i mean, bad puns go back in hip-hop further than fat laces, but this weird disease of delivering the horribly formed "joke" without the courtesy of a "like I'm" or a "like a" is hella new.

There's gotta be an antecedent tho!

I keep her running back and forth...SOCCER TEAM!!!

not going to listen to the song just in case the actual delivery of this line is less hilarious than how i'm imagining it

― samosa gibreel, Friday, January 8, 2010 2:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, actually shipley made that one up since in the actual song it's delivered in classic hip-hop simile form

LIKE A soccer team

eh thats basically lil wayne's innovation i guess, i mean im sure someone did it
but what makes it so ugh is that its become the point of these songs, hammering them at you. they're not about anything else

i mean, i'm pretty sure dipset did it first and i would gladly point an example out to you if i were the type of internet pos(t)er who pretends dipset has memorable lines

to be fair this is much better than when a rapper says "GET IT" on a totally obvious pun.

although i think sir reggie noble has a "get it" that remains inscrutable to me to this day

thats basically what they're doing, though

like every line is delivered with a nudge to the ribs

we're getting really close to rap being Scary Movie 3 where people are just gonna start rapping the names of things in pop culture with no context or punchlines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWl-Rh7KVgQ

i really hope nicki's album is more like this when it drops and less like "hedgehog, sonic the" or "...ASBESTOS!!!"

It's the loveliest, longest, lean---I call it the leanest
It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest, the meanest....PENIS!

"hedgehog, sonic the" is kind of dope

haha im saying

that's better but i really get annoyed at that exagerrated way she says shit like "waaaaaaayne" like sounds like a cross between a an american trying to sound like cockney chimney sweep and a valley girl or some shit

On this train
Will it always rain?
Try to analyze
This led venture
Songless sky, digital bug-eye
Octogonal seams so much clearer
Indiscrete, status incomplete
To provide me with
Something better

shit that was supposed to be on the voivod lyrics thread in case you thought i was posting lyrics from cannibal ox in the young money thread

lol

thx for clarifying that...OCTOGONAL SEAMS!!!

yeah, actually shipley made that one up since in the actual song it's delivered in classic hip-hop simile form

― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, January 8, 2010 2:51 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there's definitely a version where he says "like a" but i swear the one i usually hear in the video/on the radio there's just a pause between "forth" and "soccer"

there's two versions, ship's right.

of course, it's a bitch finding an embeddable version of the official video on youtube, but it's there

there's two versions, ship's right.

― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Friday, January 8, 2010 5:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

...STARBOARD

...POLARIS TWO BY FOUR

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

never heard gudda gudda before this but man he's making a case for worst rapper ive ever heard

is it gudda gudda like "gutter gutter" or gudda gudda like "gouda gouda"?

option a iirc

btw i voted "grocery bag" because the earnest attempts to parse it in this thread still came up short

is it gudda gudda like "gutter gutter" or gudda gudda like "gouda gouda"?

― rap wacksodic (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, January 8, 2010 7:12 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

...TOO (two) CHEESY (cheeses)

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13810-we-are-young-money/

havent listened to the album aside from this turd, but it's rare that i disagree with evey single point a writer tries to make in a review.

havent gotten to the actual crit yet tho, if theres any

at least they fixed the front page blurb, which at one point said something like "in the spirit of Dipset, G-Side, and The Family," which until I read the review made me think it was some left field reference to the Prince proteges and not the group name nobody cared about Puff Daddy's No Way Out being credited to

yeah i didn't even bother posting about that blurb because of it's sheer wtfness

this song is more real than real... BAUDRILLARD

it might've been a rerun but i saw young money on mo'nique today, i really liked nicki minaj and one of the young dudes. i think he was called tiga tiga or something. nicki is so amazing looking and sweet.

oh and in the performance of this song weezy did say, " ... socccer team" and not "like a soccer team" and it was predictably not that hilarious.

lmbo @ the number of votes this poll got

this is totally speculative, but i think part of the problem with these guys may be that theyre trying to emulate wayne and rhyme off the top of the head. The best--him, jay, etc.--can pull it off or even thrive rhyming that way but i cant imagine anyone writing down the grocery bag line without immediately throwing it in the direction of the nearest trash bin.

on the other hand didnt drake "freestyle" on hot 97 while reading from a piece of paper?

Meanwhile, upstart producers Chase N. Cashe and Kane Beatz keep things moving sonically, whether it's CNC's baroque, Grizzly Bear-esque (!) beat for "New Shit" or Beatz's bright and haughty instrumental for the hit "Bedrock", which wouldn't sound out of place on a Wes Anderson hip-hop movie score

on the other hand didnt drake "freestyle" on hot 97 while reading from a piece of paper?

― not really.. (killah priest), Saturday, January 9, 2010 9:30 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

everyone 'freestyles' writtens these days, & it was from his blackberry

yeah drake's crime there was really just not memorizing his shit to keep up the illusion of 'freestyling' that everyone in the rap industry had agreed upon

noone cries foul when jay does a hot97 freestyle and then the entire thing shows up as a verse in a song 6 months later

that isn't really right. off the dome and written but impromptu rhymes (live over a dj's beat or a beatbox, or even a capella where there is no degree of improvisation) have both been called "freestyles" for decades with no one really pretending that the second kind were the first.

some rappers who claim to improvise totally are accused of spitting written rhymes, and some cretinous "underground" or battle rap circuit fans confuse the two and bemoan the "fake" ones, but they're different cases.

hmmm although you can still improvise in the manner of your delivery a capella. and hence anything over an old instrumental being a "freestyle" on mixtapes be they ever so rehearsed and with punch-ins, double-tracked vocals, whatever.

drake pulling up lyrics (which i've just learned about from this thread) is deeply wack to me because in any functional street schooling he'd be laughed out of ever rapping again if he fished around for a pad to spit on a corner. so that's the whole tradition that you're showing unawareness of when you do that. but i wonder if that's to do with being from toronto or a child star, or if its to do with hip hop not having folk roots anymore even in the forms of collective memory. the lack of concern you guys have suggests it has to do with the latter.

likewise the rhymes themselves suggest my conception of things is a relic. rappers in this style used to say dope things like it wasn't no thing and make the next guy go "whaaat" or the listener rewind. that was part of the style. these rappers say the most undope things but signal them like they are killer lines.

zvookster severely on the money

yah

zvookster's talking about the actual tradition of ciphers and battle rapping, i'm talking about the new school kabuki theater of major label rappers going on radio stations/BET/mixtapes and 99% of the time spitting something they wrote and memorized and it being called a 'freestyle,' and then that same world acting aghast when drake didn't have his shit memorized and read it off a screen

I'm just aghast that drake is.

so glad no one on ilx likes drake beyond as a minor psuedo-R&B figure

no rap fans at least, iirc someone nominated his mixtape or whatever in the 09 thread

these rappers say the most undope things but signal them like they are killer lines.

yeh so so otm

the saddest thing is that wayne is doing this now too

but i guess if these are the rappers he chooses to surround himself with...

i was walking down on miami beach all day on monday and i heard this coming from shops a few times & i def got some hearty laughs from walking past the storefronts and hearing "...SOCCER TEAM!" and then the song going out of earshot

I came in the door, I said it before, I'd never let the mic magnetize me... COMPASS!

hahaha

i remember in the first Answer Me! zine, and this was like 91 or 92, they called up famous rappers and had them "freestyle" over the phone and KRS One's was just one of his songs.

Yes! The rhythm, the rebel without a pause... HBO!

should have quit while you were ahead... DECAPITATION

allow me to lace these lyrical douches in your bushes... LANDSCAPING

i wanna rock right now, i'm rob base and i came to get down... YOGA

fuck with your soul like ether... ETHER

making ladies loco, flow like orinoco... ENYA

your heartbeat sounds like sasquatch feet... HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS

'bout to quote a pseudonym on a msg board... SOME DUDE

zvookster's talking about the actual tradition of ciphers and battle rapping, i'm talking about the new school kabuki theater of major label rappers going on radio stations/BET/mixtapes and 99% of the time spitting something they wrote and memorized and it being called a 'freestyle,' and then that same world acting aghast when drake didn't have his shit memorized and read it off a screen

― some dude

Not at all, I was carefully making a point... WHITTLING! that it's not kabuki and it's not all divided up like that. So not an exact "actual tradition of ciphers and battle rapping" (which you are too blase in writing off as another world from mainstream hip hop anyhow), but certainly something at least derived from traditions of rapping in the street and socio-economic conditions - not that everyone has to come up on corners, but being able to rap when given a window to, that ability being coded into what it means to be a rapper: that's what's going on when rappers do live radio sessions, not some pretense of on-the-spot creation. That the world you refer to was "aghast" backs this up: it's kind of ignorant to the point of disrespect or extreme corniness for Drake to be unaware of this. There are thousands current and past that no one will ever hear of, who'd kick something without a moment's hesitation given that opportunity, so regardless of how you came up, you still have to "come correct".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHiecnIJboQ

this song features Wayne saying "I been runnin' this shit...BLISTERS!!" and "I know the game...ANALYST!!!"

can't decide if it is better or worse that you ignore my taking the time to reply to you this time than your replying with points already debunked last time.

anyway, funny thread.

haha sorry dude i mainly came in here to post the youtube and i saw your post but couldn't really think of any reply to it other than "good point, duly noted" or something

lol ok sorry, thought it was probably a diss. hugs all round.

... CIRCLE OF HUGS

I keep her running back and forth...SOCCER TEAM!!!

not going to listen to the song just in case the actual delivery of this line is less hilarious than how i'm imagining it

― samosa gibreel, Friday, January 8, 2010 2:49 PM Bookmark

I should have followed the same principle - - the actual song is so much more boring than how it went in my head, with a bunch of people in the background joining together to yell the punchline, kinda like a Beastie Boys song but with less flow cause this shit really doesn't scan, the way it's written here. A+++ thread btw.

on the rmx of 'mixin up the medicine' on trunk muzik juelz does this: 'you wanna get loud you get blasted...BOOMBOX' - still less embarrassing than any of the ones in this poll imo

I Race For Your Love, Shake And Bake... RICKY BOBBY

^^^should have been an option

that one's relatively subtle by the song's standards, though, and doesn't have an awkward pause. would have to be more like "i race for your love...FORMULA ONE!!!"

gotta be the asbestos

there's gotta be a beastie boys song where they do this

the first person that discovers any pre-2000 example of this wins a prize

The closest I can get is "You Be Illin'" which is really just a factor of cadence rather than an actual example.

i mean i have a thousand examples of the cadence

the first person that discovers any pre-2000 example of this wins a prize

No soap ... RADIO!!!

'He say my pussy pretty / just like it's show art / He make my pussy sing / "aaaaaa" like it's Mozart / And when he taps it / I make my pussy fart / I'm such an actress/ Melissa Joan Hart'

- Nicki Minaj

Not from this song or album, true, but just... yeah.

i gotta say i gave a lil lol at "melissa joan hart"

thats a good line lmao

yeah rhyming that with "I make my pussy fart" is pretty incredible

although "I make my pussy talk" would've made for a better reference to Sabrina The Teenage Witch

haha

al should probably be ghostwriting for these dudes. you could be the next Skillz

dont worry if i write checks -- i write rhymes!!!

a few of my display names have been optioned by rappers, but i signed a non-disclosure agreement so i won't say which or who

jay leno bought a few

and look at him now

K***** S******* is "Call me Mr.Flinstone I can make your bed rock "!!!!!! best line ever !!1

mozart wasn't really known for his singing

I think "now we murderers, because we kill time," while not the most pathetic excuse for wordplay, kind of summarizes the problems with the song pretty well. "Well, this hook is going to take us to the top of the charts no matter what, just say whatever in between, it'll be fine."

haha, it's funny to be bragging about killing time

because we hang out... LAUNDRY

my wrist so chilly...ITS SPICY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDMDved0DE

^^^ featuring "Hedgehog, Sonic The" and all manner of other sluggish Young Money mediocrity. Dunno if this got mentioned already but the next lines after the Sonic thing are:

So could you pass me the keys to the Tonica
I mean Tonka, That's the truck bitches
Fuck you and fuck all of you fuck bitches

somebody actually did the wrist so chilly it's spicy, didn't they? gucci?

uh

huh

haha, it's funny to be bragging about killing time

― Groanatta77 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, February 7, 2010 1:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because we hang out... LAUNDRY

― Groanatta77 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, February 7, 2010 1:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

always thought that line was pretty obviously like, killing time in bed, wasting the day away fuckin etc

Lines from the new Ludacris single, "My Chick is Bad":

"Couple girlfriends and they all a lil' crazy / comin' down the street like a parade... MACY'S"

and the amazing

"I fill 'er up... BALLOONS!"

then, from guest Nicki Minaj,

"It's going down... BASEMENT!"

Nicky Minaj seems to be making an aggressive bid for media saturation - I saw yesterday that she has a video with Mariah Carey. We could be thrilling to "Hedgehog, Sonic the" followups for years to come!

this thread was really funny but just with the rap music i'd been listening to lately i hadn't heard many of these kind of these "I keep her running back and forth...SOCCER TEAM!!!" type lines but i was just listening to some recent juelz santana track and it had the line "still making money off the white girl ... FERGIE!"

Just awful.

that one is actually funny

haha totally

i think i just can't help but find that construction lame. Like if there were a few extra words instead of the ellipsis i'd be happy for whatever reason.

oh no the construction is totally lame and hacky...but the fergie line is still a really good use of it and pretty sharp for a hack of juelz's magnitude

there's a good jae millz one on "new shit"

young money wolverines bitch... NO MICHIGAN

nicki on "fuck da bullshit"

i get it wetter than a navy seal... VETERAN

that looks awful

ever since this thread ive been paying more attention to this construction and it's way more prevalent than i thought it was

xp

wayne on "fuck da bullshit"

they say the blacker the berry
the redder the cherry
i say the sweeter it is, ya dig... BURY

ever since this thread ive been paying more attention to this construction and it's way more prevalent than i thought it was

xp

― vag gangsta (k3vin k.), Sunday, February 14, 2010 7:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest

that's because drake/wayne/young money are always on the radio

this song features Wayne saying "I been runnin' this shit...BLISTERS!!" and "I know the game...ANALYST!!!"

― some dude, Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:10 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

these to me are the worst to date that don't even have grocery bag-style unintentional entertainment value

yeah but even with rappers i like too. i mean it's not surprising, it's just one of those things you notice a lot more when you're listening for it. i know i'm not stating anything we don't all agree with but it's a godawful trend

xp

i dont think gucci does it a lot tho

yeah "4 my town" is awful

i can't think of an example of gucci doing this

i don't think it's the construction so much as the particularly lazy use young money make of it that amuses/annoys. that juelz santana single w/the fergie line is really excellent (it's the one on yelawolf's mixtape right?) and that's a good line anyway. i really like the luda/minaj single too, and am v much pro-minaj saturation.

tyga on "roger that" (next single iirc)

i jack son, bitch... TITO

that might have unintentional comedy value tho

gudda gudda on "finale"

anybody in my way... ROADKILL

jae millz on "finale"

it's about to get real ugly... OMAROSA

jae millz on "finaly"

we done changed the way the game look... SAMMY SOSA

oh i'm not even talking about the lame phrase-pause-punchline, even relying on similes in every other line grates on me

tyga tyga on "finale"

money over weight, bitch... ROSEANNE

i don't listen to these kids man... GROWN MAN

nicki minaj on "finale"

you at the bottom of the pole... TOTEM

like lamar odom i ball... SCROTUM

lol what does the sammy sosa one mean even mean

is this all in the same song ?

you are seriously listening to this whole album?

youtube son

and yeah i guess but it's investigative journalism imo

is this all in the same song ?

― johnny crunch, Sunday, February 14, 2010 7:26 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark

yes

shrimp post imo

lol what does the sammy sosa one mean even mean

― call all destroyer, Sunday, February 14, 2010 7:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seen any pixx of him lately

you might be right deej

i think it's referring to sosa (& mcgwire) hitting a billion homers and revitalizing baseball

you might be right about this needing a shrimp post

oh i'm not even talking about the lame phrase-pause-punchline, even relying on similes in every other line grates on me
--vag gangsta (k3vin k.)

That's pretty known as "rap music"

i would like to point out that this was otm

i mean - people acting like 'no ceilings' isn't lazy & contemptible dogshit aren't too far off from thinking that there is dope wordplay in 'bedrock'

― total eclipse of the shart (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 7, 2010 2:17 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

that's pretty

k3vib didn't you get into rap music thru coconut juice got me real loose stfu

no

anyway kevin isn't totally wrong -- the problem isn't the simile-simile style it's just that there haven't been many very good punchline rappers in forever, which is why like fabolous was the second most successful east coast rapper of the 2000s aside from jay-z

and which is why when ny-centric rap heads & press throw their weight behind people like papoose and saigon and juelz satnana and lloyd banks the rest of the country rolls their damn eyes

seen any pixx of him lately

i think it's referring to sosa (& mcgwire) hitting a billion homers and revitalizing baseball

http://www2.tbo.com/exposure/ar/659/372/2010/02/03/31853_020310-sosa-385.jpg

You know as much as you guys make fun of Slaughterhouse, those guys are basically just good punchline rappers

i didn't listen to the slaughterhouse record but i can confirm that joe budden is about as far from a "good" punchline rapper as can be possible with someone who has any sort of talent

I'd totally stan for the slaughterhouse album if the beats weren't lame as fuck

my problem with punchline rappers nowadays is that the songs date themselves so much bcuz those have pissing contests over who can get the most lines transcribed in the nah right comments section... so if you wanna enjoy a joe budden record that was put out 8 months ago you still have to able to lol at like taylor swift & kanye west

or you have to be ryan dombal so you can earnestly enjoy gudda gudda verses

budden's rss feed writing style is part of his problem but not the sum total, don't get that too twisted

oh i'm not even talking about the lame phrase-pause-punchline, even relying on similes in every other line grates on me
--vag gangsta (k3vin k.)
That's pretty known as "rap music"

― oh, wrinkle... pause (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is even dumber and more reductive than when i was talking about how i like rappers to have personality and a sense of humor and you were all "you don't want rap, you want peanut butter jelly time internet memes"

ethan stanning for joe budden was one of the more o_O moments of my ilx autogoon lifetime

i rocked out to bedrock at the club last night and I couldn't stop thinking about this thread and giggling.

I f/w early Buddens.

i'm talking about mood muzik-era buddens

joell ortiz is by far the worst member of slaughterhouse. at least budden has personality

crooked i & esp royce are totally defensible

as a unit tho the group is corny

what is joe budden(s)'s personality

besides being a saddo

oh come on dude hes by far the most outlandish character in the group. i mean im letting his youtubes & shit get in the way too, & im not saying its a personality i admire or anything, but hes definitely got a style that suggests he acts a certain way

you're probably right, i'm not even sure why i even challenged you on such an inane subject -_-

lol

aw man, luda has two terrible ones in "my chick bad"

comin down the street like a parade... MACY'S/ i fill her up... BALLOONS

(yes those are back to back & you really need to hear how he does the second one to grasp how u_u it is)

nicki in the same song

it's going down... BASEMENT

I take karate at night so I can beat my wife...JAMES CAAN

what the fuck is wrong with you ludacris

"Two thumbs up.... EBERT AND ROEPER"

~ Drake, "Over"

rip gene siskel

haha the first time i heard that song all i could think about was how many grocery bag lines there were:

"bout to set it off in this bitch...JADA PINKETT!"
"i could teach you how to speak my language...ROSETTA STONE!"

So is this what is going on in rap these days? Like "A short sentence.... RELATED WORD!!"

http://dahl.com/podcasts/podcast/2010/03/04

I don't get this punchline from mimaj's verse on "lil' freak":

The girls want a Minaj yeah they wetter than the rainin
Usher buzz me in... EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND

never watched much ELR. do people... buzz him into their homes a lot?

i like these being termed as "grocery bag lines"

"bout to set it off in this bitch...JADA PINKETT!"

what does this even mean

is it saying jada pinkett is a bitch?

(o damn we're not sayin that word today)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Set_it_off_poster.jpg

nicki in the same song

it's going down... BASEMENT

― J0rdan S., Saturday, February 20, 2010 1:13 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

lol was trying really hard to remember this because I heard it last night. just realized it's already been posted.

i would totally appreciate the line if it was

bout to set it off in this BITCH... KIMBERLY ELISE

so, anybody have any idea what the everybody loves raymond thing means?

usher's birth name = usher raymond

aaaaaaaaaah, thanks. :-)

my working theory was that it was a ref to this ep:

When Frank's late-night buzz sawing and Marie's persistent meddling bother the neighborhood, they meet with Ray to discuss how he'll inform his parents of their complaints.

also his new album is called Raymond Vs. Raymond

on the Minaj poll thread i was talking about how Big Tigger thought she was saying "everybody loves reindeer," which still cracks me up

haha -- even though that show is garbage, i would def respect nicki more if she had an encyclopedic knowledge of ELR episodes

"everybody loves reindeer" would be a way better show

it's nice to find out that she's saying "Usher buzz me in," though, since she delivers that line in such a retard voice that it sounds like DURR DURR DURR DURR DURR

really like the song, tho. chorus sounds like it belongs in a late period bathory song.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/ctamigi/Rxgn3mj0YkI/AAAAAAAABb0/nOpYcTBvDFM/elizabeth+bathory.jpg

I'm hotter than 100 degrees
A lot of bread no sesame seeds

thumbs up... balloons, down... basement
siskel & ebert, roeper... replacement

sorry, just drank a Sprite

it would be funny if Nicki actually was referencing a sitcom where people buzz each other in

"Usher buzz me in...SEINFELD!"

"this is Carlton your doorman...MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW!"

oh damn i was thinking of Rhoda, sorry

i don't ever sign for a package... SEINFELD (SEASON 6, EPISODE 18)

worst Wale song ever

trying to come up w/something about GOOGLE BUZZ but I'm not creative enough

i don't ever sign for a package... SEINFELD (SEASON 6, EPISODE 18)

serious suppression of lols in my office

in the club with Wayne, Drake & Tyga... TWO AND A HALF MEN

user buzz me in.... SEAN USHER, WRITER, MANCHESTER

This thread is really going to be one of ILM's greatest contributions to pop scholarship - the permanent rolling "....GROCERY BAG!!!!" watch thread.

i love this thread because it gives me some vested interest in drake & young money, which is nice since they pretty much rule the radio anyway

this shit is really ruining hip hop....GILBERT O' SULLIVAN

She watchin' that Oxygen / me: Gilbert O'Sullivan.

in a few years, Weezy's rhymes will be not much more than

Me...awesome
You...not awesome
Go bananas on my dick...DONKEY KONG!!???

wait, that isn't from Rebirth?

haha!

From Ebert's Twitter feed:

"ebertchicago // 'Two thumbs up, Ebert & Roeper' is now a viral catch-phrase? Thank you, Drake!"

Gonna go ahead and say that even with the limitations of his text-to-speech software system, Ebert could probably rap circles around most of these guys. His Vincent Gallo beef was one of the most entertaining things you could find in a newspaper in the late 90s.

did Ebert ever tweet a response to being dissed by Jeremih?

"ebertchicago \\ best understand you need me more than i need u J. meet u in the octagon where u can kiss da ring bitch"

was just gonna post that :(

http://twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/10108638937

man Roger's looking depleted :(. at least he's still in good spirits though.

so i guess no one alerted ebert back when bloodhound gang used his name as a punchline?

probably because Siskel's name got dropped first....

This thread reminds me why I still bother to read ILM

This thread is A+... REPORT CARD

You guys are OTM... ROBERT RUBIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-VYrYnAnk

gudda gudda: "yous a mother fucked up... DAFFODIL" (i don't get this one, also he says "daffy dill")

lil wayne: "yall niggas ain't eatin... STOMACHACHE"

song is pretty awesome tho -- 100x better than anything off the young money album except "every girl" & "steady mobbin"

http://nildoctrine.com/nil/my-top-ten-fakedrake-lyrics/

lol shipley you will enjoy this comment re grocery bag lines

CWEST 03/25/2010 at 6:35 pm

THAT WHOLE STYLE WAS CREATED BY BIG SEAN NI**AS IZ BITING HIS STYLE AND NOT EVEN GIVING CREDIT. GO LISTEN TO SUPA DUPA BY BIG SEAN SEE WHERE THEZE NI**AS GOT THE STYLE FROM

god this guy is such a fucking clown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsBcprNEZL4

HE BITES TREY SONGZ' HOMER/MARGE LINE

roffle @ Like a good neighbor. State Farm.

yeah that one is lol

“Your city faded off to brown. Nino.
Swimming in the money come and find me. Nemo.
If I was at the club you know I balled. Chemo.”

i mean i don't even

nor should you

if i had cancer i would totally want to take a number to kick drake in the nuts

He's breaking. BAD.

If you pull one I’mma Draw Two. Uno.

I lol'd

yeah, love that one

yeah three or four of those gave me pretty good belly laughs, we were on this shit first tho

I don't even get the chemo line. u_u

whaaa

balled = bald, as in, chemo causes you to lose your hair

oh wau

provolone provolone

i keep watching the MTV spring break performance every time it comes on just to hear them all shout "GROCERY BAG!" in unison

this is a favorite of mine for various reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzThMKFcsc&feature=related

1. monique vibing in the background
2. lloyd have nothing better to do with his life than to come on the monique show to sing the hook to this song
3. lil wayne coming in to deliver tyga's "she all on my skin... LOTION" line in a whisper
4. the way lloyd jumps out of the crowd after the triumphant "grocery bag" clarion call

5. also the way drake emerges to deliver his fucking "sushi roll" line is really up there with the bieber cold open for me

here's the spring break performance for those that are interested

http://content.onsmash.com/archives/35391

"i'm a red bull/ now let's fly away" is an underrated dogshit punchline in this song -- what is gudda gudda even insinuating by saying he's a red bull? that's not even something to really aspire to

i can't drake & minaj still do performances with these clowns

believe*

wow, that has to be the most annoying minaj performance ever? it's like she's in the fembot stage right before they spontaneously combust

also, i'm not totally sure that she has the right idea of what sideburns actually are, cuz she drags her finger across her upper lip.

hahahahah the mtv censor ppl bleeping out "coming off the top" -- what could that even mean in a sexual context??

6. the hypemen chiming in on "I'm Gudda Gudda" really makes me wonder if really, aren't we all Gudda Gudda

yeah i was gonna say, the one respect in which the spring break one tops the Monique performance is Nicki -- it's like in the 2 months or whatever between those performances you can totally chart her shark jump into complete absurdity

yeah it's absurd

Tell that bitch to eat her heart out... kano

^suprised forks didn't jump on that one

tell mister spacely that it's time to jet, son

this song is top 10 in the uk now :(

...JEDWARD

7. if you listen closely you can hear someone scream at 2:10

pretty sure i've liked rap songs with similarly bad punchlines, i think what makes this so much worse is how slow and drawn out it is. like i feel like i can count the amount of brain cells activated per second.

well the song is super annoying -- lloyd is terrible on the hook and that beat is just ugh

i'm serious about the scream btw, it's pretty hilarious you should check it out

i will cop to liking bedrock a lot, mostly because of lloyd and that plinka plinka plinka plinka plinka plinka plinka plinka

you're the worst

oh hipster puddy

aw man, luda has two terrible ones in "my chick bad"

comin down the street like a parade... MACY'S/ i fill her up... BALLOONS

(yes those are back to back & you really need to hear how he does the second one to grasp how u_u it is)

― J0rdan S., Friday, February 19, 2010 8:12 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

god i just facepalm every time i hear "i fill her up -- balloons!"

i think that might be the worst one ever because a. it doesn't rhyme b. it's impossible not to sound like a huge ponce when shouting "balloons"

"i fill her up" is a pretty terrible phrase as far as sex raps go too

putting your dick in a balloon is neveragl

my song bad
my song not good
my song say stuff that no decent song would

baloons rhymes with "guns get drawn like cartoons"

but yeah it's gross

For what it's worth (it's not worth anything), the guy is clearly saying "...grocery bagged." Which makes a tiny bit more sense.

no way

I'd like to take this moment to point out Drake's weird mannerism of pointing down+sideways. Why does he do this? What is he pointing at?

The "Say Something" video is a varitable down+sidewayspolooza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9pYU-fa18

RE: "grocery bag"; I believe the line is "and I got her nigga.... grocery bagged."
I think he's saying she's ready to go. This in no way diminishes the stupidity of this line.

― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:39 PM

is there a thread on the young money album

we are listening to it at work today. spoiler: it is not very good

I knew it had been said before (by you), I just felt like people kept refusing to acknowledge this! (xx-post)

the idea of calling this "grocery bag rap" tickles me to no end

imo the finger pointing is actually one of Drake's less annoying tics, the thing where he constantly holds out an open palm and shakes it is way weirder

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u212/ww1965/jazz_hands_cat.jpg

and yeah, it's pretty clearly "bagged" but I certainly understand why it's more enjoyable to pretend that's not the case.

i dunno i just never heard it that way or saw it transcribed that way -- anyone have an a cappella? we need to get to the bottom of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nklfdaYqPE
1:02
not conclusive, but c'mon. he's rhyming it with "know she bad".

unrelated but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q54yc_esto8

i'm gonna refrain from posting his other videos but whooooo boy

my roommate brought back a puppy, and one of its chew toys is a grocery bag

maybe i should've posted that to "too much time on ilx" idk

Is this whole garbage bag phenomenon Dipset's fault? It feels like it is or at least should be.

Oh, looks like that specter has already been raised.

i remember being on the subway in like 2004-2005 and hearing two girls loudly arguing about whether cam'ron was a good rapper. And one of the girls used this line as an example of why he is lousy .

She put her foot on my balls... Now it's a football

Although I've found no evidence of this line actually existing, it still tickles me, and seems like the mid-00s version of this convo.

craziest part of that is your addiction was apparently so bad, you'd hallucinate when you were "on the subway".

had no idea

I really shouldn't have tried to google that line

i had a shortlived epiphany that gudda gudda was actually saying "grocery bagged," which would make sense in the context of "she know she bad, and i got her nigga grocery bagged" as in, her husband murdered and his dead body put in a grocery bag (get it?). but i listened again jsut now and it's pretty clearly just "bag."

i wish there was another Young Money rapper named Grocery Bag that was being referenced in the line

young money should start branding environmentally friendly gudda gudda reusable canvas grocery bags -- start getting rap to go green imo

"I got her grocery bagged" is pretty simple to parse; it's like saying she's in the bag, gift wrapped, ready to go home, hot to trot. Timbo and Justin run the same awkward metaphor in Carry Out.
But again, I am sympathetic to y'all WANTING this not to make sense.

man, weezy should have his mouth scrubbed out with soap for "i knock her lights out, but she still shine"

ha, i always felt a bit uncomfortable hearing dream sing "just call me ali the way i knocked your ass out"

xp i agree that if we were to probe gudda gudda's brain (as terrifying as it might be), that's definitely the most likely interpretation, but the connection between what you're suggesting and the actual phrasing of the lyric is tenuous at best. if i had time i would make one of those diagrams with the red and blue circles, name one "things gudda gudda's got" and put "GROCERY BAG" and "A WOMAN" in it. you know?

well it's not as if gudda gudda is famed for his inflection. he's better known for his work in physics.

the implication is obvious -- it's still a remarkably terrible line

As with all grocery bag rap, the problem is that it doesn't go anywhere or do anything beyond the one line. Like, if anything else in the verse had to do with groceries it would almost feel like this cleverly built up punchline that you don't even see coming until it's like, haha, this was all leading up to the grocery bag! Brilliant!

Along similar lines, I think an opportunity was missed here to do more with the Flintstones theme....like at least one of these shmoes should have been going on about, like, "I be wearing boulders / all you got is Fruity Pebbles"... or, I mean, that Wayne, for some reason trying to find a way to refer to the fact that he makes his girl run back and forth, goes with "soccer team" instead of, like, "She wanna leave, but she won't go far / she be running out of breath...FRED FLINTSTONE CAR!!!!" I mean that needs some work cause I just came up with it in thirty seconds but I feel like that's more time than these guys spent on their verses so hey.

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dmv9rbh_8d92vf4f5

well it's not as if gudda gudda is famed for his inflection. he's better known for his work in physics.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:55 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i wonder if Gudda Gudda can tell me how magnets work

but yeah if they did a remix with like Fabolous on it he'd totally do a goofy Flintstones-themed verse and tie it all together

ya'll can't see me... GREAT GAZOO

What the hell would rhyme with "Gazoo" though? Maybe "Rippin' you off like 18th century land fraud...YAZOO!"

leave you leakin red sauce... RAGU

I'm out of this world like Mork...NA-NU NA-NU

I'm with your girl flippin' your portrait over....GUESS WHO

makin money on c-low, smokin on some primo,
step to me and i'll bowl you over like dino

eh, i can't hang with the colon kids these days.

my song bad
my song not good
my song say stuff that no decent song would

― forktongueclovenhoofu (some dude), Monday, March 29, 2010 9:35 PM Bookmark

i think of this post every time i hear the song and it tickles me every time, no joke

lol

i think of this thread every time i hear the song

i think of this thread like 85% of the time i hear new rap

God, the exclamation of "balloons!" might be the nadir of Luda's career as a singles artist.

this was just on the main page of YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXf_uAWEx8

if you google "ludacris balloons" like the fifth entry is Singles Jukebox

a site i still can't write for, good lookin out, yall

im not really standing by the "grocery bags 'got' things" interpretation but its the only one that even approaches the world of meaning to me

― max, Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:43 AM (4 months ago)

all of gudda gudda's are the best

a site i still can't write for, good lookin out, yall

― unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:34 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

what do u mean

i asked like twice to contribute and never got an answer

word? via email?

yeah dude

unless u can do something i'll continue to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69PcbIxF-04

I'm playing the Drake album in the background while I write some ish. If any grocery bags lines hit me, I'll post them here.

1. This time I'm really going off... FIREWORKS

2. Will I blow all this money?... HAMMERTIME

3. Bout to set it off in this bitch... JADA PINKETT
(I think we covered this one, but)

4. I can teach you how to speak my language... ROSETTA STONE

5. Two thumbs up... EBERT AND ROEPER

yeah i heard that he toned down the grocery bagginess on the album, good to hear there's some stuff to SMH at besides the stuff we already know from "Over"

smh @ pitchfork today, this album is fucking dogshit

Kanye stans so thirsty they'll drink whatever offbrand Dr. Rocket soda they can get their hands on

Funny because I figured it was part of the whole "THERE'S NO GOOD POP FOR US TO RALLY AROUND ANYMORE" dialogue around Pazz and Jop time which ppl used as a shitty excuse for putting "Girls" songs in the top 10. This is not good pop, and that's coming from a guy who listens to Katy Perry.

6. Presidential suite... BARACK HUSSEIN

lol

shit's so lame...JIMMY IN DEGRASSI

oh my god