raps that you composed for school or while young

chronicle them itt

1. something for church, i think as part of confirmation? i remember something about our pastor's favorite foods. i wore a beret.

2. middle school, about 'rikki tikki tavi'. iirc pretty much all of them featured somebody beatboxing the 'we will rock you' beat. and there was a jock kid named joe who came out with one that was pretty good? shit how do i even remember this now.

i might have to dig out some old notebooks

:o

I wasn't involved in the actual recording of this but my group of friends redid "#1 stunna" into "#1 customer" & it was about how much they liked panera

too many, all too embarassing

I wrote a short rap in maybe fourth grade, and I remember that it was intended to be delivered under the moniker "MC Message" and that it rhymed "other rappers" with "bunch of yappers" or something like that.

I did a dope rap about the Cub Scouts in like second grade. I made a pause tape looping the last 10 seconds of "Life is Too $hort"

my friend tried to convince me to put "AWo" in front of my AIM screenname, AWo stood for asian world order - sometimes we'd exchange battle raps on AIM, I remember writing something about iron chefs and finding something delicious

in tenth grade history we had to write songs about WW2 (i think) in groups, so i got my group to rewrite "drop it like it's hot". i think ours was called "drop the atom bomb." and then another team stole it because teenagers.

only one that immediately comes to mind is my weird al style parody of "i'm a thug" called "i'm a jew"

redid rage against the machines "people of the sun" as "cattle of the sun" for a unit on the odyssey one year. not really a rap though.

also, because i spent a long time trying to remember it even though it wasn't written by me and it isn't a rap, here's the chorus of "at the zoo" written by my friend chris, to the tune of "in the middle"

Cause we're at the zoo!
There's a zebra there's a zebra
Kangaroo
Elephant elephant we ride the tram
Elephant elephant we ride the tram (the tram)

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Drop it like it's hot was out when you were in 10th grade?

Someone shoot me now pls k thanx.

oh no sorry! it was eleventh grade. you're fine.

lol

redid "It's Tricky" as "It's Crispy", in response to Reagan's bombing of Libya in 1986, was 7th grade, I remember that I dropped the term "Exocet"

We're the kids of DARE and we're here to say
Doing drugs: is not okay

IDK everyone in my hometown thought "rap" and "We Will Rock You" were the same thing.

We had to do one about fireworks when I was about 9. I remember the line 'keep the pets in momma' being rejected by my group.

Actually not even pure "We Will Rock You" – a lot of in-class raps with the chorus as "Gotta be, gotta be [subject x] [follow up words]" thanks to THIS AD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSF7XjHSf5k

Gotta be
Gotta be
Planet Mars
[planet of war]

We had to do one about fireworks when I was about 9. I remember the line 'keep the pets in momma' being rejected by my group.

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, May 14, 2012 5:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still laughing!

Somewhere out there is a cassette tape of me "freestyling" in college as part of a truth-or-dare game. I remember the beginning of my rap because my housemates insisted on listening to it a lot of times:

(Intro): Underground bassline/underground mic check/underground beatbox/undergrond (2x)
(verse): "You know my rhyme is so underground/that you can't find it anywhere in town/it's underground/you'd have to look under the ground if you wanted to find it/cause it's not above ground/it's under the ground/under the sky/because of course, the sky is above the ground"

and then you joined the flight of the conchords

RATM/Hiphoprisy-inspired political raps about the LA riots, media coverage of the Gulf War and the evils of television. Very "of their time". Very middle-class, white and English too. I have them on tape but I'm scared to play them.

Will pay for all of these on an ilx raps mixtape

when i was at college at nyu i would go to slam & open mic nights at the bowery poetry club all the time. i composed a rap and performed it in from of sage francis. included was the forced rhyme of 'alphabetical' with 'helvetica' and namechecking 'dj salinger.' true story.

in front of

In middle school I came up with a rap called n*gga n*gga n*gga bitch bitch bitch, which was just those lines repeated over and over with a mothafucka thrown in here or there. I performed it at the local McDonalds, and as luck would have it, the only black guy in town was there. My friends laughed their asses off, and the guy came up and said he thought it was funny while I did my best to not wet myself. I wonder that guy was inspired to write this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkxID5Ye-Sg

Thugnificent lived in your town?

Somewhere there exists a tape of our rap trio from junior high, featuring two friends and I reciting terrible raps over remixes* of "Batdance". iirc, our trio was Jam-Master Jon, MC Mark, and E-Crazy.

* - said "remixes" were us playing the "Batdance" cassingle in one boombox while fucking around with two Casio keyboards and recording it all in a second boombox