Most tongue- twisting line in rap

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for me - I'm sad to say it's still the PE one about soap onna rope etc.

any thoughts ?

― B-Boy Jordi Rse, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

snow 'informer'

― keith, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's easier to hear things than say them. So a lot of things don't sound very tongue-twisting but probably are. The only thing I've ever tried to rap (cf karaoke thread) is "The Real Slim Shady" which was fucking difficult. The half-rhymes he puts in - "furniture" / "return of the" - really threw me. I'm pretty sure all rap would be really difficult though. Except maybe DMX.

― Tom, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

it's impossible to sing along with any das efx song. and, although they suck, ditto for bone thugs n harmony.

― ethan, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Check out Sir Mallick (i think that's his name) on Dr. Octagon's 'Biology 101' (it's on Ecologyst - album of the year 1996). Sounds if he's reading alound and really fast from a biology textbook. Which of course is very cool.

― Omar, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

it's 'sir menelik'.

― ethan, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Go here. Listen to "Sha Sha" on the audio page. Marvel.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Thanks Ethan, I must have been thinking of Mr.Mallick (or Mr. Maleek), not the ace director but someone who gets name-checked on Warren G's 1st album, yes?

― Omar, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

well, malik is a very common hiphop artist name already, it's the government name of phife ('by the way my name's malik, the five-foot freak/ let's say we get together by the end of the week') and malik b. from the roots (duh). i believe it's islamic in origin. i remember a while back there being a basketball player named malik sealy as well. never heard the warren g. album though.

― ethan, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I always thought Snow was singing "a leaky bum bum now"...sorry :)! Also, I heard Shaggy do a slow version of the "It Wasn't Me" rap...and I still didn't get a word of it...I'm lame!

― james edmund L, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

most DISAPPOINTING line in rap?: When I first heard it, I tht Shaggy was singing "if seeing is believing then you better change your sex", a mindfuck non-sequitur of titanic proportions/implications etc (it's "specs", which is hohum indeed).

― mark s, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

All that tickety-tickety tongue-twisting shit don't impress me.

― Greg, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Everyone should read Dr Seuss -'FOX IN SOCKS'

― I popped tha strippa, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

damn you greg, i was going to use that beatnuts quote in my positive k review. ack.

― ethan, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

art of origin's _un-ration-al_. chino XL before he went solo does some of the most ridiculous post DAS-EFX shit i've ever heard, with lines like "straight from the fires of hell/in the bottomless pit i spit hate from my tongue/i'm throwin' that ass out the window like eric clapton's son" delivered in double or quadruple time. unfortunately i don't think it ever received a proper release... but i've seen it used a number of times.

― your null fame, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three months pass...

massive attack - daydreaming - best rap ever

― ivan mandic, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I deleted a post and some stray attendant 'wtf?' posts at Tracer's request. It was an old post, sorry I didn't notice it before or I would've deleted it right away. Though it could've been a lyrical reference, it directly referred to an ILM poster in an obscene manner.

It was an old post, before I made a later gripe to the poster about posting abusive and pointless things on ILM. (Not doompatrol/paul related, I'll note.) I appreciate that that poster (who knows who he is) seems to have stopped, though, so consider this just some spring (er summer) cleaning.

― Josh, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Thanks Josh.

Tho now I need to repost the first part of my complaint: Massive Attack can't rap for shit.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i think tricky sounds okay.

― ethan, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

can the nu-Wild Bunch crew be credited with bringing what cd be called "cabaret style" rap? i like their breathiness and low-key urgency, i just don't think they do it very well.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six years pass...

First ever rap thread on ilx!

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Started off as it meant to continue.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm suprised no one mentioned this classic line:

Dead in the middle of Little Italy, little did we know
that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily.

Though I guess it sounds more tongue-twisting when Pun says it than written down like that.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I was always impressed with the way Ice Cube phrased "...you should hear how she sounds with a cock in her / boots get knocked from here to Czechoslovakia."

― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link

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