easter eggs: a thread for rap's subtler puns

i know some real obv shit but i know dudes could school me

great thread

so many rapped about rims i'm surprised niggas ain't become tires in the street
i turn cold and i make a nigga screech

Actually, shit, there was something that got called out a while ago that totally blew my mind, but I can't remember it now.

i sip fine wine and spit vintage flows

i liked a line about "riding februaries" and thought it was subtle... but i can't remember who said it. :/

the art of real forgetfulness

good thread imo, will attempt to contribute

i never loved the song but i was always impressed that a pretty lazy radio jam like bonnie & clyde 03 still had "eyes behind shades, my necklace the reason all my dates be blind dates"

even as jay has fallen off lately, his songs are usually good for one subtle pun. i kinda noticed this one in "swagga like us" recently

But I can't teach 'em my swag
You can pay for school but you can't buy class

budden: "so niggas come after me, even intelligent hoodlums become tragedies"

that's a good one

i think we should mark that as

1.

vakill: "tattooed f-u-n on my dick, for "fuck yall niggas" / while i poke fun atcha bitches"

lol i guess its fuck u niggas

Royce: Nigga you at war with the sharks, the government team/ Leave you airless like Jordin Sparks or a motherless teen.

budden: "so niggas come after me, even intelligent hoodlums become tragedies"

too subtle for me what am i missing here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_Khadafi

haha the ras kass thread inspire all these slow burner puns?

ringsnap takin over

peel off in the lambourgine/ like a tangerine

so many rapped about rims i'm surprised niggas ain't become tires in the street

srsly mind was blowed when this hit me

then i relized i'd misremembered it and the "w/rapped about rims" bit isn't even in there

Not a pun, but a kind of subtle nerd anti-humor on new Tanya Morgan:

"I get more props and stunts than Guru"

for some reason after months of being all OMGWTFLOL at Mack Maine using "kit-kat" as an innuendo, it just occurred to me that "kit-kat a midget/ if that ass soft I break her off" is a pun

u_u

gratz on your achievement

"magazine paper baby money ain't an issue"

"i see beef as dead meat"

those have to be weezy...

also, Tanya Morgan line is funny, hope she rhymed it with "I used to drink lemonade and I still do"

Listened to Raekwon's "10 Bricks" like two dozen times this year and just caught Ghost saying

"It's for the love of the AK and you could get get scratched like AJ"

soprano?

try again, youngster!

Might need PappaWheelie to come in here and decode that one

just tell us what it means shithead

haha, sorry canks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJjjDo5RQnU

bought my dudes watches, that's how we pass time

thread shd be called 'slow burners'

totally

replace first post w/ graemlin

copywrite w/ two kinda-subtle puns in one bar:

You got juice? That's pulp fiction/
Pick up your girl and get brain in the car like Jules and Vincent

the first half is less clever, but arguably more subtle

you can tell my neck i'm plugged / yes i'm in the matrix

can tell BY my neck

& that's twista

whiney
can you post this in the rap easter eggs
whiney
the lil wayne punchline
"Real G's move in silence like lasagna."

weezy should write crosswords

"Real G's move in silence like lasagna" is like the "When you see it you will shit brix" of rap punchlines

really?

i guess i dont find it that subtle cuz 'like lasagna' can only mean one thing? or am i missing something

it's not subtle so much as "huh?"

I agree with whiney, I think it is a pretty good punchline

it took you a long ass time to get it, tbf

and a bunch of hipster puppy fans not getting the line isn't really evidence in your favor

i didnt get it immediately & thats why its silly / funny to me! if i got it right away itd just be a normal toilet/im the shit overrated wayne punchline

still didnt take me as long as WGW tho lol

this isn't rap but:

yeah, when he grabs his guitar and starts to pluck
Everybody wants to get up and dance

didn't take me that long but for a second i was like wait, pluck doesn't rhyme with dance

bought my dudes watches, that's how we pass time

― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:41 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

ha, just came to post this one (again)

So I kept feedin' her money 'til her shit started to make sense is who??

also, bought my dudes watches, that's how we pass time is who?

nah the Who was "mama's got a squeeze box, daddy never sleeps at night http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

1st one is jay, mostlyclean

rotate the chickens like a weather vane
that wind blow
it come and go
i hurricane

bought my dudes watches, that's how we pass time

― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:41 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

ha, just came to post this one (again)

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:27 PM (Yesterday)

idgi?

the way he passes time [lollygagging, waiting, etc] is by literally passing timepieces around to his friends http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

rotate the chickens like a weather vane
that wind blow
it come and go
i hurricane

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:55 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

when i realized the deeper pun here was "that wind blow/it come and go" my jaw actually dropped

also, bought my dudes watches, that's how we pass time is who?

― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

it's cam'ron

& dave cool yay otm

dave cool yayo

numbers look so good on the squares they yellin bingo

with the powder i stays on top of the mound
and keep pitchin when they say no' mo' is in town

that's good

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2011/04/pusha_ts_20_fattest_coke_lines.php

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

not sure what's worst about that: it's existence in the first place, the fact that it was written after a mixtape that even pusha t stans admitted sucked, that the dude quotes a bunch of lines from said mixtape, or that "move caine like a cripple" didn't even crack the top 15

its*

i push caine like alfie's pallbearer http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

So I kept feedin' her money 'til her shit started to make sense is who??

already answered but to clarify further it's jay-z, song is "d'evils" offa reasonable doubt

i don't wanna get all rtfm on you, but you can just <ctrl-c/copy line of text>, google: <ctrl-v> space "lyrics", and you'll get the artist and title probably as the first choice. i do this all the time, like if i hear some song i like on the radio and i don't know who it is, i just type a line or two i can pick out into my smartphone (any line will do) and later google those words, in order, plus "lyrics"

po-po try to convict him,
that's a no go,
my dough keep the scales tipping

"rotate the chickens like a weather vane
that wind blow
it come and go
i hurricane

when i realized the deeper pun here was "that wind blow/it come and go" my jaw actually dropped

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:55 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark"

wait, so i get that the wind both blows and is blow, and chickens are crackheads, but whats the significance of "it come and go"?

as in, the cocaine moves quickly, like the blowin wind

/hurricane

ok yeah, i thought i was missing something else for some reason! great line anyway...

<ctrl-c/copy line of text>, google: <ctrl-v> space "lyrics",

you can just highlight, right-click, and select "Search Google for." 12 clicks fewer!

when dave cool posts in here, he will always tell you what the artist is http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

how chttp://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gifl of u

its really the cool thing 2 do http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

xpost R0NG! i mean, it probably works ok sometimes, but i find you're more likely to get it right the first time if you type "lyrics" at the beginning or end of the phrase. though i suppose you could highlight, right click, search google, then if it doesn't answer correctly, *then* type "lyrics" at the end of the line.

that said i suppose google might have improved it's algorithms to the point where you no longer need to type "lyrics" it justknows that's what you want <cue creepy twilight zone music>

if it doesn't answer correctly, *then* type "lyrics" at the end of the line.

yeah, this. if there's a distinctive word in the sentence then lyrics are usually the first six answers

maybe this one is really obv & i'm late on not getting it but this jay-z couplet from "gotta have it"

cuz now i'm richer
and prior to this shit was moving freebase

(richer/prior = richard pryor, who OD'd on freebase)

clipse did that one first iirc

but thanks for assuming we're total idiots and explaining it

well i was a total idiot & didn't get it for like 8 months or w/e

I didn't get it either

I got Richard Pryor, didn't get the freebase bit.

thanks a lot j0rdan

Em's "Berserk" had one so subtle it was befuddling until i looked it up

And girl, I ain't got no money to borrow
But I am trying to find a way to get you alone [a loan] — car note

I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers
Your bitch sucked my johnny two times

-royce

haha that's a good one

joe budden: "trues hang from my nuts so my sac religious"

(via and what)

just recently wrapped my head around the "santayana goodbye" line in "we didn't start the fire"

y'all have probably covered this somewhere but...

# of Unique Words Used Within Artist’s First 35,000 Lyrics

https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html

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