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

one of my pet theories about the Gudda line was that it was "I got a ni**a: Grocery Bag," and Grocery Bag was actually the name of some 4th tier Young Money weed carrier who'd drop verses on Gudda Gudda mixtapes.

― max r who max r (some dude), Saturday, December 18, 2010 4:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's just an obtuse way of saying "bag her like groceries" Future/Jeezy, that's all

I know this must sound crazy to you now but honestly..... that's just not things it worked in 2010

it's kinda depressing that no one thought

I knock her lights out, but she still shine (Lil Wayne)

was the most casually horrible line on this thing

Yeah, I thought that. Not seen this thread before tho.

i think ppl probably assumed its about sex & not intimate partner violence but idk

swallowed it hook, line, & singer... DRAKE

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 29 June 2014 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

to truly unlock teh funnay, it is v.important that you picture Drake like so:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hiphopdx-production/2015/07/Finding-Nemo.jpg

yes, your year-old meme is hilarious

The entire first real track ("Shooter") on the new Clipping EP is built around the "...grocery bag" punchline structure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibeIqOv1ww

"call me automatic weezy, I keep spitting" <<< simpler times for figurative language

Kill at Will? Solid water? Ice Cube!
― da croupier, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 4:08 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

solid water/ice cube is like high art compared to some of the shit in this song
― some dude, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 4:22 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ONCE AGAIN TIGHT PRODUCTION MAKES UP FOR SHORTCOMINGS ELSZEWHERE
― tramp steamer, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 7:54 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god I just googled clipping -- what is this sub pop hipster bs??! plz crosspost to rolling worst, stat

Your wallet or your life... CHOOSE ONE
Come up off the lettuce... CROUTON

yeah that line got a chuckle but not enough to keep me from closing the browser tab and deleting the search history

If it makes you feel any better you probably weren't the only person googling daveed diggs this week

Cause I'm a beast bitch, grr....#InvaderZim

ten years old this fall.... christ

bedrock ten years old...5th grade!

i think about this thread all the time thanks everyone

^ lol same. incidentally, just heard this song yesterday

ONCE AGAIN TIGHT PRODUCTION MAKES UP FOR SHORTCOMINGS ELSZEWHERE

― tramp steamer, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:54 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i miss threads like this

I miss threads... OVERUSED LINT ROLLER

:D

Lmao

I miss threads... ASTIGMATIC SEAMSTRESS

if only we knew what we had in gudda gudda

lol DC

"i see her wit me, no stevie wonder" is still just breathtakingly bad

will they do a reunion sequel song in another 10 years?

just waiting for the "puns"

I'm getting too old for this shit....DANNY GLOVER
Don't ask me "Who's the man?"....DR DRE AND ED LOVER
My guns got range....MICHAEL DELORENZO FROM NEW YORK UNDERCOVER
Your shit is tired and copied...WOLFMOTHER

this song was the first i'd heard of nicki minaj iirc

same.

me too I believe, then I listened to her mixtapes and liked them, then her first album dropped and I thought it was dumb and didn't really go back.

Lonely Island beat you all to the wacky grocery bag parodies in 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2spvT0atvM

the first time i heard of nicki was when wayne said "i just signed a chick named nicki meen-aj" in "upgrade," and then first heard her via her verse on da drought 3's "can't stop, won't stop," but she wasn't credited on that, so i didn't realize it was her until she started bubbling up a couple years later.

Lonely Island obv ripped off this thread

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

― max, Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:39 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I am listening to this song for the first time right now. Am wildly disappointed to hear that the goofy metaphors are not SHOUTED-OUT like they are in this thread.

lol I went on the same exact journey 11 years ago, according to my first post itt

there are still so many bad stevie wonder/ray charles/sight-related lyrics making their way into the ether unfortunately

They are the only two blind people to have ever lived

I’m the real heir, pretenders out of my throne
Andrea Bocelli, I can do this with my eyes closed

Getting my weight up
I’m Helen Keller to the hate
I’m sayin’, “What?, what?, what?”

Skillibeng has a new EP out and 3/5 of it are excellent.

Then there's the track with the lyric "I'm by your side / Love handles"

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

― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:32 AM bookmarkflaglink

I miss threads... OVERUSED LINT ROLLER

― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, January 11, 2022 11:14 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hhahahahahawhat

I was hoping this thread had been bumped because Gudda Gudda had recorded a song defending Drake

“ His debut album, Nothing Is Promised was scheduled for release in 2013, although it remains unreleased; he departed from the label the following year.”

From Jae Millz’ Wikipedia page

this thread comes full circle...GEOMETRY

I'm at the W, but I can't meet you in the lobby
Girl, I gotta watch my back, 'cause I'm not just anybody

I guess this was true