rap songs presumably about a relationship but are actually about SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY revealed in the last line

1. Common - "I Used To Love H.E.R."
2. MC Lyte - "I Cram To Understand U (Sam)"
3. MC Shan - "Cocaine"
4. Run DMC - "Crack"
5. Eminem - "25 To Life"

Maybe I'll poll them if we come up with a few more.

Shan is 100% the winner for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkNIHYezNJ0

I assume Common got the idea from him unless someone can prove otherwise

Did I just name them all?

6. e-40 ft. juelz + ugk - white gurl

now let me introduce the world to my girl
she white, she bright, she shine like a pearl
and i ain't talkin about lindsay lohan
i'm talking bout that sniff that blow man

7. ugk - chrome plated woman

bun's verse on this is at least along these lines

8. 213 - mary jane

i mean there must be a shitload of "mary jane"s but sticking to dope ones

9. scarface - mary jane

10. Cunninlynguists- Apprectiation

Seems like it's about a couple fighting before one of them gets on a plane and a dude flying to make up with his brother---until the last line when you find out its about 9/11.

um how did we forget basically the dopest of all of these:

11. mobb deep - drink away the pain

tpp, those don't count because they are just metaphors. pls read the thread title ffs. E-40 gives up the plot of white gurl in the first line

shit when did m. night shyamalan starting writing backpack rap

haha ok yeah shit sorry!

rich boy's verse on that paper planes remix

10. Cunninlynguists- Apprectiation

Seems like it's about a couple fighting before one of them gets on a plane and a dude flying to make up with his brother---until the last line when you find out its about 9/11.

― President Keyes, Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:28 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is OTM and will be officially be #6 in this thread.

xpost, yes!

yeah its not ambiguous at all im just tired and didn't read it sorry :-/

(i am putting this in parenthesis because its off topic and i don't wanna get hollered at, but i always liked the last line on "midnight" by ice-t cuz he looks at his watch and it's six in the morning, all of a sudden your realize this was the prequel to six in the mornin)

maybe we should have a songs with "twist endings" thread.

Kanye - "Homecoming" An homage to I Used to Love H.E.R., but about Chicago.

It's not the best twist in the world.

?? I don't think any of these songs wait until the last line to reveal their actual subject matter

Homecoming technically doesn't--there's some ad-libbing about Chicago in the beginning, and a chorus after the reveal, and it's pretty obvious what he's talking about the whole time.

But structurally it's pretty damn close to what Chris is looking for, even if it's only cuz it's patterned after Common.

Also, side note: On Graduation, Homecoming comes shortly after the song with the chorus about Common passing up on a beat. It's funny how much of Graduation is Common-focused.

maybe we should have a songs with "twist endings" thread.

Yes.