Post examples of rappers using words they probably don't know the meaning of

[Whips-n-Chains]

When Nas said he was going to give mics "min-eh-stral" cycles...

There are menstrual cycles, and there are minstrel shows (those old racist MFers using black face).

 

[Yehuda]

"shytting on you niccas, got a bad bladder"

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Like Freeway saying he's gonna give his boys stilettos

Stilettos can be a knife...but he prolly thought it was some designer shyt

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

“I’m a known maricon”- Buddha Bless

wtf was he even trying to say? Or what did he think it meant? Hombre or something?

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

The classic Hov "like the sun revolving around the earth"

 

[mindgawn]

"shytting on you niccas, got a bad bladder"

Gunplay!

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

wtf was he even trying to say? Or what did he think it meant? Hombre or something?

he probably heard it in something like scarface and thought it sounded tough

 

[mindgawn]

stilletto is also a beard.

Old folks know its also a knife, poker, put down what you shouldn't picked up...

a short dagger with a tapering blade.

 

[Tj Bronson]

Warren G on “What’s Next” and it ain’t what everyone thinks.

Its one of the sixteen minds that I'm speaking
The W-A the double R the E into the R
A-B-C-D-E-F to the muthafukkin G

nikka misspelled his own name

I always thought he'd said "the W-A the double R the E-N to the uhhh
A B C D E F to the muthfukkin' G"

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

Special Ed said something about winning Grammys and he's not even an actor. Grammys are for music.

I feel like nikkas get this confused in general lol. on the look at my dab song takeoff said “you nikkas should get a grammy way you actin” and it bothers me every time (rip tho)

 

[luckyse7enz]

"I'm a sucker for cornrows & manicured toes"- Nelly

"It's going down, we can kick it like judo"- T-Pain

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I always thought he'd said "the W-A the double R the E-N to the uhhh
A B C D E F to the muthfukkin' G"

According to Genius, it’s

the W-A the double R the E into the uhh
A-be -see-D-E-F to the muthafukkin G

 

[The Guru]

This is nitpicky as hell, but on We Made It Freestyle, Jay Said

"Y'all hella jealous of my melatonin"...melatonin is the over the counter supplemental pills that you take to make you sleepy and go to bed at night...plus, how would you even be jealous about a hormone that everyone secretes on a natural level to go to sleep?

he meant to say melanin, which is the dark pigment of his skin (but doesn't rhyme with the rest of the lines), which would make more sense that people are jealous of his blackness given that the whole verse was about Afrocentric topics that other races envy and not sleepy hormones that everyone has

but the biggest L goes to the Jay-Z stans on rapgenius trying to explain away this line by juelzing their way saying it's a double entrendre on some deep lyrical shyt when Jay-Z simply mixed up melanin with melatonin

Maybe he meant people are jealous of the good sleep he gets. Quadruple aunt andre.

 

[Erratic415]

wtf was he even trying to say? Or what did he think it meant? Hombre or something?

According to genius, he says “I’m no maricon”. But it sounds more like he says “I’m a known maricon”, at least to me.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

According to genius, he says “I’m no maricon”. But it sounds more like he says “I’m a known maricon”, at least to me.

It's funnier you're way let's roll w/ that

I feel like anyone from NYC/Chicago/etc that has a big PR/DR/hispanic population would know it wasn't a compliment even if they didn't know the real meaning