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

[Artfull Dodger]

If there’s one thing I know, it’s smoking and living large - Wiz Khalifa

 

[Artfull Dodger]

i imagine every rapper prior to common internet usage has a example.

and even in the age of the net, you know Wayne prolly has a few.

Weezy F. Baby and the F is for phenomenal

 

[Renegade47]

Weezy F. Baby and the F is for phenomenal

makes sense.

you spell phenomenal like "fenomenal" in spanish

 

[FTBS]

"Separate the weak from the obsolete" - C. Wallace

 

[Walter H White]

Not exactly in line with thread title, but editor should have had him phrase it better…


Richie Rich on “Rather Be Ya Nukka”

I know it hurts/
To find out me and your man be sharing skirts/

 

[Mike the Executioner]

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)

It's crazy how these guys are in the music industry and they don't know what the biggest award in music is called.

They never watched the Grammys or known people that were nominated/won? Never got invited to them?

 

[TripleAgent]

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

Phife had lines like "I float like gravity" and "cock is longer than the hat worn by Dr. Seuss." He was trying to reference The Cat in the Hat.

Run had the line "There’s three of us, but we're not The Beatles." Apparently, he thought there were three Beatles, and DMC knew there were four but he never told him.

Lennon was killed in 1980, there were three Beatles then.

 

[Yehuda]

Run had the line "There’s three of us, but we're not The Beatles." Apparently, he thought there were three Beatles, and DMC knew there were four but he never told him.

Watching DMC's Drink Champs episode I realized breh really isn't a rock n roll head like that, he said they had no idea what Aerosmith actually looked like and when Rick Rubin introduced them they were like "oh shyt that's the Rolling Stones!".

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Lennon was killed in 1980, there were three Beatles then.

For years, I thought that was Run's logic behind the line. I didn't even question it when I heard it because the song was called "King of Rock" and they were making it clear they're different from other artists. Even in the video, when Run says the line, he takes a hat and covers one of the busts that represent the Beatles, and there were four of them in the video.

Then I read a Rolling Stone interview from 1988 where Run genuinely thought there were three members, like he didn't know John Lennon was killed. When he asked DMC why he didn't tell him, DMC said "Well, there's three of them now." I still think the line is hard, but Run wasn't thinking on that level when he wrote it.

Watching DMC's Drink Champs episode I realized breh really isn't a rock n roll head like that, he said they had no idea what Aerosmith actually looked like and when Rick Rubin introduced them they were like "oh shyt that's the Rolling Stones!".

I saw some of that interview. DMC's a great storyteller, but he tends to lump certain things together and the timeline doesn't always match. Like when he said he wrote "Hit It Run" because he was responding to people who felt like Run-D.M.C. weren't as lyrical as Kane and Rakim. And I'm thinking, that song came out in '86. Run-D.M.C. had no competition that year outside of LL, and I don't even think "Eric B. is President" was out yet.

The story I always heard about "Walk This Way" was that they would rap over the drums at the beginning at parties. The records didn't really have names, so you would say "Put on number 9." They never heard anything after the drums because DJs would cut it after that. They were just going to make a song where they rapped over the drums, but when Rick said they should cover the actual song, they thought Aerosmith was called Toys in the Attic.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Look up in the sky, you need a MICROSCOPE! - Fred from Da Band

Low key, I rocked with that album

"Go Steady"

 

[Yehuda]

The story I always heard about "Walk This Way" was that they would rap over the drums at the beginning at parties. The records didn't really have names, so you would say "Put on number 9." They never heard anything after the drums because DJs would cut it after that. They were just going to make a song where they rapped over the drums, but when Rick said they should cover the actual song

Yeah he said that too, that they had never even heard the lyrics and Rick Rubin wrote it down for them.

And as for him saying things that don't add up to the timeline, I mean look at this:

 

[Braman]

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

This one is not 100%.

It is possible he meant melanin, but it could go either way and the line as it stands actually it works better

You left out the line after that which is ‘I could black out at any given moment’, which is what melatonin makes you do. That points directly to melatonin not melanin, so it suggests he’s using the exact word he meant to

Also before that he said ‘watch your tone’, so melatonin/mellow tone may be a nod to THAT, not what you assume ‘they jealous of my melanin’. You can even further argue its a triple entendre as ‘mellow tone’ could refer to skin tone as well as voice. He has spit bars this layered before

 

[MidwestD]

Low key, I rocked with that album

"Go Steady"

The singles off the album are fun listens, not gonna lie.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Yeah he said that too, that they had never even heard the lyrics and Rick Rubin wrote it down for them.

And as for him saying things that don't add up to the timeline, I mean look at this:

That's the kind of thing that sounds like a joke, but he was dead serious in his tone.

He used to drink a case of malt liquor every day, so that had to have affected him in ways we don't know about.

 

[Yehuda]

Lil Keke overseas with his "long-haired Samoan" as if they were known for being fine as hell there's a reason why you don't see Cali dudes rapping about Samoan chicks in that light.