200 Rap Songs That Reference "Saturday Night Live"

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This thread can be filled by El-P alone:

1. Company Flow - "Bad Touch Example"

"Yes... You are correct sir.."

2. Company Flow - "8 Steps To Perfection"

"You're faggot like Sprockets/And, yo, motherfuck the Houston Rockets"

3. Company Flow - "Collude/Intrude"

"Son grip the love spigot/Yeah that's the ticket"

4. El-P - "Deep Space 9mm"

"I'm a caveman, your modern ways frighten and confuse me/I look at your spirit box with the blinking lights and I think, "Are those little people trapped in that box?"

5. El-P - "Drive"

"About to careen on some Toonces shit off the cliff/
But love of the sport of racing is keeping me out of coffins"

6. Das EFX - "Mic Checka"

"A-higgedy-hoy there matey, I giggedy-gots to flow/
My Saturday nights are live-er than Joe Piscopo"

7. Three Times Dope - "Greatest Man Alive"

Sample: "He's tall, he's rich, he's handsome... Definitely the best thing that's happened to me..." is Jane Curtain in a sketch where Chevy plays a gun nut about to propose.

8. The Coup - "Kill My Landlord"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Probably a ton of Redman songs too, once I remember em.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link

9. Evidence - "Mr Slow Flow"

"Reppin it, party time, excellent
It's perfection kid, I'm not affectionate"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Northern State mentioned "More Cowbell" in a song, but I don't remember which one.

JoshLove, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Masta Ace Inc. - "Saturday Night Live"

tremendoid, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

apparantly that song is:

10. Northern State - "Last Night"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link

11. "Party time, excellent, yeah Wayne's World/ Campbell's soup on the wrist, just call me Earl" - Lil Wayne, "Get High, Screw Da World"

Probably a ton of Redman songs too, once I remember em.

the Blues Brothers homage in the "Whateva Man" video deserves an honorable mention, at least.

as much as Kanye quotes Anchorman, I'm sure he's referenced some SNL somewhere, although I can't remember any at the moment.

Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link

12. "The Gucci sneakers some cologne, I think Aramis/ I look in the mirror and said, 'Biz you look - marvelous!'" - Biz Markie, "A Thing Named Kim"

Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Don't forget all that Wu Tang stuff about the Killer Bees.

mulla atari, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link

The Coup- Kill My Landlord

mulla atari, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Biz Markie- "A Thing Named Kim"

"I look in the mirror and said, "Biz you look - marvelous!"

mulla atari, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link

13.

Masta Ace Inc. - "Saturday Night Live"

-- tremendoid, Monday, June 11, 2007 7:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link

14. Del The Funkee Homosapien - "Worldwide"

"Who is the two like the Blues Brothers?/Yeah, who does it?"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link

15. Redman - "Merry Jane"

"I do about 45 over speed bumps/So when you tryna roll, your weed on the flo'/Joe Piscopo, I play too much/That's why my Saturday Night is Liver than yours"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link

haha whats w/ the joe piscopo obsession! what a random dude to obsess about in the annals of snl

deej, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Redman also namechecks Piscopo in "Da Goodness"!

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

i think you can tell that piscopo is the type of dude that redman would want to hang out with

strongohulkington, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm sure his screen door is also dangling off its hinges and he still plays atari lynx, too

strongohulkington, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

16. Redman - "I'm A Bad..."

"I'm a wild and crazy guy! No lie!"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

das efx, who also referenced piscopo, were produced by erick sermon, as was redman.

deej, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

the erick sermon joe piscopo connection???

deej, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

erick and piscopo making dollars

strongohulkington, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Piscopo was like the most famous actor from Jersey when Red was growing up, duh.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

i have a feeling go piscopo also pushes a suzuki samurai now

strongohulkington, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

17. That Lyrics Born song with the Stuart Smalley chorus

Dimension 5ive, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

haha GO PISCOPO

Dimension 5ive, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, he's a lot easier to rhyme than "Tim Kazurinsky"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

i keep the pinky stinky like tim kazurinsky

strongohulkington, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Red would have obviously gone with "buttinski"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link

and thus are the differences between myself and redman most clearly illustrated

strongohulkington, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link

get hyphy like Julia Louis-Dreyfee

Dimension 5ive, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry

Dimension 5ive, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link

would EPMD's "the steve martin" qualify, seeing as he was practically an SNL regular during the 70s?!?

Eisbaer, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link

i was gonna post about the redman-piscopo JERSEY connection but i see that its been mentioned. piscopo and red are probably about similarly famous in jersey, actually.

max, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link

steve martin x-post

A great song, but for the rules of this thread, no it doesn't qualify. Must specifically reference something that happened on SNL.

(note that my nod to Redman's Piscopo ref in "Da Goodness" isn't numbered since it has nothing to do with Piscopo on SNL specifically).

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh shit... how could I forget--two for the price of one in this one!:

18. DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince - "Let's Get Busy Baby"

"Now isn't that special?" Why ain't you widdit?
You'll be my only girl, "Yeah, that's the ticket"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link

There's a rap-metal band named Presence with a song called "Van Down By the River".

mulla atari, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Has any rapper quoted "Lazy Sunday" back?

Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Ice Cube, "Smoke Some Weed": "West coast motherfucker / George Bush, George Clinton, Bill Clinton, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Bob Marley..."

Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

20. "It doesn't have to be Saturday Night for Young MC to get Live"
young mc - "i come off"

poxyfuzak (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 March 2009 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link

This could have something to do with some of the Piscopo fixations mentioned upthread:

For more info, check:
http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_tinpanapplemillerbrewing.html

dad a, Monday, 16 March 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link

I am deeply dissappointed that this thread includes Masta Ase's "Saturday Night Live" but not the BDK song that he jacked the hook from, "Get Into It"

Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 16 March 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm going to add a sixth El-P post to this

22. El-P - "Accidents Don't Happen"

"PAAAAAIN CAAAAAAVE"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

Can Weezy retire the Wayne's World line?

Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link

11. "Party time, excellent, yeah Wayne's World/ Campbell's soup on the wrist, just call me Earl" - Lil Wayne, "Get High, Screw Da World"

― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, June 11, 2007 3:19 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sad things is back then this was probably the only one

I, Contrarian-Ass Mutha (some dude), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

23. "I'm raw like sushi/Belushi's spirit probably is with me" Slaine (La Coka Nostra), "That's Coke"

Sug-Banning Fool at Poll-Making School (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I'm renumbering these to disqualify the two posts that only mention cast members but not SNL specifically or SNL bits

19. The new Kanye song that has him doing the church lady "Satan... Satan... Satan..." bit

23. Kanye West - "Power"
"Fuck SNL and the whole cast!"

corn futures hoof gang till them all (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link


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