rap music's memorable banalities

at least 70% of the group home album

― ciderpress, Saturday, 13 September 2008 04:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

I go to St John's University
And since kindergarden I acquired the knowledge
After 12th grade I went straight to college

― m coleman, Saturday, 13 September 2008 13:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

A pen and a paper, a stereo, a tape of
Me and Eric B, and a nice big plate of
Fish, which is my favorite dish
But without no money it’s still a wish

― Camille Pagliacci (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 September 2008 14:23 (4 years ago) Permalink

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

― Bushwick Bill Clinton (Euler), Saturday, 13 September 2008 15:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

We demand sanitary food

...is pretty good in context, but it got pulled out by a friend in high school as an example of how Wu-Tang Forever was a step down into wackness, and I've never been able to shake that reading of it.

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 September 2008 17:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

I Left My Wallet In El Segundo

but that's the point isn't it?

― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 September 2008 18:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

best rap banality ever:

Super Nintendo Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this

― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 September 2008 18:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

lemonade was a popular drink and it still is.

― ian, Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

the early 90s was so full of filler raps like this

― Patrick Leahy, (D)-VT (deej), Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

ILM's least memorable banalities

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

are you looking for the 'whats on your ipod threads'

― Patrick Leahy, (D)-VT (deej), Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

take 2

are you looking for the 'whats on your ipod' threads

― Patrick Leahy, (D)-VT (deej), Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

i am looking for the exit, sir

;_;

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

i'll get me GOAT

― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

And when my dishes were dirty, I got Cascade.
I got it MADE.

― Joseph McCombs, Sunday, 14 September 2008 04:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

wow, that song... that whole verse is amazing:

I'm kinda spoiled
Cuz everything I want I got made
I wanted gear - got everything from cotton to suede
I wanted lead - I didnt beg, I just got laid
My hair was growin' too long, so I got me a fade
And when my dishes got dirty, I got Cascade
When the weather was hot, I got a spot in the shade
I'm wise because I rise to the top of my grade
Wanted peace on Earth, so to God I prayed
Some kids across town thought I was afraid
They couldnt harm me - I got the army brigade
I'm not a trader - If what you got is greater, I'll trade
But maybe later cuz my waiter made potato -n- alligator souflee
I got it made

I mean, it has it all - abuse of the passive voice to make the rhyme work, flat out self-contradiction ("I'm not a trader [...] I'll trade" (unless there's some "traitor" pun that I'm not getting), statements that would probably be true of anybody and don't really prove that he's got it made (wants peace on Earth). The only question is, which is more banal: that he sits in the shade when it's hot, or that he washes his dishes with Cascade?

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 September 2008 05:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

I like how his waiter is the one making the fancy dishes though - that actually does kind of suggest he's got it made.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 September 2008 05:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

I have to honestly thank you for turning me onto Special Ed. "Would you join the Navy if you didn't like the gravy and rice? Think about it."

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 September 2008 05:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'd rather bust a nut than bust a cap

― The Juan MacCain (The Reverend), Sunday, 14 September 2008 10:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

the early 90s was so full of filler raps like this

Come on and dance guys grab a girl don't wait make the twirl
It's your world and I'm just a squirrel
Trying to get a nut to move your butt

― Pillbox, Sunday, 14 September 2008 11:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

I put too much sugar in my Kool...Aid

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 05:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

and it gets warm, take off your hot sweater

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

if you're tired, then go take a nap

― Granny Dainger, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

dood ya can't knock Special Ed!!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

(many x-posts)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

My DJ is warm, he's X. I call him Norm Ya know.

Still makes me laugh everytime.

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

maybe X should take off his sweater.

― Granny Dainger, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

And in the off season we vacate in the shade.

― P'zone, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

and it gets warm, take off your hot sweater

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:35 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if you're tired, then go take a nap

― Granny Dainger, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:37 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha these were exactly what i meant

― choom gangsta (deej), Saturday, 27 December 2008 05:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

i'll get me GOAT

― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, September 13, 2008 5:46 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

― choom gangsta (deej), Saturday, 27 December 2008 05:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

Buy a half price sweater new

― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Saturday, 27 December 2008 06:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

you cant help me if you cant help yourself
you better make a left

― choom gangsta (deej), Saturday, 27 December 2008 11:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'M GETTIN SLEEPY
I NEED SOME COFFEE

― BIG HOOS is not a nacho purist fwiw (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 27 December 2008 17:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

it don't matter if radio say its a hit
real niggas consider it miscellaneous shit

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 January 2009 07:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

^ ^ ^ Requesting source pls. ^ ^ ^

― brightscreamer, Monday, 19 January 2009 21:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

Saigon on "Say It" from new Termanology mixtape If Heaven Was A Mile Away

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 January 2009 21:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

I knew a guy like you
his name was Felipe

― WavyNDaLazDayz (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 19 January 2009 21:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

And if you're dirty, then go take a bath.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 19 January 2009 22:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

first of all I'd like to thank god

― Edward III, Monday, 19 January 2009 22:18 (4 years ago) Permalink

a pound costs six in new york
but it's half in Miami

― WavyNDaLazDayz (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 19 January 2009 23:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'm just vanishin' with the vanishin' cream - Masta Killa

I woke up this morning and had that line in my head. I never noticed it until just then. Weird.

― brightscreamer, Saturday, 31 January 2009 15:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

Letters makes words
and sentences makes paragraphs

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 March 2009 21:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

this be the drama
i'ma cause like a comma in sentence
paragraphs indented

― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 15 March 2009 21:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

early in the mornin' jump out my bed
grab some afro sheen and I comb my head

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 March 2009 03:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

I've posted this before, on a similar thread, as it is my favorite example of this sort of thing:

You lied about the lies that you lied about
You even lied to your aunt when you went down south

― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 16 March 2009 03:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

All the way to Africa, a.k.a. the Motherland
Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
That's the right hand, Black Man
Only if you was noted as my man

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 16 March 2009 13:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

I was lyrics like those that, in the summer of 97 when I worked for Domino's Pizza, led me to believe that I could have a future in this rap game.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 16 March 2009 13:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

I like the Whopper, fuck the Big Mac

― Consider the Challopster (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 01:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

More like "I like the Whopper BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!! the Big Mac"

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 01:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
That's the right hand, Black Man

the particular banality of this dawned on me very slowly until one day i heard it and was literally in tears wit hlaughter

― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 02:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

Man I bring some prime Com and Whiney has to get on some Asher bullshit.

― Styles Davis (The Reverend), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 08:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

on 285 i keep ridin in a circle
inside of my ride smellin like a pound of purple

This is another one that I think counts as a legitimate lyric, I have had lots of friends who have relished the joys of getting high and driving around the loop (whether 285 or insert-your-town's-perimeter-highway) with your buddies.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

YKK on your zipper

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 17:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

Julio Iglesias...We gettin cream like that nigga

More WTF than banal really

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 17:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

It's like this and like that and like this and uh

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

Man I bring some prime Com and Whiney has to get on some Asher bullshit.

― Styles Davis (The Reverend), Wednesday, May 6, 2009 4:00 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Don't shoot the messenger. We could have a thread of 1000000 rappers talking about playing video games.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

YKK on your zipper

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, May 6, 2009 1:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is the only actual good one since los blue jeans's Big Mac post like 50 posts up.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

I never had any idea what that line meant until like 5 years later when I was taking a shit and started examining my zipper in detail for some reason.

― Styles Davis (The Reverend), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

Huge chunks of "Rapper's Delight" really do fit wonderfully under this umbrella. The whole discussion of eating bad food at a friend's house is instantly memorable and totally banal...but then there's also stuff like:

I got a color TV
So I can see
the Knicks play basketball

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

It's like this and like that and like this and uh

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, May 6, 2009 11:43 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

best rap lyric ever hands down

― symsymsym, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 05:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

who ate all the pies

― kumar the bavarian, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 05:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'm puttin' on my shades
to cover up my eyes

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

I get the cream, cops see me flick my beams
I'm allergic to doc-prescribed antihistamines

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 04:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

And everybody knew the pattern of Pac-Man
Rams was 15, and that then was happenin'

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 9 October 2010 18:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

I go by the name of the King, Ad-Rock
I don't wear a cup, nor a jock

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 April 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

next day's luncheon
high class function
food is served
and you're stone cold munchin'

― the zing cheese incident (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

i'm infallible
not into failure

― dblake (symsymsym), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

"buckets of ice keep the champagne cool" - juelz santana

― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Saturday, 30 April 2011 17:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

i went to the gate to ask where was her dorm
this guy made me fill out a visitor's form

― harrumph. (los blue jeans), Saturday, 30 April 2011 19:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

"buckets of ice keep the champagne cool" - juelz santana

― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Saturday, April 30, 2011 1:48 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

this one is great

― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 May 2011 04:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

condo in miami, that's my favorite pad
watching rondo vs miami, he just made a pass

- jim jones

― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 May 2011 04:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol

― marc gasloi (symsymsym), Monday, 16 May 2011 05:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

Shouts out to jet jaguar and James brown, so glad I took the time to write their names down, just to big them up.

Doom on Rhymes Like Dimes

― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 May 2011 08:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

I sang on 'Doowhutchyalike,' and if you missed it
I'm the one who said, ''Just grab 'em in the biscuits.''
Also told you that I like to bite...
well, yeah, I guess it's obvious I also like to write.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 2 June 2011 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

The clock tick-tocks as I lay in my bed
It's visions of you, circlin' through my head
I sip lemon ice tea, read a magazine
Wish we were involved, in a sneaky love scene

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 22 August 2011 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

aw

― whinie tempah (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 August 2011 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm the type of guy that says, "The pudding is delicious."

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 7 April 2012 04:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 15's didn't see no wire's, and then I heard boom from the amplifiers

-Big Tymers

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

and my mom is nice and my dad is dead

― caulk the wagon and float it, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ali said 'pay for lunch,' so I did it.

― viacom dios, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

We shared chicken sandwiches. They was a dollar fifty.

― viacom dios, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

hahahaha

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

four fifteen inch speakers aren't very banal, that's a lot of bass

― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

You don’t cook, you don’t clean or press my jeans / you don’t scrub or wash clothes or buy food / or make any cream in this bitch, you don’t read to the seeds. All you do is watch TV and smoke weed / get your nails done and feet scrubbed and hair weaved / sleep all day, eat, gain weight, can’t breathe.

― viacom dios, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

yes my name is roman, last name is zolanski, but no relation to roman polanski

― fennel cartwright, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm like 'probably if you clean up and read a little.'

― viacom dios, Thursday, 19 April 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Went to buy me a pair from the skateboard shop/Went home, they didn't fit, so I had to re-cop

― Charles de Gaul (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, 19 April 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

PB? PB? Who is Peabo Bryson?
Two years ago I renewed my license

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

Now I'm not all about dissing someone else personnel
But there's no quota on your odor, that's right, you smell

― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 05:55 (3 months ago) Permalink

thats what the song is about tho

― Guccifer 2 Time (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 06:29 (3 months ago) Permalink

well yes, i suppose so.

― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 07:25 (3 months ago) Permalink

*Insert 2 Chainz lyric here*

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 08:39 (3 months ago) Permalink

I fucked Sherane and went to tell my bros
Then Usher Raymond "Let it Burn" came on

― Lambo Sedan (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 16 March 2013 20:15 (2 months ago) Permalink

^Wondering if that one is maybe an oblique gonorrhea joke tho. Or something deeper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― Lambo Sedan (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 16 March 2013 20:17 (2 months ago) Permalink

"I'm rollin thicker than a milkshake
I like to eat crab but I prefer steak" - Spice 1

― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Saturday, 16 March 2013 20:46 (2 months ago) Permalink

I go on and on
can't understand how I last so long

― The Reverend, Saturday, 6 April 2013 06:48 (1 month ago) Permalink