most pathetic excuse for wordplay in Young Money's "Bedrock"

I'd like to take this moment to point out Drake's weird mannerism of pointing down+sideways. Why does he do this? What is he pointing at?

The "Say Something" video is a varitable down+sidewayspolooza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9pYU-fa18

RE: "grocery bag"; I believe the line is "and I got her nigga.... grocery bagged."
I think he's saying she's ready to go. This in no way diminishes the stupidity of this line.

― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:39 PM

is there a thread on the young money album

we are listening to it at work today. spoiler: it is not very good

I knew it had been said before (by you), I just felt like people kept refusing to acknowledge this! (xx-post)

the idea of calling this "grocery bag rap" tickles me to no end

imo the finger pointing is actually one of Drake's less annoying tics, the thing where he constantly holds out an open palm and shakes it is way weirder

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u212/ww1965/jazz_hands_cat.jpg

and yeah, it's pretty clearly "bagged" but I certainly understand why it's more enjoyable to pretend that's not the case.

i dunno i just never heard it that way or saw it transcribed that way -- anyone have an a cappella? we need to get to the bottom of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nklfdaYqPE
1:02
not conclusive, but c'mon. he's rhyming it with "know she bad".

unrelated but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q54yc_esto8

i'm gonna refrain from posting his other videos but whooooo boy

my roommate brought back a puppy, and one of its chew toys is a grocery bag

maybe i should've posted that to "too much time on ilx" idk

Is this whole garbage bag phenomenon Dipset's fault? It feels like it is or at least should be.

Oh, looks like that specter has already been raised.

i remember being on the subway in like 2004-2005 and hearing two girls loudly arguing about whether cam'ron was a good rapper. And one of the girls used this line as an example of why he is lousy .

She put her foot on my balls... Now it's a football

Although I've found no evidence of this line actually existing, it still tickles me, and seems like the mid-00s version of this convo.

craziest part of that is your addiction was apparently so bad, you'd hallucinate when you were "on the subway".

had no idea

I really shouldn't have tried to google that line

i had a shortlived epiphany that gudda gudda was actually saying "grocery bagged," which would make sense in the context of "she know she bad, and i got her nigga grocery bagged" as in, her husband murdered and his dead body put in a grocery bag (get it?). but i listened again jsut now and it's pretty clearly just "bag."

i wish there was another Young Money rapper named Grocery Bag that was being referenced in the line

young money should start branding environmentally friendly gudda gudda reusable canvas grocery bags -- start getting rap to go green imo

"I got her grocery bagged" is pretty simple to parse; it's like saying she's in the bag, gift wrapped, ready to go home, hot to trot. Timbo and Justin run the same awkward metaphor in Carry Out.
But again, I am sympathetic to y'all WANTING this not to make sense.

man, weezy should have his mouth scrubbed out with soap for "i knock her lights out, but she still shine"

ha, i always felt a bit uncomfortable hearing dream sing "just call me ali the way i knocked your ass out"

xp i agree that if we were to probe gudda gudda's brain (as terrifying as it might be), that's definitely the most likely interpretation, but the connection between what you're suggesting and the actual phrasing of the lyric is tenuous at best. if i had time i would make one of those diagrams with the red and blue circles, name one "things gudda gudda's got" and put "GROCERY BAG" and "A WOMAN" in it. you know?

well it's not as if gudda gudda is famed for his inflection. he's better known for his work in physics.

the implication is obvious -- it's still a remarkably terrible line

As with all grocery bag rap, the problem is that it doesn't go anywhere or do anything beyond the one line. Like, if anything else in the verse had to do with groceries it would almost feel like this cleverly built up punchline that you don't even see coming until it's like, haha, this was all leading up to the grocery bag! Brilliant!

Along similar lines, I think an opportunity was missed here to do more with the Flintstones theme....like at least one of these shmoes should have been going on about, like, "I be wearing boulders / all you got is Fruity Pebbles"... or, I mean, that Wayne, for some reason trying to find a way to refer to the fact that he makes his girl run back and forth, goes with "soccer team" instead of, like, "She wanna leave, but she won't go far / she be running out of breath...FRED FLINTSTONE CAR!!!!" I mean that needs some work cause I just came up with it in thirty seconds but I feel like that's more time than these guys spent on their verses so hey.

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dmv9rbh_8d92vf4f5

well it's not as if gudda gudda is famed for his inflection. he's better known for his work in physics.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:55 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i wonder if Gudda Gudda can tell me how magnets work

but yeah if they did a remix with like Fabolous on it he'd totally do a goofy Flintstones-themed verse and tie it all together

ya'll can't see me... GREAT GAZOO

What the hell would rhyme with "Gazoo" though? Maybe "Rippin' you off like 18th century land fraud...YAZOO!"

leave you leakin red sauce... RAGU

I'm out of this world like Mork...NA-NU NA-NU

I'm with your girl flippin' your portrait over....GUESS WHO

makin money on c-low, smokin on some primo,
step to me and i'll bowl you over like dino

eh, i can't hang with the colon kids these days.

my song bad
my song not good
my song say stuff that no decent song would

― forktongueclovenhoofu (some dude), Monday, March 29, 2010 9:35 PM Bookmark

i think of this post every time i hear the song and it tickles me every time, no joke

lol

i think of this thread every time i hear the song

i think of this thread like 85% of the time i hear new rap

God, the exclamation of "balloons!" might be the nadir of Luda's career as a singles artist.

this was just on the main page of YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXf_uAWEx8

if you google "ludacris balloons" like the fifth entry is Singles Jukebox

a site i still can't write for, good lookin out, yall

im not really standing by the "grocery bags 'got' things" interpretation but its the only one that even approaches the world of meaning to me

― max, Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:43 AM (4 months ago)