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

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)

all of gudda gudda's are the best

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

― unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:34 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

what do u mean

i asked like twice to contribute and never got an answer

word? via email?

yeah dude

unless u can do something i'll continue to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69PcbIxF-04

I'm playing the Drake album in the background while I write some ish. If any grocery bags lines hit me, I'll post them here.

1. This time I'm really going off... FIREWORKS

2. Will I blow all this money?... HAMMERTIME

3. Bout to set it off in this bitch... JADA PINKETT
(I think we covered this one, but)

4. I can teach you how to speak my language... ROSETTA STONE

5. Two thumbs up... EBERT AND ROEPER

yeah i heard that he toned down the grocery bagginess on the album, good to hear there's some stuff to SMH at besides the stuff we already know from "Over"

smh @ pitchfork today, this album is fucking dogshit

Kanye stans so thirsty they'll drink whatever offbrand Dr. Rocket soda they can get their hands on

Funny because I figured it was part of the whole "THERE'S NO GOOD POP FOR US TO RALLY AROUND ANYMORE" dialogue around Pazz and Jop time which ppl used as a shitty excuse for putting "Girls" songs in the top 10. This is not good pop, and that's coming from a guy who listens to Katy Perry.

6. Presidential suite... BARACK HUSSEIN

lol

shit's so lame...JIMMY IN DEGRASSI

oh my god

7. I made enough for two n***as, boy... STUNT DOUBLE

haha

almost spazzed on someone for being all "8.4 but no BNM?" on Twitter this morning