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

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

it's a BM all right

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/images/pitchfork.jpg

Drake is the guy you get drinks with who talks about himself for a few hours-- if you're lucky, he might ask you for advice on one or two things. But this is OK because Drake's stories are better than yours. Like the one about how Lil Wayne befriended and signed him at the height of Weezy's powers. Or how he got with Rihanna last year. Or that time he flashed from a Toronto has-been to a top-flight hit maker off the strength of a self-released mixtape. Of course, there's the classic about sipping a few too many glasses of Ace of Spades and asking Nicki Minaj to marry him. Sounds like a sweet existence.

This is a very telling paragraph.

"Did I tell you the one about how I met Lil Wayne and he signed me at the height of his powers?"

"That was back when Weezy had x-ray vision."

If the album had any of those good stories on it, it might be listenable

"i just knew that she was fine... like a ticket on the dash"

http://righthearmedia.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/merriweather.jpg

His relatively progressive and gentlemanly style is contagious, too; on the soon-to-be smash "Fancy", T.I. ditches the "superficial gold-digging bitches" he once praised on songs like "Whatever You Like", instead opting for a single lady with her own BMW and Jaguar in the garage.

that's a real big "relatively" there.

this album seriously got a good review in pfork? or ANYWHERE? what. is going. on. with. "critics".

can I just point out that American indie ppl giving the stamp of approval to a Degrassi alum isn't really all that surprising, at least not to me