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

"i strive to be the world's number one grocery bag
archeologist... INDIANA JONES"

miss u "bedrock"

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got contacts inside CNN... ANDERSON COOPER

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Hey J0rdan, this is kinda interesting...I think I may have found the oldest grocery bag line in existence...but it's obviously where the idea in hip hop came from, but this is pretty much a Proper Grocery Bag. Doubt we'll find anything earlier than this.

punk poet John Cooper Clarke, 1979, the piece "Twat"...listen at 46/47 seconds in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5QMT-JUt4

the british ruin everything

how do you ruin shitty drake punchlines?

anyway kinda interesting as obviously no rapper has ever heard john cooper clarke, but weird when someone thought of the exact same structure totally separately that long ago...even the long pause, the whole construction is just the same.

I could have sworn I made the John Cooper Clarke grocery bag observation once upon a time but evidently not on ILX.

I suspect if you are going down this road there's something even earlier than 1979 but that'd an excellent effort nonetheles.

i wasn't really looking, i was just listening to "me and my big mouth" this cooper clarke old vinyl comp this AM and that line jumped out at me!

I'm not sure it's quite shoehorned in enough though.

obviously no rapper has ever heard john cooper clarke

Maybe if it were like "You make life a fairytale... BEANSTALK" then it'd attain the right level of clumsiness.

xpost thanks for reposting what i just said whiney

obviously

i get the feeling you're trying to make a point, so you're thinking lil' wayne and drake have heard this particular john cooper clarke song or what?

Ha at "You make life a fairytale... BEANSTALK"

I mentioned this in the Ice Cube thread, but when I saw him live a couple of weeks ago (w/ Naughty by Nature, who were kinda great!), he brought out one of his sons to rap (he goes by the name Doughboy, which is kind of weird, I think), and the kid dropped like 4 or 5 grocery bags right out of the gate. Something about "we burning trees... CHRISTMAS" or some such.

I like the expression "dropped grocery bags," like droppin' bags is the equivalent of droppin' bombs or droppin' science, but with words left out.

thumbs up... balloons, down... basement
siskel & ebert, roeper... replacement

― xcixxorx, Friday, March 5, 2010 1:51 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry, just drank a Sprite

― xcixxorx, Friday, March 5, 2010 1:52 PM Bookmark

^^^ seriously slept on LOLs

Grocery bags are the diggety-das efx raps of the early 00s

i keep you waiting........................................................................................... godot

― bernard snowy, Monday, January 17, 2011 5:29 PM Bookmark

kinda wondering if any of the lines from Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" almost fit grocery bag styling

i just realized that my twitter phrase/whatever is basically a grocery bag ;_;

it was a glorious moment in time when this was still on the radio regularly rip

that line is awesome and the delivery isn't stilted tho xp

i just realized that my twitter phrase/whatever is basically a grocery bag ;_;

― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Saturday, August 6, 2011 1:47 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i realized this too but figured it was w/ a wink

the line works because it's delivered with a "look at how badass i am", not a "look how clever i am"

thanks for the support, bros

How humiliating

you all saw this, right

http://www.eonline.com/news/lil_wayne_faces_15_million_lawsuit_over/256374

only relevant if the element of the song that was stolen was the Gudda Gudda verse instead of the beat or the chorus

hahaha

based on that photo, wayne better get something to wear to the courthouse.... LAWSUIT

nice1

why doesn't this asshole ever pay royalties

Is there a monarch known for being really cheap and stingy with their crown jewels or whatever? Because that just begs for a "Never paying royalty... NAME OF A MONARCH" construction.

Prince Albert in the Can?

Who knew that making beds rock could cost you $15 million?!

Ugh. I keep hearing that song with the idiot going "She wax it all off... MR. MIYAGI" on WPGC, and I just found out it's by Chris Brown. I really, really can't stand that guy.

as i said in the chris brown thread, i don't think your chick waxing her pubes counts as much of a brag

if you've ever encountered a vag, you'll know that not all women do that

i always thought that line was "she gives me handjobs...old asian man, and also car doors, and ritual suicide," not "she shaves her v....old asian man etc."

lol, that's an interesting interpretation

i'm not sure that getting handjobs is much to brag about either, at least not if you're chris brown

i'll never be able to hear that line again & not think "whacks it all off" tho

i don't mean "wax = whacks," i mean like "wax on wax off" in karate kid is in reference to a repetitive hand motion

but there's no one right answer or interpretation.

i don't mean "wax = whacks," i mean like "wax on wax off" in karate kid is in reference to a repetitive hand motion

― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:29 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest

i should've clarified -- i got what you meant in terms of a 'repetitive hand motion', but bringing up handjobs in the first place made me think of "whacks it all off", which now has a permanent spot in my brain

right. i'm glad we're being clear about this, this is important.

either way, there's no denying that the general construction is "women want to have sex with me, btw car doors"

Fisher Price My First Rap Verse

(plz ignore that i used that joke like two months ago)

well that characterization goes well with k3v's line about the "bop-it! production"