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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure it's quite shoehorned in enough though.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
obviously no rapper has ever heard john cooper clarke
― ennui morricone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe if it were like "You make life a fairytale... BEANSTALK" then it'd attain the right level of clumsiness.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
xpost thanks for reposting what i just said whiney
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
obviously
― ennui morricone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
I like the expression "dropped grocery bags," like droppin' bags is the equivalent of droppin' bombs or droppin' science, but with words left out.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
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sorry, just drank a Sprite
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^^^ seriously slept on LOLs
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Grocery bags are the diggety-das efx raps of the early 00s
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
i keep you waiting........................................................................................... godot― bernard snowy, Monday, January 17, 2011 5:29 PM Bookmark
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― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
kinda wondering if any of the lines from Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" almost fit grocery bag styling
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
i just realized that my twitter phrase/whatever is basically a grocery bag ;_;
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Saturday, 6 August 2011 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
it was a glorious moment in time when this was still on the radio regularly rip
― markers, Saturday, 6 August 2011 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
that line is awesome and the delivery isn't stilted tho xp
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Saturday, 6 August 2011 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 August 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
the line works because it's delivered with a "look at how badass i am", not a "look how clever i am"
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Saturday, 6 August 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the support, bros
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Saturday, 6 August 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
How humiliating
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Saturday, 6 August 2011 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
you all saw this, right
http://www.eonline.com/news/lil_wayne_faces_15_million_lawsuit_over/256374
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Saturday, 6 August 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
only relevant if the element of the song that was stolen was the Gudda Gudda verse instead of the beat or the chorus
― some dude, Saturday, 6 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Saturday, 6 August 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
based on that photo, wayne better get something to wear to the courthouse.... LAWSUIT
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
nice1
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Saturday, 6 August 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
why doesn't this asshole ever pay royalties
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Prince Albert in the Can?
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Who knew that making beds rock could cost you $15 million?!
― uh oh whats your fantasy (flopson), Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
as i said in the chris brown thread, i don't think your chick waxing her pubes counts as much of a brag
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
if you've ever encountered a vag, you'll know that not all women do that
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
i'll never be able to hear that line again & not think "whacks it all off" tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
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, 17 August 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
but there's no one right answer or interpretation.
― cloud computing, robotics, 3G wireless connectivity, Skype, (history mayne), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
right. i'm glad we're being clear about this, this is important.
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
either way, there's no denying that the general construction is "women want to have sex with me, btw car doors"
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
Fisher Price My First Rap Verse
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
(plz ignore that i used that joke like two months ago)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:47 (twelve years ago) link
well that characterization goes well with k3v's line about the "bop-it! production"
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/YM_Punchlines
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
Royce, i fucking swear, on the Bad Meets Evil album:
"Me sobering up? Ha!... ALF!"
― schmendrick lamar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
wow mane
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
yikes
― karen d. foreskin (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
rip
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thelegendsleague.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/eminemlovesalf.jpg
― schmendrick lamar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link