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

the grocery bag is easily the funniest for sheer confusion

but i refuse to believe that someone actually just said "she's watchin that oxygen, i'm watchin espn"

this just continues to boggle the mind

all i know at this point is that it's not the mr. flintstone line, which at least is an actual bad pun instead of an attempted bad pun that isn't even a pun.

Lyrically, this song is a poster child for the "stay in school" movement.

i feel like these kids must sit on the tourbus all day making hamfisted puns and then laughing way too hard at them

― some dude, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 8:56 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do i detect some professional jealousy here

just fyi i think the "grocery bag" line is referring to the fact that grocery bags "got" things, inside them

Thanks for clearing that up!

i make bad puns irl all the time but i feel sufficiently embarrassed about it and my wife usually rolls her eyes. puns are like promiscuity or junk food, it's just not right to enjoy them without feeling at least a little but of shame.

just fyi i think the "grocery bag" line is referring to the fact that grocery bags "got" things, inside them

still don't understand

he's got a girl like a bag's got ketchup

mariah already did "we can ketchup like tomato" on her album

R&B singers trying to do punchlines is such a :( trend -- still can't believe Trey Songz said "tryna get you home-r, would you be Marge Simpson?"

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

just fyi i think the "grocery bag" line is referring to the fact that grocery bags "got" things, inside them

i was actually kind of going "what? huh?" at this. i'm still not entirely convinced

apparently the full line in the explicit version is "I got her, nigga...grocery bag." this doesn't really clear anything up, though.

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

The best I can come up with that is an incredibly clumsy riff on the slang term "bag", although what "grocery" is supposed to add is a total mystery to me unless Gudda Gudda is an ILX lurker and that is a reference to his grocery groin.

yeah, you're definitely right. still, the gulf between intent and execution has left us all pondering the mysterious synapses firing off in Gudda Gudda's brain.

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btw GG's "I'll let you be the judge/ and I'm the case" was a glaring omission on my part when making this poll

puns are like promiscuity or junk food, it's just not right to enjoy them without feeling at least a little but of shame.

i think you mean "it's wrong to enjoy puns without feeling a little shame...JUNK FOOD!!!"

I feel like we should be blaming Kanye for this type of rhyme construction but that's probably not right.

this guy

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_imUzo8FIZDw/ShdxmPmeYRI/AAAAAAAAEho/avnHmHOYKrU/s400/guddagudda.jpg

gudda gudda island

i think Wayne himself kinda pioneered the new school of shamelessly stupid punchlines and juvenile poop/pop culture references and Kanye, Young Money, etc. are mainly following his lead, although he may have been following Cam'ron's lead to an extent too. There's always been a strain of this stuff in rap, though, it just used to be more in balance. Biggie would say "girls pee pee when they see me" but he'd also say something actually clever in the same song.

ha yeah, I was specifically thinking the "rambling sentence to set up... ARBITRARY UNFUNNY PUNCHLINE PHRASE" construction but you are right, dumb/clever has been an eternal yin/yang in hip-hop lyrics since forever

(mostly because in reading half of these I kept getting flashes of "This bad, real bad... MICHAEL JACKSON/Now I'm mad, real mad... JOE JACKSON" from them)

I think the only thing for certain is that the answer is not the flintstone line. Gonna try to avoid this for as long as possible

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

I love the pop culture stuff. What do you want-- emo? or Leonard Cohen style ?

wtf why would those be my only two options?

still can't believe Trey Songz said "tryna get you home-r, would you be Marge Simpson?"

― some dude, Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:25 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest

i for one can believe this

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

good pop culture references are one thing-- I'M SWIMMING IN THE MONEY.... NEMO *wink!* or IT'S GOING DOWN LIKE THE CATALINA WINE MIXER *wink!* are a different thing

I'M SWIMMING IN THE MONEY.... NEMO

irl lol

yeah specifically the pop-culture stuff needs to be excised; i am perfectly capable of hanging out with bros from high school if i want that

I love the pop culture stuff. What do you want-- emo? or Leonard Cohen style ?

― curmudgeon, Thursday, January 7, 2010 7:49 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't care if you're white black a bitch or a fucking bum off of the streets. If you rap about shooting people, smoking blunts, wearing timbs, drinking hennessy, and whatever else, I'll buy your music. If you rap about your girl, but don't call her a bitch, fuck you. If you rap about the economy and how its hurts migrant workers, fuck you. If you rap about your rap telekenisis or some equally retarded nerd shit, fuck you. That basically how I break it down to an extent.

― dat nigga delmar, Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:55 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

FUCK why did i not think of posting that

and the problem with those two is that cheesy dad puns like that are not hard to do -- i mean if you're bored, honestly, because i do this, just look around the room or whatever and create lil wayne/drakeified punchlines - i got her bouncing up and down... desk chair! - we got her sandwiched in between... bookends! - i'm rare, and worth a lot of money... commemorative helmet signed by dan marino that my grandmother got me for hannukah! etc

either that or the references - like the catalina wine mixer one, which i hate so much - don't even make sense, they're just there to be "wacky!" and "different!" *soft punch to the bicep* without any regards to a. making sense b. actually being funny/interesting

i'm rare, and worth a lot of money... commemorative helmet signed by dan marino that my grandmother got me for hannukah!

ok lol

these type of punchlines fall into the "equally retarded nerd shit" class of the dat nigga delmar taxonomy IMO

so tired of these underlined puns, the thing that was great about that biggie line upthread is that its tossed off, its part of the structure of rapping, not the point of it.

this is what happens when ppl go apeshit for ludacris guest spots for an entire decade

hahahahaha sadly that is very likely OTM

morelike, this is what happens when lil wayne sells 3 million albums but no one bothers to tell him that he's fallen off

this is what ppl didnt get i think about gucci fandom, its not like we think his imagery was super clever shit, its that he raps in a way that doesnt draw attention to what hes actually doing, where silencer long like a pringles can isnt a GET IT???? type punchline, its just creative in a way that is part & parcel of rapping well

i mean - people acting like 'no ceilings' isn't lazy & contemptible dogshit aren't too far off from thinking that there is dope wordplay in 'bedrock'

oh plz plz plz don't turn this into another Gucci Mane thread

also there is a weird taxonomy going on where like... drake kind of came up as a wayne biter, but also had an element of like joe budden/papoose style ny cheesy punchline rap going on (which is why i think the nah right crowd embraces him) and then he started to become super popular and then wayne started copying drake's style like crazy which is how we end up with SOCCER TEAM

p'ussy on your sideburn' is great though. also "let me think" etc., the rhythm of it. nicki does good here

unless "sideburn" is slang I don't know, that is one of the last places on my body that I want a woman to place her pussy, ranking up there with "elbow", "armpit" and "back of knee"

yeah it makes it seem like her pussy is so loose that it can just engulf your face sideburn to sideburn

you haven't really lived

oh plz plz plz don't turn this into another Gucci Mane thread

― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Thursday, January 7, 2010 2:18 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh chill out its not going to.

Lmao

I miss threads... ASTIGMATIC SEAMSTRESS

if only we knew what we had in gudda gudda

lol DC

"i see her wit me, no stevie wonder" is still just breathtakingly bad

will they do a reunion sequel song in another 10 years?

just waiting for the "puns"

I'm getting too old for this shit....DANNY GLOVER
Don't ask me "Who's the man?"....DR DRE AND ED LOVER
My guns got range....MICHAEL DELORENZO FROM NEW YORK UNDERCOVER
Your shit is tired and copied...WOLFMOTHER

this song was the first i'd heard of nicki minaj iirc

same.

me too I believe, then I listened to her mixtapes and liked them, then her first album dropped and I thought it was dumb and didn't really go back.

Lonely Island beat you all to the wacky grocery bag parodies in 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2spvT0atvM

the first time i heard of nicki was when wayne said "i just signed a chick named nicki meen-aj" in "upgrade," and then first heard her via her verse on da drought 3's "can't stop, won't stop," but she wasn't credited on that, so i didn't realize it was her until she started bubbling up a couple years later.

Lonely Island obv ripped off this thread

just fyi i think the "grocery bag" line is referring to the fact that grocery bags "got" things, inside them

― max, Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:39 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I am listening to this song for the first time right now. Am wildly disappointed to hear that the goofy metaphors are not SHOUTED-OUT like they are in this thread.

lol I went on the same exact journey 11 years ago, according to my first post itt

there are still so many bad stevie wonder/ray charles/sight-related lyrics making their way into the ether unfortunately

They are the only two blind people to have ever lived

I’m the real heir, pretenders out of my throne
Andrea Bocelli, I can do this with my eyes closed

Getting my weight up
I’m Helen Keller to the hate
I’m sayin’, “What?, what?, what?”

Skillibeng has a new EP out and 3/5 of it are excellent.

Then there's the track with the lyric "I'm by your side / Love handles"