easter eggs: a thread for rap's subtler puns

numbers look so good on the squares they yellin bingo

with the powder i stays on top of the mound
and keep pitchin when they say no' mo' is in town

that's good

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2011/04/pusha_ts_20_fattest_coke_lines.php

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

not sure what's worst about that: it's existence in the first place, the fact that it was written after a mixtape that even pusha t stans admitted sucked, that the dude quotes a bunch of lines from said mixtape, or that "move caine like a cripple" didn't even crack the top 15

its*

i push caine like alfie's pallbearer http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

So I kept feedin' her money 'til her shit started to make sense is who??

already answered but to clarify further it's jay-z, song is "d'evils" offa reasonable doubt

i don't wanna get all rtfm on you, but you can just <ctrl-c/copy line of text>, google: <ctrl-v> space "lyrics", and you'll get the artist and title probably as the first choice. i do this all the time, like if i hear some song i like on the radio and i don't know who it is, i just type a line or two i can pick out into my smartphone (any line will do) and later google those words, in order, plus "lyrics"

po-po try to convict him,
that's a no go,
my dough keep the scales tipping

"rotate the chickens like a weather vane
that wind blow
it come and go
i hurricane

when i realized the deeper pun here was "that wind blow/it come and go" my jaw actually dropped

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:55 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark"

wait, so i get that the wind both blows and is blow, and chickens are crackheads, but whats the significance of "it come and go"?

as in, the cocaine moves quickly, like the blowin wind

/hurricane

ok yeah, i thought i was missing something else for some reason! great line anyway...

<ctrl-c/copy line of text>, google: <ctrl-v> space "lyrics",

you can just highlight, right-click, and select "Search Google for." 12 clicks fewer!

when dave cool posts in here, he will always tell you what the artist is http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

how chttp://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gifl of u

its really the cool thing 2 do http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

xpost R0NG! i mean, it probably works ok sometimes, but i find you're more likely to get it right the first time if you type "lyrics" at the beginning or end of the phrase. though i suppose you could highlight, right click, search google, then if it doesn't answer correctly, *then* type "lyrics" at the end of the line.

that said i suppose google might have improved it's algorithms to the point where you no longer need to type "lyrics" it justknows that's what you want <cue creepy twilight zone music>

if it doesn't answer correctly, *then* type "lyrics" at the end of the line.

yeah, this. if there's a distinctive word in the sentence then lyrics are usually the first six answers

maybe this one is really obv & i'm late on not getting it but this jay-z couplet from "gotta have it"

cuz now i'm richer
and prior to this shit was moving freebase

(richer/prior = richard pryor, who OD'd on freebase)

clipse did that one first iirc

but thanks for assuming we're total idiots and explaining it

well i was a total idiot & didn't get it for like 8 months or w/e

I didn't get it either

I got Richard Pryor, didn't get the freebase bit.

thanks a lot j0rdan

Em's "Berserk" had one so subtle it was befuddling until i looked it up

And girl, I ain't got no money to borrow
But I am trying to find a way to get you alone [a loan] — car note

I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers
Your bitch sucked my johnny two times

-royce

haha that's a good one

joe budden: "trues hang from my nuts so my sac religious"

(via and what)

just recently wrapped my head around the "santayana goodbye" line in "we didn't start the fire"

y'all have probably covered this somewhere but...

# of Unique Words Used Within Artist’s First 35,000 Lyrics

https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html

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