11 thoughts on “No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Rapsplaining Must Stop”
At least the first two examples are great rhymes for me so thanks for shining a different light on them.
To me it’s kinda like that saying “don’t let the truth ruin a good story”…. If the rhyme sounds good / slick whatever doesn’t matter if the content is somewhat retarded.
What about Common and Canibus mathsplaining “I’m you’re worst nightmare squared, that’s double for cats who ain’t mathematically aware.”
Ha I laughed at that line the other day too. .. belongs up there with “Dizzy Gillespie played the sax” in the ‘just cause it rhymes does not mean it’s correct’ category.
^^^^The greatest faux pas in the history of Hip-Hop..
We need a whole article/interview series on that. No mix engineer, assistant, or producer stepped in to break down the math?
I love that Renee track and often dip back into that album but damn that line always makes me cringe
@Rashiiid: Canibus is the king if Dumb Smart Rap.
“funk duo, numero uno- that means number one” Thanks Pete. I’m sure someone out there was scratching his head at the bilingual stylings.
That was a 90’s thing…I would rather hear that then what is currently being spit by these soy babies…just saying how u gonna disrespect Rakim, Big L or PMD! It might sound cheesy 25 years later but when they spit those rhymes at the time it was dope…FOH!
Funny the day after I read this artcle, I listened to the Funkyman1st album :
Lord Finesse/Strictly for the ladies :”Now I am 19,before I was 18″
Good call on the Big L lines. I think his tendency to use filler lines is what keeps him from truly being considered one of the best (although he’s my personal favorite).
If you really go through his lyrics thoroughly, you’ll find that for every “ask Beavis, I get nothing but head” there’s a “from the break of dawn, ’til the early morn,” and it’s kind of a shame.
At least the first two examples are great rhymes for me so thanks for shining a different light on them.
To me it’s kinda like that saying “don’t let the truth ruin a good story”…. If the rhyme sounds good / slick whatever doesn’t matter if the content is somewhat retarded.
What about Common and Canibus mathsplaining “I’m you’re worst nightmare squared, that’s double for cats who ain’t mathematically aware.”
Ha I laughed at that line the other day too. .. belongs up there with “Dizzy Gillespie played the sax” in the ‘just cause it rhymes does not mean it’s correct’ category.
^^^^The greatest faux pas in the history of Hip-Hop..
We need a whole article/interview series on that. No mix engineer, assistant, or producer stepped in to break down the math?
I love that Renee track and often dip back into that album but damn that line always makes me cringe
@Rashiiid: Canibus is the king if Dumb Smart Rap.
“funk duo, numero uno- that means number one” Thanks Pete. I’m sure someone out there was scratching his head at the bilingual stylings.
That was a 90’s thing…I would rather hear that then what is currently being spit by these soy babies…just saying how u gonna disrespect Rakim, Big L or PMD! It might sound cheesy 25 years later but when they spit those rhymes at the time it was dope…FOH!
Funny the day after I read this artcle, I listened to the Funkyman1st album :
Lord Finesse/Strictly for the ladies :”Now I am 19,before I was 18″
Good call on the Big L lines. I think his tendency to use filler lines is what keeps him from truly being considered one of the best (although he’s my personal favorite).
If you really go through his lyrics thoroughly, you’ll find that for every “ask Beavis, I get nothing but head” there’s a “from the break of dawn, ’til the early morn,” and it’s kind of a shame.
He’s still the man, though.