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Rap Snafus

Posted on February 17, 2017December 5, 2024 by Robbie Ettelson

Seven great rap mispronunciations which have stood the test of time.

Rap Snafus

37 thoughts on “Rap Snafus”

  1. sonny7 says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    Also on DYWCK, Smooth B informs us all that he’s in-FALL-ible rather than in-FAL-lible.
    Possibly a result of being passed Premier’s buddah sack?

  2. DrZ says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    Surely the greatest is on the UN album What they want. With the entirely Zapp Brannigan sipping the champag-enee

  3. Rashiiiid says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    I feel like Greg Nice’s whole discography could be fact-checked. Classius Clay? Dizzy Gillespie played the sax?

  4. Wilizm says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    The Q-tip fish line on the What song

  5. bboycult says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    ” ….In this next MINILLIUM; kids starving when they breathe you can see their kidneys and lungs… ” -Killah Priest

    @Robbie…I peeped that slick shit you were talkin on the Raekwon post…..and yeah muhfucka that shit counts as a snafu….TOO! Hahaha

  6. opi says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    T3 on SV’s “look of love”

    stategric

  7. Oneam says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    What about the downright unintelligible ones.

    That q tip hook on electric relaxation.

    And whatever e double said that rap bandit interpreted in the source as ‘he drives a corvette I drive my little boy maliki’

  8. Oneam says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    And thanks for clearing up that nas line. I spent half my life thinking he was talking about ministry cycles. Wtf.

  9. Oneam says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    All these rappers mispronouncing… If they weren’t sure they shoulda axed somebody.

  10. Caesar says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    I was always disappointed with the story arc of “Jane 3” from Business As Usual. Ended rather abruptly with 2 lines after the big reveal.

  11. Caesar says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    Not to mention the story itself was ridiculous. If Jane’s house was really decked out in hot pink and had bras and leotards hanging everywhere, why would she even have people over to begin with? Or at least clean the place up a bit.

  12. RBI says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    Re: Jane, remember the first one where E and P were talking? E said he had to dis this girl who I assume to be Jane, but it was actually P who had the weird experience with her and had a reason to dis in the first place. And from then on, it was always P’s relationship.

    I always found that funny as hell.

  13. Oneam says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    Plus the I ran up in her like Bruce Jenner line took on an unusual twist years later.

  14. penrythejanitor says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    not quite a mispronunciation but nothing quite beats warren g’s classic from ‘whats next’ off the regulate…g funk era lp…

    ‘what’s next/what’s next/whats N-X-E-T’

    ah well, he always said he was a producer first and an mc second…

  15. Robbie says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    Thank goodness that PMD explains that he specifically removed the fake mustache before plowing Jane in order to keep it all ‘above board.’ Did she still have the truck jewelery on though?

  16. Rich says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    K-Solo’s like a B-R-I-D in the S-K-Y

    If your whole gimmick is spelling u want to make sure u get bird right on your debut feature

  17. jahherd says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    that ak line was definitely purposeful to fit the rhyme scheme.

  18. Rich says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    “See how it sound, a little un-rational”

    Whoever said that dumb shit needs to take the pillow from his head and put a book in it.

  19. ab says:
    February 17, 2017 at

    Fat Joe; Bronx Keeps Creating it: “’93 was the year I DEBUTED” [said it with 3 syllables]

    Willie Dee; Mind Playing Tricks on Me: “I live by the SWORD”

    In fact, almost all of Wu-Tang with SWORD.

    And on some incorrect English in general, DJ Premier said “15 SECONDS of fame” in the intro to De La’s Much More.

  20. mike h says:
    February 18, 2017 at

    @Oneam He drive a Corvette, I drive a Samurai Suzuki is the line

    Relax yourself, girl, please settle down

    as atcq started performing it live they pronounced it more clearly.

  21. Mfshalem says:
    February 19, 2017 at

    Black Thought has done this, but I think on purpose

  22. Sean Powers says:
    February 20, 2017 at

    On “stroke of death”, ghost lets us know that bitches think he’s “domincan slaf hash Indian”… Maybe “slash half”?

  23. Robbie says:
    February 20, 2017 at

    @Sean Powers: Meanwhile, G Rap likes girls who are ‘mixed – Spanish and Latin.’

  24. Opsta Now says:
    February 20, 2017 at

    yep that G Rap line is funny. back to eric e double there’s that unintelligible/mush mouth line from ‘it’s my thing’ im still not sure if he says “like a poor english rap”? since 87 and i still need to know.

  25. Carlos says:
    February 21, 2017 at

    “Take It Personal” should be “Take It PERSONALLY,” and it makes me kinda crazy when people say it the incorrect way in a conversation.

  26. oskamadison says:
    February 22, 2017 at

    Greg Nice’s Dizzy Gillespie line is the greatest faux pas in the histry of Hip-Hop!

    Here’s one for yall… 5FT.’s line on Black Moon’s Son Get Wrec…”Just the other day, a girl got raped in the exit/Put her in a coma, now she’s three months pregnant…” How is she three months pregnant if she got raped the other day???…

    Another, from an icon…
    “3/4 of water make seven seas/a 1/3 of land, 360 degrees…”-Rakim, “No Competition” I’ve never been a math wiz but shouldn’t that be a 1/4 of land??
    I’ll be back when I think of more…

  27. Chuck says:
    February 23, 2017 at

    LL Cool J..”your ALBLUM sounds like a compilation”
    1-900-LL Cool J

  28. Oneam says:
    March 13, 2017 at

    And while we are immersed in pedantry … one that always got me was Saafir’s line on ‘can u feel me’ off boxcar sessions ….

    ‘…. but it’s daylight savings time, clocks go back …’ actually they go forward for daylight savings.

    That is all.

  29. Dino says:
    March 14, 2017 at

    Necro “Light my Fire:” “…I’ll bang you hard as I strangle you, fuckin’ you from an angle That penetrates your anal prostate gland, saliva dangle.”
    Biology fail. Was this Necro Coming Out?

  30. ab says:
    March 14, 2017 at

    In “The Mission,” Special Ed traveled to Japan [instead of China] to take out Mr. Lu Chin Chen.

  31. Ihatework420 says:
    April 2, 2017 at

    Lord jamar’s line about being a prodigy since the age of 20 always made me wince a little.

  32. Robbie Ettelson says:
    April 2, 2017 at

    @Ihatework: I think you’ll find that Sadat X said that, but point taken.

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