Twenty-five lyrical mishaps that made your favorite rappers wish they could go back in time and re-write their rhymes.
25. "Verse number 2 do the damn thang
keeps on my neck pocket's full of Ben Franks."
-Yung Joc, "It's Goin' Down."
| Listen | Album: New Joc City |
A classic case of saying...absolutely nothing.
24. "There's no need to lie folk,
Why you sleepin' wit ya eyes closed?"
-Timbaland, "Get on the Bus"
| Listen | Album: Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Soundtrack) |
Well, Tim, if I heard you rhyme like that all the time, I'd definitely sleep with my eyes and ears closed as well.
23. "I can double my density
from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly."
-Canibus, "Funk Master Flex Freestyle"
Obviously, Canibus slept through 10th grade when they went over units of measurement.
22."Thirty-eight revolve like the sun round the Earth."
-Jay-Z, "It's Hot"
| Listen | Album: Volume 3: Life and Times of S.Carter |
And, Jay-Z skipped all his Geography classes.
21. "N****s in the Bronx call me Lex
cause I push a Lex, and I rock a Rolex
and I lounge on Lex', and I love sex."
- Peter Gunz, "Deja Vu: Uptown Baby"
| Listen | Album: Make It Reign |
What are the odds that Cory Gunz ghostwrote this for his dad at age 9?
20. "Never let me slip, cause if I slip, then I'm slippin."
- Dr. Dre, "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang"
| Listen | Album: The Chronic |
Aren't we glad that he eventually decided to hire some serious ghostwriters afterwards?
19. "When it's hot I'm duckin them people with my fire arm
Look I be straight thuggin."
-Turk, "Trife Livin"
| Listen | Album: Young and Thuggin' |
18."My paragraph alone is worth five mics (uh-huh)
A twelve song LP, that's thirty-six mics (uh-huh)"
- Redman "5 Boroughs"
| Listen | Album: The Corruptor Soundtrack |
Apparently, Reggie Noble's calculator is slightly different from ours.
17. Don't try to treat me like I AIN'T FAMOUS
My apologies, are you into astrology
Cause I'm, I'm tryin to make it to Uranus
- Kanye West, "Gettin' It In"
| Listen | Album: Kiss of Death |
Oh I get it: there's Libra, Saggitarius, Scorpio and then Uranus. And you say Kanye doesn't deserve to have his image displayed next to the word 'genius' in the dictionary?
16."Hood n***a from Bankhead, I stay by Grandma Nana
I lay by my banana, dumpin' and punkin' monkeys."
- Young Dro, "Shoulder Lean"
With all the money T.I. made from King, you'd think he would at least invest in a decent ghostwriter for his protégé.
15."When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets."
-LFO, "Summer Girls"
These guys graduated from the prestigious Vanilla Ice Institute of Hip-Hop and decided to try their hands at random word association. Extra points for recording one of the worst songs ever known to man.
14. "Sometime y'all get crimey crimey, grimy grimy
But those with a tiny hiney they get whiny whiny."
- Cam'Ron, "5 Boroughs"
| Listen | Album: The Corruptor Soundtrack |
Someone should have promptly informed Cam that this choppy choppy rhyme thing is silly silly.
13."I'm hungry for cheese like Hungry, Hungry Hippo."
- Project Pat ("Ballers")
| Listen | Album: Ghetty Green |
12."If you don't bring back my m****f*****n money or my m***f****n dope, you can forget about Christmas n***a, cause you ain't gon even see New Years."
- Master P ("Do You Know")
11."It's like fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of a jealous a*s punk."
-Prodigy ("Click Clack")
| Listen | Album: Blood Money |
