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."
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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 prot