Favourite random rap lyrics... and a rant.

I love this lyric from As Real As It Gets, from Young Jeezy's verse

And if you just tunin' in, let me explain
You know i keep that 47, Uday Hussein

Who name drops Uday Hussein???? That's awesome. Watch the song live at the BET Awards here. For those who don't know, Uday was the son of Saddam. And the subject of a terrible Martin Molloy pun - his band was supposedly called Uday and the Blowfish.

And I love this bit from Swagger Like Us, from Lil Wayne's verse

No one on the corner has swagger like moi,
Church, but I'm too clean for these boi
I require, what I desire,
I got stripes, A-di-das

When they performed it at the Grammys Wayne, Kanye, Jay and T.I. all pointed at Wayne's shoes, which I thought was a nice touch. It's the details that matter :)


And I can't believe I haven't heard this before, but here is Jeezy's My President Is Black, which was released in support of Obama's presidential campaign. It's damn catchy! "My president is black, my Lambo's blue...". I linked to the explicit version because I hate listening to rap songs where they arbitrarily take out words that might be naughty.


Actually I do have a bit of a rant about this. Songs like Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind talk about oral sex and drug taking quite explicitly, but it's sung quite fast, and it doesn't get blanked out on radio. What about I Touch Myself by the Divinyls? That's played all the time on the radio without any editing.

Yet a rapper says something like this:

Have you ever popped champagne on a plane
While getting' some brain
Whipped it out, she said "I never seen snakes on a plane"

And when it was played on Australian radio there was a reference to champagne and then two blank lines. Now maybe you think it should be bleeped out, and that's fair enough. But what about this?

She says she lives for me, Ovation
She's got her own motivation
She comes round and she goes down on me

or

Smiling in the pictures you would take
Doing crystal meth
Will lift you up until you break
It won't stop

Which song do you think go bleeped out? Kanye's Good Life or Third Eye Blind's Semi Charmed Life? The one that made stupid jokes about penises on a plane? Or the one that talked about doing crystal meth? The rest of those lyrics are here.


Well that wasn't meant to be a rant, but it turned into one!