Rappers that are great with language...

#1
I love when rappers use tongue twisters, play on words, figures of speech, similies, metaphors, etc.

Give examples of songs that use any of these.

Thinkin how they spend 30 million dollars on airplanes
When there's kids starvin
Pac is gone and Brendas still throwin babies in the garbage
I wanna know what's goin on like i hear Marvin
No school books they use that wood to build coffins
Believe you me homie i know all bout losses
I'm from Compton where the wrong colors be cautious
Hate It or Love It by The Game.
 
#2
It's hardly genius (nor does it really take too much talent to do..) but I like how Game strings together the names of various classic west coast releases in the title track of The Documentary.

Im ready to die
Without a reasonable doubt
Smoke chronic and hit it
Doggy style before i go out
Until they sign my death certificate
All eyez on me
Im still at it, illmatic
And thats THE DOCUMENTARY
 
#3
Chino XL...

(CHORUS)
Perfection
flawless
masterpiece, no mistakes
Back in the1800s I was burned at the stake
Metaphor Mephistopheles,
Degrees I’ve achieved
The brain fluid it takes to believe
would equal the seven seas
I could reveal the true name of God
But you would go insane upon hearing in
Release enough winds to
blow down pyramids
I’m the Michelangelo of syllable
Since I freestyle
Genesis been biblical
That’s something you got to give in to

(Verse I)
Since born in my mama’s vaginal sauna
As a sonogram, I’ve been fond of phonics
It’s ironic, even as an embryonic
Fed through an umbilical
don’t that sound biblical?
I’ve been a terror
Since I teareth out of the uterus
Because evil plans were made to defeat us
As a fetus
Though now I walk in infamy
As a child they had it in for me
Was raised with guns in infantry
In diapers and in infancy
The childhood of a hood
that was raised in the hood
Cops said “put your hands in the hot sky”
I put my hands down on the hot hood
I can’t whine or drink wine
Nine planets planned it
‘Til it became apparent
My parents shouldn’t have been a parent
State to state we ran some
I wasn’t worth no ransom
Money, won’t you hand some?
A nigga wasn’t handsome
Raise the mind like Charles Manson’s
New I was some man’s son
But which one?
That made me strong
created my poison tongue…

CHORUS

(Verse II)
Why you cut school?
Cause you ain’t feel too good
I cut school
cause my cuts ain’t heal too good
Through all the physical abuse
My mind escaped
through the gift of wordplay
I memorized encyclopaedias and dictionaries
I wrote anthems from antonyms
Harmonies from homonyms
Created cinema from synonyms
Was livid to eliminate
that illustrious life you’re livin’ in
Wrote rhetoricals in rhythms
Made rhymes out of religion
Use a prefix as a crucifix
Or suffocate you with a suffix
Wrote lectures so infectious
They’re known to infect the listeners
Who dissin’ us?
Yo punks you wait – I punctuate
My karma’s the comma
That put you inside of a coma
Hyphen, semi-colon, dot, dot
Leave you semi-swollen
Question: You pregnant?
Oh you’re not? I love you, Period.
To sum it up, language is my essence
Fucked up in all my adolescence
Till my Mom’s was out of lessons
Laws, I store convenient
Still I rob a convenience store
Love Mom, Fuck Mom,
Shit, I don’t love me no more
Mentally it didn’t register, bitch
Empty the register, bitch
You just a cashier, bitch
Give the cash, here
Or I’ll shoot you in your cabbage
Hijack a getaway cab, bitch
Words ain’t makin’ me no loot
Don’t change now Dow Jones average
Regardless, we’re Godless
They stole my innocence
In a sense, the judge sentenced me
To 3 lifetimes sentences
To put my life in times and sentences
Art my dark archnemesis
They want me off the premises
That’s what the premise is
Locked on a tier
where you can’t shed a tear at
I studied more Shakespeare
Than any African can shake a spear at
And the whole world fears that
And it hurts
I got caught for killing time
But then I got with words

CHORUS

(Bridge)
People can say whatever they want about me
But agree that I am the Wordsmith
They can try to ignore everything that I’ve achieved
But agree that I am the Wordsmith
I am the Wordsmith
The love of words is deep in my brain
Must be to silence my pain
I am the Wordsmith

(Verse III)
I’m in a game full of morons
And they keep putting more on
I tutor the Torah
I’m in the core of the Qu’aran
The mind’s what I represent
And mc’s better re-present
I’m taking this rappin’ bullshit
to the fullest extent
I have reservations
why Indians are on reservations
Told that board of education
I was bored of education
As far as this go
I leave you deader than Disco
Rocking sex and violence
Over sax and violins
Through your minds camera lens
You’re in need of an ambulance
I’ll knock you to the asphalt
It’s your own ass fault
Your last thought
I’ll never sell my self short to be famous
And taking it up the anus just ain’t us
The world could get the penis
Of this classically trained pianist
My P.O. was p.o.’d
Handed me a cup, told me to “pee in this”
The linguist musician
My college position is that my intuition
Told me I wouldn’t be affordin’ tuition
My education’s all on my own
I might have been born yesterday
But I rhyme like there’s no tomorrow…

CHORUS
 
#5
Jigga:

"Like short sleeves, i bear arms"

".. my pops knew exactly what he did when he made me, tried to get a nut, and he got a nut and what.. straight bananas, can a nigga, see me? got the US Open, advantage Jigga.. serve like Sampras, play fake rappers like a Campus, Le Tigre - son you're too eager.. you ainn't havin' it? good, me either, let's get together and make the whole world believe us.. at my arraignment, screamin "all us blacks got is sports and entertainment", until we even, theivin', as long as i'm breathin', can't knock the way a nigga eatin' - FUCK YOU EVEN!"

.. shit is amazing. i was only gonna quote the first line but i got carried away.. definitely one of my favorite verses.

"my shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me"

"the theme song to The Sopranos plays in the key of life on my, mental piano"

"metamorphic, as the dope turns to cre-am, but one of these buyers got eyes like a Korean - it's difficult to read em, the windows to his soul are half closed, i put the key in"

.. those are just off the top. Peep Reasonable Doubt for a lot.
 
#6
Canibus - Poet Laureate II

Alone in my room, looking thru the 32X telescope zoom
adjusting the focus of the moon
One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume
is nothing more then a subjective conclusion
What is the maximum field rate application?
the run away glaciation surrounding the ocean basin
affects the population, fluctuation
on a continuous basis but thats just the basics
The juxtaposition of Canibus's position
the precision something no other has written
Way above and beyond what was intended
the unparallel Malleable annunciation of a sentence
You didnt go to college obviously
I can tell by your ungodly unintelligible terminology
A remarkable odyssey, the rhymes of modern speeds
when the brain orders the body not to breathe
Incompetency is not up to speed, you not in my league
you couldnt possibly be hotter then me
Or oppositely your minus 25 degrees, you'd squeeze
but the condensation makes rifle barrels freeze
Allow me to speak figuratively, nigga please
my intellectual properties are about the size of Greece
Your counselor advised you not to speak
my counselor advised me to keep rhymin until they stopped the beat
In the words of Joseph Heller, "I learned how to write better"
even though it sort of urked me
He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination
but he felt he was at its mercy
Which exploits my point perfectly and certainly reinforces
the reason why nobody's probably ever heard of me
Couldnt understand what I mean by ill
unless you try to translate what I print to film
This is the line of will, the circle of time
the cycle of eternity, the emergence of 1 line
Academic phonetics render critics tounge-tied
Ive personified dry humor of cum-laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content
My style is masterful, multi-lateral
I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
Words of scourn are a disasterous tool
from an existentialist's view, I'm a better rapper then you
Grab the mic and rip your physical fabric in 2
my attitude is fucked up but abrogable
Different methods interpreted into different forms
from entirely different perceptions and seen from different norms
Not to spit in the palm theres much more involved
theres much more pieces of the puzzle for you to solve
48 orders of mechanical laws
and rays of creational cause, enhance the cadence of my bars
Maybe I am self-obsorbed
but thats the effect, to find the cause you should ask my A&R
Today is what it is, but only because yesterday was what it was
permitting you heard of Beezlebub
A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the club
with the DJ doing the needle rub
Chances are you'll never see me son
yeah I know my names Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub
 

CalcuoCuchicheo

Little Miss Vixen
#8
.cloud. said:
It's hardly genius (nor does it really take too much talent to do..) but I like how Game strings together the names of various classic west coast releases in the title track of The Documentary.
There's 3 East Coast classics in there btw.

alovias said:
Peep Reasonable Doubt for a lot.
Exactly :thumb: . That album is full of them.
 
#10
you brought ten to niggaz who thought they's never see you breathless, well that's somethin that ten'lsee like memphis, rappers be tryin to get uin where they fit in like tetris, that's why i leave they family mournin like breakfast, they see other niggaz do then they try to follow that's why i leave their family mourning like alonzo. - papoose "hustle hard"

and i am not sure if this fits but i like it on "the way i am" by eminem when he says "since birth i been cursed with this curse to just curse" i kinda like the was he uses the same word over and over but it has different meanings and isn't redundant
 
#11
dedbrd said:
and i am not sure if this fits but i like it on "the way i am" by eminem when he says "since birth i been cursed with this curse to just curse" i kinda like the was he uses the same word over and over but it has different meanings and isn't redundant
Well you say that but the first two relate to the exact same thing - ie. he was under a curse due to a curse - whereas, obviously, the last one is a bit different.

The only reason it sounds good is because of how he spits it - it's not particularly smart.
 

roaches

Well-Known Member
#12
The only reason it sounds good is because of how he spits it - it's not particularly smart.
Yeah. I mean, even the Diplomats do/did it on a regular basis, and as much as I like him, I'm not trying to give JR Writer any lyricist of the year awards.
 

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