The Rap/Poetry Thread

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Mar 11, 2013 9:33 PM #912013
Yeah Leokill wordplay is the greatest. I always try to mix a lot into my lines, it can be hard to add too much without losing focus.
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Mar 11, 2013 9:37 PM #912017
Quote from Leokill
You guys should try wordplay. It's fun.

Here's an example I made. I included explanations in the brackets for each line for those unfamiliar with wordplay.

Possibly one of the sickest lyricist to ever exist [Filler and intro.]
Coming out swinging, bayonet blades when I'm pissed [To come out swinging means to defend something you believe in strongly. The second part of the line turns the idiom in to literally defending yourself with bayonet blades.]
Fuck iron, I rule with an adamantium fist [Adamantium is a fictional metal that's way stronger than iron. "To rule with an iron fist." Is an idiom.]
My punches are the cause of continental drift [Punches are the clever hard hitting lines in rap. In this bar, the meaning is taken literally.]

Brainstorm lyrics and conjure up hurricanes [Wordplay on "brainstorming".]
Like Bane, only Venom inside of my veins [The Batman villain "Bane" is addicted to a super steroid called "Venom". Just a filler bar with a villain reference.]
The man after your own heart, with a surgical scalpel [Play on the idiom "Man after your own heart." A man after your own heart means someone that you'd idolize. In this bar, it's taken literally and turned in to a morbid statement by adding the "surgical scalpel" part.]
Labeled legally insane and mentally unstable [Self-explanatory.]

Sold my soul to buy time on the market of rhyme [Combining the phrases "Sell your soul." and "Buy time."]
Defile a shrine by snapping a divine prophet's spine [Some violent imagery and the set up for the next bar.]
Cannibalistic, bread body and blood is the wine [Continuing with the religious theme, the sacrament bread and wine is supposed to be Jesus's blood and flesh. That, taken literally, is cannibalistic.]
Dealing down stolen thunder from storm cloud nine [To steal one's thunder is an idiom that means stealing someone's glory, force or authority. Cloud nine is an idiom that means a blissful and calm state, so a storm cloud nine would be the opposite of that. Also implies powers similar to the Greek god Zeus.]


Yeah, you're pretty good at that.
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Mar 11, 2013 9:57 PM #912041
Used to call me Push ‘cause I pushed by the quarter
Used to push keys ‘til the Ds pushed harder
Push “start” – push buttons, start the car up
Push me, push your wig back like barbers
Off with your toupee, I boss hog like two lanes
Fuck red dots but my bullets come in Blu-ray
Pussy-ass niggas and they sweet like Kool-Aid
Married to the game, tell them niggas catch the bouquet
Don’t fuck with hoes, sometimes I’d rather beat off
My kicks so fire, burn the skin up on my feet off
Tell ‘em turn the heat down, they tell me my mink off
She’s so abusive, the boy she wanna skeet off

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Mar 12, 2013 3:33 AM #912454
Im going to try something new. Im going to get a beat and start free styling best I can and write whatever I say. Ill post it here along with the beat once I finish.
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Mar 27, 2013 7:51 PM #928201
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YOU BETTER LOSE YOURSELF IN THE SPAGHETTI.

Look, if you had one pot, or one opportunity
To eat all the spaghetti you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip through your fork?
Yo

His palms are penne, knees meat, arms spaghetti
Add meatballs to the spaghetti, mom's secret recipe
He's nervous, but on the surface mom's spaghetti looks ready for meatballs
but he eats all the spaghetti, he can choke down,
the whole crowd goes spaghetti
He opens his mouth, but spaghetti won't come out
He's cooking now, everybody's cooking now
The clock's run out, dinner is over, bloah!
Snap back to spaghetti, spaghetti is gravity
OP goes Rabbity, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
Spaghetti, no
He won't have it , he knows spaghetti looks like little ropes
It don't matter, it's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He loves spaghetti he knows
When he goes back to his mobile kitchen, that's when it's
Back to spaghetti again, yo
This whole rap's spaghetti
He better grab spaghetti fast and hope he don't spill it
[Hook:]
You better lose yourself in the pasta, lasagna
Spaghetti, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to eat
This spaghetti only comes once in a lifetime yo
(You better)

Spaghetti is escaping, through his mouth that is gaping
This spaghetti's mine for the taking
Make me more, as we move toward a, new spaghetti order
A normal meal is boring, but spaghetti's awesome
Boil til it's softer, the water grows hotter
He blows on it to cool it off a bit faster
Coast to coast meals, he's known as spaghetti eater
Lonely roads, spaghetti knows
He's grown wheat from home, he's no farmer
He goes home and barely knows how to boil water
But hold your nose 'cause this sauce here has spoiled
His hoes don't want him no more, his dinner's foiled
They moved on to the next schmoe who cooks
He nose dove and sold pasta
So the cookbook has told and slams closed
I suppose it's old spaghetti but it still tastes awesome
Da da dum da dum da da

No more games, I'ma change what you call spaghetti
Tear this motherfreaking pot of pasta off the stove
I was cooking in the beginning, the dinner's all ready
It's been chewed up and spit out and still looks good
But I kept cooking and stepped right into the next kitchen
Best believe somebody's payin for this spaghetti
All the pain inside amplified by spaghetti
Cause I can't get by without spaghetti
And I can't provide the right type of sauce for this spaghetti
Cause man, these goddam food stamps don't buy spaghetti
And it's no movie, there's no Chance of Meatballs, this is my spaghetti
And these times are so soft, and my spaghetti's even softer
Trying to cook and eat my spaghetti, plus
Teeter totter caught up between being a farmer and a pasta cooker
Baby mama drama's screaming spaghetti and
There's not enough for me to wanna
Share with her, another day without spaghetti
Has gotten me to the point, I'm starving now
I've got to formulate a recipe or end up straved and dead
Spaghetti is my only motherfreaking option, lasagna's not
Spaghetti, I love you, but this parmesan's got to go
I cannot grow old eating my spaghetti cold
So here I go it's my dish.
Sauce fail me not, this may be the only spaghetti that I got

[Hook]

You can make any spaghetti you set your mind to, man.
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Mar 27, 2013 9:02 PM #928252
Oh you.
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Mar 27, 2013 9:09 PM #928258
Oh lord, such originality! lol