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Ok, this time its going to be short but sweet, and I'm on my windows side so I don't have The Gimp. Lets ignite the fuse on this baby with a conversation I overheard the other day:
Random preppie girl one: "Hey, did you hear that new song by fifty cent?"
RPG two: "No, whats it called?"
RPG one: "In Da Club" (I have checked, and this is the spelling on the album (I shall never use the word 'correct' to describe it))
RPG two: "Oh, I heard that, it goes 'Go shawty, its ya birthday, we gon' party like its yo birthday,' right?" (Now, at this point, I was hoping the first girl was going to make fun of the second for the way she talked. No such luck. I checked here too, and yes, this is the album spelling of the words.)
RPG one: "And we don't give a <REMOVED> its not your birthday!"
At this point they giggled profusely. Almost simultaneously, across the hall, where I had halted in my tracks to hear this conversation, my head exploded.
Further research has brought the full lyrics of the song to my attention, and I will dissect them here:
Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go shawty
It's your birthday
We gon' party like it's yo birthday
We gon' sip Bacardi like it's your birthday
And you know we don't give a <REMOVED>
It's not your birthday!
This abomination of the english language is just getting started, and already its mind-boggling. Its enough to make even the most slack english teacher's jaw hang limp like the brain (and hopefully, in the interest of the human race, the <REMOVED>) of the person who wrote this crap. And the worst thing is I now know people my age that go around pronouncing things like this on purpose. Now, in some songs words are made to sound different than they are to make them rhyme. This is called forced rhyme, and is a valid poetic device. However, this song seems as if the rhyme were held at gunpoint. Lets go on to the next part:
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
Look mami I got the X if you into taking drugs
I'm into having sex, I ain't into making love
So come give me a hug if you into to getting rubbed
Wow. I'm not a health teacher, and I'm not a 'goody-goody', but I like a little more to my music than things like "I want sex, not love." This paragraph of song is a bit too much for me to even go into. Lets move on:
When I pull out up front, you see the Benz on dubs
When I roll 20 deep, it's 20 knives in the club
<REMOVED> heard I <REMOVED> with Dre, now they wanna show me love
When you sell like Eminem, and the hoes they wanna <REMOVED>
But homie ain't nothing change hold down, G's up
I see Xzibit in the Cutt that <REMOVED> roll that weed up
If you watch how I move you'll mistake me for a playa or pimp
Been hit wit a few shells but I dont walk wit a limp
In the hood then the ladies saying "50 you hot"
They like me, I want them to love me like they love 'Pac
But holla in New York them <REMOVED> tell ya im loco
And the plan is to put the rap game in a choke hold
I'm feelin' focused man, my money on my mind
I got a mill out the deal and I'm still on the grind
Ok, I understand the first line, but I'm not sure about the second. In case you didn't know, 'dubs' are twenty-inch rims. The second line, at least to me, looks like it means "When I have twenty guys with me, they all have knives." Interesting. So you arm your friends when you go out. Ok.
Next two lines, he mentions two fellow rappers, Dr. Dre and Eminem. Hes basically describing the classic 'enemy-turned-friend' syndrome that so many people seem to sing about. Its getting really trite at this point. In fact, I don't think I'd mind if nobody ever sang about it again. Ever.
Now, fifth and sixth, I don't understand at all. I'm guessing they're just barely cohesive thoughts wedged into the song for rhyming, with the obligatory drug reference.
The seventh he shows hes apparently proud of the fact that he looks/acts like a pimp. Has anyone seen a real pimp lately? I think its fun to dress like one every once in a while just for fun, but if you look like that every day it gets ridiculos. Its like someone rolled you in glue and dropped the drama costume department on you.
Line number 8: You got shot a few times, and you happened not to get injured. Better luck next time.
Line 9: "50 you hot"... are kindergarteners hitting on you?
Line 10: You've already been shot once, wanna get shot to death?
Line 11 + 12: So if I ask in new york (this has turned into a <REMOVED>translation) they'll tell me you're insane, and that the plan is to corner the rap market? Well yea, I'd call you insane for having that idea too, for two reasons. One, you can't. Two, why?
Last two: So money's on your mind? I thought it was sex... or drugs... I can't keep track. You got a million out of the deal and you're still working? Wouldn't it be more efficient to just toss that million into a bank account and live off the interest?
This is getting to be torturous. Ok, on to the next paragraph:
My flow, my show brought me the doe
That bought me all my fancy things
My crib, my cars, my pools, my jewels
Look <REMOVED> I got K-Mart and I ain't change
Don't you mean Dough? So your flow, and your show brought you your money and fancy stuff... Well thank you, sir, for explaining, you're a famous rapper so I thought the crackdump fairy brought you all your stuff. Oh, and the last line... What?!
Ok, screw this, I'll go insane if I do the rest of the song this excruciating way. I'll just rant on it. Who declared it language season? These people are poachers on the great plains of humanity, and they are poaching the english language my friends. They need to be STOPPED. About 25% of the school I go to (and its a spoiled white kids school) speaks in ebonics when they're perfectly capable of speaking real english. Why they do is beyond me. It makes them sound about 10 years younger than they are, and they're all around 15. They make me want to force-feed them grammar text books until they <REMOVED> gerrunds. Its this decimation of the english language that, in a few years, will have pop culture consisting of grunts and random profanities, combined with music videos consisting of rappers masturbating on stage (they already fondle themselves) and insulting people in the audience randomly. I'm not a tightass when it comes to grammar, but come on damnit. Theres a big difference between not capitalizing the word english and saying 'go shawty, its yo birthday'. Ok, another vein just burst in my forehead, so I'mma put down the keyboard. Til next time.
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