What rap lyrics really mean...

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:57 pm

http://uhh4d.blogspot.com/2006/08/rap-l ... g-for.html

My favorite:
"I prefer to open the conversation with light banter about my wardrobe and jewelry, then I like to discuss my collection of expensive cars. This is more than enough to convince you to have sexual intercourse with me. I am able to insert my penis further into you when I enter you from behind. Furthermore, you will be able to reach orgasm. I understand this to be a problem with your current sexual partner. He needn’t be concerned about your whereabouts. Please phone him and inform him that you won’t be home for a while."

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:23 pm

Lyrics:

Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Startin makin trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one lil fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in bel Air'

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air

TRANSLATION:

I would like to tell you a tale of how my life radically changed. It will not take very long, so just listen and I will divulge an outline of how I became known as the 'Fresh Prince' of the Bel-Air District of the City of Los Angeles.

I was born in western region of Philadelphia, where I spent most of my time in the playgrounds. My usual activities including relaxing, and playing the sport of Basketball outside of the School. One day, a couple of ruffians were doing bad deeds, and in general causing trouble in our local area. After the fight between me and said ruffians subsided, my mother was concerned, and stated that I should move in with my Aunt and Uncle who resided in Bel-Air.

I called for a taxi cab, and when it approached me I noticed that the license plate was customised with the word 'Fresh' and there were Dice hanging up inside the car. At first, I was a little apprehensive, but I thought little of it and looked forward to going and living in Bel-Air.

We arrived there at about 7 or 8 O' Clock, and I exclaimed to the cab driver 'Thank-you for the transportation, I will see you later.' I looked at the large domicile and I had finally arrived, to take on the role of the Prince of Bel-Air.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:06 pm

Perfect!

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:58 pm

That's some funny translation for the Fresh Prince theme song.

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:25 pm

Really? I thought the Fresh Prince one kind of sucked. Translation to what? Even worse English? Why would you say "Large domicile" instead of "mansion." It's trying too hard to sound more snobby, but it's actually terrible writing. Fights don't "subside." "Going and living in Bel Air?" More like "going to and living in Bel Air." Or even better, just "moving to Bel Air," which combines the two.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:20 pm

It's supposed to be fun, rather than a real 'translation'. Although I see that I did make some typos here and there in the translation, your particular 'corrections' were not required:

- Subside can mean to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate: The laughter subsided, so yes a fight can subside. There are thousands of references of fights/fighting with subsides/subsiding on Google including many news sites. 100% valid English.

- "Going and living in" actually is valid English in that context, and Google pulls up 8510 references to that exact phase with quotes. "Going to and living in" pulls up 1060 references only with quotes, so my phasing is much more common than that suggestion. I used 'going' as a noun here, not a verb, so no preposition needed.

- Large domicile is a perfectly valid synonym of mansion.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:54 pm

Clements FTW

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:55 am

Clements wrote:It's supposed to be fun, rather than a real 'translation'. Although I see that I did make some typos here and there in the translation, your particular 'corrections' were not required:

Maybe I just have a more demanding sense of humor, but there are two parts of a joke. The idea and the execution. The idea is good.

- Subside can mean to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate: The laughter subsided, so yes a fight can subside. There are thousands of references of fights/fighting with subsides/subsiding on Google including many news sites. 100% valid English.

You can't use the verb in defense of your usage. This is hard to explain, but normally "fighting" is used with "subsided," but not the noun "a/the fight." A/the fight is usually a much smaller scale, with a definite beginning and end as opposed to a steady reduction. There are 169 references to "fight subsided" compared to 11500 for "fighting subsided."

"Going and living in" actually is valid English in that context, and Google pulls up 8510 references to that exact phase with quotes. "Going to and living in" pulls up 1060 references only with quotes, so my phasing is much more common than that suggestion. I used 'going' as a noun here, not a verb, so no preposition needed.

Well, you can't expect people to read it that colloquial when the rest is attempting to be formal. And there are 49,000,000 references to "moving to." And I don't care what google brings up on this one. You have to look at the results. It is possible to use it correctly:

going and living in what was then called the Nassau Tavern.
going and living in the hills.

In your sentence, "go" and "live" cannot share the preposition "in" with the type of destination you use. And "go" cannot be without one. Otherwise a phrase like that reads like this:

"I am going Bel Air"
"I am going in Bel Air"

If I was going to really edit, I would simply remove "going and" because a reference to moving there was already made in the previous paragraph.

- Large domicile is a perfectly valid synonym of mansion.

Valid yes, but that doesn't mean it's a good choice.

I didn't know you made that, or I wouldn't have been so vocally harsh. Oftentimes we let go on the internet knowing (or thinking) the creator won't hear us.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:00 am

Rap is not hard to understand, seriously. The more important message what is actually said. The Fresh Price of Bel-Air was an awesome show.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:27 am

FitzRoy wrote:
Clements wrote:It's supposed to be fun, rather than a real 'translation'. Although I see that I did make some typos here and there in the translation, your particular 'corrections' were not required:
Maybe I just have a more demanding sense of humor, but there are two parts of a joke. The idea and the execution. The idea is good.

NEWS ALERT: If you don't find a joke funny, it doesn't exclude other people of finding it funny.

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:17 am

I'll laugh at most anything, and I thought the first one was pretty good. But if nothing in the second bothers you, more power to you. I guess being a 5th year English major has its drawbacks. My brain couldn't help but stumble several times, and that breaks up the humor.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:35 am

Deathlike2 wrote:Rap is not hard to understand, seriously. The more important message what is actually said. The Fresh Price of Bel-Air was an awesome show.

*Does the Carlton dance*

VietBitter · Post by **VietBitter** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:11 am

Rap is good.

Echoecho · Post by **Echoecho** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:02 am

People seem to think so at least. But it's not music. It's just some ass talking continously into a mic while some random effects play in the background. Don't get me wrong, hip hop had it's day, but this hardcore rap shite, well it's shite. Hip hop is dead though, but rap keeps going.

It won't last another 10 years though. The fad will die. Or at least integreate with some actual music. Maybe like what that weird guy was listening to in the movie "Solaris". At least let's hope so. If not, go to hell taste-lacking morons.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:31 pm

FitzRoy wrote:I'll laugh at most anything, and I thought the first one was pretty good. But if nothing in the second bothers you, more power to you. I guess being a 5th year English major has its drawbacks. My brain couldn't help but stumble several times, and that breaks up the humor.

Well, I am not an English major of five years and so I often make mistakes. You spotted three 'errors/oversights' in my deliberately over-the-top translation relating to usage and word choice, which even an automated spell checker cannot pick up. So, I simply do not have enough knowledge and experience to create a perfect-sounding translation to someone who has studied English to degree level. For those who could look passed errors, they could find some humour there.

VietBitter · Post by **VietBitter** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:38 am

Rap will not fade away, it's here to stay.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:01 am

VietBitter wrote:Rap will not fade away, it's here to stay.

Sadly. And we will always be annoyed with people blasting it up to the maxx when driving.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:36 am

spell checks don't find grammatical errors, and grammar checks suck.

google is hardly the best place to prove that a certain syntax is correct. it's like using wikipedia as a source in an academic report.

good for a read, yes. credible, hardly.

and i know that they're trying at the ol' wiki, but their whole foundation/belief stucture leaves them as forever unreliable.

i didn't even bother to read any of these 'translations' just because i find it to be a severe waste of time.

whether my english usage rocks or not, i try to speak properly. but there's a level where i have to cap it off, otherwise everyone will think i'm a snob.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:47 am

I can yell random shit about rape, prostitution, burglary, cowardly murder, etc, into a microphone while my pants are so low that it looks like I took a huge shit in them while I wear pantihose on my head. Someone pay me hundreds of millions of dollars to listen to my nonesensical bullshit for I am a "rapper":

You don't like wearing your pants higher than your knees? Fine, be a moron, but take the fucking pantihose off your head, asshole.

"Rap" blows and anyone who likes it is either tone deaf and partially brain dead or just completely retarded.

VietBitter wrote:How do u post an image

VietBitter wrote:Rap is good.

VietBitter wrote:Rap will not fade away, it's here to stay.

Don't worry, in 50 years from now when all dumbasses like you have been killed in concentration camps, there will be no more "rap".

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:37 am

Dudes, say what you want about rap, but when you see how women move their asses to rap music, you can forget what the fuck they are trying to say. If you think "rap" is bad, wait 'till you hear Reggeaton.. But then again, chicks move their asses about a thousand times more with it, so I don't mind.

HURHUR, LET US MAKE GENERAL CRTICISIMS ABOUT THINGS OTHER PEOPLE LIKE... LET'S SEE:

HARD ROCK AND METAL IS ABOUT THE DEVIL AND MARYLIN MASON. THEIR LYRICS ARE JUST ABOUT DARK STUFF AND DEATH, HOHOHO.

EMO IS ONLY ABOUT CRYING IN A CORNER, ABOUT DRAMA, CRYING, ANGST, CRYING, CUTTING WRISTS AND CRYING SOME MORE.

ANIME IS ALL ABOUT SPIKY HAIR KIDS SHOOTING SHINY RAYS FROM THEIR HANDS AND DESTROYING PLANETS, WHILE NOT SCRATCHING THE DUDE WITH 10000 POUNDS OF MUSCLE.

Sure, you can not like something, but calling other people retarded because they have different tastes in *anything* makes you even worse than them. Hell, they will still have fun regardless of what you think, so what's the point of calling them retards or brain dead?

Yeah, I listen to rap music, I'm not a fan, but I think there are times where a song with good bass makes a party a blast, or riding around town gets better with some rap.

Hell, if rap was soo easy, everyone could do it, I don't know if it's a special ability to speak 100000 words in one minute or find a way to make rhymes in a split second, but you must need some skill, somewhere around the road.

HEY GUYS, GUESS WHAT? LET'S MAKE CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR ALL THE GUYS THAT LIKE ANIME! WE SHOULD KILL THEM ALL, BECAUSE THEY ARE DUMBASSES.

And by the way, I used to like anime years ago, so I'm not "COOLER THAN U" because I don't what it anymore. Hey, I even watch DBZ when I catch it on tv.

And a bit on topic: We used to do this during our "getting drunk" parties, as part of the last states of our drunkness, looks like we weren't the only ones with the idea.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:44 pm

This picture is so fucking irritating. There hasn't been much good rap since the early 90's - it's too bad that the genre hasn't matured at all in a decade.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:13 pm

The problem with rap is that the big names all rap about the same crap, and then there is Token White Dude who's rehashes the same stuff for every album that he is involved with.

And they all get airplay.

no wonder Cyrus is dissmisve about rap.

King Of Chaos · Post by **King Of Chaos** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:19 am

It's quite simple really...

Sex, drugs, clubbin', alcohol, whores, and killing each other.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:20 am

King Of Chaos wrote:It's quite simple really...

Sex, drugs, drinking, alcohol, whores, and killing each other.

So were the Beatles. So is all music. This just glorifies it a tad too much.

King Of Chaos · Post by **King Of Chaos** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:25 am

I just hate rap because I can't stand the sound of a black rapper's voice (not being racist).

Vanilla Ice FTW!!!

BTW, The Beatles ruled.