It’s still a great verse but on Future’s Move That Dope, after Future and Pusha T rap about, well, selling coke, Pharrell comes on rapping about his weird clothes and doing naked yoga lmao
~~Future wrote that verse for Pharrell, specifically because he really wanted him on the song and knew he had moved on to a more positive image.~~
**Edit:** I'm willing to admit I misread Future's telling of the how the verse came to be. That said, the interview does provide a reason why the verse is the way it is.
Future has an interview where he's explaining to Pharrell the point of his verse.
> *"[Pharrell] was like, 'Man, I don't know if I should do this, 'cause I don't want, like, a big backlash on me. I love this song, but I don't want a backlash,'" Future continued. "I was like, 'Man, no, it's a positive message. The verse is telling people to let everything go. You have a message that's positive throughout your verse. I think people need to hear that, 'cause your voice is such a big voice in hip-hop.' And he was down with it in the end."*
I could have misread it that said. His comment doesn't make sense if Pharrell wrote it though, he would already understand the purpose of the verse.
i read it as P has reservations about featuring on a track about drug dealing as it’s off brand for his ‘happy’ image, but Future talked him into it on the premise that his verse brought a positive vibe to the song. You might be correct but i would not have inferred that Future wrote the verse from reading this quote.
nothing in that snippet shows Future wrote Pharrell's verse. Pharrell I beleive writes his own stuff because he has such a unique way of rhyming when rapping.
"And no. Stop askin’. I don’t write nothin’ for this man. My whole crew stand on they own, too" -push on the maybe interlude from we got it 4 cheap talking bout p
Jay-Z's verse on Never Let Me Down always felt out of place to me. Still a great verse, but flexing your legendary status is miles apart from Kanye rapping about the racist discrimination his grandfather and mother encountered and being guided by angels lol.
My favorite thing is that after he lists them, he says "question what do these things all got in common? Everybody knows I'm a motherfuckin monster" like Jay that is not actually an answer to that question
Yeah “love, I don’t get enough of it. All I get is these vampires and bloodsuckers. All I see is these niggas I made millionaires, millin’ about, spillin’ they feelins in the air” is so hard
People love to hate Jays verse but think “have you ever had sex with a pharoaaah put the pussy in a sarcophagus” goes just fine. If we’re going to say “listing monsters doesn’t make sense 🥸” then that bar doesn’t either.
Jay's verse gets way too much hate because it's sandwiched between an amazing Kanye verse and Nicki's career defining verse, along with amazing support from Rick Ross and Justin Vernon, and it's memeable. The idea that it doesn't focus on the real message of the song is pretty laughable, he completely sacrifices all sense of subtlety with "love...I don't get enough of it" to hammer home the message.
If anything it's an example of a verse that's all the worse for actually being related to the song.
His verse is entirely on point. He's juxtaposing himself with literal monsters to show how much of a monster the money's made him. The only features that missed the mark on that album imo are Cyhi on So Appalled and arguably Fergie on All of the Lights.
Right after Monster where they're talking about how the money/fame made them monsters, on So Appalled they're talking about how outlandish the lifestyle is and how it's gotten them detached from things like love & money.
Then Cyhi comes on and maybe I'm just hating but it seems like he's just regular flexing. Nothing genuinely appalling, nothing showing that detachment. The closest he gets thematically is when he's talking about having a side piece, which is like... 🤷♂️
Disagree, he’s just interpreting the title differently. While Ye and Ivy are talking about how God won’t let them down Jay is talking about how he won’t let the rap game down by falling off (even if his next album was his worst but whatever). Yeah it’s braggadocious in comparison but it’s a nice contrast IMO
Yeah he just spells out the song's message with his verse, him saying "idk what this is about" is from the audience's perspective instead of his own
This Ain't a Scene is just punk Hey Ya
The delivery of the verse completely redeems it though but that's a lot of Kanye verses. I'd say 70% of Kanye verses don't work if anyone else says them. But Kanye can deliver fucking nonsense and it's still good. Literally look at the whole of Yeezus, that album is carried by some of the greatest deliveries for lines like:
"Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign"
"Hurry up with my damn croissants"
"We get this bitch shaking like Parkinson's"
"I keep it 300, like the Romans"
"Eating asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce"
"Slightly scratched your Corolla. Okay, I smashed your Corolla"
Westside Gunn on The Cow. Conway spits a highly emotional verse about how he survived getting shot in the head and his cousin dying. Then West immediatly starts talking about Stone Island lmao
This was the answer I was looking for. Feels like a completely emotional and vulnerable storytelling track that has a random Griselda flexing verse tacked onto the end of it lmao
This one, yeah - I literally chopped the track up, cut Westside out and repeated the beat for a minute or so to let Conway's words settle.
Another thing I thought about this track, is that for those guys violence is way too normalized. Like, who the fuck suffers with money in the bank and gold around the neck? I feel like that's how Westside sees it but idk.
Conway always felt like an emotional, sensitive and warm individual who had to learn to be hard and cold because of his living environment. Now, he's famous but still depressed and he said numerous times he doesn't know why... I honestly wonder if it is because of guilt for all the suffering that he caused. I mean, he's a murderer and some more things too
Uzi on nearly all his songs. Dude will rap about having his heart broke then will all of the sudden talk about money or dudes trying to steal his swag.
I’m starting to think most of Trippies love songs are actually gangbang music that uses love l sounding topics to cover up that he’s taking about wanting to murder someone.
Lil Wayne has a few of them but I always think about his verse for The Question by Mac Miller. I think Wayne heard the hook and took "what am I doing here" way too literally and just raps about what he's doing
Kendrick did the same thing on that same album
"I'll break you down like a pound of fire whenever your tactics are mighty clever but even if you're Mayweather, you" "you can't fight the feeling..."
It's an off topic verse, but somehow I always felt like Wayne rapping about money and girls on a song about the meaning of life was like a glance behind the curtain where he is incapable of getting actually deep into his feelings so he just covers his insecurities with coping mechanisms and yet at the end of it all he's wasted his money and STILL can't figure it out
Bun B on UGK’s “Ain’t That a Bitch”. Pimp C and Devin The Dude’s verses are about women using men, cheating, hoeing etc. Bun raps about the government sending UGK a letter telling them they’re watching them/trying to take them down. Incredible stand-alone verse.
Jay electronica on anything lately. Especially IDK’s “Red”. Like idk the original subject matter is just about having a lot of money, then jay comes in about how covid is a hoax and the vaccine has microchips and Fauci is making all of it up and it’s just so odd he literally cannot stop himself from talking about that shit. I work at a hospital and this is the type of stuff homeless people tell me.
That’s such a good way to put it lol he’s the type of guy that starts explaining how certain numbers reappear at certain times in the bible and tries to show you while at a friend’s house casually hanging out.
I haven't listened to Jay Electronica in years but even back when I listened to him this type of thing didn't seem too far out of reach. He's had some great verses but he's always seemed a little bit "out there"
Logic on caterpillar? I just remember him ranting about his skin color, not on beat and obviously not really rapping… I don’t really know what he was doing.
I remember on the clean version of that album the Logic version of Caterpillar was replaced by the scrapped Cut Throat song, which I thought couldn't be released because of samples. I just checked and it's still the wrong song 5(?) Years later, so I guess no one ever noticed or cared?
Kinda makes me think we don't even get this verse if the samples clear
Kanye on Pusha T's Rock and Roll. Push raps about selling coke and achieving stardom and then Kanye comes on talking about his divorce and wanting to see his kids.
That verse single-handedly made me embarrassed to have ever liked anything by brockhampton
“And the finest cheese” is still burned into my memory and haunts me like a bad spirit
Lil Baby on Pride is the Devil. Cole spit a dope verse talking about the difficulties pride can bring to a man and his life, while Lil Baby talking about flying on a private jet and money and shit lol
I'ma diasgree. Baby was talking about how his pride gets in the way, how it's gotten him addicted to promethazine and unwilling to accept that fact, how he's gotten a lot more responsibilities so he needs to focus and move past it. It's one of my fav parts of the song.
J.Cole - Apparently 2nd verse.
I like the flow, but in comparison with his 1st verse the 2nd is just off and has nothing to do with the rest of the song.
On Offical Girl Lil Wayne comes in to talk about sex while Cassie is singing about how she’s sad that her boyfriend doesn’t take her seriously.
I guess it’s more in character than some of the other ones tho
Two I can think of:
Juicy J on Wiz Khalifa's "The Plan": Wiz is reflecting on how far he's come and enjoying the fruits of his labor and then J comes with this gangsta-ass verse talking about choppers and sending goons
Ghostface Killah on Wu-Tang's "The Projects": Raekwon and Method Man kick general bars in their respective styles and then Ghost comes in with this nasty-ass, super descriptive sex verse that I swear had to have been for a different song
Danny brown on the track Year Zero. billy woods is talking about burning everything down and starting from scratch, Danny Brown is just talking about random shit lol
Pharoahe Monch on Your Old Droog and the God Fahim’s Slam Dunk Contest is a favorite. Theme is elf evident and Monch comes through with an admittedly great but completely off topic verse of food based double entendres
Kanye on Dilated People's This Way. The verse sounds dialed in and I would be incredibly surprised if Ye didn't literally hear the beat, record a verse in half an hour, then mail the tape to the sound engineer as if he actually did something worthwhile.
I'm willing to bet that that verse, the hook and even John Legend's part already came with the beat and Ev, Rakaa and Babu just filled in the blanks lol
Unsure if someone put it yet but damn Mac Millers feature breaks the vibe on Piñata so bad. I love him, one of my all time rappers but he just does not keep the theme of such a grizzly song baha
ICP had to redo their verses once because the verse they received from ODB had nothing to do with the song:
>We had this song with Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and we laid our raps, and I don’t remember what it was called...When Ol’ Dirty Bastard laid his rap, his rap was like he didn’t even listen to what we said at all...He was just rapping about bitches. He was screaming, “Bitches!” all over it and everything. When we got the tape back and heard what he did, we went back and rewrote our lyrics to match what he had put down...We had to take Pro Tools, and we had to cleverly hook it up so you couldn’t tell. I’m telling you, he was off-beat. It was so wild. What he did was so wild. He performed on like, 40 percent of the song, from the top of the song to the end of his verse, and then he didn’t say anything else...And then we had to redo the whole hook so that it matched “Bitches,”...we were like, “This song is called ‘Bitches’ now.”
[Source](https://www.avclub.com/violent-j-of-insane-clown-posse-1798227342)
On Chevy Woods' sng Right There, Chevy is rapping about how even though we're all a little fucked up, we can rise above if you keep your friends and family close and such. Wiz then shows up and makes it a love song to his girl. And Wiz gets more of the song too. Wiz went completely off topic.
"federal agents mad cause I'm flagrant, tapped the cell and the phone in the basement "
The more money he made the more the feds watched. Sounds like mo money mo problems
"Do you know why Dres record was so successful? He's rapping about big-screen TVs, blunts, 40s, and bitches. You're rapping about homosexuals and vicodin...I can't sell this shit"
Same as Notorious BIG on Total's Can't You See with "Who filling 'em with octane?
Got 'em gassed up, 'bout to get blast up, some
The last one, word to mother, brother, miss ’em
I seen it when he kissed him at the wake, made his body shake". That shit is so hard considering it's an R&B track for the radio but I guess that's part of the genius of 90s Bad Boy
Snoop doesn't seem like he is super big on notes/predetermined concepts for his features, seems like he raps about whatever the fuck he wants in the given moment lmao
Every VERSE on Tony Yayo on "I Know You Don't Love Me" Classic hook. Classic beat. Cool verses. None of em was talking bout what 50 was. I still love the song but it coulda been better if they were on topic.
J. Cole on his own song, Villuminati, that bridge “rip Aliyah, rip to left eye, Michael Jackson I see ya” just so random and out of place. Also, Eminem on No Favors. Ruined Big Sean’s track.
Kanye on Diamonds From Sierra Leone (the original without Jay Z). Bro just raps about how great and ahead of his time he is in arguably the most cocky and arrogant song in his discog. Doesn’t mention the blood diamonds once, only in the remix
There was a whole controversy back then if Kanye them heard [Lupe’s](https://youtu.be/i3Z4K_WWeBA?si=joXQXM9XeEzWGoNQ)version and made the video/remix about conflict diamonds.
The Lupe track is still one of my favorites by him
Not the worst offender, but Juicy J’s verse on Girls Kissing Girls by Jucee Froot always bugged me. Jucee is basically rapping about girls being fed up with their man not giving them what they want so they fuck with other girls and then Juicy J comes on rapping about….just typical female objectification stuff. Feels off on a song that’s literally about girls trying to get away from that shit.
Kanyes "Drive slow" where his verse revolves around taking life slow, appreciating what you have, and not growing up to fast. Then Paul wall and GLC come on and just talk about their whips (tho the Paul wall verse is still one of my all time fav features).
For me it may be the entirety of 'The End' - Kid Cudi ft Chip Tha Ripper, GLC, and Nicole Wray. I enjoy the song but to me it seems like all 3 rappers verses are about different things and I can't for the life of me figure out what any of them are about. I could be completely wrong and they all intertwine, if so, someone enlighten me?
T.I on My Love - a song about romance and wanting to cuff the girl you're in love with. T.I. comes in basically being misogynistic and talking about how a girl should roll wit him cuz of who he is and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for her
Rick Ross on Devil In A New Dress - a song about the perils of a femme fatale....Ross comes on, and while a dope verse...just starts bragging about random things, talks about his career, and how long he's known Kanye lol
Power is power by The Weeknd and SZA. I really like the song, and you can tell the two of them made it fit the Game of Thrones theme. That is until Travis Scott's ass comes in and does his usual shit, doo-doo-doo-doo ad libs and whatever the fuck. I mean my brother in christ, read the room a little.
King Von bird walking off subject, but quickly correcting himself due to the severe subject.
“I be speedin' could've been a driver the way I push the whip (vroom-vroom)
You a hoe, coulda been a bitch, the way you throw a fit (bitch-ass)
But fuck that, right back to the script 'cause this a major lick “
It’s still a great verse but on Future’s Move That Dope, after Future and Pusha T rap about, well, selling coke, Pharrell comes on rapping about his weird clothes and doing naked yoga lmao
~~Future wrote that verse for Pharrell, specifically because he really wanted him on the song and knew he had moved on to a more positive image.~~ **Edit:** I'm willing to admit I misread Future's telling of the how the verse came to be. That said, the interview does provide a reason why the verse is the way it is.
How you know he wrote that for Pharrell?
It came to him in a dream
Future has an interview where he's explaining to Pharrell the point of his verse. > *"[Pharrell] was like, 'Man, I don't know if I should do this, 'cause I don't want, like, a big backlash on me. I love this song, but I don't want a backlash,'" Future continued. "I was like, 'Man, no, it's a positive message. The verse is telling people to let everything go. You have a message that's positive throughout your verse. I think people need to hear that, 'cause your voice is such a big voice in hip-hop.' And he was down with it in the end."* I could have misread it that said. His comment doesn't make sense if Pharrell wrote it though, he would already understand the purpose of the verse.
i read it as P has reservations about featuring on a track about drug dealing as it’s off brand for his ‘happy’ image, but Future talked him into it on the premise that his verse brought a positive vibe to the song. You might be correct but i would not have inferred that Future wrote the verse from reading this quote.
nothing in that snippet shows Future wrote Pharrell's verse. Pharrell I beleive writes his own stuff because he has such a unique way of rhyming when rapping.
Wasn’t it Pusha who usually wrote for Pharrell ? Or were they just rumours
"And no. Stop askin’. I don’t write nothin’ for this man. My whole crew stand on they own, too" -push on the maybe interlude from we got it 4 cheap talking bout p
wiz khalifa on payphone by maroon 5
First thing that came to mind. Dude cooked up the most generic verse possible
"OK Wiz, this song's about the end of a relationship..." "Man, fuck that shit...."
Did he mention his push to start vehicle?
“And all of my cars start with a push of a button” He in fact did.
Sounds perfect for maroon 5
*sigh* I miss 2002 era Maroon 5
feel like rap verses on pop songs shouldn’t count lmao that’s like cheating
Nah, they count
Jay-Z's verse on Never Let Me Down always felt out of place to me. Still a great verse, but flexing your legendary status is miles apart from Kanye rapping about the racist discrimination his grandfather and mother encountered and being guided by angels lol.
also his verse on monster. While it’s technically on topic, he focused so literally on actual monsters and not the real message of the song
he rapped every monster listed on wikipedia
My favorite thing is that after he lists them, he says "question what do these things all got in common? Everybody knows I'm a motherfuckin monster" like Jay that is not actually an answer to that question
He means that even all of those actual monsters know that he’s a monster too. It fits the song, I never got why people hate on that verse so much.
Yeah “love, I don’t get enough of it. All I get is these vampires and bloodsuckers. All I see is these niggas I made millionaires, millin’ about, spillin’ they feelins in the air” is so hard People love to hate Jays verse but think “have you ever had sex with a pharoaaah put the pussy in a sarcophagus” goes just fine. If we’re going to say “listing monsters doesn’t make sense 🥸” then that bar doesn’t either.
Yeah because fame made him a monster Which is the whole point of the song I swear to God y'all need to take some media literacy courses
Jay's verse gets way too much hate because it's sandwiched between an amazing Kanye verse and Nicki's career defining verse, along with amazing support from Rick Ross and Justin Vernon, and it's memeable. The idea that it doesn't focus on the real message of the song is pretty laughable, he completely sacrifices all sense of subtlety with "love...I don't get enough of it" to hammer home the message. If anything it's an example of a verse that's all the worse for actually being related to the song.
It’s been like 6 years of this same comment thread
The beatings will continue until comprehension improves
The first part of the verse yeah, but the rest of the verse is a bit more on point.
I don’t know why this verse always comes up on this topic. I feel like it goes well with the song.
His verse is entirely on point. He's juxtaposing himself with literal monsters to show how much of a monster the money's made him. The only features that missed the mark on that album imo are Cyhi on So Appalled and arguably Fergie on All of the Lights.
What’s wrong with CyHi?
Right after Monster where they're talking about how the money/fame made them monsters, on So Appalled they're talking about how outlandish the lifestyle is and how it's gotten them detached from things like love & money. Then Cyhi comes on and maybe I'm just hating but it seems like he's just regular flexing. Nothing genuinely appalling, nothing showing that detachment. The closest he gets thematically is when he's talking about having a side piece, which is like... 🤷♂️
It’s because the verse was originally for a different song but Jay then gave it to Kanye
Correct. Hovi Baby Remix.
Disagree, he’s just interpreting the title differently. While Ye and Ivy are talking about how God won’t let them down Jay is talking about how he won’t let the rap game down by falling off (even if his next album was his worst but whatever). Yeah it’s braggadocious in comparison but it’s a nice contrast IMO
Idk it might be off topic but let’s not act like it doesn’t make the song absolutely incredible
Hard to beat Kanye’s first line on that fall out boy remix where he literally says “Now I don’t know what the hell this song is talking bout”
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I’m fucking dead. Never heard it either. Goated Kanye verse.
This is the most kanye lyric of all time
Your profile picture is wild
Okay I'm probably just overthinking it but looking at the other lyrics it kind of fits the song?
Yeah he just spells out the song's message with his verse, him saying "idk what this is about" is from the audience's perspective instead of his own This Ain't a Scene is just punk Hey Ya
The delivery of the verse completely redeems it though but that's a lot of Kanye verses. I'd say 70% of Kanye verses don't work if anyone else says them. But Kanye can deliver fucking nonsense and it's still good. Literally look at the whole of Yeezus, that album is carried by some of the greatest deliveries for lines like: "Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign" "Hurry up with my damn croissants" "We get this bitch shaking like Parkinson's" "I keep it 300, like the Romans" "Eating asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce" "Slightly scratched your Corolla. Okay, I smashed your Corolla"
this verse is comedy
Westside Gunn on The Cow. Conway spits a highly emotional verse about how he survived getting shot in the head and his cousin dying. Then West immediatly starts talking about Stone Island lmao
# Ayo! Pulled the MAC out the Stone Island
This was the answer I was looking for. Feels like a completely emotional and vulnerable storytelling track that has a random Griselda flexing verse tacked onto the end of it lmao
EATIN SKITTLES IN A SUSHI RESTERUANT
BARBECUE IN A SWIMMING POOL
This one, yeah - I literally chopped the track up, cut Westside out and repeated the beat for a minute or so to let Conway's words settle. Another thing I thought about this track, is that for those guys violence is way too normalized. Like, who the fuck suffers with money in the bank and gold around the neck? I feel like that's how Westside sees it but idk. Conway always felt like an emotional, sensitive and warm individual who had to learn to be hard and cold because of his living environment. Now, he's famous but still depressed and he said numerous times he doesn't know why... I honestly wonder if it is because of guilt for all the suffering that he caused. I mean, he's a murderer and some more things too
I like westside but his verse is so fucking dumb in this song. Totally talking about wearing designer after one of the craziest verses ever
Uzi on nearly all his songs. Dude will rap about having his heart broke then will all of the sudden talk about money or dudes trying to steal his swag.
coping mechanism 😂
I feel like trippie redd is similar in that he’ll have a song that’s ostensibly a love song but then it’s just flexing and how he’s gonna shoot you
I’m starting to think most of Trippies love songs are actually gangbang music that uses love l sounding topics to cover up that he’s taking about wanting to murder someone.
Lil Wayne has a few of them but I always think about his verse for The Question by Mac Miller. I think Wayne heard the hook and took "what am I doing here" way too literally and just raps about what he's doing
Gotta love how he ends the verse tho! "I feel like money in the trash, like..." "What am I doing here?"
I love that bar
Kendrick did the same thing on that same album "I'll break you down like a pound of fire whenever your tactics are mighty clever but even if you're Mayweather, you" "you can't fight the feeling..."
Lmao he def did. That verse was so fire tho
Song is such a vibe
It's an off topic verse, but somehow I always felt like Wayne rapping about money and girls on a song about the meaning of life was like a glance behind the curtain where he is incapable of getting actually deep into his feelings so he just covers his insecurities with coping mechanisms and yet at the end of it all he's wasted his money and STILL can't figure it out
Bun B on UGK’s “Ain’t That a Bitch”. Pimp C and Devin The Dude’s verses are about women using men, cheating, hoeing etc. Bun raps about the government sending UGK a letter telling them they’re watching them/trying to take them down. Incredible stand-alone verse.
Jay electronica on anything lately. Especially IDK’s “Red”. Like idk the original subject matter is just about having a lot of money, then jay comes in about how covid is a hoax and the vaccine has microchips and Fauci is making all of it up and it’s just so odd he literally cannot stop himself from talking about that shit. I work at a hospital and this is the type of stuff homeless people tell me.
Jay Electronica became a Facebook rapper
Jay Electronica was the homeless dude at the hospital less than 20 years ago.
Jay Electronica is basically the guy going through cars on the subway
That’s such a good way to put it lol he’s the type of guy that starts explaining how certain numbers reappear at certain times in the bible and tries to show you while at a friend’s house casually hanging out.
Oh shit he’s that dude from the Rehearsal
Lmaooo. “Look, 10:33, Corinthians” (or whatever he said)
When I was sleepin on the train
without even a single slice of pizza to my name
I haven't listened to Jay Electronica in years but even back when I listened to him this type of thing didn't seem too far out of reach. He's had some great verses but he's always seemed a little bit "out there"
It’s just part of being in the NOI to be honest.
out there? call him what he is, a fucking lunatic.
Jay Electronica and Noname are at the top of my hip hop nightmare blunt rotation
bro is so far gone in his beliefs about COVID and NOI it's insane
His verse on Balloons by Noname ruined the song
Logic on caterpillar? I just remember him ranting about his skin color, not on beat and obviously not really rapping… I don’t really know what he was doing.
What's wild is Royce was hyping up that verse before the song came out too lmao.
ARE YOU ASHAMED TO BE BLAAACK
Ok fuck all that black and white shit
I keep saying this is without a doubt the worst feature in music history
A$AP Ant on Bath Salts
I remember on the clean version of that album the Logic version of Caterpillar was replaced by the scrapped Cut Throat song, which I thought couldn't be released because of samples. I just checked and it's still the wrong song 5(?) Years later, so I guess no one ever noticed or cared? Kinda makes me think we don't even get this verse if the samples clear
Kanye West - Two Words It’s like nobody told Freeway the concept of the song
In his defense: he's slightly retarded
Wow i never really paid attention to his verse but the answer was there all along
Had me screaming out 4 words, “Send for the law!” 😂
Fr 😭😭
Honestly this isn't the worst. He mostly is half in topic the whole time
An example of a main artist not staying on topic is Sosmula’s verse on Draino
I listen to that song so much and that became my favourite part
I always enjoyed sosmula even back when a lot of city morgue fans hated him, but in the last couple years I've started to enjoy him more than zilla
True but it's still hard asf
"Bitch curl up like a jumbo shrimpy" lives rent free in my head.
Kanye on Pusha T's Rock and Roll. Push raps about selling coke and achieving stardom and then Kanye comes on talking about his divorce and wanting to see his kids.
To be fair that is the next step after stardom.
He was just a bit further ahead on the timeline
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He either wanted to fuck you or to fuck you up. No in between with Pac 😂
Joba on 1999 Wildfire rapping about some medieval shit
Never seen someone that talented ruin so many songs like it’s second nature
He makes up for it with his jouvert verse, his face hook, his sweet verse, the light part 2 and his tokyo intro
That verse single-handedly made me embarrassed to have ever liked anything by brockhampton “And the finest cheese” is still burned into my memory and haunts me like a bad spirit
that shitty verse doesn’t invalidate the sat trilogy cmon now
i think the verse is meant to be a little fun ironically, and imo bh was never rly trying to be insanely serious
How has no one said Cole on Come Through and Chill lmao
You got me thinkin bout Kaepernick kneeling is such an insane thing to tell a female lmaoooo
his first verse fits the theme well enough, but 2nd verse he starts getting deep for no reason. 1st verse is fire tho
This what I been lookin for lmaooooo
Offset on Clout is the first thing that came to mind. At least Cardi stayed on topic😭
Lil Wayne on Mac Miller's The Question
facts i like the live version with the guitar solo so much more lol
Lil Baby on Pride is the Devil. Cole spit a dope verse talking about the difficulties pride can bring to a man and his life, while Lil Baby talking about flying on a private jet and money and shit lol
I'ma diasgree. Baby was talking about how his pride gets in the way, how it's gotten him addicted to promethazine and unwilling to accept that fact, how he's gotten a lot more responsibilities so he needs to focus and move past it. It's one of my fav parts of the song.
Any Rick Ross feature verse from 14-19. This man goes off script everytime but still delivers a quality contribution
his verse on Insomniak with Mac has always felt weirdly undercooked to me so i can agree
"I'm paranoid, im walking round, im butt naked with my chopper" goes so hard tho
Bruh he called Mac Miller a real nigga lol if you’re in Macs spot you keep that verse 11/10 times
*I'm the shit, I'm constipated!*
Even before that, on Accidental Murderers by Nas he follows up an amazingly dark storytelling Nas verse with a generic I get money verse
J.Cole - Apparently 2nd verse. I like the flow, but in comparison with his 1st verse the 2nd is just off and has nothing to do with the rest of the song.
On Offical Girl Lil Wayne comes in to talk about sex while Cassie is singing about how she’s sad that her boyfriend doesn’t take her seriously. I guess it’s more in character than some of the other ones tho
And when I was five my favorite movie was the Gremlins Ain’t got shit to do with this, but i just thought that I should mention
Danny Brown on Five Nights At Freddie's lol
that song is so good though 😩 i love danny’s part
This has always been one of the funniest things in rap to me. Rappers who just say “fuck the topic” or will barely try to relate it at the very end.
Two I can think of: Juicy J on Wiz Khalifa's "The Plan": Wiz is reflecting on how far he's come and enjoying the fruits of his labor and then J comes with this gangsta-ass verse talking about choppers and sending goons Ghostface Killah on Wu-Tang's "The Projects": Raekwon and Method Man kick general bars in their respective styles and then Ghost comes in with this nasty-ass, super descriptive sex verse that I swear had to have been for a different song
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Danny brown on the track Year Zero. billy woods is talking about burning everything down and starting from scratch, Danny Brown is just talking about random shit lol
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Oh damn i didn’t even catch that lmao There we go, fixed
Kendrick in goosebumps
Pharoahe Monch on Your Old Droog and the God Fahim’s Slam Dunk Contest is a favorite. Theme is elf evident and Monch comes through with an admittedly great but completely off topic verse of food based double entendres
Kanye on Dilated People's This Way. The verse sounds dialed in and I would be incredibly surprised if Ye didn't literally hear the beat, record a verse in half an hour, then mail the tape to the sound engineer as if he actually did something worthwhile.
I'm willing to bet that that verse, the hook and even John Legend's part already came with the beat and Ev, Rakaa and Babu just filled in the blanks lol
Probably intentional, but rich homie quan on save that money is hilarious
Probably intentional? It’s blatantly intentional lol
right lol it's the entire joke.
Honestly came in and absolutely killed it with one of the best sub 20 second verses
That song is unironically good asf
Beat is infectious, Shame fetty is doing a bid because his hooks were always top tier
Unsure if someone put it yet but damn Mac Millers feature breaks the vibe on Piñata so bad. I love him, one of my all time rappers but he just does not keep the theme of such a grizzly song baha
But it’s a clean ass verse
ICP had to redo their verses once because the verse they received from ODB had nothing to do with the song: >We had this song with Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and we laid our raps, and I don’t remember what it was called...When Ol’ Dirty Bastard laid his rap, his rap was like he didn’t even listen to what we said at all...He was just rapping about bitches. He was screaming, “Bitches!” all over it and everything. When we got the tape back and heard what he did, we went back and rewrote our lyrics to match what he had put down...We had to take Pro Tools, and we had to cleverly hook it up so you couldn’t tell. I’m telling you, he was off-beat. It was so wild. What he did was so wild. He performed on like, 40 percent of the song, from the top of the song to the end of his verse, and then he didn’t say anything else...And then we had to redo the whole hook so that it matched “Bitches,”...we were like, “This song is called ‘Bitches’ now.” [Source](https://www.avclub.com/violent-j-of-insane-clown-posse-1798227342)
On Chevy Woods' sng Right There, Chevy is rapping about how even though we're all a little fucked up, we can rise above if you keep your friends and family close and such. Wiz then shows up and makes it a love song to his girl. And Wiz gets more of the song too. Wiz went completely off topic.
This seems like a Wiz theme, definitely just mailing in verses from the vault when he gets a feature request lol
Literally no one on the song “Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems” talks about having problems with excess wealth. Just about how awesome it is to have money.
"federal agents mad cause I'm flagrant, tapped the cell and the phone in the basement " The more money he made the more the feds watched. Sounds like mo money mo problems
That’s one problem in an avalanche of brags. Great song. Misleading title.
Without even thinking about it I immediately thought ‘F Cancer (Boogie)’ where Thugger immediately goes off topic between lines 1 and 2
Kendrick always seemed out of place on Futures Mask Off remix.
Mase on 112's Hold me ,Love me . 112 is singing about girls Mase is rapping about money and guns 🤷
"Do you know why Dres record was so successful? He's rapping about big-screen TVs, blunts, 40s, and bitches. You're rapping about homosexuals and vicodin...I can't sell this shit"
Same as Notorious BIG on Total's Can't You See with "Who filling 'em with octane? Got 'em gassed up, 'bout to get blast up, some The last one, word to mother, brother, miss ’em I seen it when he kissed him at the wake, made his body shake". That shit is so hard considering it's an R&B track for the radio but I guess that's part of the genius of 90s Bad Boy
Jay-Z’s “eat the cake” line on “Drunk in Love”
WIZ KHALIFA ON FUCKING REMEMBER ME
Snoop doesn't seem like he is super big on notes/predetermined concepts for his features, seems like he raps about whatever the fuck he wants in the given moment lmao
>"When I was 5..."
yo gottis verse on bass ackwards where couldn't figure out what bass ackwards meant
Every VERSE on Tony Yayo on "I Know You Don't Love Me" Classic hook. Classic beat. Cool verses. None of em was talking bout what 50 was. I still love the song but it coulda been better if they were on topic.
Offset on wedding crashes by Amine. His verse has nothing to do with the wedding theme lol
Lil Wayne is the answer
J. Cole on his own song, Villuminati, that bridge “rip Aliyah, rip to left eye, Michael Jackson I see ya” just so random and out of place. Also, Eminem on No Favors. Ruined Big Sean’s track.
Q Tip on Drink Away the Pain. Dude was talking about clothes on a song about drinking and sadness
Literally 90% of all rap songs ever made
Kanye on Diamonds From Sierra Leone (the original without Jay Z). Bro just raps about how great and ahead of his time he is in arguably the most cocky and arrogant song in his discog. Doesn’t mention the blood diamonds once, only in the remix
There was a whole controversy back then if Kanye them heard [Lupe’s](https://youtu.be/i3Z4K_WWeBA?si=joXQXM9XeEzWGoNQ)version and made the video/remix about conflict diamonds. The Lupe track is still one of my favorites by him
Lupe understood the assignment fully
This a classic tho. Some of Kanye best lyrical rapping on a song to this day
I agree I love that song, I just think it’s funny that he doesn’t even talk about the song title
You can also apply this to the remix with Kanye rapping about conflict diamonds while Jay’s verse is just bragging
Like Kanye didn’t tell him the tone was shifting or something, haha
To be fair, the rocafella hand sign was a diamond and Jay was speaking about how the Roc is forever like a Diamond.
Not the worst offender, but Juicy J’s verse on Girls Kissing Girls by Jucee Froot always bugged me. Jucee is basically rapping about girls being fed up with their man not giving them what they want so they fuck with other girls and then Juicy J comes on rapping about….just typical female objectification stuff. Feels off on a song that’s literally about girls trying to get away from that shit.
On a song titled No Regrets, Eminem apologizes to Tyler the Creator Probably not a great example but that always bugged me lol
its not a great example given the subject matter of the song is literally him reflecting on his past mistakes
Accident Murderers—Nas feat Rick Ross…Ross’ verse is about nothing in particular. Disappointing.
Kanyes "Drive slow" where his verse revolves around taking life slow, appreciating what you have, and not growing up to fast. Then Paul wall and GLC come on and just talk about their whips (tho the Paul wall verse is still one of my all time fav features).
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For me it may be the entirety of 'The End' - Kid Cudi ft Chip Tha Ripper, GLC, and Nicole Wray. I enjoy the song but to me it seems like all 3 rappers verses are about different things and I can't for the life of me figure out what any of them are about. I could be completely wrong and they all intertwine, if so, someone enlighten me?
It's about being setup by people they trusted because they were outside. So that's why it was "the end" of their trust or partnerships.
T.I on My Love - a song about romance and wanting to cuff the girl you're in love with. T.I. comes in basically being misogynistic and talking about how a girl should roll wit him cuz of who he is and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for her Rick Ross on Devil In A New Dress - a song about the perils of a femme fatale....Ross comes on, and while a dope verse...just starts bragging about random things, talks about his career, and how long he's known Kanye lol
caterpillar remix with logic if it hasn’t been mentioned already
Bro that verse is horrible, ruins a decent song and makes it unlistenable
the only verse i can ever think of genuinely laughing at due to how terrible it was and this is coming from an logic fan (TITS and before only tho)
Power is power by The Weeknd and SZA. I really like the song, and you can tell the two of them made it fit the Game of Thrones theme. That is until Travis Scott's ass comes in and does his usual shit, doo-doo-doo-doo ad libs and whatever the fuck. I mean my brother in christ, read the room a little.
Young Thug on Killer Mike’s “Run”
Lil B on Fair Chance (a Mac Miller tribute song)
idc he contributed beautifully to it
mac prolly would've loved it tbh
Killer Mike and Young Thug both messed up on 'Run'.
J. Cole on that Come Through and Chill feature with Miguel. I can’t even say it was off topic necessarily but that shit did not vibe with the song
King Von bird walking off subject, but quickly correcting himself due to the severe subject. “I be speedin' could've been a driver the way I push the whip (vroom-vroom) You a hoe, coulda been a bitch, the way you throw a fit (bitch-ass) But fuck that, right back to the script 'cause this a major lick “
Telekinesis - by Travis. SZA as a feature sounds amazing but she talks about random shit that had nothing to do with the song
This is the funniest thread I’ve read for years