A commericial rap song was playing on the radio the other day and I heard this dude's hook, it went something like, "My B**** bad, lookin' like a bag of money" and he said it over and over again.
Why would he be bragging about a girl who looked like a bag of money?
Maybe he didn't mean bad like "good", he meant bad like BAD. "It's so bad, my girlfriend looks like a bag of money." That would be really bad to me and the line would make sense.
I wonder if anyone in the world thought that was a cool line. I would love to meet this person and just rack their brain, learn about them, study them. Find out what makes us so extremely different.
you ever hear the one where the hook goes "I got plenty money!" over and over? if you got "plenty money" then why are you still in the game? go retire to an island or something, right?
I was in a hookah bar sometime back that had a knack of playing horrible hip-hop and such.One song/line that stood out particularly to me, even to this day, was “Bitch better get my money” repeated again and again.. and again..However the obese juggalos at the table next to mine seemed to enjoy it quite a bit, unsurprisingly enough.
money is the most attractive thing to many. or maybe he was implying that all he could see when he looks at her is the amount of money it costs to keep her around due to a shallow personality.
I think that the line is as shallow as it appears to be. From what I hear the kids like these days, word play is a lost art to these people. It's as subtle gun up in yo face and a bullet in yo grill, dou.
I have an anecdote for you all. Not commercial rap, but bad pop music. The bane of my existence.
My family went out of country for my mother's wedding, and while we were there, there was a wedding ceremony happening on the beach. The song they had the bride walk down the aisle to was "Just the Way You Are" by that hack Bruno Mars. I'm all for playing the non-traditional songs at weddings, but that was just plain awful to witness. They managed to fit in two more pop songs after that one.
If we're going to talk commercial lyrics which make no sense go no further than that song that goes "I just met you and this sounds crazy, here's my number, so call me maybe." There is nothing crazy at all about meeting a person and giving them your number that same day, otherwise it would make it pretty hard to get in contact with them again
Ease of consumption trumps everything. The average consumer doesn't want to sit there and smell burning rubber out their ears while they try to wrap their brains around lyricism.
We stay inundated with stimulus. Depth of experience is replaced with breadth. Who cares if the song gets old in a week, there's always something new to replace it. These are disposable lyrics for a disposable culture.
money is the most attractive thing to many. or maybe he was implying that all he could see when he looks at her is the amount of money it costs to keep her around due to a shallow personality.
that would almost redeem the lyric. and that requires a self awareness not present in most mainstream art, hip-hop or not
