“What does Drake look for when he’s trying to strike a chord?
A minor.”
“What happened to Joey Bada$$’s friends when they caught salmonella?
They got trapped in cells.”
“Why can’t Lil Wayne find the girl of his dreams?
He’s had trouble sleeping lately.”
“What’s Jay Z’s favorite exercise?
Running the city.”
“When did Young Boy begin his life as a bandit?
When he stole your girl.”
Title.
Many of the more memorable rap bars, especially in more recent rap, are just dad jokes puns with music in the background.
Meanwhile popular culture generally sees rap bars as cool, even when they come from rappers who are parents. Dad jokes are paradoxically almost always considered corny.
There must be an army out there of geeky parents built for the rap game who end up working for a living simply because an unfair system says their puns need beats behind them (Which are almost universally sampled from previously released music).
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Yea. You know, you might have a point.
You’ve discovered word play.
Yeah rap has always been about word play and puns, same with a lot of lyrics generally, and just poetry as a concept. It’s always been about playing with language and double meanings
I lost my mind therefore I am a-maze-in
Put a different way: dad jokes are awesome.
What? A unpopular opinion that makes sense and gave me a good new perspective. This is impossible.
98.746% chance OP is white
It’s music for the masses. It’s not supposed to be deep.
It’s surface level lyricism so dumb people can understand
that’s just called a punchline
All i’m getting at this is that it seems that dad jokes are way cooler than i thought they were.
“A lot of books are just words put together differently”
Dad jokes are campy and over the top. A pun or word play does not make it a dad joke.
Rap uses word play but is not campy about it.
redditor discovers word play
You know, rap is the equivalent of folk!
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Call us Long John Silver’s cause we selfish lives rent free in my mind forever.
Also, you were looking for miniature golf? I thought you said men to jerk off.
I put a watch in a bum-bag, that’s the only time I waist time.
Scribe, ‘not many’
It’s not just put differently. It’s put to a beat and a rhyme in a greater context of a song.
As an Eminem fan, I can tell you that the consensus among the hiphop community basically boils down to –
Black person says it = genius level wordplay
White person says it = corny dad joke
me listening to my fav rappers and artists making dad jokes
The difference is delivering it musically and rhythmically to an instrumental, and more importantly, wording it so that the syllable count can fit onto the beat in a way that sounds good
The bar for clever is definitely way lower when it’s set to a catchy beat.
Disagree.
Dad jokes are actually misunderstood rap bars
This is why Eminem is the goat
Make the beat and murder it. Casey Anthony.
How did you botch the drake a minor line lol
You aren’t wrong but let’s get this out on the table: You just don’t like overplayed rap that is mediocre and annoying to hear repeated ad nauseum… Me too
That said MF DOOM was basically all corny ass word play and I love him for that
Eminem has a ton of these. “That’s why they call it window pain.” “Passin out like when you hand someone flyers.” Etc.
Is this an unpopular opinion or a widely acknowledged phenomenon? Agreed, but downvoted.