The 15 Most Outrageous Claims in Pop Music History
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"We can do it till we both wake up."
Color Me Badd, "I Want to Sex You Up"
First off, it's hard to believe that anyone can have sex while they're asleep, and harder still to believing that all four members of Color Me Badd have been blessed with this amazing talent. Look at these stooges-the dude in the flip shades is clearly still a virgin, and the guy doing Blue Steel up front looks like he just stepped out of a SuperCuts poster. Also, since they say "till we both wake up," does that mean the girl isn't aware of what's happening? Because if that's the case, we're pretty sure that's sexual assault.
14
"Gap teeth in ya mouth so my dick's gots to fit / With my nuts on ya tonsils"
Dr. Dre followed by Snoop Dogg, "Fuck Wit' Dre Day"
Here, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg decide the best way to voice their displeasure with Eazy-E is to rap about sexually assaulting him. In fact, the song contains countless lines that would be at home at a prison rape orgy (we've been to many of these), including "It's time for the doctor to check your ass," "Play with my bone, would ya Timmy?" "I'm hollering 187 with my dick in your mouth," "Luke's bending over, so Luke's getting fucked," and, of course, "Eazy-E can eat a big fat dick."
That's not even mentioning the above one-two punch of outrage. First, Dr. Dre claims that his dick can fit between Eazy-E's two front teeth, which is both the least impressive brag about dick size in rap history and proof that Dr. Dre has no idea how fellatio is performed. Next, Snoop drops in to serve notice that his nuts are in fact on Eazy's tonsils, which would give Snoop the longest scrotum in recorded history. We're not 100 percent sure why that's supposed to be impressive.
13 (tie)
"Every freak should have a picture of my dick on they wall."
Rich Boy featuring Polow Da Don, "Throw Some D's"
Polow Da Don, you have to be a little more assertive! Most rappers won't think twice before bragging about slapping hos and all you can muster up is suggesting-not even demanding-that a picture of your penis be hung on "every freak's" wall? In the same song, Rich Boy raps about selling crack and buying a Cadillac, but all we can picture is you taking webcam photos of your dong, carefully placing them in frames from Pottery Barn, and sending each one out to a freak along with a tersely worded note urging that it be hung on, um, they wall.
13 (tie)
"My paragraph alone is worth five mics. A 12-song LP, that's 36 mics."
Redman, "Five Boroughs"
But wait a second, isn't five times 12, um, 60? To make the math correct, Red would have had to spread 7.2 paragraphs over the course of his 12 songs, averaging 3/5 of a paragraph per song. So, either Red made a mathematically convoluted concept album in which paragraphs span from one song to the next, or he just assumed that his fans were retarded and said a bunch of numbers to confuse them. It's definitely one of the two, though we'd hate to think that the star of How High and countless deodorant commercials would condescend to his fan base like that.








You can kind of tell that these are jokes by the fact they plainly state in the introduction that they aren't going to take all these lines at face value anymore, then promptly take all these lines at face value. Or you could remember tat this article is on a comedy website.
Reply"Everyone is gay" is a sarcastic statement. And gay here means 'happy'.
ReplyYou're assuming here Kurt GoBang was a good songwriter.
Is it ironic that an article entirely about jokingly taking song lyrics too literally is being taken way too literally by the commenters?
Replyon a comedy website, no less...
Really? Really "Cracked staff"? This article is SO BAD no one will claim it? You're going to be so literal with #9 "Everything I do, I do it for you." It was for Robin Effing Hood. He stole, he lied, he cheated, he killed...for his love. Wow. Morons. "But he poops" Sounds like an 8 year old's reasoning right there.
ReplyHas anyone bothered to remember that gay also means happy? I'm sure Kurt meant that sarcastically, as in, 'Everyone is happy'. Go ahead, I'm ready for the bashing.
ReplyI don't partake in gay comment bashing.
It boggles my mind that so many of these artists are now irrelevant or actually DEAD! Such lyrics should make one immortal...just to think that someone can eat more chicken than I have seen...and I was raised on a fuggin poultry farm! I have seen me some goddamn chickens and then some!
ReplyI read about a bunch of these in another Cracked article.
ReplyPretty good article, some of these were a pretty big stretch at comedy by using partial lines out of text, but still...you made fun of Jim Morrison so I'm in.
Reply#12: It's called a metaphor.
ReplyAs are half of these.
"Bryan Adams is not a robot, people-he poops. "
ReplyEverybody poops and if they don't they're an android, and should be destroyed...
I think "making love to a gin and tonic" refers to "nursing" the drink or in other words, taking a really long to drink it.
ReplyIt's sad that an entire generation of music listeners have no capacity for poetic imagery or wordplay. "Real estate novelist", obviously, refers to someone who sells real estate for a living but fantasizes about writing the great American novel. The whole theme of the song is that people have dreams that often never come true.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesThe author, however, is a complete idiot if he thinks that the human race would a) all turn gay and b) therefore be incapable of reproducing. Gays aren't sterile. Oscar Wilde had kids, for Christ's sake. We may not have any interest in the opposite sex, but we can have kids. Besides, has the author never heard of artificial insemination?
THE AUTHOR WAS MAKING A JOKE U DUMBASS, APPARENTLY YOU HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD SARCASM. IM GUESSING YOUR IQ IS SOMEWHERE AROUND -180? AM I RIGHT?
If everyone was gay, the humans would have died before artificial insemination was a thing. Or before they knew they'd all die. Hell, the humans wouldn't exist in the first place.
Venator: Stop calling us 'the humans'. It's creepy.
I dont think It was a good day is that weired. hes just saying hes good at basketball. Also they forgot Eminem "oh no big slim dog/80 lbs. balls/ dick six inch long"
ReplyWhat no Beatles? Apparently they were Walruses.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesNO no no, they were egg men. Only one of them was a walrus.
But he is he, as you are he, as you are me, and they were all together.
So... we are all walruses?
Apparently, since all songs are taken at face value, and Bryan Adams poops for us.
Eh, too many rap songs I've never heard/want to hear.
ReplyHow about the Hollies insisting that all they need is the air they breathe and the love you?
ReplyI haven't checked all 85 comments and I'm sure I'll get flamed for it, but hey somebody has to say it: I love how the majority of these idiotic claims are by hip-hop and rap artists...surely the biggest egoistical buffoons in the music business...aaaaand Commence Firing!
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesI shall commence the firing of approval at you.
While I know there are terrible, really terrible rappers out there, some are extremely good at intelligent wordplay and making meaningful songs.
That said, I don't exactly disagree with you.
Agreeing with TonyGrey.
ETA: And also VirOfGlacies. *snort.*
Before my blood pressure rises, I'll agree here: for a comedic article, as has been said here ad nauseam already, many commenters seem just a teeeensy bit too serious. Kurt Cobain WAS, in fact, one of my major early composing influences; now I write, perform, and record rock opera. I was one of those people that cried and no, I'm STILL not embarrassed about it. But this still cracked me up. Why? Sarcasm is also music to me.
Its really weird that imediately after acknowledging that the words to "Backdoor Man" were sung first by Howlin' Wolf (it is a cover song and the words have nothing to do with Jim Morrison or the Doors other than the fact that they performed/recorded a version of this song(actually Willie Dixon wrote the words))the article goes on to say "Jim was out of his gourd on peyote, but everyone just accepted his "poetic" ramblings." What? You JUST admitted he didn't even WRITE the words...FACE PALM. This is literally like crediting American Idol contestants for the lyrics to the songs they were singing - I expect CRACKED to make fun of stuff like this...not perpetuate it...Also - it makes perfect sense in context - Willie Dixon was a notoriously excellent lyricist. He's talking about f*****g other men's wives while the husbands are at work, by the way...I'm guessing you didn't get ANY of the song. Disappointing that this weird non-sequiter was #1 - the other 14 were spot-on. I think Cannabis measuring his "density" in "degrees" is my favorite...
ReplyMost of these arent even pop. This article did make me laugh a lot, but too many things wrong with it. Just pointing it out, Canibus was freestyling so he was focusing on rhyming internally instead of making sense.
ReplyR.I.P. Nate Dogg
Apparently Rap with just a touch of Classic Rock = Pop? Lol.
Ok, I'm sure this has been pointed out already. . . and I know the writers don't read the comments. . . and this article was written like 5 years ago. . . BUT:
ReplyThe lyrics to the Bell Biv Devoe song are out of order.
The time was 6 o'clock on the Swatch watch
No time to chill, got a date, can't be late
Hey! The girl is gonna do me.
Move to the Jacuzzi, ooh, that booty
Smack it up, flip it, rub it down, oh, no!
I recall them saying "I need a body bag", but the lyrics I googled place that line earlier in the song. Anyway, BBD was da bomb!