Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Black Eyed Please


In honor of their horrifying Super Bowl performance, I've created a list of some lyrics from the Black Eyed Peas' excellent first two albums:

"A real entertainer, a reviver of the true art form of hip hop"
"I see you try to dis our function/by stating that we can't rap/is that because we don't wear/Tommy Hilfiger or baseball caps?"
"We don't use dollars to represent/we just use our inner sense and talent"
"I think that you done corrupt the whole hip hop sound/so now we gotta follow up"
"You make the dough/but forgot the main goal, almost lost the soul"
"Cause everybody's talkin' about high profilin'/but that ain't hip hop to me"
"Don't think you're fresh because you're rockin' them outfits"
"Money is a drug and MC's is on it"
"We built this bridge/for the ones who use their mind"
"Yeah you platinum but you wack as hell"
"You one of those ballons made to go pop"
"What the deal? Is it really all about the bills?/What the deal? I'd rather have my soul fulfilled"
"Pimps and prostitutes get the break they need/With breakneck speed the fakes succeed indeed/Thinkin' life is a party and it's a must to please/But many pop MC's work for Mephistopheles... Publicly pushin' Satan when really you should be bumpin' the truth"
"I'ma stay who I be, can't nobody change me/Got my soul to protect"
"Talent on the mic will excite better than dropped bras"

And now, by way of comparison, here's a list of some lyrics from their subsequent albums:

"I'ma get, get, get, get you drunk/Get you love drunk off my hump" (actually do yourself a favor and just read all the lyrics from that song)
"I got my money/let's spend it"
"Fill up my cup/Mazel Tov (le haim)/Look at her dancing/just take it off"
"I mix your milk wit my cocoa puff/Milky, milky cocoa"
"La-da-di-dup-dup die dy/On the stere-ere-ere-ereo"
"I'm on the supersonic boom/Y'all hear the spaceship zoom/When I step inside the room/Them girls go ape-shit, uh"
"I love you boo, I love you too/I miss you a lot, I miss you even more"
"Let's get retarded in here"
"No, no, no, no... don't phunk with my heart"
"If we have a President's Day and a Veteran's Day/Let's have a Titty Holiday"

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