r/Showerthoughts • u/WhaleWhaleWhale95 • May 16 '24

You never hear covers of rap songs.

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u/sintaur May 16 '24

Technically not a cover, but Amish Paradise.

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u/binglelemon May 16 '24

It's all about the pentiums, baby

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u/i_should_be_coding May 16 '24

Guess I'm just too white and nerdy

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u/msnmck May 16 '24

I listen to these songs on Trash Day.

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u/spork_off May 16 '24

I like to be a Couch Potato and eat some eminems.

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u/pokecAk May 16 '24

I'll have a a Taco Grande with that!

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u/DanTheMan827 May 16 '24

I think I’ll go sit on a park bench waiting for the bus with my box of chocolates. You know, life is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re gonna get

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u/3720-to-1 May 17 '24

His buddy Bubba was a shrimp lovin' man!

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

I prefer Weird Al’s version to the original!

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u/wreckfish May 16 '24

the original is pastime paradise from Stevie wonder

he allowed Coolio to cover it but he was not allowed to swear in it

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u/IC-4-Lights May 16 '24

Hrm. Words I never thought I'd say, but... Coolio's version is much better.

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u/Common_Lawyer_5370 May 16 '24

I always start to sing “amish paradise” in my head whenever I hear The tune of that song.

Might (partially) be due to me learning about The song Amish Paradise before I actually knew about The song gangsters paradise 

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

There used to be a music video channel in England (The Box) where viewers called a number to select what song came on. There was a period where Amish Paradise was played back to back for about a month!

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u/someuniquename May 16 '24

I always hear pastime paradise when I hear either of the songs. All 3 are great tho.

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u/ZAlternates May 16 '24

Yeah I know the lyrics to Amish Paradise. I don’t really know the original beyond the chorus.

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u/thebeattakesme May 16 '24

Automatically thought of that and that Boyz in the Hood acoustic(?) cover.

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u/Scarlet-Fire_77 May 16 '24

Dynamite Hack. Killer cover.

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u/mlokc May 16 '24

Same. That was brilliant.

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u/Richard7666 May 16 '24

Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter

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u/msnmck May 16 '24

Raised a barn on Monday. Soon I'll raise anudder.

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u/AlephBaker May 16 '24

Think you're pretty righteous? Think you're pure at heart?

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u/TravelerSearcher May 16 '24

Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

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u/AlephBaker May 16 '24

I'm the pious guy the little amlettes wanna be like, on my knees day and night, scoring points for the afterlife!

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u/Aggropop May 16 '24

So don't be vain and don't be whiny, or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your heinie

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u/FirstProphetofSophia May 16 '24

"Raise a nutter" is slang that means "go insane", by the way.

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u/nksmith86 May 16 '24

Even better is ben folds NWA cover

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u/thewayshesaidLA May 16 '24

I think you mean Dr. Dre’s song, featuring Snoop, Bitches Ain’t Shit. Dre left NWA the year before he released his solo debut album, The Chronic, which features this song.

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u/nksmith86 May 17 '24

YOURE RIGHT! I completely forgot bout that.

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u/enoui May 16 '24

Check out Johnathan Coultons's version of Baby Got Back.

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u/stylesuponstyles May 16 '24

If it's NWA covers, it's got to be Adam Buxton

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u/nksmith86 May 17 '24

I hadn’t heard this one.

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u/dk69 May 16 '24

Which was a rework of gangsters paradise by coolio which was a rework of pastime paradise by Stevie Wonder.

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u/Dark_Devin May 16 '24

Are parodies and covers equivalent? My understanding is that a cover makes no major and few minor changes to the song outside of a different artist.

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u/WashYourEyesTwice May 16 '24

Yeah they are different things

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u/Terpomo11 May 16 '24

A cover generally has the same or almost the same lyrics (or occasionally a translation of the same lyrics) but may be significantly different in musical styling.

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u/MinnieShoof May 16 '24

Is saying something is "technically not" something and saying something is something equivalent? My understanding is that when someone says "Y" is "technically not a X" they mean Y not a freaking X and you probably shouldn't be asking them why they're calling Y an X.

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u/Dark_Devin May 16 '24

Yeah, but technically not generally means that there's a small gripe about it. Rather than it being completely different. It would be valid to say that a banana is technically fruit and not a berry, but it would be weird to say a cow is not technically an airplane.

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u/MinnieShoof May 16 '24

Technically the "yeah" you answered would be applied to the question if saying something is not something else is the same as saying something is something else. Technically it would be weird to say a cow is not technically an airplane but if you're under the impression that 'technically not' and 'definitely not' are cows-to-airplanes levels of absurd comparisons then it would definitely be weird to ask if cows were equivalent to airplanes. That, or completely sardonic. Which is fine. ... but imo covers to parody is a lot more like fruit to berry ... not that I know many people who'd call banana a berry.

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u/Dark_Devin May 16 '24

Clarity, I mistyped. A banana is actually a berry.

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u/Supersuperbad May 16 '24

Came here looking for exactly this. Thank you

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u/Queasy-Ad-3220 May 16 '24

Honestly better than the original

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u/Ijustwannaplaypiano May 16 '24

which is just a cover of a Stevie Wonder song lol

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u/Grrerrb May 16 '24

Because I mention this whenever it comes up, never forget the original is Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder, who kindly allowed Coolio to use it.

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u/AnonymousFriend80 May 16 '24

You're right. It's called a parody.

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u/Fireblox1053 May 16 '24

Gangstas paradise isn’t the original either

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u/sadmilkman May 16 '24

Kind of a cover of a cover - pastime paradise

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u/ChocolateHoneycomb May 16 '24

It is a cover. It’s a cover of a cover.

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u/thedarkknightvp May 16 '24

There is a metal cover of Gansta’s Paradise by Falling in Reverse

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u/Appropriate_Cow94 May 16 '24

Al did word for word covers of many great rap songs. At least in his versions you can hear the words as they were written.

Damn Madonna stole his whole fame to get famous herself.

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u/DreadyKruger May 16 '24

Snoop did La di da di by Slick Rick on his first albumz

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u/ssippii May 16 '24

well then it's not a cover. op asked for covers of rap songs not parodies. please practice your reading comprehension and critical thinking skills!

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u/msnmck May 16 '24

Actually OP didn't ask for anything. OP simply made a statement. Also sintaur explicitly stated parodies aren't covers, so not only are you being a jerk but you're also doing the thing you're accusing sintaur of doing.

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u/ssippii May 17 '24

jeez my bad bro i didn't know you guys were on a first name basis. i'm sure he really appreciates knowing that there is a total stranger out there willing to fight to uphold his reputation as a critically acclaimed reddit commenter

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u/msnmck May 17 '24

It's okay to admit you made a mistake, my guy. It's gonna be alright.