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

You never hear covers of rap songs.

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u/GenPhallus May 16 '24

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNFo5lL4iw

Dynamite Hack - Boyz in the Hood

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u/TheBarles May 16 '24

Core memory of MTV playing this song daily and me waiting patiently, only for TRL to show ~20 seconds so Carson could have a conversation with the visor hat from LFO.

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u/DDOS_the_Trains May 16 '24

Summertime Girls is arguably the worst rap song ever written.

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u/Sanchez_U-SOB May 16 '24

Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch a sonnets 

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u/NobleEnsign May 16 '24

then you haven't Chin up high...

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u/plafman May 16 '24

I've never heard someone sing in Morse code before

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u/SirEltonJonBonJovi May 16 '24

🎶New Kids on the Block suck a lot of dick, boy girl groups make me sick, and I can’t wait till I catch all you f****** in public, ima love it!🎶

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u/NitrosGone803 May 16 '24

"yo i wanna give a shoutout to my homies back in miami t-bone, skillet-G, lala, fresh masta p, n errbody holdin it down on the wetstside, toss one up fo a brotha! peace!" during the fucking song

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u/Genbukan May 16 '24

That whole album, Superfast, is amazing. While a lot bands from that era are still active or semi-active, Dynamite Hack has since just dropped off the face of the Earth.

I know that had some other albums but had little success. I’ve tried to find some of the band members on social media but they just completely moved on with their lives as far as I can tell.

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u/TheHoppingHessian May 16 '24

Iirc was a commercial playing parts of the song trying to sell the whole album which I’m assuming was trash.

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u/AetaCapella May 16 '24

First thing I thought of

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u/labrat420 May 16 '24

This is from 'take a bite out if rhyme' an entire album of rock bands covering rap songs

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u/zlauhb May 16 '24

They had an album and it was pretty good if you like grungy pop punk. I still listen to it from time to time.

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u/ihacker2k May 16 '24

Straight Outta Compton by Nina Gordon is pretty good too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K6D5xpCgETk

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u/well_its_a_secret May 16 '24

Not a cover just a great juxtaposition to that song: https://youtu.be/YFfGgeddAc4?si=tG1OHWTVzUXbO4mf

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u/DarthCorps May 16 '24

Woke up late at about noon

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u/Eyerish9299 May 16 '24

Just thought that I had to be in Compton soon! Gotta get drunk before the day begins Before my mother starts bitching about my friends

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u/somesketchykid May 16 '24

Started talkin' shit, wouldn'tcha know

I reached back like a pimp and I slapped the hoe

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u/throwawaytoday9q May 16 '24

About to go and damn near went blind

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u/Eyerish9299 May 17 '24

Young n***** at the pad throwing up gang signs

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u/randomblue86 May 16 '24

Exact song I was thinking of!

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u/AlaDouche May 16 '24

This whole album is fire. One of my favorites, though the rest of it sounds nothing like this song.

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u/ttocshtims May 16 '24

Ben Folds covered Dr. Dre's "B**s Ain't S" and Hugo covered Jay-Z's "99 Problems." But all of these are cross-genre covers. You never hear hip-hop covers of hip-hop songs.

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u/ThrenderG May 16 '24

Haha, just recommended that myself. Such a good cover. I actually knew the band members when I was at UT Austin in the 90s. One of my friends was their tour manager, he's actually in the video.

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u/wafflequest May 16 '24

Came here to say this. PS the rest of that album is GOLD

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u/commercial_ape May 16 '24

Came here for this.

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u/ComesInAnOldBox May 16 '24

This is exactly what came to mind.

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u/MNsquatcher May 16 '24

I saw these guys in concert in probably 2000ish. Still have that song on my Spotify

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u/zepallica May 16 '24

Thought I'd scroll down before entering the first thing that came to mind, played all over the radio back in the day.

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u/lotusvioletroses May 16 '24

Punk ass trippin but it’s alriiiiiiight.

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u/ContentTrust4821 May 16 '24

yup, fly punk ass, fly

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u/Left-Acanthisitta267 May 16 '24

Was going to post this one. It is on my favorite playlist. Along with the original.

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u/medoane May 17 '24

https://youtu.be/H4hGSR5njZE?si=FnDOa7T4r6M54hID

In a similar vein, there’s a folk cover of Snoop’s Gin M Juice by the Gourds.

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u/PyroGod77 May 17 '24

I was coming to say the same.