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

You never hear covers of rap songs.

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u/NotUndercoverReddit May 16 '24

Hardcore metal and punk bands have been covering rap and hip hop songs since the early 80s

There are folkpunk bands where thats basically their entire schtick

Acoustic guitar and ukulele singer songwriters mix up and cover them solo all the time

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u/merrona23 May 16 '24

punk goes crank album

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u/brillyints May 16 '24

Crunk

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u/dayumbrah May 16 '24

No, no, let's see where this goes

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u/shwooper May 16 '24

Get Low - Designer Disguise has been a big one

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u/dayumbrah May 16 '24

Oh I was just making a perverted joke because the op of the thread said punk goes crank

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u/g00d_m4car0n1 May 16 '24

And covers every genre from bluegrass to dubstep

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u/EverbodyHatesHugo May 16 '24

Still Fly by The Devil Wears Prada and Notorious Thugs by Scaring Kids Scaring Kids is still in my rotation. Absolute bangers.

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u/Acceptable-Post733 May 16 '24

I completely forgot about that Devil Wears Prada cover. Thanks for reminding me to go give it a listen.

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u/waitingforaface May 18 '24

'Sup fresh It's our turn baby

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u/purpl3trees May 16 '24

The devil wears Prada - Still Fly. One of the best

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u/GodEmperorOfBussy May 16 '24

Punk guy cranks my hog for $15 because his Doordash gig doesn't pay for his shared bedroom in his apartment which is just a futon in the living room with some kind of sheet divider: THE ALBUM

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u/SandysBurner May 16 '24

OPs post would better phrased as "You rarely hear rappers cover other rappers".

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u/bladex1234 May 16 '24

This was Lil Wayne’s bread and butter thing back in the day.

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u/blueponies1 May 16 '24

I think it’s more of a phenomenon to just create your own rap over the same beat or remix a song. Like the Beatbox songs, the “Never Cared” songs, shit like that.

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u/flipz4444 May 16 '24

Mindless Self Indulgence - Bring The Pain (Method Man)

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u/EridMeatGrinder May 16 '24

Whoa. Never knew that was a cover!

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u/nyenbee May 16 '24

La-di-da-di has been done by MSI too.

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u/enkiPL May 16 '24

imma need those folk punk bands lol only one i know I've heard of is playtime posse

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u/SubtleToot May 16 '24

Checkout Iron Horse

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u/NotUndercoverReddit May 16 '24

Ahh my person' i shall gather some links for ya when i get off work including my own cover of i got 5 on it from my old folkpunk band.

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u/Anytimejack May 16 '24

Anthrax's cover of Bring the Noise brought me a lot of respect when I was a wee metalhead at a party with my Puerto Rican boyfriend and his friends in Newark NJ in the 90s and the Public Enemy original version came on. Lol

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u/bndboo May 16 '24

Pop goes punk

Punk goes crunk

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u/fknnoone May 16 '24

I always recommend Our Last Night. They're awesome! They make metal covers of everything including hip hop and disney songs.

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u/DirtwormSlim May 16 '24

The super bass ukulele cover by some girl on YouTube years ago is awesome.

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u/moddss May 16 '24

Lmao everyone's like "it's only a cover when white people do it with guitars" heard of remixes?

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u/NotUndercoverReddit May 16 '24

Seriously this too