Political reporters and regular citizens alike are constantly fact checking statements in the era of President Donald Trump. With fake news and false statistics proliferating at a pace like never before, HipHopDX felt it was appropriate to examine the many rappers who could have used a fact-checker in the studio.
From blatantly incorrect mathematics to mistaken identities, MCs have messed up a lot throughout Hip Hop history. Take a look at 17 of the most egregious errors, both new and old, that rappers have made on wax over the years. Also, make sure to leave a comment and let us know some of the examples that come to mind that didn’t make the list.
Kanye West — “Gettin’ It In”
“My apologies, are you into astrology, ’cause um, I’m tryna make it to Uranus.”
Astronomy must not be a part of the book of Yeezus.
Lil Yachty — “Peek A Boo”
“She blow that dick like cello.”
A cello is not a woodwind instrument, although Yachty knows that now.
Foxy Brown — “Affirmative Action”
“32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16/ Double it times three, we got 48/ Which mean a whole lot of cream/ Divide the profit by four/Subtract it by eight, we back to 16.”
Foxy started off well, then her math became a disaster.
KRS-One — “Hip Hop Speaks From Heaven”
“I see King Ad-Rock and rest in peace Nate Dogg”
KRS mixed up the Beastie Boys and named Ad-Rock, who is still alive, in a song about dead Hip Hop artists.
Lil Wayne — “Yes”
“Weezy F baby and the F is for phenomenal.”
I mean … c’mon.
The Notorious B.I.G. — “Ten Crack Commandments”
“Rule nombre uno…”
Nombre means name in Spanish. Biggie was looking for numero.
Warren G — “What’s Next”
“I say what’s next, what’s next, what’s N-X-E-T.”
Warren, you gotta make your layups.
Quavo – “pick up the phone”
“And I’m loving all races, hell nah don’t discriminize.”
Quavo’s using a word that hasn’t hit the Oxford Dictionary yet, even if we do get what he means.
Scarface — “Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me”
“And if I die then my child’ll be a bastard.”
A bastard is a child born out of wedlock. Face meant orphan here.
Common & Canibus — “Making A Name For Ourselves”
“I’m your worst nightmare squared, that’s double for those who ain’t mathematically aware.”
Apparently those who aren’t “mathematically aware” include both MCs and everyone else involved in the track.
Greg Nice — “Funky For You”
“Dizzy Gillespie plays a sax.”
No, Dizzy played the trumpet.
Jay Z — “It’s Hot (Some Like It Hot)”
“.38 revolve like sun around the Earth”
Other way around, Hov.
Master P — “Do You Know”
“Forget about Christmas, nigga, ’cause you ain’t gon’ even see New Year’s.”
Percy needs to take another look at the calendar.
Lil Fame — 1/2 & 1/2
“First family will lift that ass up like gravity.”
Gravity pulls you down, but perhaps M.O.P. can defy the law of gravity.
Chingy — “Balla Baby”
“I like them black, white, Puerto Rican or Haitian, like Japanese, Chinese or even Asian.”
Um, Japanese and Chinese people are also Asian. But alas, Filipino or Thai didn’t rhyme with Haitian.
Nelly — “E.I.”
“I’m a sucker for cornrows and manicured toes.”
Manicures are for hands. Pedicures are for feet.
Nas — “Can’t Forget About You”
“I go by N now, just one syllable.”
Nas is already one syllable. Shortening the name made no difference.
Got any other good ones? Let us know in the comments below.
That Nelly one about the manicured toes was the first one I thought of when I saw this article. What a moron!
That Master P song could work if he was to kill said person right after Christmas but before New Years
Masta P though. He went in too hard.
Jay-Z – Already Home .. “I’m an animal, Half man-half mammal.”
All camel lol
The Common one is especially ad because Canibus fuuuuuckiiiing washed Common using a great vocabulary.
CAM computers putin lol
First one I thought of if Jay-Z’s line off “They Don’t Love You No More”: “Haters wanna ball, let me tighten up my drawstring/ Wrong sport, boy, you know you soft as a lacrosse team”. Hov’s obviously never seen, played or both, a lacrosse game in his entire life. Them boys swing harder, have as fast of balls if not faster balls than MLB, running full speed with a bat and Jay calls them soft? HA! I’m a huge Jay fan but that line was soft lmao!
Sounds like you are talking cricket. Ain’t no fuckin bats in lacrosse. They use lacrosse sticks.
As an aside, Jay z is over rated as fuck
First, I think he meant soft because lacrosse players tend to be rich white kids but yeah, they’re big boys that aren’t afraid to scrap. Secondly, only a man (or kid) ignorant to the history of hip hop would say he’s overrated.
Or how bout soft rhymes with lacrosse…this is why ppl who dnt rap shouldn’t criticize lyrics because they sometimes just play with the sounds.
Not saying that it’s a good line I’m just explaining why he says what he said. And if you’re gonna say Jay is overrated you know nothing and we will both go our separate ways thinking the other is dumb AF
Da band (Fred) on why – I’m a star look up in the sky u need a microscope
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Wezzy f baby and the F is for phenomenal
Kanye- “Don’t like”- I was in too deep like Mekhi Phife. Think he meant Omar Epps.
Prolly meant paid in full nice try tho
Quick lesson in Kanye West line flubs:
Late, Late Registration
“Not even electives, not even prerequites? You mean I missed my major by a couple of seconds?”
The word He’s looking for is prerequisites.
Can’t Tell Me Nothing, Graduation
“Don’t fix your lips like collagen and say something when you gon end up apologing.”
I think you mean apologizing
Shit I Don’t Like, Cruel Summer
“I was In Too Deep like Mekhi Phife”
Umm, In Too Deep stars Omar Epps and LL Cool J. Mekhi doesn’t even make a cameo.
Black Skinhead, Yeezus
“I keep it 300, like the Romans
300 was about the Spartans. Sparta is a part of Greece. Wrong empire.
Just a sampler. He’s got more. Still one of my favorite artists though.
“I woke up out that coma 2001, bout the same time Dre dropped 2001”
He’s referring to the month…
2001 actually came out in 1999 so the first guy is right to have a problem with that line.
No the first 2001 is supposed to be a hospital room number. You wake up from a coma in the hospital.
Actually, he was shot in 2001. That’s what he’s talking about. However Dre dropped “2001” in 1999. Don’t know if he could be playing his PS2 in 1999 (in a song he mentions that’s what he was doing when he answered the door and got shot). I know lyrics bruh, don’t give me that weak ish you came with. Unless he went into 2 comas in his life, which I doubt, mofo got the year of an album release wrong, which is fine because it happens. But don’t act like I don’t know what I’m talking about.
This article heavily plagiarizes another
Trinidad James – “I don’t fuck with no snitches, so don’t tell me who tellin’.
Actually Trinidad, if you don’t want to fuck with them then you’re probably best off knowing who they are.
What about all rapper’s usage of double negatives?
Jack this idea from Hot 97 DX?? Lmaooooo good lord this site is off the chain. Yall even took some of the examples Ebro and crew gave.
I seriously heard half of these like a month ago on a Sirius XM radio show,.
Two squared is also two double.
Hahaha oh chit! I read da titel of diz and rite away I thought of dat Warren g NXET chit! Y’all sum foolz foe adding sum ol skool chit liek dat. Wuz bumpin dat liek tw2 weex ago doe. Real spit. I almost alwayz skip it doe cuz it fux up da vibe wen dat part come up doe. Real spit doe. West coast da best coast doe.
This one always threw me off…
Project Pat – Side 2 Side
“Killas on blow insane like a clepto”
Cleptomaniacs aren’t insane, they just steal shit..
Kanye West…
“I was In Too Deep like Maki Phife”
Chief Keef-I Don’t Like remix…
impossible is nothing, Nike flow – Nipsey
Read a REALLY similar article with the same entries. Hmmmm
If scarfaces wife is pregnant and he dies then the child will be born out of wedlock. Still having a mother means your a basterd child with no father but not an orphan per say
When rappers like the Jay and Nas lines make reality opposite….also and the gravity and the manicure lines … You say those need fact checking, what’s art for?
That one Black Eye Peas song where they spell tasty wrong?
Yo dogg. We need to bring these taxes down wit trump. U rollin’? Blacks need to go full trump like deep. Just let go.
Taxes down stock market up. Highest taxes cali lowest florida. Wisdom. U rollin’?
Wee just hit dat dow jones historic high boy. Go check it fool. Im so hiiiiigh
Right on time fo kd to bring one mo to sf. Beauty. Since 1978. Hardaway Mullin Webber Sprewell. Offense high scores. High…
Yall fools wait for june 2018 gotta buy stocks yall. Fast. Cause its goin to be a worldwide debt bublle. Ya dig. Save yo worseless ass
If u po’ and live in cali get da fuc out bruh. Told u once aint sayin twice ima dogg pound gangsta fool
Kanye’s 300, like the Romans line
If yall dont know yet im da king here. Darkness. Taxes down, fool. Im in fuccin tahiti. Obama wuz here a month ago. He rented his yacht….tax free. Im fo real bruh. Kd gonna bring it home
Whooz da man wit da masta plan? Taxes down. Fo our people
Kanye West : “Don’t Like (Remix)”
“They had me ‘In Too Deep’ like Mekhi Phife”.
…That was Omar epps bro…
Never thought about that
ReAchin’ with dat NAS like, maybe he meant Nasir
The Game “Dreams” It’s kinda hard to imagine/like Kanye West coming back from his fatal accident to beatmaking and rapping………Um, fatal means dead. So he resurrected like Jesus and that’s why they call him Yeezus?
The first thing I thought I was B.I.G. “Goin’ Back to Cali” where he cites Detroit’s 313 as a LA area code.
Also Big Sean “Up in Beni-Han-Han eating all the wontons. Benihana does not make wontons.
I don’t know what calendar y’all looking at but New Years comes before Christmas. Just saying. It’s the first day of the year. Lol
Rick Ross on Jay Z’s fuck with me you know I got it. He says “Reeboks on, I just do it”
“You keeping your composure like Gershwin” Nas Count Your Blessing: Distant Relatives. Gershwin was a composer.
In reference to Kanye’s astrology bar:
Astrology: the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world.
So yeah, his bar still makes sense…
New Years comes 12 months before Christmas…. Where ya’ll at?
Hell Rell on Top Gunna “believers wanna meet us. Cos they heard we walk on water like Jesus with the heaters” if only rugga had said: like Jesus did with Peter, it would have been epic line
On Mary J Blige’s “I Can Love You” Lil Kim says: “dippin on your ninja Honda with Taneisha and Rhonda”… Kawasaki makes Ninja, not Honda.
On Lil Kim’s “No Time” she says: “Stick u for ya cream n ya riches, Zha Zha Gabor, Demi Moore, Price Diane and all them rich bitches…” Lady Di was a princess.
Also Nas on “Sly Fox,” when he implied that News Corp owned YouTube
I was in too deep like Mekhi Phife
Whoever wrote this article ain’t got no brain.
Foxy brown clearly says profit, he ain’t talkin about the cost, and when talkin about master p’s track then ain’t nothing wrong if he wrote the track between Christmas and new years. I ain’t even going to bother to read the rest.
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Run DMC: I stood on stage, at live aid, all the people gave, and the poor got PAID. ?