by EminemBase » May 18th, '13, 08:39
"There's too much at steak and to find someone this raw on a beat is rare" < v.nice.
"I'll be nicer to women when Aqua Man drowns and the Human Torch starts swimming"
"Who forms pyramids and raps circles around square lyricists?"
"Dick's too short of a word for my dick; get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick!"
"I'm from De-troit city, you live in ani-mo-sity, that's a fucked up State to be in..."
"I'm the cousin of Godzilla - cause i spit fire, and my dick's draggin'"
"I'll be screaming on these fucking whores 'till I'm hoarse!!"
"You gon' need a priest, at least three swords
A license to ill from the Beastie Boys, three Ouija boards
A squeegee and please be warned
Don't ask what the squeegee's for"
< This one is not an actual pun (apart from the play on the BB album title obv), but a comical punchline, and genuinely funny. This is a sign he's getting his true humour back, not just relying on tactics or trying to shock you... that phrasing is vintage brilliance.
He's come out with some downright awful lines BUT, he's also come out with some pretty genius ones and continuations of wordplay where he'll stay within a theme (such as on "Echo" with the fork / spoon) in more detailed ways than most, and he makes it smooth and comical...
He's definitely gotten better and better at it...
A lot of puns are dumb, it's hard to make them cool as the underlying premise of implying you're clever for finding a double use of a word is slightly condescending and embarrassing, it's like begging to sound smart over something so primarily easy BUT, some of the ones he's come out with are pretty genius and unique to him and his style, and not just ones others come out with.