Revisiting Recovery puns: Best and Worst

[Raul]

Recovery is known for having 274 punchlines per song. In this thread, post what are your favorites and your least favorites.

Worst: "Standing on my monopoly board/that's means I'm on top of my game", 99% of Won't Back Down, "Just call me the ball sack, I'm nuts", "Stop playing with scissors and shit, and cut the crap"

Best: "You can still get roasted 'cause Marsh is not mellow"
"I don't need the fucking swine flu / to be a sick pig."

[SajN]

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[Raul]

inb4windowpane

I don't love it, but I don't think it's BAD.

[Ares]

My fav is "Now get off my dick/Dick's too short word for my dick/Get off my antidisestablishmentarianism, you prick".

The worst: "Now you get to watch her leave out the window/Guess that's why they call it window pain"

[Mr Evil]

Best - "fork was in the road, took the psycho path"

Worst - Every other one

[Mr Change]

There are several good ones, too, that people fail to mention because there are a lot of dumb ones as well that get all the attention.

[Rafael]

NA had some disgusting ones..

"Fuck the world, feed it beans, its gassed up"

"Like a 'fuck you' for Christmas, his gift is a curse"

"Quit playing with the scissors and shit, and cut the crap"

"These demons, these motherfuckers are doing jumping jacks now"

"Haters can make like bees, with no stingers and drop dead"

"Treat this roof like my daughters and raise it"

"Cause the way I feel, I'm strong enough to go to the club, or the corner pub and lift the whole liquor counter up...

Cause I'm raising the bar"

raising the bar



the bar




BAR


Out.

[csw621]

he's razing the bar because he doesn't need it, he's sober

[UofLCard]

Worst: window pain

End thread.

Best - "fork was in the road, took the psycho path"

Won't Back Down is kind of shaky, but that line is GOAT.

[mdemaz]

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I don't love it, but I don't think it's BAD.

fuck outta here

[EminemBase]

That Marsh is not mellow line is pretty dope

It's like he literally practiced in front of us. Because he hadn't done puns properly for a minute. He'd always sprinkled them very lightly and tongue-in-cheek as if ''this is shit... get it?'' but not since Infinite had he really full-on embraced the pun as a proper tool for lyricism.

Recovery does have some of the clumbsiest and most terrible I've heard, which is really weird considering it's EMINEM. We just weren't used to hearing him be so... shit. Like, we'd heard him be silly (Fack) or lazy (Rain Man) but never like "I'M TRYING" but then it actually just being bad or embarrassing.

It's shocking that IMO IMO IMO the greatest lyricist ever displays some of the worst lyricism ever in terms of crafting puns... he literally writes them... literally. He just writes the entire literal formation of an idea to get to a pun lmao, rather than actually writing a line which incorporates the concept of the pun.

BUT, there are some dope ones on dur too.

"You can get the dick! Just call me the ball-sack, I'm nuts; Michael Vick in this bitch dog, fall back ya mutts" is pretty fly as an opening line / string of associative language punzzzz.

What else. Hmm. Oh yeah:

"Who raps circles and forms pyramids around square lyricists?" >>>>>>>>>

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[Raul]

"Who raps circles and forms pyramids around square lyricists?" >>>>>>>>>

Oh, yeah, this one is dope too

[mdemaz]

recovery is shittier than encore

[Raul]

recovery is shittier than encore