Understanding Rap: For the Indie Fan

Rap and indie don't often go together very often and despite the "indie rap" tag being surprisingly well populated, any puritan of either genre would have problems excepting those bands as accurate representations of the music they love. I've decided that I'm going to attempt to explain the story behind a popular rap song.

At the moment the top spot on the rap/hip-hop billboard charts is Jamie Foxx a man who once claimed that Fox is a four letter word and subsequently made appropriate changes to ensure he was correct. It does appear adding an extra 'x' to you name works miracles!



The words to his song Blame It can be found here, and after a quick read the writer appears to have some serious problems concerning very basic elements in a story.

So, the song is called Blame It, this raises 2 early questions,
1) who to blame
2) what they are to be blamed on
Despite rap having a reputation for nonsensical ramblings this is very clear from the start. 80's movies are being blamed on someone's pants falling down. the main offenders pictured below are Goose from Top Gun and the sci-fi classic Tron.



That of course isn't the end of the story, they've had a co-conspiritor which sounds to me like a particularly painful beverage, namely "ah-ah ah-Al-Co-Hol".

The story then takes a twist. By that i mean it reads like it was written by a drunk 4 year old, who had recently suffered a stoke. I worked through the kind of sentence structure that could only be demonstrated by somebody who is completely new to the idea of language, that a the story continues like this:

1) The guy is showing interest to a girl
2) The girl does not reciprocate.
3) like any red blooded rapper he takes the rejection well, assuming that she's easy and a lier.
4) Disturbingly he then concludes that no matter what she thinks, she will in fact end up doing what ever it is he wants to do.

Can we stop imagine for a second the kind of guy you would expect to follow these same steps.. here's a clue:



So what does our hero have in-store for us next? well he's not going to just jump the poor girl (probably because that wouldn't play to well in court). Instead the 3rd verse details how he's going to ensure that both of them are so drunk that in court he can probably plead diminished responsibility.
suddenly the true meaning of the song comes true, it's essentially documenting the defence for his inevitable prosecution, even going as far as to refer to witnesses by name. that is assuming T. Pain is a name and not simply the description of being scolded by a hot beverage.

I think i'll stick to indie myself. (unless someone presses charges)