Hip Hop Flubs

Hip hop is a culture of thieves, hooligans, and wannabes. It is also a genre of artists, visionaries, and geniuses. For its flaws, it has shown that artists have gotten it wrong on many fronts.

Whether it’s a complete lyric repeated throughout the song or some words that don’t quite match up with reality, these are the rappers who messed up a line due to negligence or to impel people to highlight a new way of looking at the world. Here are the Top Five Hip Hop Flubs.

5. “B.O.B.” by Outkast

Offending line: Like a million elephants or silverback orangutans…”

The superduo released their landmark album in between two other masterpieces. But even excellent works have flaws. This is a line that was supposed to highlight the strength and virility of the rapper’s prowess on the mic.

Sadly, he didn’t do the research about how there are only silverback gorillas. Though it fits with the rhyme scheme, it certainly doesn’t pass the test when it comes to zoology.

Flub rating: A Gorilla-Sized Goof

4. “Oh Boy” by Cam’ron and Juelz Santana

Offending line: “Put a shell in ya…”

Juelz was poised to take over the game. He was just a teenager but was thrusted into the limelight as part of the Diplomats.

Featured here on the Billboard Top 40 hit from the duo, Juelz didn’t take necessary measures to consider that a shotgun shell doesn’t actually enter the body. Now, some can argue that he was saying put a shell’s contents into a person, but that’s merely conjecture.

Flub rating: Shot

3. “Black Skinhead” by Ye

Offending Line: “I keep it 300 like the Romans…”

Now, it can be said that Ye has bigger problems to concern himself with than incorrect lyrics. However, he should still be taken to task for this 2013 travesty of a verse where he acknowledges the 2006 film 300 but all wrong. Somehow, Ye confused Sparta with Rome even though the two sites are over six hundred miles away from the other.

Again while this oversight pales in comparison to Ye’s recent troubles, it stands as a stark contrast where he was and where he is now.

Other people once again have defended the fact that the rapper merely wanted to fit the rhyme scheme. Either way, Ye was wrong about this and so many other things.

Flub rating: When Talking about Rome…Know History

2. “Yes” by Lil’ Wayne

Offending line: “The ‘F’ is for phenomenal

Wayne is a world renowned convicted criminal megastar who commits a crime here with this line. More people have lined up to defend this blatant disregard for the English language.

“Ph-” put together makes an “F” sound. Yes. And when it is used in proper nouns like Philadelphia or in everyday words like philodendron, the rule applies.

This, nonetheless, was not the case for Wayne. He is so cocky in this instance without ever checking a grammar book.

And people will still defend him. Those who have come forth to say that he’s so great that he can err on this scale. That’s a flaw right there. Online critics may point to the fact that the next bar sounds like “type-o.” That’s one mighty stretch.

Flub rating: ‘F’ is for Failure

1. “It’s Hot (Some Like It Hot)” by JAY-Z

Offending line: Thirty-eight revolve like the Sun ’round the Earth.”

The Jiggman should know better. As the best to have ever done it, he certainly could have afforded some classes on Nicolaus Copernicus.

The fact that he didn’t use his time to realize that the opposite is true, could be forgiven if he was working on closing another deal and securing his publishing.

Flub Rating: Astronomical Error