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Let us "rap" with Victorian Diction

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Each day I find myself struggling to obtain financial gains and to prove my prowess to the ladies

    Hunter on
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    ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    A gentlemen bearing the sobriquet of X will deliver the package in a timely fashion, even if pushed to the limits of his capacity to sally forth.

    Zoel on
    A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
    However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
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    XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    La Di La Di My company and I enjoy festivities
    We seldom are the cause of mischief nor do we annoy others

    Xaquin on
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    cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    My dear madam, why must you perform in such a manner? I simply wish to treat you favourably.

    You would decline a gentleman's offer with a posterior so defined?
    Why would you desire such a thing, my love?
    Why would you desire, desire such a thing?

    Remain entwined in martial status with a boorish lout so uncultured,
    why would you desire such a thing, my love?
    Why would you desire, desire such a thing?

    I have observed how you shine, it is apparent upon your visage.
    I ponder if you are aware of your pending disposal.

    I desire to elevate you as royalty with myself in his position,
    so that you may return his jewelry and the means of entry to his domicile.

    You have told that gentleman that you require distance;
    a gentleman is an object you need not pursue.

    I desire to convey affection upon your pelvic region,
    resulting in melodic resonance and appropriate quivering.

    Call upon my person at court if you desire a means of retreat,
    I possess a residence with secure grounds, in my presence you are secure.

    A bound horse, carriage, maintained by rider,
    A vast amount of riches encased within, what will it require?

    This is an opportunity you must claim, the time for delay is past
    With a verbal conveyance we depart anon for this ballad is true

    This is trust from on high, not an erroneous claim
    How is it that which breeds sadness forces you to remain?


    You would decline a gentleman's offer with a posterior so defined?
    Why would you desire such a thing, my love?
    Why would you desire, desire such a thing?

    Remain entwined in martial status with a boorish lout so uncultured,
    why would you desire such a thing, my love?
    Why would you desire, desire such a thing?

    (I did write that, I just think it looks nicer in quotes.)

    cj iwakura on
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    MetacortexMetacortex The Prettiest Zombie Coeur d'CoeursRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I have procured promiscuous women to attend my needs in varying realms that have been numerically ordered to allow for ease of telephonic communication.

    Metacortex on
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    XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Lumped upon my being are four score and nineteen conundrums, however, a harlot be not one of them

    Xaquin on
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    TridentTrident Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I require no exquisitely composed solicitation towards members of the female sex,
    I remain dutifully focused on the task at hand.
    I demand of my harem:
    "Wench, enter my carriage with haste."
    My means of transportation is vastly superior to my colleagues',
    As such, when I find a woman whom I find desirable I simply utter:
    "Wench, enter my carriage with haste."

    Trident on
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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I spy you carousing around the city with the woman I adore
    In response, I bite my thumb at thee

    Antimatter on
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    Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Antimatter wrote: »
    I spy you carousing around the city with the woman I adore
    In response, I bite my thumb at thee

    :^:

    Sweeney Tom on
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    StarcrossStarcross Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I am expressing myself to the full extent of which I am capable
    and now I find myself imprisoned in the gaol
    because there are those whose views on how I do things differ from my own.
    I recover from my inebriation and pray in the manner of one of the pagan religions of the Orient
    I speak in my own inimitable style, the method of which is inherited from my father, and his father before him


    I may or may not add to this later. (It is harder than it looks)

    Starcross on
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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    anti that was pretty great

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    danke

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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    pray lay down some percussion:

    Below the thunders of the upper deep;
    Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
    His antient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
    The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
    About his shadowy sides: above him swell
    Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
    And far away into the sickly light,
    From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
    Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
    Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
    There hath he lain for ages and will lie
    Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
    Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
    Then once by man and angels to be seen,
    In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

    AMP'd on
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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    : \

    Antimatter on
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    disregard the constabulary

    AMP'd on
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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    there we go

    Antimatter on
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    but for real, in english class we turned the kraken into a rap

    it works incredibly well

    AMP'd on
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    liberate the earl of sweatshirt

    AMP'd on
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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    william stickers is uncensurable

    Antimatter on
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    KazakaKazaka Asleep Counting SheepRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Partake in fruity fluids, for I possesses quantities sufficient for sharing,
    and lo, these cogitations are set in the city's center,
    I spent my youth 'pon footpaths wherein I ascertained how to speak inner city dialects
    and then instructed on making unscrupulous deals in New York

    Kazaka on
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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    AMP'd wrote: »
    liberate the earl of sweatshirt

    every time i listen to tyler's album i love it even more

    take this shit to school.

    redhead on
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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    also i am so tired of the shit the OP is about

    yes white people we get it jeez

    redhead on
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    ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    What shit am I about, pray tell?

    Obviously, on a meta level, this is about my beard-envy for Drew Toothpaste. If I was making the accusation that white people couldn't rap I don't think I would have translated Eminem but okay.

    Zoel on
    A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
    However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    nah just this dang internet "translate those black people" thing rubs me the wrong way for some reason

    it's ok tho don't take it seriously i didn't really read past the title before i got too excited about a chance to talk about OF to keep going anyway

    redhead on
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    ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I say, good sir, it seems as if you called me out and then retracted your sentiment as if it was never there in the first place!!!!! I was so excited and yet now I AM THIS MAD ::::::

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    <3

    e: Also I think this kind of works the opposite of how you are seeing it, but I can understand why you would have that opinion. From my perspective, when you try to translate an artists work into another medium, whether it's from one actual language to another, just removing slang, or whatever, it becomes clear that the artist actually did choose his words carefully and that his work is far superior to your translation in just about every way. That's not to say that whatever you make is devoid of value, but frequently, as is the case with the one I quoted, it makes you appreciate the song in a different way than you had previously because it highlights some of its aspects that may not have been readily apparent at first blush.

    A good example of this is the chatlogs in MSPA. For a while some people were annoyed with characters B3C4US3 TH3Y T4LK3D L1K3 TH15 or liike thiis or whatever, but gradually it became clear why those typing conventions were employed, and people stopped asking for ways to 'translate' it out, because it was just an inseparable part of their character.

    Zoel on
    A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
    However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    redhead wrote: »
    nah just this dang internet "translate those black people" thing rubs me the wrong way for some reason

    this was my gut reaction to rapgenius

    but then, wait, it turns out rapgenius is a great, funny, insightful website most of the time

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    my only problem with rapgenius initially was that it seemed like "cheating," esp. for das racist

    i mean let's be real there's no other way i'm gonna understand more than 1/3 of what's going on in, say, nutmeg

    but then i realized yeah it owns so fuck it

    redhead on
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I mean, a lot of lyrics don't really need explanation

    but those that do, I appreciate the work that these people have put into telling me how witty rappers are

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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVwnZMAgpT8


    give me a moment or two please sirs

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    ZyrelaxZyrelax Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Perforce our entire tenure upon this mortal coil has herewith been spent
    in a state of being sublime to those members of a base congregation of hoodlums and footpads.

    Zyrelax on
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVwnZMAgpT8


    give me a moment or two please sirs

    that is the sound of mine necklace
    and then remark upon my raps, akin to "it was most unexpected?"
    it is mine necklace jingling

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    Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    If the wench displays an unacceptable amount of disrespect, release your cufflinks, as if it they were ablaze, release your cufflinks, as if they were ablaze.

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    The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Quoting Psalm 23:4, yea I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
    I have paused on this ocassion to assess my path in life and realize that perhaps my time on God's earth is now fleeting.
    Admittedly much of my time of repast and leisure has been spent cajoling and carousing with unsavory characters and partaking of the devil's drink
    In fact, even the woman from whose bosom I leapt has lost faith in my actions and fears I have turned away from the path of righteousness and fine moral upstanding as my mind has been turned by vapours most foul.
    I have always sought to be a gentlemen, but never have I allowed an undeserved insult against my good name to go unpunished or without rebuke.
    To be treated like a beast living in squallor, such talk is most unbecoming and quite bold of you sir
    I would highly suggest that you watch the manner in which you speak and mind where you step as the terrain both literal and metaphysical is quite treacherous.
    If you are not careful with your behaviors or your accomplices with theirs, the constable might be in needs of summoning as their is sure to be a disturbance that would require his duties
    It is with deepest apologies that I must be you adieu but this evening I have other engagements which I must fulfill
    In my formative years I saw myself becoming of age through the shadow and smoke of the flintlock and tinder
    Many of the younger generation have sought to emulate my actions so that they in turn may perchance share a similar lifestyle as myself
    I find myself in reflective prayer, repentant on my knees every evening as the sun casts long shadows and night watch begins to make the rounds
    Quite often I speak to God in hushed tones to the soft flicker and glow of a tallow candle


    We have had the misfortune of living most of our lives in a squallid gin-soaked paradise
    Several of my companions have been summoned before the magistrate and accorded time in the local stocks once or twice as we have spent most of our lifetimes in a squallid gin-soaked paradise

    The Otaku Suppository on
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    MrDoctorProfessorMrDoctorProfessor Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    There is to be found no greater jubilation than those jubilations which are put forth by those who have settled in the Pacific Coastal regions of these United States because said jubilations occuring in the Pacific Coastal regions of the United States never cease.

    MrDoctorProfessor on
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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Zoel wrote: »
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    NO

    NO

    NOOOOOOOO

    LOOK AWAY, BIG BABY JESUS

    Calamity Jane on
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    KazakaKazaka Asleep Counting SheepRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVwnZMAgpT8


    give me a moment or two please sirs

    song is so gooooooood

    Kazaka on
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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzCukmO4fhg


    I started on this but I could not for the life of me finish

    Tommy2Hands on
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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Forsooth? You mean this weave is not a continued praise of my verse encapsulating my need to become the unquestionable champion? The entirety of your entire dictation has been to ridicule of the colored races' rap diction? My disappointment has become palpable and I am dismayed.

    RoyceSraphim on
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzCukmO4fhg


    I started on this but I could not for the life of me finish

    this is my favorite das racist song

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    AirAir Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    have any of you guys seen any battle rapping?
    i just saw a little over the last few days
    its a bit too confrontational but thats basically the point
    just two dudes talking shit to each other creatively

    these dudes are pretty good for example

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O54dRgTqv04&feature=related

    Air on
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