"You Can’t Rap" by Example

by Joey deVilla on February 9, 2007

I was amused by the single by Example titled You Can’t Rap, which sounds like a strage gene-splice of the Gorillaz and Fiddler on the Roof, peppered with Alison Moyet’s laugh from Yazoo’s Situation. I heard it earlier this week on Tom Robinson’s show on BBC 6 Music. Here are the lyrics to its chorus:

You can’t rap, my friend

You’re white and you’re from Fulham

Please put down the mic

There’s no way you can fool them

Don’t be stupid, you won’t get that far

Turn your back on hip-hop, Rob, and go and play guitar

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Anonymous 02.09.07 at 1:49 pm

See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY5A90dJvbI which is a rip on Lily Allen’s “Smile”.

Anonymous 02.09.07 at 2:31 pm

I prefer Weird Al. After all these years he still makes me laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0JkyaCrX0U

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