Saturday, March 13, 2010

Pro-Marriage Rap Song

I did a Google search for "pro-marriage rap song."

The outcome? "No results found." In the whole internet.
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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Guess you'll just have to pen one yourself.

2:39 PM, March 13, 2010
Gruntled said...

Not my genre.

If you pen one, though, I would be happy to study it.

2:44 PM, March 13, 2010
Black Sea said...

Well, I'm not much of a rap fan, but I was intrigued by your Google search, so decided to try one of my own, and came up with a contender (sort of): Nas' "Getting Married."

I'll copy a few of the lines suitable for a family-friendly blog:

"I want a son to greet every mornin'
Daughter and more sons tickle my feet
Wife smilin', tellin' me it's time to eat. I'm gettin' married . . .

It was my dream for my queen to put a ring on the ride
Even Martin Luther King had a fling on the side
That's what the negative ones say
Knew my wedding would be one day but quickly is this day"


The rest of the lyrics are perhaps more in the vein of conventional street poetry, and may be found here.

3:11 AM, March 14, 2010
Rachel Skaggs said...

I'm sad that the image wouldn't format correctly! Still funny though!!

6:17 PM, March 14, 2010
Gruntled said...

Black Sea:

Nas is accepting the rules of marriage reluctantly, and, as you say, is still pre-justifying adultery.

9:18 PM, March 14, 2010
Rebecca said...

Now if you google "pro marriage rap song" the Gruntled Center blog is the first hit. Hilarious.

9:16 AM, March 15, 2010
randy said...

gruntled, your search skills leave much to be desired,...

there's 'let's get married' by Jagged Edge. quite a good song, btw...not 'rap' as such but well w/in the funky/r n' b domain.

google it, give it a listen read the lyrics.

10:17 AM, March 15, 2010
Gruntled said...

Randy, while I like the sentiment of "Let's Get Married," every source I see calls Jagged Edge an R & B group, rather than rap.

10:54 AM, March 15, 2010
Gruntled said...

Another rapper, Paul Wall, said "There are so many (married) people out there that are ashamed of it... specifically rappers. They don't want people to know they're married, because they think it will taint their record sales or girls won't like them."
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/paul-wall-calls-for-rappers-to-celebrate-married-life_1078800

10:55 AM, March 15, 2010
Brett said...

I know you're trying to make a point, but it seems like you could mention this, too. It gets at your research method, if not your argument.

http://bit.ly/cZxXuq

1:58 AM, March 16, 2010
Gruntled said...

Brett, that is an interesting link.

On Saturdays I post humorous items, and that was all I was really going for here. The Google search result was humorous side effect of our class' search for appropriate songs to illustrate the various concepts we have studied.

7:58 AM, March 16, 2010

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