History LyricalDissonance / HipHop

* LupeFiasco creates songs that are darker than most, but he does have the occasional bright beat combined with {{Anvilicious}} lyrics.
* How many Lil Wayne songs have you listened to? Go back and relisten.
* Eminem has constantly had to answer to opposition who criticize him for his lyrics because many kids listen to him. His comedic voice in some of his earlier raps did not exactly help his case, even though he constantly said that his music WAS NOT for kids (even during the songs).

* HelloProject shuffle group SALT5 released only one song, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtjTbRTuT9k "GET UP RAPPER"]], which is obviously a rap song. However, the lyrics are about such things as wanting to eat banana chips, wearing beige knickers and how women "blossom beautifully".

* {{Eminem}}'s "Superman" has a nice soft beat and sounds like a standard romance ballad and the lyrics lead you to believe that at first.
--> Eminem: I know what you wanna hear...
-->'Cuz I know you want me baby I think I want you too...
--> Girl: I think I love you baby...
--> Eminem: I think I love you too...
-->I'm here to save you girl
-->Come be in Shady's world
-->I wanna grow together
-->Let's let our love unfurl
-->You know you want me baby
-->You know I want you too
-->They call me Superman
-->I'm here to rescue you
-->I wanna save you girl
-->come be in Shady's world...
--> Girl: Oh boy you drive me crazy...
--> Eminem: Bitch, you make me hurl
** Also includes such wonderful lines like
--> Superman aint savin shit, girl you can jump on Shady's dick
--> Bitch if you died, wouldn't buy you life
-->But I do know one thing though
-->Bitches they come, they go/Saturday through sunday monday/Monday through sunday yo/Maybe i'll love you one day/Maybe we'll someday grow/Till then just sit your drunk ass on that fuckin runway hoe...
** And let's not forget "My Name Is", also by Eminem. It has an upbeat tune, and Eminem begins it in a friendly, somewhat silly voice...while talking about things like sticking nails through his eyelids and trying acid. Not to mention either stapling his teacher's nuts to a sheet of paper, or assaulting said teacher to get a better grade (depends if it's the clean version or the original).
** "My Fault" is another example. The lyrics describe Em accidentally giving too many mushrooms to a girl at a party, [[spoiler:who later dies after drinking lysol]], but they're set to a dance-y R&B-like beat you might hear in a club.

* Fatlip's "What's Up Fatlip" qualifies. The instrumental sounds nice and cheerful, but then you get to the lyrics:
-->Feelin' downtrodden
-->Fresh kid turned rotten
-->I can't believe I'm like E then I'm coppin
-->Over the years seems like I'm gettin' dumber
-->Reminiscing to a time when I was younger with a hunger
-->Full a dreams, determination, self-esteem
-->But now it seems they hesitate to be on my team
-->You know the routine, when you winnin' and grinnin'
-->All up in your face, like they was which you from the beginnin'
-->But on the flipside,
-->When you washed up like a riptide
-->Fools clown 'bout how you slipped and let shit slide

-->Fools clown 'bout how you slipped and let shit slide

--> "If what they say is that nothing is forever, then what makes love the exception? Why are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here?" (Yall' don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance...)

* {{Eminem}}'s "Superman" has a nice soft beat and sounds like a standard romance ballad and the lyrics lead you to believe that at first

--> Girl: oh boy you drive me crazy...

* "Fuck It All" by ChildishGambino may seem catchy and upbeat at first. However, in the song, he discusses his sadness and even brings up suicide.

* Black Box's "Everybody Everybody" is the upbeat and cheery sounding song about a woman lamenting leaving a cheating partner who cared less about her than she him. It's exemplified best in the spirited "Sad and free!" she sings at the end of each verse.

* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony's famous song "1st of tha Month", because of it's chorus and somewhat somber beat, seems as if it's about the sadness of having to be on welfare and rejoicing when you get the check that allows you to survive. The music video seems to reinforce this view. In reality, the song is about how drug dealers make the most money on the first of the month because that's when crack addicts get their welfare checks, and how dealers spend said money on partying and living it up.

* BoneThugsNHarmony's famous song "1st of tha Month", because of it's chorus and somewhat somber beat, seems as if it's about the sadness of having to be on welfare and rejoicing when you get the check that allows you to survive. The music video seems to reinforce this view. In reality, the song is about how drug dealers make the most money on the first of the month because that's when crack addicts get their welfare checks, and how dealers spend said money on partying and living it up.

* Grandmaster Flash classic "The Message" has a very upbeat tune and lyrics like this:

** This is actually done intentionally; the song is about him [[StepfordSmiler putting on a guise of happiness while keeping his sadness inward.]]

* BoneThugsNHarmony famous song "1st of tha Month", because of it's chorus and somewhat somber beat, seems as if it's about the sadness of having to be on welfare, and rejoicing when you get the check that allows you to survive. The music video seems to reinforce this view. In reality, the song is about how drug dealers make the most money on the first of the month because that's when crack addicts get their welfare checks, and how dealers spend said money on partying and living it up.

* ''When I Was a Youngster'' by Rizzle Kicks is a happy, upbeat tune all about the author's disappointment at his failure to fulfill any of his childhood dreams due to his sense of ambition being eroded by his drinking.

* "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingdom is a cheerful, nostalgic ballad about a dying romance.

* Afroman's "Because I Got High"'s chilled-out rhythm makes it popular among stoners, even though the singer is listing all the awful things that happened to him because of weed. "I lost my kids and wife, because I got high; I messed up my entire life, 'cos I got high..."

* "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingdom is a cheerful, nostalgic ballad about a dying romance.

--> ''And I say "coolin'"?''

-->''Beside the fact my voice is wack,''
-->''Clowns is runnin' around, talkin' 'bout I smoke crack''
-->''Ain't got no homies that got my back''
-->''Yeah I'm a brotha, but some times I don't feel black''
-->''My girl is white, my game ain't tight''
-->''Niggas who ain't seen me in a while be like "Dude, you aight?"''

* The French rap group Sniper has a song called "Nique le système" (Fuck the system) that discusses the CrapsackWorld of the poor neighborhoods and political atmosphere the artists grew up in, but the beat is a rather pretty violin loop and the chorus has a catchy melody that contrasts with the violence of the lyrics. Of course, if you speak French it's rather hard to ignore the title and lines like "he who sows hate will reap fire, because whether you burn them or throwing in the Seine, our young people have rage in their veins."

* "Fuck It All" by ChildishGambino may seem catchy and upbeat at first. However, in the song, he discusses his sadness and even brings up suicide.

* Lupe Fiasco