History Main / PissTakeRap

* Music/{{Anthrax}} were probably one of the first to do this in the mid 80s with "I'm the Man." They would later cover/duet Public Enemy [[note]]the vocal track from the original version was sampled with Public Enemy's blessing, but Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian takes a verse for himself[[/note]] and cover the Beastie Boys (along with remaking I'm The Man ('91)).

* Rappin' Duke [[note]] real name Shawn Brown[[/note]] with his eponymous OneHitWonder single from 1984: 6 minutes of spoofing BoastfulRap in a Creator/JohnWayne impression, with the hook being a rhythmic approximation of Wayne's distinctive laugh ("da-haw, da-haw, da-ha-ha-ha-ha-haw"). Now possibly better known for a semi-ShoutOut in Music/NotoriousBIG's "Juicy" (Biggie seemed to be referencing it as an example of how the public didn't take hip hop seriously at first).

* In season 2 of ''Series/LookAroundYou'' there is a rare example of this being done by a black man. Antony Carmichael, a profiteroles chef, painfully awkwardly introduces 1980's Britain to the world of rap music.

** A sketch has guest star Music/GarthBrooks considering a DealWithTheDevil (Creator/WillFerrell with horns and red face-paint) in exchange for music and lyrics to a hit song to kick-start his pop-music career. The Devil comes up with several songs, only for Brooks to tell him [[TheDevilIsALoser they all suck]]. Finally, in desperation, Lucifer half-heartedly launches into rap before giving up.

** The rivalry between the football players in the East/West Bowl heats up when the players from the east produce a BoastfulRap video. It is [[StylisticSuck awkwardly-edited]], [[BadBadActing poorly-performed]], and mostly consists of the players [[OldSchoolIntroductoryRap introducing themselves]]. When the players from the west see it, they respond with their own rap. It has higher production values, but their rapping is just as bad... until Dan Smith the white (and implicitly-Mormon) player from BYU appears. [[StereotypeFlip He's amazing]].[[note]]The actor is lip-syncing to vocals by Peele, removing any doubt that the rest is StylisticSuck.[[/note]]

** A sketch from about a decade earlier had guest star Music/GarthBrooks selling his soul to the Devil (Creator/WillFerrell with horns and red face-paint) in exchange for music and lyrics to a hit song to kick-start his pop-music career. The Devil comes up with several songs, only for Brooks to tell him they all suck. Finally, in desperation, Lucifer half-heartedly launches into rap before giving up.

I'm the most evil rapper in the U.S.A. \\

** Another sketch from about the same era had Ferrell impersonating Music/RobertGoulet covering a number of rap songs in a "lounge-act" style. His version of Sisqo's "Thong Song" goes "Girl, that dress is so [[NoIndoorVoice SCANDALOUS]]... and you know... another [[RefugeInAudacity NIGGER]] couldn't handle it!"
** The Blizzard Man, a recurring character by Creator/AndySamberg's. This rapper is framed as a LivingLegend and hired by assorted black artists (usually the musical guest of the episode) to rap on their albums. He comes across as genuine until he starts rapping, where he's an ''extremely'' white doofus. Everyone thinks its awful except the musical guest.

* Subverted in the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Rapper," as Monk tries to deliver the summation for a crowd at a tribute concert. They boo him off the stage, so [[Music/SnoopDogg Murderuss]] steps on the stage and raps the summation.

** A sketch from about a decade earlier had guest star Music/GarthBrooks selling his soul to the Devil (Creator/WillFerrell with horns and red face-paint) in exchange for music and lyrics to a hit song to kick-start his pop-music career. The Devil comes up with several songs, only for Brooks to tell him they all suck. Finally, in desperation, Lucifer half-heartedly launches into "I'm the Devil, / And I'm here to say, / I'm the most evil rapper in the U.S.A. / All my homies and my bitches, / They say "Hey HEY"... before finally giving up.

** Creator/AndySamberg's recurring character Blizzard Man is hired by assorted black artists (usually the musical guest of the episode) to rap on their albums. He comes across as genuine until he starts rapping, where he's ''extremely'' white. Everyone thinks its awful except the musical guest.
** Shy Ronnie, also played by Creator/AndySamberg in Digital Shorts. It's hard for a vocalist to be impressive next to Music/{{Rihanna}}, but [[ShrinkingViolet Ronnie]] is impressively awful. He looks dorky, stares at the floor, and shuffles awkwardly. His rapping is an unintelligible and near-inaudible mumble into the mic. Rihanna's attempts to encourage him are no help. It is inexplicably {{Subverted}} when she leaves: once he is sure Rihanna is gone Ronnie becomes a lot more confident and competent, as if he was keeping his ability a secret from her.

* This happens a lot on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', especially with Creator/GregProops and sometimes Creator/TonySlattery. Then there's Creator/ColinMochrie's shout... singing... style.

--->'''Ryan:''' [[LampshadeHanging I try to rap, I really try\\
But I can't 'cause I'm just a white guy.]]

** The rivalry between the football players in the East/West Bowl heats up when the players from the aast produce a BoastfulRap video. It is [[StylisticSuck awkwardly-edited]], [[BadBadActing poorly-performed]], and mostly consists of the players [[OldSchoolIntroductoryRap introducing themselves]]. When the players from the west see it, they respond with their own rap. It has higher production values, but their rapping is just as bad... until Dan Smith the white (and implicitly-Mormon) player from BYU appears. [[StereotypeFlip He's amazing]].[[note]]The actor is lip-syncing to vocals by Peele, removing any doubt that the rest is StylisticSuck[[/note]]

** Dean Pelton ''intends'' to deliver one of these, as he dresses up in a peanut-bar costume to sing a cheesy and inoffensive rap to the teachers in apology about how their next paychecks are going to be delayed. It's subverted, however, as he gradually starts getting into it and gets angrier and more passionate, until he's eventually bellowing out a very real and very angry political rap about how Obama's education policies are failing the college. And then when he catches himself, [[OutOfCharacterMoment he reacts with genuine terror and confusion about what happened]] and runs away crying. (Incidentally, if the reactions of some of the characters are any indication, apparently even the cast members [[EnforcedMethodActing weren't expecting that to happen]].)
** In the first season finale, a very drunk Professor Duncan takes to the stage at a school event and launches into an awkward impromptu rap before Pelton snatches the microphone out of his hands.
--> '''Prof. Duncan:''' My name is Ian Duncan and I'm here to say / I'm going to rap to the beat in a rapping way / I've got a real big penis and I drink lots of tea...

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' implies that the titular celebrity did this during TheNineties. Mercifully, it is not shown: in flashback, one of the crew of the ShowWithinAShow implies they will let [=BoJack=] rap if they can think of a follow-up to the opening line "My name is [=BoJack=] Horseman and I'm here to say:".

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has OG Loc, who actually manages to have a rap career despite being a horrible rapper, mainly by having the protagonist sabotage his rivals.

While the racial objection is rarely played straight anymore, it can be {{Subverted}} for a satisfying StereotypeFlip: a character who doesn't look like a stereotypical rapper reveals they are ''amazing'' at it. If a rapper is [[{{Adorkable}} undeniably and unabashedly dorky]] but doesn't let it interfere with an enthusiastic performance, it may qualify as {{Nerdcore}}. Compare AWildRapperAppears, which may make you laugh in surprise at how unexpected it is.

The most obvious is that the wannabe-rapper is simply ''bad''. Rap is a challenging act that demands lyrical skill, rhythm, wit, and charisma -- and wow, does this idiot not have ''any'' of that. Expect lots of [[OldSchoolIntroductoryRap self-introduction]], [[HollywoodToneDeaf clumsy rhythm]], lyrics with PainfulRhyme (or no rhyme), slang that is TotallyRadical, [[BoastfulRap boasts]] that fall flat, and maybe a groan-worthy {{Pun}} or two.

* ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' had a sketch where they did one after Peele said they could rap and Key objected because they didn't have the street cred.
--> '''Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (as himself):'''What are we going to rap about, my Master's degree in Fine Arts or your prep school?

* The reality show ''Drop the Mic'' -- expanded from a segment from ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' -- features plenty of celebrities you would not normally expect to see rap. Many of them hold their own pretty well, though not all.

A [[HipHop Rap]] performance by someone who is perceived to be unable to rap. A mix between the DreadfulMusician and an AwkwardPoetryReading, the only other characters (or audiences) pleased by this are ones who enjoy CringeComedy and watching a fool embarass themself. Anyone hoping for ''good'' rapping is disappointed. There are a couple possible reasons for their sad disapproval.

The most obvious is that the wannabe-rapper is simply ''bad''. Rap is a challenging act that demands lyrical skill, rhythm, wit, and charisma -- and wow, does this idiot not have ''any'' of them. Expect lots of [[OldSchoolIntroductoryRap self-introduction]], [[HollywoodToneDeaf clumsy rhythm]], lyrics with PainfulRhyme (or no rhyme), slang that is TotallyRadical, [[BoastfulRap boasts]] that fall flat, and maybe a groan-worthy {{Pun}} or two.

Another possible objection (that can be explicit or implicit) has to do with the performer's race. It's not that the character ''can't'' rap because they are not good enough, and more that they ''shouldn't'' because they are not black enough. For some, rap is so intrinsically connected to blackness that performing the former without embodying the latter seems a tasteless attempt at acting PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy. Indeed the target of mockery here is probably ([[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant very]]) white, but characters of other races can qualify, especially if they are AsianAndNerdy. Ironically, even TheWhitestBlackGuy can face this! In any case, the person is framed as ridiculous for even trying.

This attitude can be found in works from TheNineties, but in recent decades has become progressively more [[TropeBreaker Broken]]. Hip-hop has gained mainstream appeal around the world, and rappers of all hues and shades now practice it. Any enthusiast would rightly credit black artists for conceiving it, but fewer would agree that any genre can be the exclusive domain of one group. And some would object more strongly, since they have seen that even if this idea ("only black people rap") is well-intentioned, it too-often gets twisted by LogicalFallacy into something harmful ("''[[{{Stereotype}} all]]'' black people rap" or "black people ''only'' rap [[{{Typecasting}} and nothing else]]"). Suffice it to say this is an EvolvingTrope.

Sometimes, there are gods on the mic.

And other times, when they rap, glass breaks and people cover their ears.

A [[HipHop Rap]] song performed by someone who is perceived to not be able to rap. Usually done for humorous intent. Despite the fact that white rappers are more common these days than before, contemporary portrayals will still almost always be of a white person, and usually a dorky white guy; having [[AsianAndNerdy a Chinese or Japanese person]] do it instead is becoming a common alternative. The opening phrase "[[OldSchoolIntroductoryRap My name is X and I'm here to say,]]" is the most common staple of this trope, [[DeadUnicornTrope despite there being no known verbatim uses of this phrase in early hip-hop.]]

Often can become {{Nerdcore}}. Separate from but similar to the concept of "beef," an MC term for calling out another rapper for his lack of lyrical skills.

A subtrope of PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy. Often involves TotallyRadical terminology, along with an OldSchoolIntroductoryRap. Compare DreadfulMusician, for someone who's terrible at singing or playing an instrument. Not to be confused with RapIsCrap, which is when rap music as a whole is presented as terrible.

-->'''Ryan:''' [[LampshadeHanging I try to rap, I really try\\

* Music/{{Anthrax}} were probably one of the first to do this in the mid 80s with "I'm the Man." They would later cover/duet Public Enemy and cover the Beastie Boys (along with remaking I'm The Man ('91)).

* As part of a series of songs done under the guises of various [[FakeBand fake bands]], Music/TheyMightBeGiants wrote the song "Too + 3 R One" in the style of a BoyBand, complete with John Linnell doing a surreal rap bridge:

* Rappin' Duke [[note]] real name Shawn Brown[[/note]] with his eponymous OneHitWonder single from 1984: 6 minutes of spoofing BoastfulRap in a Creator/JohnWayne impression, with the hook being a rhythmic approximation of Wayne's distinctive laugh ("da-haw, da-haw, da-ha-ha-ha-ha-haw").

* Morris Minor and the Majors once charted with "The Stutter Rap". Four rappers named after a British car that wasn't even trendy back in the 1950's. All with stutters. It was not meant to be serious.

* Volume eight of LightNovel ''LightNovel/{{High School DxD}}'' reveals that Koneko, usually a [[TheStoic stoic character]], loves rap music made by a ''kappa'' of all things.

** Also his character Chocolate Drop(Droppa)

* Music/{{Anthrax}} were probably one of the first to do this in the mid 80s with "I'm the Man." They would later cover/duet Public Enemy and cover the Beastie Boys (along with remaking I'm The Man ('91).

* The infamous “rap” for the original VideoGame/{{The Legend of Zelda}} game for the NES. Watchable [[https://youtu.be/uI3rO3PbYOo here.]]

* Music/{{Eminem}} is also an interesting case -- he's without a doubt one of the most technically accomplished rappers to have ever picked up a microphone, viewed as a great songwriter for "Lose Yourself" and "Stan", and came up through an authentic street-level hip-hop scene with a nod of credibility from Music/DrDre. However, much of his music is humorous and based on mocking genre conventions; singing along to his own disc-scratching and providing vocal sound effects, [[CopycatMockery parodying the flows of different rappers he dislikes]], indulging in [[SitcomArchNemesis satirical beefs with drippy pop stars]], [[WhoWritesThisCrap arguing with himself about his own lyrics]], making fun of the violent excesses of GangstaRap via the [[BoastfulRap stupid boasts]] of his [[StupidEvil vile]] [[ChaoticStupid idiot]] AntiRoleModel alter-ego Slim Shady, provoking MoralGuardians by [[TheNewRockAndRoll claiming to have invented violence]], starting his Greatest Hits compilation with a [[GrossoutShow grossout song]] about shoving a gerbil up his ass, and actually recording the sound of him taking a crap (while talking through an electrolarynx for some odd reason) and putting it on an album. (Listing everything ridiculous Eminem has done on a song would take up the entire page.) Like many others on this page, Eminem is [[AcceptableEthnicTargets white]] -- his gimmicky style evolved in part because he had to be the most attention-grabbing guy in the room just to get his black audiences on his side, and in part because being a white rapper already cast him as a joke anyway.

A [[HipHop Rap]] song performed by someone who is perceived to not be able to rap. Usually done for humorous intent. Despite the fact that white rappers are more common these days than before, contemporary portrayals will still almost always be of a white person, and usually a dorky white guy; having [[AsianAndNerdy a Chinese or Japanese person]] do it instead is becoming a common alternative. The opening phrase "My name is X and I'm here to say," is the most common staple of this trope, [[DeadUnicornTrope despite there being no known verbatim uses of this phrase in early hip-hop.]]

* Tex Richman's VillainSong in ''Film/TheMuppets''. Oddly enough, most people thought it was good.

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* ''WebVideo/AuralnautsStarWars'': In "Banana Time", Kylo Ren is the galaxy’s most successful rap artist, but only because he relies on his helmet’s computer to proofread all his songs. Take the helmet off, and his unfiltered freestyling is so unspeakably bad that Han Solo ''literally dies'' from listening to it.

* This is a frequent venture for Music/TallyHall. See: "Welcome to Tally Hall", the bridge of "Ruler of Everything," and their covers of Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" and Flo Rida's "Club Can't Handle Me" with Casey Shea.

* The infamous [[Rappin' for Jesus]] video, featuring a youth pastor and his wife performing a corny Christian rap song, including the infamous line:

* The stems for "Video Killed The Radio Star" by Music/TheBuggles contain [[https://twitter.com/djmk/status/1533746025000730624?t=-KYUCCprzO0Z514usA9EPg an unused rap]] by Music/TrevorHorn and Music/HansZimmer, in which they warn listeners to "lock up your grandmother". Weirdly, some of the lyrics point to it being recorded well ''after'' the rest of the song, possibly as an in-joke that was never meant to be heard by the public: Zimmer's lyrics include boasts about scoring hit films, which he hadn't started to do as of 1979; What's more baffling is that Horn's lyrics include the line "step up in the party like my name is Mr. T" - not only would Creator/MrT himself not be a well-known name in the UK for a few more years, but this exact line appears in Will.i.am's guest verse to NickiMinaj's "Check It Out", a 2010 single [[{{sampling}} that sampled]] "Video Killed The Radio Star".

* The stems for "Video Killed The Radio Star" by Music/TheBuggles contain [[https://twitter.com/djmk/status/1533746025000730624?t=-KYUCCprzO0Z514usA9EPg an unused rap]] by Music/TrevorHorn and Music/HansZimmer, in which they warn listeners to "lock up your grandmother".

* Music/TheLonelyIsland's "Shy Ronnie" songs (who, as the name hints at, is shy) and songs performed by "Just Two Guys", who are bored to death.