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| 4 | * Music/{{Periphery}}: [[Main/LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the song title "Motormouth". |
| 5 | * ''She's A Motormouth'' by rockabilly band The Go-Getters. |
| 6 | * Many songs by Music/{{Tonedeff}}, though the record stands with the following verse from "Most High", delivered at 13.5 syllables per '''second'''. If you zone out, it becomes [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein incomprehensible]]. |
| 7 | -->''And that's the reason I figured I'd make an appearance, / I'm here to severely sear your hearing, so many curves it interferes with your steering. / Clearing the way for the viral decay, and I'm shearing away at the sneer on your face at a furious pace. / If you jeer in dismay, you’ll be tearing in pain till you’re fearing the Plague / and revering our place in history. Set up for destiny. This’ll be our seminal symphony. / Given to me, the mic'll be a symbol of victory, and that's whenever the T-o-n-e hits the beat. / Simply put: We’re sticking the hook into your foot, so when your crew steps, the flu sets / And you get tainted, it’s plain as day, the strain is The Plague, '''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]''''' |
| 8 | ** Tonedeff outdoes himself in "Crispy (192)" from the "Demon" EP, especially when he recites the following 46 words in less than ''5 seconds.'' |
| 9 | -->''They’re claiming their favorites have got a gain on me, bating me often/ but I’m remaining calm in a state of elated dominance/ aiming to body 'em, making a moniker/ breaking them down by the way that the audience savors every sound to be like "DAMN!"'' |
| 10 | * "Capital H" by Motion City Soundtrack: "Singing songs from the balcony as the city crumbles under ''the powers of an evil doctor rocket science monster'' with capabilities to destroy the entire universe." |
| 11 | * The Avett Brothers song "A Slight Figure Of Speech" starts out with perfectly intelligible lyrics, but after the second chorus, it descends into a blisteringly fast mishmash before slowing back down. |
| 12 | * Yodelers in Germany are fond of this. Especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU Franzl Lang]]. |
| 13 | * Canadian musician Music/{{Lights}} is known to be like this. For example, this line from her song, "Ice": |
| 14 | -->"I'm lookin' at you / lookin' at me / what can I do / but say sorry / It's a little late / but you just know I want you to be happy / what am I gonna have to say to get away with it, this time? / I know that you're upset, and you're happy just to sit and hate me / but I'll make a bet that you'll be better to forget about me / even better yet I'll little light melt that ice, ice, baby....." |
| 15 | ** And that's said just barely under, what, 20 seconds? |
| 16 | * Music/BarenakedLadies: "One Week". |
| 17 | --> ''Gonna get a set of better clubs/you know the kind with tiny nubs/just so my irons aren't always flyin' on the backswing/''\ |
| 18 | ''Gotta get in tune with Anime/SailorMoon[=/=]'Cause that cartoon has got the ''boom'' anime babes/ that make me think the wrong thing'' |
| 19 | ** It may be worth noting that there's at least one live version of the song which [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes floats around on the filesharing networks]] which shows that the band themselves can't always get it right in their own performances. |
| 20 | *** There's a verse to the song that appears in the CD booklet that is never actually sung in the song... So apparently, they didn't even get it right ''in the studio'', either. |
| 21 | * Music/{{BTS}} rappers Suga and RM are both very adept at fast rapping, with Suga being one of the fastest rappers in Korea. |
| 22 | ** Examples of RM are his verses in "We Are Bulletproof pt. 2", Cyphers 1, 2 and 3, "Look Here", "Tomorrow", and "Outro: Tear". In his RM mixtape he goes up to eleven, with tracks like "Joke" and "Rush". |
| 23 | ** Examples of Suga are his verses in the pre-debut tracks "We Are Bulletproof pt. 1" (a verse he recycles in his mixtape's main track "Agust D", where it's even faster), "It Doesn't Matter" and "School of Tears"; from BTS tracks, his verses in "Second Grade", "Ma City", "Paradise", "Cypher pt. 3", and especially "Cypher pt. 2". He does it again in "I'm Fine". |
| 24 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic: |
| 25 | ** The song "Hardware Store", which lists 62 items in 32 seconds, with a total of 258 syllables. It's why he refuses to do it in concerts. |
| 26 | ** The verses of "White and Nerdy" tend towards this, albeit due to the type of rap that Weird Al is parodying. |
| 27 | ** "Jerry Springer", being a parody of "One Week". |
| 28 | ** A [[https://youtu.be/26IOww0gO1w#t=2m05s certain part of "Your Horoscope for Today"]]: "Now you may find it inconceivable or at the very least a bit unlikely that the relative position of the planets and the stars could have a special deep significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you, but let me give you my assurance that these forecasts and predictions are all based on solid, scientific, documented evidence, so you would have to be some kind of moron not to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true. WHERE WAS I?" (all typed in one breath, thankyouverymuch...) The issue with singing along here is not the speed, but rather that the cadence of the song makes it difficult to get the entire thing out in one breath - which you need to do, or else you miss words. |
| 29 | ** All of the songs in his polka series are sung considerably faster than the original recordings. |
| 30 | *** The snippet of "You Oughta Know" used in "The Alternative Polka" is sung really, really quickly. |
| 31 | ** "Everything You Know Is Wrong" isn't particularly fast, but contains far too few places to stop for breath. |
| 32 | ** The theme song for ''Series/TheWeirdAlShow'' is not only a PatterSong, but the first verse is a run-on sentence! |
| 33 | * [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] did this quite often, but most notably in "Celebration" with X and specifically on the songs "Dice," "Bacteria," and "Doubt" from his solo works. |
| 34 | * Craig Finn of Lifter Puller and Music/TheHoldSteady, with a hefty dose of AddedAlliterativeAppeal and assonance in his songwriting. |
| 35 | * Folk singer, Music/ArloGuthrie was well known for his ability at telling a satirical, humorous story with his music. In [[https://youtu.be/5N920UYc3Y0 The Story of Reuben Clamzo]], Arlo describes how the early settlers would deal with gigantic clams in this fashion. |
| 36 | -->"...clams would hear 'em. And clams hate music. So clams would come out of the water and they'd come after this one guy. And all you'd see pretty soon was flying all over, the sand flying '''UPANDOWNTHEBEACHMANMANCLAMCLAMMANMANCLAMMANCLAMCLAMMANUPANDDOWNTHEBEACHGOINGTHISWAYANDTHATWAYUPTHEHILLSINTHEWATEROUTOFTHEWATERBEHINDTHETREESEVERYWHEREFINALLYTHEMANWOULDJUMPOVERABIGSANDDUNEROLLOVERTHESIDETHECLAMWOULDCOMEOVERTHEDUNE'''-fallinahole- fourteen guys would come out there and stab the shit out of him with their clampoons!" |
| 37 | * "I Don't Care" and "Hard Livin'" by JustinTownesEarle |
| 38 | * In TheNineties, midwestern rappers were known for using this style. Music/BoneThugsNHarmony, Twista (who held the Guinness Record for Fastest Rapper), and Da Brat are the best known. |
| 39 | ** Some examples of [[https://youtu.be/qvNw6oAh5Io Twista]]. [[https://youtu.be/rP1gDSO24Ps This one's even faster]]. |
| 40 | * Even Music/{{Nas}} tries his hand at motor mouth rhyming, here: [[https://youtu.be/VoMhU91MdzQ "Big Things"]]. |
| 41 | * Music/{{REM}}'s "It's The End of the World As We Know It". "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein The other night, I dreamt of knives, Continental drift divide, Mountains sit in a line. LEONARD BERNSTEIN!]]" |
| 42 | * [[https://youtu.be/OENjixZd_Oo "It's The End of the World As We Know It"]] is then done even faster by Canadian band Music/GreatBigSea, who shorten it by a minute and a half without skipping any of the words and adding an extra chorus at the start. |
| 43 | ** And [[https://youtu.be/NHgIJAQbH14&feature=fvw "Mari-Mac"]], which gets faster and faster and faster as the song progresses: even the instruments can hardly keep up with the hair-raising speed, let alone the singers. |
| 44 | * Serj Tankian of Music/SystemOfADown is a serial offender; his most notorious one is "IEAIAIO". |
| 45 | * Music/TomLehrer's "The Elements," which uses the same tune as the [[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance Major-General's Song]], and "New Math". |
| 46 | ** Parodied in "The Folk Song Army": |
| 47 | --->''The tune don't have to be clever\ |
| 48 | And it doesn'tmatterifyoufitacoupleofextrasyllablesinto a line\ |
| 49 | It sounds more authentic if it ain't good English\ |
| 50 | And it don't-a even gotta rhyme!''\ |
| 51 | ...Excuse me, rhy'''n'''e |
| 52 | * [[https://youtu.be/RnL3rfBBrYE Busta Rhymes]]. |
| 53 | ** [[https://youtu.be/87oR6mFf-CY Another good example]], which also pulls Mystikal into the trope. |
| 54 | *** [[https://youtu.be/eHHT7dTmw8U&feature=related This one]] turns it up to eleven. |
| 55 | *** While [[https://youtu.be/0GhbkrOg9gA the whole song]] certainly qualifies, Busta Rhymes' section is particularly impressive (he come in after you hear "New York"). |
| 56 | * [[https://youtu.be/kZGvnI37mxk Dizzee Rascal]] certainly qualifies. |
| 57 | * Blues Traveler's "Hook": |
| 58 | --> Suck it in Suck it in Suck it in/If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn/\ |
| 59 | Make a desperate move or else you'll win/And then begin/\ |
| 60 | To see what you're doing to me/This MTV is not for free/\ |
| 61 | It's so PC it's killing me/So desperately I sing to thee/Of love... |
| 62 | * The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' version of "They're Red Hot"[[https://youtu.be/Z3PfqiMnpdg]], compressing a three-minute jazz ditty from the 1930s to just over 70 seconds in length. |
| 63 | * In the Music/DeadKennedys' anti-consumerist rant "Drug Me", Jello Biafra delivers the lyrics at a breakneck pace. |
| 64 | ** And in "I Kill Children", "Stealing People's Mail"... Really, just a lot of the time. |
| 65 | * "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" by Music/{{Outkast}}. |
| 66 | * The country song "I've Been Everywhere", originally performed by Australian singer Lucky Starr and covered by Hank Snow[[note]]who also did a parody called "I Ain't Been Anywhere"[[/note]] and Music/JohnnyCash among others, has the protagonist very quickly rattling off a LongList of the various locales to which he's traveled. |
| 67 | ** The [[LandDownUnder original Australian version]] goes "I've been to Tullamoreseymourlismoremooloolabanambourmaroochydore (dissolves into near-incomprehensibility)." |
| 68 | ** Part of the reason for the near-incomprehensibility comes from the actual names of the towns. Yes, we Aussies have some rather strange town names. |
| 69 | ** The Scared Weird Little Guys' version has a section talking about South-East-Asia: |
| 70 | --> I've been to Peking Nanking Chunking Hiroshima, Shengyang Kwaiyang Pyongyang Yokohama, Hang Chow Weng Chow Fu Chow the Gold Coast, Shanghai Samurai Lum Thai Fukiama, Hong Kong King Kong Yang Tong Sukiyaki, Nagasaki Hirosaki Takasaki I should be so lucky... |
| 71 | * Quite a few songs by Music/{{Sublime}}, notably their first hit "Date Rape" and the duet "Saw Red" between Bradley Nowell and Music/NoDoubt's Gwen Stefani. |
| 72 | * Semi-Charmed Life by Music/ThirdEyeBlind. This trope helped them so blatantly get away with LyricalDissonance. |
| 73 | * Several of Lady Sovereign's songs on ''Public Warning'' show off her ability to do this. The title song even has her just saying huge incomprehensible sentences. |
| 74 | * Big Punisher was known for this in his earlier material. Not only did his Puerto Rican accent easily lend itself to this trope, his lyrics were positively tongue twisting. The song "Twinz" (a remake of "Deep Cover") is particularly memorable: |
| 75 | -->I'll rub your face off the Earth and curse your family's children, like Amityville and drill the nerves in your cavity filling, insanity's building a pavilion in my civilian, the cannon be the anarchy that humanity's dealing... |
| 76 | ** Big Pun is definitely no slouch: [[https://youtu.be/S_5wfaIEW2Q "Dream Shatterer"]] is also a good example of fast rhyming. |
| 77 | * Music/SavageGarden's "I Want You". The lyrics are sung at full speed and only slow down when they hit the bridge. |
| 78 | * Music/RelientK's "The Only Thing Worse Than Beating a Dead Horse Is Betting On One" starts out this way. |
| 79 | * Music/JasonMraz does this in a lot of his songs. |
| 80 | ** And {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it in ''Wordplay.'' |
| 81 | * Music/StreetlightManifesto does this in [[https://youtu.be/_XKs8TsY3XI "Everything Went Numb"]]. In fact, the only words that aren't spoken at amazing speeds in the entire song are "Na na na na [bunch more na's] na.") |
| 82 | ** The dissertation-for-lyrics style Kalnoky is (in)famous for added another degree to this, as there's so little repetition to the song (even the chorus, sometimes). And don't get me started on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGNNTxWkjl8 Point/Counterpoint]]... |
| 83 | *** If you want to listen to a new Streetlight Song, for the Love of God, look up the lyric sheet first. You will NOT get it on your own. Ever. [[https://youtu.be/RS5w6yLdvRM Case in point.]] |
| 84 | ** This gets turned up to eleven during live shows, when the band will play songs 30-50% faster. |
| 85 | * Music/ScatmanJohn. Even if the name makes clear [[{{Scatting}} what he is singing hardly counts as words]], the delivery is downright impressive! |
| 86 | * ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'': Miku Hatsune's [[https://youtu.be/zC-zPJAFfXY "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku -DEAD END-"]], where the chorus is so fast that it's impossible to hear a single word. |
| 87 | ** Aided greatly by the fact that "Miku Hatsune" is simply the name for a specific setting on a singing voice synthesizer... |
| 88 | *** And justified by the fact the lyrics are about the character/program trying to say its last words as it's uninstalled. |
| 89 | *** Many Vocaloid and Utauloid songs do this like Soune Taya's [[https://youtu.be/vuRVaqIYidU Passion]] |
| 90 | ** She's shown almost pushing it [[https://youtu.be/thbnKxuTIpU here in her concert]] with "Two-Faced Lovers". |
| 91 | ** Incredibly, this [[https://youtu.be/tohDycgc-H8 cover of The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku]] by an ordinary human singer who somehow could actually keep up with the insanely fast tempo. |
| 92 | ** ''The Singing Passion of Hatsune Miku'', which is rated [[BrokeTheRatingScale 9 red stars]] ''Project Diva 2nd''. One must try to play it in the hardest difficulty to understand the intensity. |
| 93 | ** Singing so fast is not so unusual for Vocaloids these days, but making them ''rap'' at such speeds takes it to a whole new level. Case in point: Miku and Luka doing so in ''[[https://youtu.be/GeA86lonJoY Rin-chan Nau!]]''. |
| 94 | ** Esoteric lyrics sung very, very quickly is a common trait of songs composed by (now retired) producer Tohma. |
| 95 | * Music/JohnMichaelMontgomery's "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" is sung with the tempo of a livestock auctioneer, as the entire song is about the narrator meeting and "bidding" on a pretty woman he saw there. |
| 96 | ** The chorus of "Be My Baby Tonight" is also extremely fast, though not as fast as "Sold". |
| 97 | * On [[{{Auction}} the same topic]], the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-titled]] "[[https://youtu.be/WaVTxiPBJgM Auctioneer]]" by Leroy Van Dyke follows the growth of a boy into an auctioneer, and Leroy's about as adept at speed-talking as the character. |
| 98 | * Music/GarthBrooks' "Ain't Goin' Down til the Sun Comes Up" is at least as fast as "I've Been Everywhere" mentioned above. |
| 99 | * Music/TheOffspring, who usually sing pretty swiftly, pushed it up to eleven with their eighth album, ''Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace''. In the song "Stuff is Messed Up", they list off roughly twenty-three things wrong with the world today. IN 14 SECONDS. Must be heard to be believed. |
| 100 | * ThrashMetal often has a rapid-fire vocal delivery delivery, but few come close to the tongue-twisting, run-on insanity of Sean Killian of Vio-Lence, who sounded like he was delivering the lyrics while hyped up on a mixture of caffeine, cocaine, and speed and bouncing off the walls. [[https://youtu.be/f6zu4y5Rq7M Observe.]] |
| 101 | ** Older Music/{{Slayer}} is a particularly relevant example (especially "Jesus Saves"). |
| 102 | ** Dark Angel also deserves a special mention, especially [[https://youtu.be/BtRDX9gBeRc "The Burning of Sodom"]], which contains quite possibly the fastest vocal delivery of any thrash song ever. |
| 103 | ** Anacrusis' [[https://youtu.be/dnyHqYBjVcY "Frigid Bitch"]] is not only the band's hardest song, but also it features the fastest vocal delivery. |
| 104 | * Strapping Young Lad does this a fair bit, but no where is it better represented than [[https://youtu.be/teeYBgyZhS8 "Oh My Fucking God"]]. Let's just say the title is apt... |
| 105 | * John Gallagher from Music/DyingFetus gives this a try on "Fornication Terrorists". Combined with Gallagher's very low grunt, it's more or less completely incomprehensible without a lyric sheet and some SERIOUS concentration. Oh, and he pulls it off live without a hitch, too. |
| 106 | * Music/GunsNRoses, "Garden of Eden". And they had the guts to make a FollowTheBouncingBall [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkCF7S9Ying video]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HaLEbGuDuo mocked by]] Westernanimation/BeavisAndButthead). You can't help feeling sorry for that ball... |
| 107 | ** Also, that small spoken part inside "Knockin' on Heaven's Door": "You just better start sniffin' your own rank subjugation Jack..." |
| 108 | * Underground rapper [[https://youtu.be/CCgcqRzVuMw The Jokerr]] |
| 109 | * Music/MariahCarey isn't as extreme as some of the other examples here, but her song "We Belong Together" is sung pretty quickly; the words tend to blur together if you're not paying very close attention. |
| 110 | * [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] sings "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Dead On Time" in this fashion. |
| 111 | * Music/TheMonkees' "Goin' Down" does this in its first couple of verses. |
| 112 | * To those not familiar with the genre, any reggae/dancehall song could be perceived as this trope, especially the ones with chatting/toasting (and especially ones involving "patois"). |
| 113 | * A key facet of Japanese avant-gardist Daisuke Inoue's performances as Mazeru na Kiken is his tendency to speak so rapidly that he becomes impossible to understand without subtitles, and those tend to flash by at seizure-inducing rates. |
| 114 | * Bandleader and comedian Phil Harris sang a lot of songs this way, especially his signature "That's What I Like About The South". |
| 115 | * The Dead Milkmen have done this, most notably on the song "Moron." |
| 116 | * A large section of Bartolo's aria "A un dottor della mia sorte" from ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville.'' |
| 117 | * Reunion's 1974 hit "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)", where singer Joey Levine (of "Yummy Yummy Yummy" fame with Ohio Express) [[ListSong rattles off names of popular musical figures (and in one line a few record labels)]] at a breakneck pace during the verses. |
| 118 | * Rubber Biscuit, by The Chips (and later covered by Film/TheBluesBrothers, with Elwood performing the vocals). Most of it is all nonsensical scat singing, but for Elwood, it plays to a strength Creator/DanAykroyd has -- his ability to motormouth off massive screeds of lyrics or words. The scat singing is interspersed with just as nonsensical stories from the author's week, e.g., "the other day, I had a coooool water sandwich, and a sunday go to meeting bun. Bow bow bow." |
| 119 | * The MeatPuppets' "Sam", where each verse is one run-on sentence sung on one note without any pauses for breath. |
| 120 | * Jason [=DeVore=], lead singer for Authority Zero, has a reputation for one of the fastest deliveries in their genre, [[https://youtu.be/jzZWdT0N19s&feature=related Carpe Diem]] [[https://youtu.be/TkwhO_j_RCU&feature=related Drunken Sailor]]. Many of their slower songs even have periods of extremely fast vocals for seemingly no other reason than for him to show off [[http://www.youclubvideo.com/audio/113277/authority-zero-movement Movement]], it starts at about 3:12. |
| 121 | * [[Music/TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety The World/Inferno Friendship Society's]] lead singer, Jack Terricloth, does this in many of their songs. |
| 122 | * [[https://youtu.be/cZ6UwkXmSDo City of Cold]] by Raised Fist and a few others of theirs, what's more impressive is that, being Swedish, english isn't their native language. |
| 123 | * The [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein mostly unintelligible]] chorus to Letters To Cleo's "Here And Now". For the record it's actually "The comfort of a knowledge of a rise above the sky above could never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the here and now". |
| 124 | * Music/AyumiHamasaki in ''Evolution'', especially the ''Time is Pop'' and ''Eurobeat'' remixes, as well as some of the concerts in which she sung the song fast. Even those familiar with Japanese have commented on their inability to keep up with the chorus lines of the song. |
| 125 | * Music/KendrickLamar. He tends to show off this when featuring on other artists (especially rappers who aren't motormouths) tracks. Notable examples in his own catalogue are the "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" remix with Music/JayZ, "Westside, Right on Time", "Backseat Freestyle" and, of course, "Rigamortus", which takes it up to eleven (and has a remix featuring the previously mentioned Music/BustaRhymes). |
| 126 | * A lot of Hardcore punk bands tend to have this going on, [[https://youtu.be/sCb4QKZo8F0 Toxic Narcotic]] is a good example (he gets progressively faster as the song goes) |
| 127 | * [[Music/CattleDecapitation Travis Ryan]] does this a lot. Case in point, "The Ripe Beneath the Rind" (all within the span of roughly eight seconds): |
| 128 | --> ''And like a wild boar your head is hunted, and like a cantaloupe your head is opened, and like a pork belly your skin is seared sterile, and underneath it lie the lies, the man, the murder, the meat.'' |
| 129 | * Ministry's "TV II" and its sequel/SpiritualSuccessor "WTV". [[Music/ButtholeSurfers Gibby Haynes]]' guest vocals on "Jesus Built My Hotrod" combine this with {{Scatting}}. |
| 130 | * Music/DannyElfman of Music/OingoBoingo has his moments, particularly in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrn_DDYCQsY "Goodbye Goodbye"]]: |
| 131 | -->You're always puttin' the make on my friends always giving them eyes and the dirty lies 'bout me and you well I'm through it's the end of the line for you babe here's a ticket one way Cincinnati I'm sendin' you home to your ma and your daddy so don't try to call me you'll only be wastin' your time! |
| 132 | * Any PatterSong singer becomes ''per se'' a motormouth, for the duration of the song. |
| 133 | * This is a trademark of Music/{{Disturbed}}'s output. Notable songs include "Voices" and "Liberate". |
| 134 | * French 60s band Les Double Six. |
| 135 | * Music/{{Gorillaz}} "Clint Eastwood" has a famously quick, slurry rap solo, leading to a wide variety of misheard lyrics. |
| 136 | ** Do Ya Thing is much faster, with André 3000's bullet-fast lines being very hard to understand without reading them. |
| 137 | * Early one, the ska-punk band The Flatliners made a significant use of this trope. The best example is their song [[https://youtu.be/wCyVZYomh_s ''There's A Problem'']]. Yes, it has lyrics. Yes, it makes sense. |
| 138 | * Music/TallyHall, particularly red tie Music/JoeHawley, is prone to this, especially [[https://youtu.be/Tp1RjwdVJgo&t=2m50s the stunning bridge to Ruler of Everything]] (which peaks with ''three people'' singing the Motor Mouth line simultaneously). |
| 139 | * Music/{{Eminem}} seems to have this down to an art. Not only does he sometimes get very fast, he combines it with complex rhymes and obtuse lyrics. You hardly ever hear him audibly breathe. Case in point: [[https://youtu.be/XbGs_qK2PQA "Rap God"]], from ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'', which has the Guinness World Record for most words in a hit single. |
| 140 | ** And after "Rap God" came out, Krayzie Bone of Music/BoneThugsNHarmony (as mentioned earlier on this page) released [[https://youtu.be/Zy0wlPA_NEY "Clash of the Titans"]], taking the "God of Rap" metaphor and running with it, and displaying motor mouth rapping throughout almost the whole song. |
| 141 | ** Then he tops that song with his 2020 single "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpd570f_5c Godzilla]]", his collab with the late rapper Juice [=WRLD=] from ''Music to be Murdered By'', where he caps off the last 30 seconds of the song with arguably his fastest rap line ever. |
| 142 | * Coming straight in the same model as Eminem, Yelawolf. |
| 143 | * CountryMusic singer Marcel Chagnon is somewhat known for this, as demonstrated by his own "Country Rock Star" and "Nothin' to Lose", the latter of which was CoveredUp by Josh Gracin (the latter hits the ''second'' chorus before one minute!). Humorously, Gracin was hesitant to cover "Nothin' to Lose" because he didn't think he could keep up with it... only to [[OneTakeWonder nail it on the first take]]. |
| 144 | * The chorus to Music/StoneTemplePilots' "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart" involves Scott Weiland singing "So keep your bankroll lottery eat your salad day deathbed motorcade" with no pauses whatsoever. |
| 145 | * The Deathray Davies "Plan to Stay Awake". Possibly it's referenced with the line: "Never though I'd get this far". [[https://youtu.be/v2bSb0n_lgg Take a listen]] |
| 146 | * היא התיישבה ליד פסנתר (she sat next to a piano) a song by the Israeli band Gazoz is sang entirely in Motor Mouth, just [[https://youtu.be/tgBf07uShW4&playnext=1&list=PLF9E7BC9A1C573CC1 listen]] |
| 147 | * An even better Israeli example will be Mashina's הכל התחיל בנאצר (It All started In Nazer), the fact it's a WordSaladLyrics doesn't make it easier to understand |
| 148 | * Music/EmilieAutumn's interviews, She just knows her stuff and can explain it in DETAIL |
| 149 | ** That's nothing. Try listening to [[https://youtu.be/wNUvQb2qMg8 "I Know Where You Sleep."]] It's difficult to keep up on the album, if you're singing along. When she's singing live, though, she goes ''faster''. |
| 150 | * Music/TheVeronicas, Untouched as an example of this trope. |
| 151 | * The conclusion of the studio version of "Une Valse à Mille Temps" by Music/JacquesBrel, which has to be heard to be believed. Even during concerts he was unable to match the speed of this studio delivery. |
| 152 | * We Didn't Start the Fire by Music/BillyJoel. Actually not all ''that'' fast (the default tempo is ''allegretto''), but it gets faster (and louder) toward the end. Not to mention that the lyrics are composed almost entirely of sound-bite historical references, a few of them very obscure (and Joel's thick New York accent does ''not'' help). |
| 153 | * The songs "Emancipate Myself" by Thirsty Merc: |
| 154 | --> [[Music/ThePolice Every breath you t..]] As if I'd sing that song to you, you probably think you deserve it at the present time. But if only you knew how you treated me when we were together then you might understand. |
| 155 | -->Remember the time you made me wait for a month when you had exams, which I was cool about but then the night you finished you barred me from all your plans and you went out with other people. |
| 156 | -->Now I'll always give you the benefit of the doubt and I think there's enough natural maturity floating around for the tension and release time to even out between two people like you and me. |
| 157 | -->And I've been thinking and since we've broken up I've realised things were mostly in your favour and a normal person wouldn't put up with this but for some stupid reason I don't wanna move on. |
| 158 | ** "Someday, Someday" by the same band, while not as fast as the above, crams a lot of lyrics into individual lines: |
| 159 | -->So we've already established the fact that things are gonna be different in the future baby. |
| 160 | -->And you've reiterated the fact that you don't want to get into something that's just gonna have to end later. |
| 161 | --> Now I know our lives are changing and I've seen it coming for a while too, don't get me wrong. |
| 162 | -->And I've been going outta town baby it's gonna happen more, we gotta be strong but now |
| 163 | * Music/TechN9ne in general, but "Worldwide Choppers" takes it over the top - aside from Tech N9ne himself, it features eight other rappers (including the previously mentioned Busta Rhymes and Twista) who use this style. Twisted Insane's verse in particular is so fast it's almost incomprehensible. |
| 164 | * [[http://rapgenius.com/discussions/7994-Top-10-fastest-rappers-based-on-speed-consistency-and-skill This list of rappers]] ranks them not only by their speed, but also by their flow, skill, and consistency. Aforementioned rappers Busta Rhymes, Tech N9ne, Twista, and Twisted Insane make up the top four, and all four of them can be found on Tech N9ne's "Worldwide Choppers." |
| 165 | * Brazilian musician Rodolfo had [[https://youtu.be/nX67nNHf7Hs his]] [[https://youtu.be/Nhjy5-w8poo moments]] playing for Raimundos. |
| 166 | * Music/WalkOffTheEarth: Gianni does this in [[https://youtu.be/Lf2db4hD6zI&list=UU9PEibgWOqZ-1I1JdxRmr6g&index=5&feature=plcp "Magic"]] |
| 167 | * Ice MC, the speed of whom rivals Scatman John. |
| 168 | * Amy Heidemann from Karmin might be one of the fastest white-girl hipster rappers with a burlesque hairdo ever (see "Brokenhearted"). |
| 169 | * Another female who does this - Snow tha Product (who has collaborated with the previously mentioned Music/TechN9ne). |
| 170 | * Bailee Moore, see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOr5cUi3LG0 "White Girl Raps Fast"]] and the second verse of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjDdcQVT0o "Mirror Mirror"]]. |
| 171 | * Music/{{Slipknot}}'s Corey Taylor does this frequently on the band's self-titled album, notably the chorus of "(sic)" ("FUCKTHISSHITIMSICKOFITYOURGOINGDOWNTHISISAWAR!") and the opening verse of HiddenTrack "Eeyore" and "Get This". |
| 172 | * Music/SteveTaylor pulled off a minor version of this on the verses of "Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel A Lot Better," although not to the extent that he's unintelligible. |
| 173 | * Music/EnnioMorricone's [[https://youtu.be/lKnC5XoTD2s "Lezione di Musica"]] has Music/HayleyWestenra pinning 64 solfège syllables (Do-Re-Mi etc) to 64 notes in about 10 seconds. It's another 10 seconds before she pauses for breath. |
| 174 | * Music/ElectricLightOrchestra: "Yes I'm turning to stone 'cause you ain't coming home why ain't you coming home if I'm turning to stone you've been gone for so long and I can't carry on yes I'm turning I'm turning I'm turning to stone!" |
| 175 | * Rapper Crucified is infamous for deliberately rapping at such speeds that it's entirely incomprehensible. He's been seriously accused of saying gibberish instead of actual words. |
| 176 | * Music/KanyeWest on the "Power" remix. |
| 177 | * Many of Music/TimMinchin's songs are like this, particularly 'The Pope Song' and 'Thank You God': |
| 178 | -->Thank you, god, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum / I had no idea but it's suddenly so clear now / I feel like such a cynic how could I have been so dumb? / Thank you for displaying how praying works / A particular prayer in a particular church / Thank you Sam for the chance to acknowledge this / Omnipotent opthalmologist... |
| 179 | * Common with Music/TheyMightBeGiants, such as [[https://youtu.be/BHxk4NeLY3s Letterbox]] and [[https://youtu.be/U24OvWVdVwA Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head]]. |
| 180 | * Music/VampireWeekend does this from time to time. The verses of "Worship You" are their most ludicrous example. |
| 181 | * "Informer" by Snow. He sings so fast that the only words most people know are the song title and "a licky boom boom down." |
| 182 | * The chorus of "7 Things" by Music/MileyCyrus. |
| 183 | * Mose Allison's "Your Mind Is on Vacation" is about this, although Allison doesn't attempt it himself. |
| 184 | -->If silence was golden, you couldn't raise a dime\ |
| 185 | Because your mind is on vacation while your mouth's working overtime. |
| 186 | * The verses in [[https://youtu.be/QuyaK0hGxWk Truckin']] by Music/TheGratefulDead. |
| 187 | * Fedez's [[https://youtu.be/pg1nssG_Z-8 Alfonso Signorini]] has about 7 syllables per second in the rap sections. |
| 188 | -->Qui dove anche un giornalaio può fare il giornalista / Vado in manifestazione in compagnia del mio estetista / Ho l'animo ribelle ma la faccia da tronista / "ma l'uomo di cultura si chiama culturista?" |
| 189 | * "The Wind" by Music/ZacBrownBand has rapid-fire verses as well. |
| 190 | * [[https://youtu.be/NKnR9LqvYqk This]] piece. Who says all religious music is always slow and mournful? |
| 191 | * Cledus T. Judd's AffectionateParody of Music/TobyKeith's "I Love This Bar", dubbed "I Love NASCAR", does this when mentioning advertisers: |
| 192 | -->"Like, uh, let's see: Havoline, Target, Sharpie, Caterpillar, Nextel, Mountain Dew, Dupont, Lowe's, Home Depot, [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]], [=M&M's=], UPS, Tide, Alltel, Gillette, Kellogg's, Viagara, [=DeWalt=], and uh, Budweiser." |
| 193 | * Andrew "AntiMatter" Youkhana of Devastator: basically the entire basis of his style of rapping. |
| 194 | * "If I Could" by Sunny Sweeney is a very fast-paced song, especially on the verses. |
| 195 | * "Timebomb" by Music/ToveLo has rapid-fire verses without moments of breaths. |
| 196 | * Japanese Hip-Hop group Moe and ghosts can exhibit motor mouthing that'd make Busta Rhymes proud. [[https://youtu.be/h1QOPTgtveE "Man After Man"]] and [[https://youtu.be/ZoouxWKTKZg "LADY OF THE DEAD"]] are good examples. |
| 197 | * If a song is done in Gaelic, chances are it's this trope. [[https://youtu.be/1_RnZuejR_Y The middle act of this clip is an example.]] |
| 198 | * The Polish amateur rapper MC Silk, who can sing extremely fast in both Polish and English. [[https://youtu.be/TiqlcU73_0Q The first 70 seconds of this video]] show what he's capable of. |
| 199 | * A hallmark of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJcVCVvcD802r80B9oaM3A Watsky]]'s music, as well as his spoken word poetry. Nearly all of his songs have a bit of fast rap thrown into them. It's most prominent in ''[[https://youtu.be/XVQOhIVcMj0 Whoa, Whoa, Whoa]]''. |
| 200 | * "Our House" from ''Music/TheRiseAndFall'' by Music/{{Madness|Band}} gives us this: "I remember way back then when / Everything was true and when / We would have such a very good time / Such a fine time / Such a happy time / And I remember how we'd play / Simply waste the day away / Then we'd say / Nothing would come between us / Two dreamers." |
| 201 | * Music/BruceDickinson sometimes does this when he gets too into a song [[Music/IronMaiden and tries to match the speedy metal riffs he's singing over]]. The novelty song from his solo discography "I'm in a Band With an Italian Drummer" on the other hand takes the cake during its verse. |
| 202 | * Barbara Schöneberger's song ''I Love Schwiegermutter'' ("I Love Mother-In-Law") has a few lines that are particularly impressive considering the... "less tongue-friendly" properties of German pronunciation. [[https://youtu.be/aYsC3z4IBnI Video here]], the part in question starts at 0:29. |
| 203 | * Rob Halford of Music/JudasPriest has been known to step up his singing with machine-gun like delivery in some of his songs. One good example is [[https://youtu.be/g29seKqECJQ Freewheel Burning]] during 1:51 and 3:08 of the song. |
| 204 | * Music/DavidBowie had a run-in with this trope on "African Night Flight" off the Music/{{Lodger}} album, proving that he might have been a decent rapper if he had tried his hand at it: |
| 205 | -->"Getting in mood for a Mombassa night flight |
| 206 | -->Pushing my luck, gonna fly like a mad thing |
| 207 | -->Bare strip takeoff, skimming over Rhino |
| 208 | -->Born in slumber less than peace |
| 209 | -->Struggle with a child whose screaming dreaming |
| 210 | -->Drowned by the props all steely sunshine |
| 211 | -->Sick of you, sick of me |
| 212 | -->Lust for the free life, quashed and maimed |
| 213 | -->Like a valuable loved one left unnamed |
| 214 | -->Seems like another day I could fly |
| 215 | -->Into the eye of god on high |
| 216 | -->Seems like another day I could fly |
| 217 | -->Into the eye of god on high |
| 218 | -->Over the bushland, over the trees, |
| 219 | -->Wise like orangutan, that was me!" |
| 220 | * Very present in Music/SpawnOfPossession, who mostly do this with ''death growls''. Hell, just listen to "[[https://youtu.be/_CyEUCVEQzA Scorched]]" and just try to follow along. |
| 221 | * [[Music/TheRamones Dee Dee Ramone]] displayed his ability to do this on "Endless Vacation". Make sure you have some lyrics handy, though, because it gets ''really'' hard to understand what he's saying. |
| 222 | * [[Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder Trevor Strnad]] has some pretty quick vocal passages, but the prechorus and chorus to "Threat Level No. 3" are downright indecipherable without the lyrics handy: "Threat level number three / a badge to my reign of depravity / if it's only my death that can set us all free / then what is it we're waiting for / my crimes of sick lust they've secured me a space / in a man's most befeared and respected of place / in the home of the horned and His torturing flames / I deserve all of this and more / thwarting the raping beast / that deep inside me sleeps / in a hope that this history will never repeat / my dick my gun, now obsolete / are we all here just grasping at straws / is the devil's will absolute, is it stronger than laws / can I walk freely down darkened streets that I've stalked / is there truly a hope left for me!?" |
| 223 | * Lenny Kravitz demonstrates this skill while singing the title line of "Are You Gonna Go My Way". |
| 224 | * Music/BobDylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" |
| 225 | -->"Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine |
| 226 | -->I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the government |
| 227 | -->A man in a trench coat, badge out, laid off |
| 228 | -->Says he's got a bad cough, wants to get it paid off |
| 229 | -->Look out kid, it's something you did |
| 230 | -->God knows when, but you're doin' in again |
| 231 | -->You better jump down the alleyway, lookin' for a new friend |
| 232 | -->A man in a coonskin cap in a pigpen |
| 233 | -->Wants 11 dollar bills, and you only got 10!" |
| 234 | * The rhythmic [[SpokenWordInMusic spoken word]] section of Music/{{Oliver}}'s "Sweet Kindness", which could almost be considered rapping: |
| 235 | -->Welcome, brother |
| 236 | -->Have a drink on me |
| 237 | -->Would some coffee do instead? |
| 238 | -->Can't you keep your eyes open |
| 239 | -->Just a little while longer |
| 240 | -->And someone'll take you to bed |
| 241 | -->I'll call you friend |
| 242 | -->And I'll call this home |
| 243 | -->'Cause this is where I've come |
| 244 | -->And this is where I'm bound to stay |
| 245 | -->'Til the wire begins to hum |
| 246 | * Music/NapalmDeath has a knack for fitting ProtestSong lyrics in [[MinisculeRocking very short tracks]]. Goes up to eleven with "You Suffer", a song that is a second long with a single rapidly said lyric. |
| 247 | * Music/{{Shakira}} sings very fast at times, even more if it's in her native Spanish (the chorus of "Estoy Aqui" has her twice saying some 20 syllables in less than 3 seconds). |
| 248 | * The latter half of TheNewTens saw a steady increase in motor mouth rapping. To name a few examples, Music/JCole proved himself able to keep up with J.I.D's light-speed rapping on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiADuDjueJc "Off Deez"]], Joyner Lucas is adept enough at it to feature on the Music/{{Eminem}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1arz9Q9qBas "Lucky You"]] (alongside collaborations with Music/BustaRhymes and Music/TechN9ne, Music/{{Logic}} does it on his 2019 single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfqsEpjEtrw "Homicide"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UwH97qI0aM Token]] practically has this as his SignatureStyle. |
| 249 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IydP1lUzFWQ "The New Rap Language"]] by The Treacherous Three, also known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Fast Rap"]], is the UrExample of this in rap. It's still pretty impressive today; only rap fans who were around to hear it when it was released in 1980 really know how mind-blowing it must've been. |
| 250 | * Music/HoboJohnson's music sometimes features interludes of spoken dialog that are delivered very rapidly. The rapid subject shifts and asides in his music, even though they're usually delivered at a reasonable pace, also give Hobo the appearance of someone who can't stop talking. |
| 251 | * Oh Lord, the refrain from Music/KatyPerry's "Never Really Over." Some thirty words and syllables non-stop. And on the same note. |
| 252 | * Just as guilty is Music/GwenStefani and the bridge from her song "The Sweet Life." Not as lengthy as the "Never Really Over" refrain, but still as irritating as it sits on the same note for each syllable. |
| 253 | * Oli Peters of Technical Death Metal outfit Music/{{Archspire}} was inspired by various Chopper Rap artists and has mastered the ability to ''death growl'' at blindingly fast speeds. |
| 254 | * The eponymous aunt in Music/BarryLouisPolisar's "Aunt Anna Came To Our House" is described as someone who "talks and talks and talks, when she didn't talk she speaks." |
| 255 | * In "From The D 2 The LBC", Music/SnoopDogg -- known for his lazy, relaxed style of rapping -- tries to match his collaborator and producer Music/{{Eminem}} with a supersonic rap filled with complex internal rhymes. Usually, Eminem's collaborations have him go last, seeing as he's the 'main event' known for being able to outrap anyone -- Snoop is instead presented as the climactic verse here, in part due to the shock value. |
| 256 | * Dickie Allen of Music/InfantAnnihilator is infamous for his lightning fast "goblin vocals" that renders his vocal tracks as little more than unintelligible, raspy, phlegmy ''assaults'' straight out of your worst nightmares. |
| 257 | * Following in the footsteps of [[Music/CattleDecapitation Travis Ryan]] and [[Music/InfantAnnihilator Dickie Allen]] mentioned previously, Will Ramos is providing this style of vocals for Music/LornaShore . This is most evident on their newest tracks such as "Into the Earth" and "Cursed to Die". |
| 258 | * [[{{Music/KAAN}} K.A.A.N]] uses this in his rap music. This skill is his defining trait and he has a huge vocabulary to make it better. |
| 259 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4acVX7oX_k Kom Igen]]" by Outlandish has rapid-fire verses in five languages: English, Spanish, Danish, Arabic and Urdu. |
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