Congratulations to all of last week’s contestants, especially those with 100%. Special congratulations to Tony, who finished in a rasping time with more than five minutes to spare.
This week’s challenge wanders into unfamiliar territory for this quiz. You need to decipher the rap lyric, translated into more scholarly language, and guess the song.
My rap knowledge is poor, particularly of the 1990s gangsta rap that the quiz focuses on, so I scored a measly 6/18. Even if you’re not a fan of hip hop, the quiz is agreeably humorous.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Mattomic/rapwithclass
How did you get on?
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This is about as far from my musical wheelhouse as you can get, so I’m not surprised by my 5/18 score. Had they focused on rap from the era with Young MC, Tone Loc, Salt ‘N Pepa, LL Cool J, Kid ‘N Play, etc. I would have done better, but most of the artists in the quiz are just names I’ve heard of. Oh, and I only looked at the clues after the fact. I just picked 5 song titles I knew by certain artists and got them right.
I think the premise of the quiz (gentrifying lyrics) means that it largely focuses on gangsta rap – it doesn’t really cover the hip hop that I enjoy either.
For the first time, I’m passing on a quiz. I would likely get zero. For the record, on the last quiz while I didn’t get the fastest time, I too had over five minutes left.
Sorry – I should have mentioned you too. I’m interested to see if anyone does really well – we’ve had low scores so far.
I literally could not even try. I hear hip hop sometimes and occasionally like it. But not so much that I track down the title or artist. It’s just background noise. I’ve never developed much interest in it though I’ve tried.
SCORE
2/18
TIMER
00:00
I’m totally amazed I got 2 right. You can probably guess which two I got.
I actually missed ‘Ice Ice Baby’ – just skim read and missed it, even though it’s an obvious pick as the only Vanilla Ice song anyone knows.
The clue didn’t really bring that to mind though…I just typed in the only one I knew…and of course the MC one.
11 – I passed!
I may have to borrow that positive correlation between finances & troubles line!
Maths class?
Accounting this semester – but still numbers!
Maybe a ledger entry?
as long as debits = credits!
More assets, more debt
only 8, but better than I thought I would do.
You’re in second place.
That is crazy.
We’re never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy.
Low scoring week!
I got 8 then hit the ‘give up’ button. What the hell is a Young Jeezy? It sounds like it might be the name of the penguin in Toy Story 3…
I only knew a couple thanks to their ever presence on Song Quiz and radio. Great quiz though: a real test this one
It’s pretty creative, it’s just my readers aren’t well versed in the type of hip hop that needs gentrifying.
Wow. Got 2 and gave up with about a minute left since it was not going to improve – rap definitively not my thing. I recognized most of the names but only a few of the songs. Plus was having brain lock on how many is a score.. 😉
Looks like most of the quiz participants aren’t big hip hop fans.
If not for Hammer and Vanilla I would have struck out – and I would really call them legit rap artists.
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