Royce Da 5’9″‘s latest single, “Caterpillar,” was released this afternoon. It features a guest verse from Eminem, Detroit rap’s most famous son. Em’s verse features a number of references to fecal matter: “Poop is my suit,” “my bars always got my stools in ’em,” “this shit is real like I pooped Jerusalem.”
But before he gets to rapping about his bowel movements, he takes aim at a thing that some old rap dudes seemed to be mad about a few years ago: “The boom bap is coming back with an ax to mumble rap.”
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Some might contend that, if you’re going to declare “mumble rap” over, you might not want immediately follow up by dropping into a sixteen-bar shit monologue. You might not want to rap:
On the john like a prostitute when I’m droppin’ a deuce
And when I’m producing them lyrical bowel movements
Some people might say that it’s not the best advertising for a glorious return to the good old days. But that’s just some people.
Here’s a brief history of artists rapping about poop.
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