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15 Times Rappers 'Completely' Mispronounced Words In Their Raps

Rappers make mistakes too.

Kanye West has a way with words. Sometimes, he even bends them to make 'em rhyme. For example, have you ever heard "Can't Tell Me Nothing?" Of course you have, but I'll remind you of one of the song's most memorable lines anyway:

"Don't ever fix your lips like collagen/ to say somethin' when you gon' end up apologin'."

You see, apologin' definitely isn't a word, but that didn't stop Yeezy. He's done the same on a bunch of tracks, and he ain't the only one. So here's a look at times when some of your favorite MCs mispronounced words in their raps for one reason or another.

Akinyele

"No time for apologin'."

Yeezy wasn't the first to use this one. Blame Akinyele.

Nicki Minaj

"You're like a candy store/And I'm a todd-lore."

Sorry, Nicki, but toddler isn't pronounced that way.

Future

"Money on the counter, choppers on the flu/I just copped that tempo, DJ Mustard, woo/ Way too much codeine and Adderu.”

Future managed to rhyme floor, woo and Adderall on "Jumpman," but he kind of had to mispronounce two of those words to make it happen.

Kanye West

"Good mornian/ Look at the valedictorian."

When your friends say, "Good morning," you can reply the Ye way: "Good mornian." Yeezy taught you.

Bun B

"Sit back and peep my suh-naw-rio / Oops, my bad, that's my scenario."

You can't really hate on Bun when he says, "Oops my bad." You just can't.

French Montana

"Fanute the coupe!"

Okay, so I'm not entirely sure how "from the hooptie coupe" turned into "fanute the coupe," but I know that it happened. Then, fanute took on a life of its own and French even did a whole interview about it with Complex. Fanute!

Lloyd Banks

"Difference is, I'm eating in Rome and you eating Roman noodles."

But Ramen and Roman? Not the same.

Big Boi

"I'm strapped, man/ ready to bust on any n---a like that, man/ Me and my n---a, we roll together like Batman and Rob-anne."

Never heard of Rob-anne until this, but Batman's homie Robin seems cool.

Riff Raff

“Through the Great Wall of China/ I done came through with a bitch, she look albina.”

Not gonna try to make sense of this line, but pretty sure Riff meant to say albino here.

Lil B

"Send money through the wire like Kay-On-West."

Based God wasn't the only one mispronouncing Kanye's name. Yeezy once even said that some of his "plaques still say Kayne."

Ol' Dirty Bastard

"Claimin' they be bombin' this, but they still remains anomynous."

Ol' Dirty (R.I.P.) meant to say anonymous, right?

Eminem

"Rodent/ I'm om-knee-poe-dent/Let off, then I'm reloadin'."

This confused some Stans while others lol'd all about it.

Method Man

"I'm better than my competta/ You mean competitor?/ Whatever/ Let's get together."

Gotta love how Method Man shrugs this off like a pro. "Whatever" is the ultimate comeback to a correction, btw.

Ad Rock

"I'll rock a house party at the drop of a hat/ I'll beat a biter down with an a-lun-im-um bat."

Wonder if those are anything like aluminum bats.

Lil Wayne

"And I just signed a chick named Nicki Me-Nawj."

It's hard to imagine anyone (especially Lil Wayne) mispronouncing Minaj's name, but Weezy did it here anyway.

See? It happens all the time. And to be honest, it's hard to say whether it's a good thing or a bad thing (or half and half). Guess it's up to the listener to decide.

But MCs (and writers of all kinds, really) break words down often. It's part of the fun you can have with language. Here's Eminem, for example, talking about how you can play with words to make them rhyme...like orange (or, as shown on the list, omnipotent).

Can you think of other instances of this in music? Do you think the mispronounced words are annoying or fun? Sound off in the comments.

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