Flocabulary (featuring April Hill)                                                        copyright Flocabulary 2005

Pop, Crackle and Snap                                                        www.Flocabulary.com/popcracklesnap.html

 

Lyrics

 

Pop, crackle and snap like an elastic,

I rock raps ebulliently, enthusiastically.

I spit words with eagerness and alacrity.

sip on my rhymes like a virgin daiquiri,

I'm glad to be me, I'm elated, exultant,

The sovereign of the land,

I rule it like the sultan,

call me emcee escher the fresh alchemist,

I change and transmute to gold like King Midas,

Turn archaic, old beats into new ones,

Turn old mattresses into fancy futons,

I have a big capacious kitchen,

make my own croutons,

I make them infinitesimal,

smaller than neutrons.

Try to recycle my rhymes like a can,

I'll discomfit you, thwart your plans.

Advanced and precocious like Becky,

my cousin,

age nine she read Dostoyevsky...

in Russian, Crime and Punishment,

Notes from the Underground,

She's virtuosic, very talented now...

 

Ow, everybody,

Mind to body…

 

Now I want every rap I rap to be a rhapsody,

very impassioned, writ enthusiastically.

I stand strong, resolute, firm and determined,

to exterminate these squirming worms

and the vermin.

I have an amazing level of perspicacity,

the capacity to see things perceptively.

I'll even rhyme with words that

don't rhyme like orange.

Never boring... um...

I'll swing back like a door-hinge.

I could be ridiculous like ludicrous,

delightful and apt, felicitous.

If it stinks then it's fetid,

but we hot we never tepid,

I just said it don't forget it,

let it in and then it's netted.

It's nuts!  Allergic to nuts? What you gonna do?

Eschew cashews, dude, avoid 'em like the flu.

Who wish ill will?  who cast aspersions?

These words more incisive than incisions of a surgeon.

Definitions

 

ebullient (adj.) – zestfully enthusiastic

alacrity (n.) – cheerful eagerness

exultant (adj.) – elated, joyful, triumphant

sovereign (n.) – a ruler with complete authority

sultan (n.) – a ruler of a Muslim country, or a powerful person

alchemist (n.) – a (medieval) pseudo-scientist who tries to turn common objects into gold

transmute (v.) – to transform or change from one form to another

archaic (adj.) – old and no longer useful, antiquated

capacious (adj.) – spacious, roomy

 

infinitesimal (adj.) – very small, immeasurably minute

 

discomfit (v.) – to thwart the plans of, or frustrate

precocious (adj.) – smart beyond one’s years, showing impressive early intelligence

 

virtuosic (adj.) – possessing great talent, often artistic (from the noun form virtuoso)

 

 

 

 

rhapsody (n.) – very enthusiastic expression of feeling in speech, writing or music

resolute (adj.) – firm, determined

 

vermin (n.) – annoying insects or rodents

perspicacity (n.) – the ability to perceive clearly

capacity (n.) – ability

 

 

 

 

 

ludicrous (adj.) – ridiculous, laughably absurd

felicitous (adj.) – apt and appropriate, or delightful

fetid (adj.) – stinky, having a bad odor

tepid (adj.) – lukewarm, neither hot nor cold

 

eschew (v.) – to avoid

aspersion (n.) – a negative remark

incisive (adj.) – penetrating, clear, sharp

incision (n.) – a cut into the body, especially during surgery