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September 17, 2007

Bigmouths Strike Again: Crazy Clever Edition

Shakespeare's alright, but c'mon, you know he never hooked shit up like this. In an interview with Radar, today's Bigmouth explains why he's smarter than the average pop star...

"It's harder than you think to write the sort of song that keeps your attention and entices you to sing it verbatim later. It's easy, if you're a poet, to write complex verses like, 'I'm coming after you like VWXYZ.' Just think about that. It's like, 'You, V does come after U! That's fucking crazy!' My mind thinks like that all the time, coming up with crazy clever metaphors and rhymery things."
Guess the poet who knows it, and take the jump for the answer.

We knew well will.i.am had a punny name, but this takes the Black Eyed Peas rhymer to a new level: "It's like, if you and Tom Landry were doing the laundry, because, like, if you put a U in 'landry', in the right place, it spells 'laundry.'"

Dude needs his own episode of Sesame Street.

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i hate this guy.

Posted by: matty ice at 09/17/07 1:15 PM | Reply
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i always assume its Kanye West

Posted by: mobetta at 09/17/07 1:27 PM | Reply
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hahahahahahaha

Posted by: Sean at 09/17/07 1:29 PM | Reply
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"rhymery things" = amazing. until that little nugget i thought it could be kanye, too.

Posted by: m at 09/17/07 1:53 PM | Reply
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what a idiot

Posted by: Tibi Puiu at 09/17/07 1:57 PM | Reply
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"But, don't you get it?

my name is William, but my rhymery name is will.i.am. Which is complex because people also call me will. So, therefor will is who i am.

I'm as brilliant as Fergie is ugly."

Posted by: retarded.I.am at 09/17/07 1:57 PM | Reply
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ahh, damn you retarded.i.am!

how can i try to make fun of will.i.am. after that post?

Posted by: jdubs at 09/17/07 3:33 PM | Reply
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Will - I - Am! I can break my name apart and sound like Yoda! I'm a genius!

Posted by: Dw Dunphy at 09/17/07 3:52 PM | Reply
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"I'm coming after you like VWXYZ" is neither metaphor nor "rhymery"

Posted by: # at 09/17/07 4:03 PM | Reply
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lmao
I guessed Kanye, but Kanye can actually write, so I was skeptical.
Go away will.i.am.

Posted by: alexis at 09/17/07 4:58 PM | Reply
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Sadly, that's one of the best rhymes I've heard him create - AND IT DIDN'T EVEN RHYME.

Posted by: Christopher at 09/17/07 6:10 PM | Reply
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What the....

Whatch out Michael Jackson, there's a new guy on the playground taking inspiration from the kiddies.

Posted by: Ashrey at 09/18/07 12:28 AM | Reply
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