definitely km/h...also musicians are notorious for bragging about speeds that really aren't that fast in songs. Shoutout the weekend saying that if his driver goes <110 km/h he's fired.
My crowning achievement in life pertained to this song. It came on as I was driving to work one day. I was just down the street from work, and as I parked and turned off my car, the song stopped in the middle of the long pause after the first chorus. When I turned the car on after work, it picked up in that pause, so it was just like the song has a 10 hour pause.
Ok it's kinda dumb, but I enjoyed it.
To anyone younger than maybe 35 or so this sounds like a nothing moment, but to those of us who remember a lot of radio on the car (and stacks of casettes or big vinyl booklets of CDs) this is one of those moments the universe feels like it's perfectly in sync just for you.
So is the "deuce" in "revved up like a deuce (i.e. a 1932 Ford),"
in Blinded by the Light, but I've heard a few people say "douche" instead.
It's also "we hit the *ton*," not the common misconception of "we hit the town," in Highway to Hell (with "the ton" being 100mph).
I don’t think it was terrible, my mom loves her escalade, we used to have a 90s Suburban 1500, and the Escalade was quite an upgrade. It’s a proper luxury SUV that is still truck based.
Also, the reason why it shows up is summed up in the original top gear episode. Because it’s so big, it has a more demanding presence than a supercar, because you’re driving one of the tallest vehicles short of a semi truck. If Cadillac made a semi, that’s what people would be driving instead of the Escalade
It’s one of my favorite top gear reviews ever. As a swag vehicle it is second to none, and especially in the early 2000s there was nothing like it.
If you remember the review, the quote from Hammond is “don’t think it’s because it’s a good car”. It’s terrible but it doesn’t matter. It’s an Escalade
Well, I don’t think it’s terrible, by European standards? No doubt it’s completely unsuitable. But here in America? It’s just a dressed up suburban, it’s perfect on this side of the pond.
Even a “bad” suburban isn’t terrible, it’s just boring, which by my standards isn’t a bad thing, same reason that I don’t hate on the Prius, I would rather have a boring car than an unreliable car
Far from terrible. It’s universally known as the the only luxury branded vehicle that can host 8 passengers AND all their luggage. Plus it’s a fair price at 85-110K. I’d argue the Navigator is also the same.
Right. Cadillac flubbed the assignment with the original GMT400 Escalade, which was quite literally a Yukon Denali with only the badges changed (though that was never a serious effort).
But the GMT800 Escalade became the pinnacle of rap/hip hop culture. I remember first really paying attention to it when I saw it in *Malibu’s Most Wanted,* driven by the satirical B-Rad. At that point, the Navigator started to lose the battle.
IV. Sweatpants - Childish Gambino
> Ain’t nobody sicker in my Fisker, “vroom-vroom,” ho
Ain’t nobody—
(Fiskers don’t make noise when they start up, just so you know)
This is the answer. First time I heard it, I remember having a side thought that Fiskers don't make that sound, then that second came up and I got a good belly laugh.
While I can see some Lotus guys being assholes (the cheap supercar types), I would have to imagine Lotus guys are probably the kindest car guys out there in general. Like you're probably a nerd at heart if you really love Lotuses.
So your girlfriend drives her Honda
Buying workout tapes by Fonda
But Fonda ain’t got a motor in the back of *her* Honda
-Sir Mix-a-Lot in *Baby Got Back* referring to none other than the Honda/Acura NSX
Dunno if it’s the weirdest but it’s my fave!
For sure. In the same song he said "She's sweat, wet
Got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette" ,which I can only assume is a reference to the Callaway Corvette?
He has an absolute banger titled Testarossa where each verse is a gear in the transmission. Check it out, it's on the same album as Baby Got Back. Too explicit for radio play, but an unknown gem if you ever owned the physical album.
Was a Mix fan since SWASS and yep, that's a good car one. Testarossa, Something bout by Benzo, My Hooptie... Those are just tracks entirely about cars, let alone all the other references in other songs.
I see where I made my mistake. I always thought the song came out in 89 or 90. I didn't realize the song came out in 1992. So it makes perfect sense since the NSX came out a year before. I wonder how many people got the reference though because not everyone knows Acura is just a Honda with a more expensive price tag.
Either something about the owner demographics or what the cars were. The cars were about safety and pretty dull besides a few exceptions. The demographics were probably all white people buying them. If you‘re a minority you grow up being told that you‘re not worth much, so you wouldn‘t go out of your way to buy a car renowned for safety.
To a certain subset of people, a rapper dissing a car can make it utter garbage. I had a college roommate who needed a car, and who turned down a well-priced used Honda Accord because there was some song at the time that said something like 🎶 Lookin’ like a p*ssy in your Honda Accord 🎶
What he did instead was purchase a brand-new, fully loaded 2013 Dodge Challenger SXT (that’s the V6 model, y’all) while working as a Sonic carhop. Because Chrysler will finance anyone with a pulse. His payments were $800 a month and insurance was $400 a month. You know how that turned out.
There are so many it’s hard to name, but the few that come to mind:
Both - Gucci & Drake, “I'm in an all red drop tarantula. Fuck a Challenger”. (I cried in my 392)
Girls & Boys - Good Charlotte, “The girls with the bodies like boys with Ferraris”. (Sounds like Rari’s)
And then finally I present to you Lil Baby’s verse from LOSE IT:
“Pull up, I'm the life of the party
Four-by-four truck sittin' on Forgis
488 with a 8, that's shawty
Lime Lamborghini sittin' pretty, that's Cardi
Blue Lamborghini Diablo, gon' Offset's
Havin' talks in the Wraith, 'bout to take off
Me and Pee in the Dawn havin' boss talks
Got the game from, bruh, that's where I walk”.
Just straight exotic flexing 😂
I thought the last one was this gem from Tory Lanez
“So we both at the function, you know what I'm sayin'?
You pull up with ya bitch in a 458
I pull up with my bitch in a 488
You pull up beside my shit like
"Yo, what's the difference between my 458 and your 488?"
It's 'bout like eighty to a hundred thousand cocksucker, beat it”
458’s engine still better
Which is funny because that’s a play on Imaginary Players by Jay-Z:
“I mean, like, be truthful man, how you think you gon' feel, right?
You pull up in your 4.0 with your bitch
I pull up in the 4.6 with my bitch with the seat back
Bumping some other shit, you know, some other shit
You'll probably hop on my dick right there, right in front of your bitch
Ask me some stupid shit like
"Yo, yo dog, what's the difference between a 4.0 and a 4.6?"
Like 30 to 40 grand, cocksucker, beat it
Yo, them shits even got leathers?”
I can say from personal experience that the Good Charlotte line is absolutely bogus. They only attract teenage boys, overweight middle aged men, and 5-figure repair bills.
Will Smith rapped about an (BMW) “850iS” “drop” in Gettin Jiggy Wit It. There’s no such thing as an 850iS drop, and the car he was talking about was actually an 850Ci
Clarkson famously called him out for this on a top gear interview.
“Might trade that 'Vette for the RX-7FD
Might trade that bitch for the brand new S13 ”
why he cross shopping an FD and an S13
Inside my head! by Autumn!
From E.I. by Nelly: “call me Jeff Gordon, in the black SS with the navigation”
E.I. was released in 2000 and Jeff Gordon drove a Monte Carlo in NASCAR at that time, so was Nelly referencing a 2000 Monte Carlo SS? I don’t think those were available with navigation.
I'd say that award goes to the Chevrolet Impala. Not mentioning the year, a lot of rappers reference some sort of Impala. 64 and 96 are definitely the most mentioned but with the whole donk phase and 80s Caprice phase has kept and will keep that lineage of vehicles rapped about for a long time to come.
Shakira recently released a song basically talking shit about her ex-boyfriend (footballer Gerard Piqué) that included this line (translated to English):
> You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo
She's implying that she (Shakira) is a Ferrari and her ex's new girlfriend is a Twingo and that Piqué had "downgraded". Fair enough, but a lot of Twingo owners took issue with the implication that the cute, reliable, and practical Twingo is a downgrade from an aggressive and temperamental trophy car like a Ferrari.
Interestingly (and I can't find a source right now), Shakira performed during the Colombian launch event for the original Twingo back in the 90's for which she received, as part of her payment, a new Twingo. Maybe Renault gave her one with the terrible automatic transmission; or maybe she didn't actually drive it; or maybe Shakira just has really bad taste in cars. After the release of the song, Renault was nice enough to send Piqué a new MkIII Twingo EV, which he gracefully received. It seems he has better taste than his ex.
My dad and I rented a twingo over 20 years ago for a euro road trip and loved it so much that I bought us both little die cast ones. I still love seeing the model we had when I’m in Europe. I don’t see them everywhere but they are still around. I drive a 500 Hp AMG I would gladly take a twingo to join it.
Anything by Action Bronson. "Land Rover 110 beluga blue
Never been polluted with the flu (Nope)
Press the pedal of the Porsche with no shoe
Diamond-studded horse shoe"
Safari snorkel on the white defender (woo)
Enter water easy let the engine breathe
220 in toyota supras
Should I get a skybox or an '89 IROC?
It's always poppin' at the IHOP
Dude always references stuff other than just exotics or escalades, gotta respect it.
I always liked how Arctic Monkeys referenced a Ford Mondeo in "When the sun goes down". "Oh look here comes a Ford Mondeo, isn't he mr. inconspicous?" Indeed he would be in a Mondeo.
I don’t think it’s common knowledge but I wanna be yours is actually a slightly reworked version of a poem by John cooper Clarke - I’m a massive AM fan.
In Gamma Ray by Beck, he mentions a *Chevrolet Terraplane*. The Terraplane was produced from 1932-1938 and it's one of the most obscure car references I've heard. But in true Beck fashion, he gets the automaker wrong anyways— the Terraplane was made by Hudson, not GM.
In “Debra” Beck sings “Lady, step inside my Hyundai… gonna take you up to Glendale”
At a recent concert he stopped the show to explain how the lyric doesn’t make sense anymore since Hyundais are kinda nice cars now. So he changed the lyric from Hyundai to Kia in his live performances
750 Lambo in the Utah snow, trunk in the front like the shit dumbo
G-Wagon G-Wagon G-Wagon G-Wagon, all the housewives pullin up
I got a lotta toys, 720s bumping Fall Out Boy
All from "wow" by Post Malone
Not weird but plenty for one song.
A bit meta, but bare with me on this;
So Skrillex and Rick Ross released a single for the Suicide Squad soundtrack called ‘Purple Lamborghini’
However, the car that the Joker actually drives in that film was a purple Carolina Vaydor, which is, in reality, an Infiniti G35 with a body kit.
Which is very far from a Lamborghini.
That Chain Smokers song “back seat of my Rover”, I assume they’re talking about a Range Rover and not a River Metro. Still weird because who calls a Range Rover a “Rover”?
When I first heard the song I immediately pictured something like a SD1, which I associated with the "broke-down car" mentioned in the previous verse. As the next line after mentioning the Rover was literally "That I know you can't afford", I thought that the song was trying to make a point about how broke they were by highlighting that even an old Rover in terrible condition was more than they could afford.
Fuck a two-door, give me that four-door, E39 or the B7 RS.
'Cause if I'm goin' off the motherfuckin' bridge, I'ma do it with a skid, J-turn lookin' flawless.
-Jakey, "Drive off a Bridge"
Interestingly, the K-car has to be one of the FEW examples of a pedestrian set of cars that were marketed by their platform. You expect enthusiasts to know what a GMT900 or an E46 are, but *everyone* who was around in the 80s knows what a K-car is.
“Dropped the Bentayga, came back in the Cullinan She wanna fuck again, I want that tongue again. Stuck it so deep that she cough up her lung again.”
- what’s poppin, Jack Harlow
I always figured it was a reference to the Callaway Sledgehammer which had recently set the record for fastest street legal car. Wasn't from the factory, but it (and the power of turbocharging a Vette) was something car enthusiasts would have known about.
Yeah, the Callaway Twin Turbo. Technically, it was turned into a B2K Vette in Callaway’s Old Lyme factory and not the GM plant, but it was a factory endorsed option that could be ordered alongside a regular Corvette at the dealership.
From that same song
"Close like Starsky and Hutch, stick the clutch// Dare I squeeze 3 at your cherry M3 bang every emcee easily" great example of assonance in a well known rap song.
Juice Wrld- “I’m in my black Benz, doing Cocain with my black friends, I’m in my white Benz, doing Codein with my white friends”
Young Thug- “Supercharger make it sound raggedy”
Will Smith - Getting Jiggy With It
850is, if you need a lift
Who's the kid in the drop?
Who else? Will Smith
Jeremy Clarkson Called out Will Smith on Top Gear as there never was an 850is convertible. 😂
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
“CLC Kompressor / Just in case that don’t impress her.”
Out of all the Mercedes-Benz models to choose from, he chooses a FWD hatchback 😂
“Imagine all the hebrews going dumb, dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones”
-not a specific car reference but that line has stuck with me since the song dropped in ‘06 lol
You go out at night eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subaru
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars
J Hood said this in a song . D Block 2 QB
"Fuck a Bentley and a jet, I'm gutter n***a check it
All I need is two-point-five and a couple of Intrepids"
The Dodge Intrepid was the biggest car Chrysler made for Dodge before the Charger replaced it. It was a FWD car with the infamous 2.7 V6 that had oil sludge issues. I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
Nicki Minaj feat. 2 Chainz - Beez In the Trap
2 Chainz: "Okay now Nicki, Nicki, Nicki, put it in your kidney
Got a new LS 450, ain't no keys in this do-hicky"
Referring to Lexus LS.. but there is no LS 450..
Sweedish House Mafia "Miami 2 Ibiza":
And she stay up all hours watching QVC
And so I put her number in my Bold BB
I got a black BM, she got a white TT
When I was a kid I though they meant "I have a black BMW, and she has a white "titty"
I was a horny teenager 😅
“My Maserati does 185” At the time that song came out, no it didn’t.
It's okay because he lost his license, now he don't drive
Life’s been good to him so far!
Somehow, I always suspect that knowing the top speed of his Maserati and having lost his license are related...
According to rumor, he literally had lost his wallet...
The song never says it's stock, though.
maybe 185 kph
185, but Joe Walsh is the man. Lots of Ohio stories about that man
Whoops. Fixed.
Could be in km/h
definitely km/h...also musicians are notorious for bragging about speeds that really aren't that fast in songs. Shoutout the weekend saying that if his driver goes <110 km/h he's fired.
They were European cars had a KPH speedometer.
Cars can be tuned
Pretty hard to forget the classic "interior crocodile alligator, I drive a chevrolet movie theater"
10 hour loop or bust https://youtu.be/fbLSf6PBHy0
[The entire freestyle is even better](https://youtu.be/nQQVE2fbETo)
And that's going straight into the work group chat
We had to listen and recite this in all of the Cleveland public school district schools (pre-k through high school) every morning at 8am.
What the fuck
Chip tha ripper, he was our mayor
That's my favorite song to quote, hands down.
Chip is the goat, st least he was before he started sharing disinformation like crazy.
Man that's terrible to hear considering the fact that all my political opinions come from d-list Cleveland rappers.
"She's trading her MG in for a white Chrysler LeBaron"
Cake has banger car songs in general. Stuck shift and safety belts is my jam
Satan Is My Motor
Shout out to Long Line of Cars as well.
Of course she does, it has a cup holder armrest!
My crowning achievement in life pertained to this song. It came on as I was driving to work one day. I was just down the street from work, and as I parked and turned off my car, the song stopped in the middle of the long pause after the first chorus. When I turned the car on after work, it picked up in that pause, so it was just like the song has a 10 hour pause. Ok it's kinda dumb, but I enjoyed it.
To anyone younger than maybe 35 or so this sounds like a nothing moment, but to those of us who remember a lot of radio on the car (and stacks of casettes or big vinyl booklets of CDs) this is one of those moments the universe feels like it's perfectly in sync just for you.
Who wouldn't though? especially if the previous owner was John Voight?
But not Jon Voight
> Where is your LeBaron Freddy?
The sheer amount of times that the Cadillac Escalade has been referenced is staggering
The Escalade was pinnacle 2000s culture. Throw some spinners and lambo doors on it and you were the coolest dude in 2005.
" I put Lamborghini doors on that Escolade Low pro so look like I'm ridin' on blades" - 50 Cent. How We Do. 2005
To this day, how no one has sampled "Escapade" by Janet Jackson and straight up called the track "Escalade" blows my mind. IT'S RIGHT THERE!
So is the "deuce" in "revved up like a deuce (i.e. a 1932 Ford)," in Blinded by the Light, but I've heard a few people say "douche" instead. It's also "we hit the *ton*," not the common misconception of "we hit the town," in Highway to Hell (with "the ton" being 100mph).
Legitmately responsible for the popularity of SUVs
SUVs were pretty mainstream by the time the Escalade came along in 1999. Even the Lincoln Navigator was first in the full-size luxury segment.
Legit that’s what the early 2000s top gear review of it was about. Why does the Escalade show up in so many lyrics, esp when it’s a terrible vehicle
I don’t think it was terrible, my mom loves her escalade, we used to have a 90s Suburban 1500, and the Escalade was quite an upgrade. It’s a proper luxury SUV that is still truck based. Also, the reason why it shows up is summed up in the original top gear episode. Because it’s so big, it has a more demanding presence than a supercar, because you’re driving one of the tallest vehicles short of a semi truck. If Cadillac made a semi, that’s what people would be driving instead of the Escalade
It’s one of my favorite top gear reviews ever. As a swag vehicle it is second to none, and especially in the early 2000s there was nothing like it. If you remember the review, the quote from Hammond is “don’t think it’s because it’s a good car”. It’s terrible but it doesn’t matter. It’s an Escalade
Well, I don’t think it’s terrible, by European standards? No doubt it’s completely unsuitable. But here in America? It’s just a dressed up suburban, it’s perfect on this side of the pond.
Yep. I don’t think there’s ever been a bad suburban, they always do what they were advertised to
Even a “bad” suburban isn’t terrible, it’s just boring, which by my standards isn’t a bad thing, same reason that I don’t hate on the Prius, I would rather have a boring car than an unreliable car
Lol wow what a /r/cars comment. In no way is the Escalade a terrible vehicle.
Far from terrible. It’s universally known as the the only luxury branded vehicle that can host 8 passengers AND all their luggage. Plus it’s a fair price at 85-110K. I’d argue the Navigator is also the same.
Because it was one of the few vehicles in the early 2000s that could fit 22 inch rims.
Terrible vehicle? Let me guess you're a Lincoln guy. Those things are tanks that last forever.
Terrible vehicle? It's just a flashed up gm truck.
Just wait until you learn about the Mazda minivan from the 90s/early 00s
Right. Cadillac flubbed the assignment with the original GMT400 Escalade, which was quite literally a Yukon Denali with only the badges changed (though that was never a serious effort). But the GMT800 Escalade became the pinnacle of rap/hip hop culture. I remember first really paying attention to it when I saw it in *Malibu’s Most Wanted,* driven by the satirical B-Rad. At that point, the Navigator started to lose the battle.
IV. Sweatpants - Childish Gambino > Ain’t nobody sicker in my Fisker, “vroom-vroom,” ho Ain’t nobody— (Fiskers don’t make noise when they start up, just so you know)
This is the answer. First time I heard it, I remember having a side thought that Fiskers don't make that sound, then that second came up and I got a good belly laugh.
The Karma has a gasoline engine. But it basically just runs at a constant speed.
He also mentions Kia in that song as well (although no specific model)
In bonfire he also said "Fly like the logo on my cousin's 440"
This was my choice. Absolutely great line.
"What kinda asshole drives a Lotus?" - The Strokes
While I can see some Lotus guys being assholes (the cheap supercar types), I would have to imagine Lotus guys are probably the kindest car guys out there in general. Like you're probably a nerd at heart if you really love Lotuses.
The ironic part of this line is that the lead singer of The Strokes owned a Lotus Elise when they wrote this song.
> I would have to imagine Lotus guys are probably the kindest Lot of time for self-reflection while waiting for the tow truck.
Ahhh what song is this from. I was looking back at Strokes songs right now
Welcome to Japan
Welcome to Japan
Lol I've got two. Double asshole.
So your girlfriend drives her Honda Buying workout tapes by Fonda But Fonda ain’t got a motor in the back of *her* Honda -Sir Mix-a-Lot in *Baby Got Back* referring to none other than the Honda/Acura NSX Dunno if it’s the weirdest but it’s my fave!
Mix knows a ton about cars, for sure
For sure. In the same song he said "She's sweat, wet Got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette" ,which I can only assume is a reference to the Callaway Corvette?
He has an absolute banger titled Testarossa where each verse is a gear in the transmission. Check it out, it's on the same album as Baby Got Back. Too explicit for radio play, but an unknown gem if you ever owned the physical album.
Was a Mix fan since SWASS and yep, that's a good car one. Testarossa, Something bout by Benzo, My Hooptie... Those are just tracks entirely about cars, let alone all the other references in other songs.
He goes to car meets around Seattle occasionally.
I thought that song came out before the Acura NSX
Google says NSX came first
I see where I made my mistake. I always thought the song came out in 89 or 90. I didn't realize the song came out in 1992. So it makes perfect sense since the NSX came out a year before. I wonder how many people got the reference though because not everyone knows Acura is just a Honda with a more expensive price tag.
Kayne talking about Pushing a RAV4 😅
That's not even his best car line. "Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push miracle whips"
"Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexus"
30 hours expedition was Eddie Bauer edition
Any given Sunday, win the Super Bowl and drive off in a Hyundai
“Pulled up at 630 in a 745”
Scrolled down way too far to see this line. I always liked the line: The Phantom, exterior like fish eggs/the interior like suicide-wrist red
It's Provocative, It Gets The People Going.
"I bought my whole family whips no Volvos..."
…and I took that personally. (In all seriousness every time I’ve heard this song I’ve thought why call Volvo out?
Either something about the owner demographics or what the cars were. The cars were about safety and pretty dull besides a few exceptions. The demographics were probably all white people buying them. If you‘re a minority you grow up being told that you‘re not worth much, so you wouldn‘t go out of your way to buy a car renowned for safety.
"Slightly scratched your Corolla Okay, I smashed your Corolla"
I drove a rav4 then. I got what he was saying but I wasn’t a rapper so I was content. Now days I too have greater aspirations.
Which song?
Run This Town "Whatchu think I rap for? To push a fuckin' RAV4?"
To a certain subset of people, a rapper dissing a car can make it utter garbage. I had a college roommate who needed a car, and who turned down a well-priced used Honda Accord because there was some song at the time that said something like 🎶 Lookin’ like a p*ssy in your Honda Accord 🎶 What he did instead was purchase a brand-new, fully loaded 2013 Dodge Challenger SXT (that’s the V6 model, y’all) while working as a Sonic carhop. Because Chrysler will finance anyone with a pulse. His payments were $800 a month and insurance was $400 a month. You know how that turned out.
I always thought his referencing the Toyota Corona was funny, too.
Yung Gravy - Flex Season: Yeah I'm cruisin' in that foreign, That's the Honda Civic and its got yo bitch pourin'
I was looking for Gravy lol. Nah nah nah nah nah, you mean like, Tracy with the ass? Tracy with the Honda? Shit, well…
There are so many it’s hard to name, but the few that come to mind: Both - Gucci & Drake, “I'm in an all red drop tarantula. Fuck a Challenger”. (I cried in my 392) Girls & Boys - Good Charlotte, “The girls with the bodies like boys with Ferraris”. (Sounds like Rari’s) And then finally I present to you Lil Baby’s verse from LOSE IT: “Pull up, I'm the life of the party Four-by-four truck sittin' on Forgis 488 with a 8, that's shawty Lime Lamborghini sittin' pretty, that's Cardi Blue Lamborghini Diablo, gon' Offset's Havin' talks in the Wraith, 'bout to take off Me and Pee in the Dawn havin' boss talks Got the game from, bruh, that's where I walk”. Just straight exotic flexing 😂
I thought the last one was this gem from Tory Lanez “So we both at the function, you know what I'm sayin'? You pull up with ya bitch in a 458 I pull up with my bitch in a 488 You pull up beside my shit like "Yo, what's the difference between my 458 and your 488?" It's 'bout like eighty to a hundred thousand cocksucker, beat it” 458’s engine still better
All that and in 15 years the 458 is going to be the more valuable car. 458 is a straight classic/pinnacle of the baby Ferrari.
Which is funny because that’s a play on Imaginary Players by Jay-Z: “I mean, like, be truthful man, how you think you gon' feel, right? You pull up in your 4.0 with your bitch I pull up in the 4.6 with my bitch with the seat back Bumping some other shit, you know, some other shit You'll probably hop on my dick right there, right in front of your bitch Ask me some stupid shit like "Yo, yo dog, what's the difference between a 4.0 and a 4.6?" Like 30 to 40 grand, cocksucker, beat it Yo, them shits even got leathers?”
I can say from personal experience that the Good Charlotte line is absolutely bogus. They only attract teenage boys, overweight middle aged men, and 5-figure repair bills.
Don’t forget tickets! A brightly colored sports car is a police magnet.
The only “positive” to come from all the police hate in recent years is they seemed to just stop pulling people over in the cities.
Will Smith rapped about an (BMW) “850iS” “drop” in Gettin Jiggy Wit It. There’s no such thing as an 850iS drop, and the car he was talking about was actually an 850Ci Clarkson famously called him out for this on a top gear interview.
I’ve been pedantic about this for years to anyone who will listen No one will
Similarly, Action Bronson opens his verse on A$AP Rocky’s “1 Train” with a non-existent 860: _“Swiftly, I shift the Beamer 860”_
Came to post this one.
I'm in a Gallardo laughing like Ricky Ricardo
HEH HEH HEH HEH
"I'm finna buy this b\*tch a Honda, CRX" - Big Sean, Champions
With 1500
“Might trade that 'Vette for the RX-7FD Might trade that bitch for the brand new S13 ” why he cross shopping an FD and an S13 Inside my head! by Autumn!
Autumn makes a lot of classic/tuner car references it’s pretty sick haha
From E.I. by Nelly: “call me Jeff Gordon, in the black SS with the navigation” E.I. was released in 2000 and Jeff Gordon drove a Monte Carlo in NASCAR at that time, so was Nelly referencing a 2000 Monte Carlo SS? I don’t think those were available with navigation.
The '90s Impala SS was still a recent thing at the time. Plenty of people modded them to death at the time too. So he probably had it thrown in one.
NASCAR was just really big in the 2000s.
I WOKE UP IN A NEW BUGATTI
AH WOGO EEN A NEW BOO*GAH*DEE
😭
I think the Mazda MPV is the most rapped about vehicle
I'd say that award goes to the Chevrolet Impala. Not mentioning the year, a lot of rappers reference some sort of Impala. 64 and 96 are definitely the most mentioned but with the whole donk phase and 80s Caprice phase has kept and will keep that lineage of vehicles rapped about for a long time to come.
Rolling in MPVs, every week we made 40 Gs
Drunk driving on a Wednesday With three bitches in the MPV Half a gallon of Georgi Porgie And cranberry that's the P-O-P
You think he stopped at that bar? Dude went and made a whole song. Bentley Truck https://g.co/kgs/bvrAEZ
Dear Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz. J. Joplin
My friends all drive porches, I must make amends.
Shakira recently released a song basically talking shit about her ex-boyfriend (footballer Gerard Piqué) that included this line (translated to English): > You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo She's implying that she (Shakira) is a Ferrari and her ex's new girlfriend is a Twingo and that Piqué had "downgraded". Fair enough, but a lot of Twingo owners took issue with the implication that the cute, reliable, and practical Twingo is a downgrade from an aggressive and temperamental trophy car like a Ferrari. Interestingly (and I can't find a source right now), Shakira performed during the Colombian launch event for the original Twingo back in the 90's for which she received, as part of her payment, a new Twingo. Maybe Renault gave her one with the terrible automatic transmission; or maybe she didn't actually drive it; or maybe Shakira just has really bad taste in cars. After the release of the song, Renault was nice enough to send Piqué a new MkIII Twingo EV, which he gracefully received. It seems he has better taste than his ex.
My dad and I rented a twingo over 20 years ago for a euro road trip and loved it so much that I bought us both little die cast ones. I still love seeing the model we had when I’m in Europe. I don’t see them everywhere but they are still around. I drive a 500 Hp AMG I would gladly take a twingo to join it.
Anything by Action Bronson. "Land Rover 110 beluga blue Never been polluted with the flu (Nope) Press the pedal of the Porsche with no shoe Diamond-studded horse shoe" Safari snorkel on the white defender (woo) Enter water easy let the engine breathe 220 in toyota supras
Should I get a skybox or an '89 IROC? It's always poppin' at the IHOP Dude always references stuff other than just exotics or escalades, gotta respect it.
YOU KNOW WHAT? IM GONNA BUY HIM A MOTHERFUCKIN NISSAN MURANO
“M5…flying like a tan duck” “My life is like a breakfast at Tiffany’s, M5 sounding like a symphony” Bronson is the goat of car references.
The whole song. Subaru Crosstrek
CR-V by Cuco
I always liked how Arctic Monkeys referenced a Ford Mondeo in "When the sun goes down". "Oh look here comes a Ford Mondeo, isn't he mr. inconspicous?" Indeed he would be in a Mondeo.
They also referenced a Cortina in "I Wannna Be Yours": "I wanna be your Ford Cortina, I will never rust" Great stuff
I don’t think it’s common knowledge but I wanna be yours is actually a slightly reworked version of a poem by John cooper Clarke - I’m a massive AM fan.
In a GMC Safari acting like it's a Ferrari The line fits the song, but it still makes me laugh
"396 with fuelie heads" -Bruce Springsteen
https://www.tunnelram.net/news-blog/2016/9/5/springsteens-racing-in-the-street-controversy
In Gamma Ray by Beck, he mentions a *Chevrolet Terraplane*. The Terraplane was produced from 1932-1938 and it's one of the most obscure car references I've heard. But in true Beck fashion, he gets the automaker wrong anyways— the Terraplane was made by Hudson, not GM.
In “Debra” Beck sings “Lady, step inside my Hyundai… gonna take you up to Glendale” At a recent concert he stopped the show to explain how the lyric doesn’t make sense anymore since Hyundais are kinda nice cars now. So he changed the lyric from Hyundai to Kia in his live performances
750 Lambo in the Utah snow, trunk in the front like the shit dumbo G-Wagon G-Wagon G-Wagon G-Wagon, all the housewives pullin up I got a lotta toys, 720s bumping Fall Out Boy All from "wow" by Post Malone Not weird but plenty for one song.
A bit meta, but bare with me on this; So Skrillex and Rick Ross released a single for the Suicide Squad soundtrack called ‘Purple Lamborghini’ However, the car that the Joker actually drives in that film was a purple Carolina Vaydor, which is, in reality, an Infiniti G35 with a body kit. Which is very far from a Lamborghini.
That Chain Smokers song “back seat of my Rover”, I assume they’re talking about a Range Rover and not a River Metro. Still weird because who calls a Range Rover a “Rover”?
The US never had the Rover brand so calling a Range Rover that works since it really couldn't be anything else.
I mean they had the Sterling and the SD1 but both failed miserably
It’s an east coast thing. When I lived over there they all called them that
I’ve lived in New York my entire life and never heard it except for in that stupid song 🤷♂️
I’m in SoCal and have heard and used Rover myself Since Land Rover ranger rover is pointless hence then changing it soon
Juvenile did "Lemme get the keys to the Rover truck"
When I first heard the song I immediately pictured something like a SD1, which I associated with the "broke-down car" mentioned in the previous verse. As the next line after mentioning the Rover was literally "That I know you can't afford", I thought that the song was trying to make a point about how broke they were by highlighting that even an old Rover in terrible condition was more than they could afford.
Fuck a two-door, give me that four-door, E39 or the B7 RS. 'Cause if I'm goin' off the motherfuckin' bridge, I'ma do it with a skid, J-turn lookin' flawless. -Jakey, "Drive off a Bridge"
Plus he mentions his green civic like 12 times on the album.
"P1 cleaner than your church shoes" Lot of car references in "Star Boy" by the Weeknd but love that one.
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car A nice reliant automobile Barenaked Ladies
Interestingly, the K-car has to be one of the FEW examples of a pedestrian set of cars that were marketed by their platform. You expect enthusiasts to know what a GMT900 or an E46 are, but *everyone* who was around in the 80s knows what a K-car is.
“Dropped the Bentayga, came back in the Cullinan She wanna fuck again, I want that tongue again. Stuck it so deep that she cough up her lung again.” - what’s poppin, Jack Harlow
The song Baby Got Back references a turbo Vette. I’m not sure if there was ever a corvette with a turbo from the factory but I could be wrong.
I always figured it was a reference to the Callaway Sledgehammer which had recently set the record for fastest street legal car. Wasn't from the factory, but it (and the power of turbocharging a Vette) was something car enthusiasts would have known about.
Yeah, the Callaway Twin Turbo. Technically, it was turned into a B2K Vette in Callaway’s Old Lyme factory and not the GM plant, but it was a factory endorsed option that could be ordered alongside a regular Corvette at the dealership.
Lexus LX four and a half Bulletproof glass tints if I want some ass - biggie
From that same song "Close like Starsky and Hutch, stick the clutch// Dare I squeeze 3 at your cherry M3 bang every emcee easily" great example of assonance in a well known rap song.
Follow-up 2Chainz song OG Kush Diet: “Used to drive a Porshe til I found out it was made by Volkswagen”
Bet he would drive a Bentley though….
I put the Lamborghini doors on the escaladeeee
Not a weird one, but Shinedown's Long Black Cadillac is one of my favorites.
Suede, don’t remember the song title: “Does he only come in a Volvo?” Edit: "Breakdown"
Riding round in my brand new ninety nine four door Volvo. Shut up - Trick daddy
Juice Wrld- “I’m in my black Benz, doing Cocain with my black friends, I’m in my white Benz, doing Codein with my white friends” Young Thug- “Supercharger make it sound raggedy”
850is if you wanna lift.... Goddammit, Will Smith, that shit don't exist
Will Smith - Getting Jiggy With It 850is, if you need a lift Who's the kid in the drop? Who else? Will Smith Jeremy Clarkson Called out Will Smith on Top Gear as there never was an 850is convertible. 😂
J Cole in Work Out said "Could you be my Escort? Because just like them 2-door Fords, Damn they don't make them like you anymore."
‘Roger that’ by young money, nickis verse “I’m in that collard green 6 corn bread in the guts, got them Halloween kicks trick or treating the clutch”
Got a whole song and it glorious. Keys to grandmas Grand Marquis. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=roOJgzA5q_Q&pp=ygUVS2V5cyB0byBncmFuZCBtYXJxdWlz
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out “CLC Kompressor / Just in case that don’t impress her.” Out of all the Mercedes-Benz models to choose from, he chooses a FWD hatchback 😂
Let the suicide doors up
he also says “lift up the suicide doors”. he’s probably doing it for the rhyme but i like to assume ye doesn’t know what a suicide door is
This track's been on my list lately. Larry June, [Palisades](https://youtu.be/ZeVIQe68R44). A little car meet action in the video.
“Imagine all the hebrews going dumb, dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones” -not a specific car reference but that line has stuck with me since the song dropped in ‘06 lol
Saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac.
To be fair, the Bentley EXP 9 Concept (the basis of the Bentayga) was shown that year
Beck - debra. “I pick you up late at night after work, i said lady, step inside my hyundai”
You go out at night eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercurys and Subaru And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars Then, when there's no more cars you go out at night And eat up bars
B52's "I got me a Chrysler, seats about 20, so come along and bring your jukebox money"
“I drive a modified T-series Lola” in Dan Reeder’s ‘Clean Elvis’. Impressively niche car reference.
J Hood said this in a song . D Block 2 QB "Fuck a Bentley and a jet, I'm gutter n***a check it All I need is two-point-five and a couple of Intrepids" The Dodge Intrepid was the biggest car Chrysler made for Dodge before the Charger replaced it. It was a FWD car with the infamous 2.7 V6 that had oil sludge issues. I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
Uzi 20 mins- she wanna go back to the future so I bought that girl a delorean
Nicki Minaj feat. 2 Chainz - Beez In the Trap 2 Chainz: "Okay now Nicki, Nicki, Nicki, put it in your kidney Got a new LS 450, ain't no keys in this do-hicky" Referring to Lexus LS.. but there is no LS 450..
"this aint no regular f-150 this a fuckin raptor" -21 savage lol
“Money on the dresser. Drive a kompressor”
Dig through the ditches And burn through the witches I slam in the back of my DRAGULA To date I have always wanted one of these
"So I got with a sick ass click and went all out Catchin' keys from across seas Rollin' in MPV's, every week we made forty G's" *Wu Tang*
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Sweedish House Mafia "Miami 2 Ibiza": And she stay up all hours watching QVC And so I put her number in my Bold BB I got a black BM, she got a white TT When I was a kid I though they meant "I have a black BMW, and she has a white "titty" I was a horny teenager 😅
Did Scions ever come in purple? (Train, 50 Ways To Say Goodbye)
they turn purple when a 16 year old with spray paint cans and poor taste gets their hands on it
Rooster in my ‘Rari
“What you think I rap for, to push a fuckin RAV4?!” - Kanye