Dr.Dreの代表曲Forgot About Dre
Dr. Dre（ドクター・ドレー）はアメリカの代表的なラッパーの一人で、音楽プロデューサーとして、スヌープ・ドッグ、2パック、エミネムらをプロデュースするなどヒップホップ界で名声を博しています。
さて、今回はDr. Dreの代表曲「Forgot About Dre」の歌詞内で踏まれている韻を分析してみました。
Forgot About DreはDr. Dreを批判するDeath Rowのアーティストによるアルバム 「Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000」内の曲に対するアンサーソングです。Dr. Dreのアルバム「2001」に収録されています。また、エミネムによるフィーチャリングがされています。
韻の定義
今回、次のように韻を定義しました。
- 同じ母音が連続した単語または、すぐ近くに複数ある
例：His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy (EmimemのLose Yourselfから抜粋）
「i」の発音が複数回ある。 - 複数の母音の組み合わせが連続してある
例：His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy (EmimemのLose Yourselfから抜粋）
「ɑ」「ɝ」「ɛ」「i」の発音の組み合わせが２連続である。 - 繰り返されるメロディの同じ個所に同じ母音がある
例：His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti
He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready (EmimemのLose Yourselfから抜粋）
「ɛ」「i」の発音が繰り返されるメロディの最後にある。 - 繰り返されるメロディの同じ個所に同じ子音がある
例：You better bow down on both knees
Who you think taught you to smoke trees?
Who you think brought you the oldies (Dr. DreのForgot About Dreから抜粋）
「s」の発音が繰り返されるメロディの最後にある。
母音とはアルファベットの発音記号でいうɑ, æ, ʌ, ɔ, aʊ, ə, ɚ, aɪ, ɛ, ɝ, eɪ, ɪ, ɨ, I, oʊ, ɔɪ, ʊ, u, ʉとし、子音はそれ以外とします。
実際に可視化してみた。
それでは、可視化したForgot About Dreのラップを実際に見ていきましょう。
Y’all know me, still the same OG
But I been low key
Hated on by most these niggas
With no cheese, no deals and no G’s, no wheels and no keys
No boats, no snowmobiles and no skis
Mad at me‘Cause I can finally afford to provide my family with groceries
Got a crib with a studio and it’s all full of tracks
To add to the wall full of plaques
Hangin’ up in the office in back of my house like trophies
Did y’all think I’ma gonna let my dough freeze
Ho Please
You better bow down on both knees
Who you think taught you to smoke trees?
Who you think brought you the oldies
Eazy E’s Ice Cube’s and D.O.C’s
The Snoop D O double G’s
And the group that said motherfuck the police
Gave you a tape full of dope beats
To bump when you stroll through in your hood
And when your album sales wasn’t doin’ too good
Who’s the Doctor they told you to go see
Y’all better listen up closely
All you niggas that said that I turned pop or The Firm flopped
Y’all are the reason Dre ain’t been getting no sleep
So fuck y’all, all of y’all
If y’all don’t like me, blow me
Y’all are gonna keep fuckin’ around with me and turn me back to the old me
Chorus 2x
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothin’ comes out when they move they lips
Just a buncha gibberish
And muthafuckas act like they forgot about Dre
So what do you say to somebody you hate
Or anyone tryna bring trouble your way
Wanna resolve things in a bloodier way
Just study your tape of NWA
One day I was walkin’ by
With a Walkman on
When I caught a guy givin’ an awkward eye what you looking at
And strangled him off in the parkin‘ lot with his Karl Kani
I don’t give a fuck if it’s dark or not
I’m harder than me tryna park a dodge
But I’m drunk as fuck
Right next to a humungous truck in a two car garage
Hoppin’ out wit two broken legs, tryna walk it off
Fuck you too bitch, call the cops
I’ma kill you and them loud ass muthafuckin barkin’ dogs
And when the cops came through
Me andDre stood next to a burnt down house
With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches
And still weren’t found out
So from here on out it’s the Chronic 2
Startin’ today and tomorrow’s the new
And I’m still loco enough
To choke you to death wit a Charleston chew
Slim Shady hotter then a set of twin babies
In a Mercedes Benz with the windows up
And the temp goes up to the mid 80’s
Callin’ men, ladies
Sorry Doc, but I’ve been crazy
There is no way that you can save me
It’s okay, go with him Hailie
Chorus 2x
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothin’ comes out when they move they lips
Just a buncha gibberish
And muthafuckas act like they forgot about Dre
If it was up to me
You motherfuckers would stop comin’ up to me
With your hands out lookin’ up to me
Like you want somethin’ free
When my last C.D. was out you wasn’t bumpin’ me
But now that I got this little company
Everybody wanna come to me like it was some disease
But you won’t get a crumb from me
‘Cause I’m from the streets of The Compton
I told em all
All them little gangstas
Who you think helped mould ‘em all?
Now you wanna run around and talk about guns
Like I ain’t got none
What you think I sold ‘em all
‘Cause I stay well off
Now all I get is hate mail all day sayin’ Dre fell off
What ‘cause I been in the lab wit a pen and a pad
Tryna get this damn label off
I ain’t havin that
This is the millenium of Aftermath
It ain’t gonna be nothin’ after that
So give me one more platinum plaque and fuck rap
You can have it back
So where’s all the mad rappers at
It’s like a jungle in this habitat
But all you savage cats
Knew that I was strapped with gats
When you were cuddling a cabbage patch
Chorus 3x
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothin’ comes out when they move they lips
Just a buncha gibberish
And muthafuckas act like they forgot about Dre
Dr. Dreの低音が癖になる
いかがでしたでしょうか。Forgot About Dreは個人的にはDr. Dreの曲で一番好きな曲です。好きな韻は、終盤（↓）の「æ」の畳みかけの部分です。歌詞の内容と相まってDr. Dreの低音ボイスで一気に盛り上げていく感じが癖になりますね。
What ‘cause I been in the lab wit a pen and a pad
Tryna get this damn label off
I ain’t havin that
This is the millenium of Aftermath
It ain’t gonna be nothin’ after that
So give me one more platinum plaque and fuck rap
You can have it back
So where’s all the mad rappers at
It’s like a jungle in this habitat
But all you savage cats
Knew that I was strapped with gats
When you were cuddling a cabbage patch
ちなみにEminemのLose Yourselfで踏まれている韻について可視化した結果もコチラの記事で紹介しております！
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