# Rap covers of pop songs (or vice versa)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 20, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-covers-of-pop-songs-or-vice-versa/831404 "2019-03-20T03:00:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-covers-of-pop-songs-or-vice-versa/831404/1 "2019-03-20T03:00:50Z")

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Anyone know any covers of songs, where they take a song with a melody, and turn it into a rap but use the same lyrics? Or the other way when someone turns a rap into a sung version?

Another thing that would be fun is a well-known poem set to rap.

As an example, here are some nursery rhymes performed as raps.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ioVAbpKCDxI/maxresdefault.jpg "Post Malone Nursery Rhyme Raps") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioVAbpKCDxI)

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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-covers-of-pop-songs-or-vice-versa/831404/2 "2019-03-20T03:08:28Z")

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Walk this Way is pretty much the best known example of this category.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-covers-of-pop-songs-or-vice-versa/831404/3 "2019-03-20T06:12:38Z")

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The Beach Boys and the Fat Boys collaborated on a version of _Wipeout_ with rap lyrics.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r-kAnNgqN9o/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGFQgTShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAXW6GtHDicM4ArxKlMG_i7ywtwUg "Fat Boys & The Beach Boys - Wipeout (HQ)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kAnNgqN9o)

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**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-covers-of-pop-songs-or-vice-versa/831404/4 "2019-03-20T07:06:26Z")

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There’s a bit of a joke that Rex Harrison supposedly invented rap. He couldn’t sing, so he just spoke all his lyrics in My Fair Lady and Doctor Doolitle etc.

[Example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY)