The Greatest Rap Album Title Puns

Small, medium, and Big Puns.

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Rap music is an art form based first-and-foremost on language skills. With more words per song, by far, than any other type of pop music that has ever existed (I think that’s true—it must be, right?), rap gives its practitioners more opportunity for witticism and wordplay than any other lyricists have ever enjoyed. Thus, rappers are oftentimes experts in making puns. (A pun is, as defined by Webster’s, “the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.”)

This has been reflected throughout the genre’s history by the frequent usage of puns in rap album titles. 

Here are 37 notable examples: The Greatest Rap Album Title Puns.  

Some of them are very funny. All of them are very punny.

(Sorry about that.) 

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De La Soul Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000)

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E-40 Tha Hall of Game (1996)

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Salt & Pepa A Salt with a Deadly Pepa (1988)

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Ice T Rhyme Pays (1987)

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Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill (1986)

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Big Daddy Kane Long Live the Kane (1988)

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Bun B Trill OG (2010)

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Curren$y Fast Times At Ridgemont Fly (2008)

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The Coup Genocide & Juice (1994)

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Wiz Khalifa Burn After Rolling (2009)

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Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)

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Snoop Dogg The Doggfather (1996)

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Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It (1988)

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Gucci Mane The Burrrprint: 3D (The Movie: Part 3) (2009)

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Killah Priest Heavy Mental (1998)

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E-40 The Ball Street Journal (2008)

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Snoop Dogg R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (2004)

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X-Clan To the East, Blackwards (1990)

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Das EFX Straight Up Sewaside (1993)

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Mac Mall Thizziana Stoned and the Temple of Shrooms (2006)

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Tone Loc Loc-ed After Dark (1989)

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Waka Flocka Flame Luke Skywaka (2012)

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5th Ward Boyz Rated G (1995)

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Grip Plyaz Purp, Wind & Fire (2012)

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2Pac 2pacalypse Now (1991)

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South Circle Anotha Day Anotha Balla (1995)

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Cypress Hill Temples Of Boom (1995)

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Shiest Bubz Everydaze My Birthday (2010)

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Nas Nastradamus (1999)

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South Central Cartel 'N Gatz We Truss (1994)

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Smut Peddlers Porn Again (2001)

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Ludacris Incognegro (1999)

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Public Enemy Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994)

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Naughty By Nature 19 Naughty III (1993)

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Too $hort Cocktails (1995)

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ItsTheReal & DJ Drama Urbane Outfitters (2013)

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Katie Got Bandz Drillary Clinton (2013)

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