![]() ![]() Also, think about it: You can’t hear the “G.” It’s silent. But, technically, Wayne is totally covered. The letter g in the word lasagna is not silent. There has been debate whether the 'g' in 'lasagna' is actually silent as it helps make a different sound phonetically. Though the Browns escaped their game with the Texans with an ugly, hard-nosed 10-7 win on Sunday, the low scoring affair didn't stop Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield from giving one of the. ![]() Famed superfood hunter Darin Olien was frustrated by the lack of. Mayfield decided to tap into his inner-Weezy. ![]() As she explains it (and as Billboard concedes), the “g” only comes into play in the Italian pronunciation of the word, which is of course the dominant pronunciation. Shop real gs move in silence like lasagna t-shirts created by independent artists from around the globe. Cleveland Browns (Browns) NovemIt's a reference to Lil Wayne's line in the single '6'7' where the line has become popular thanks to its cleverness and controversy. One of the common arguments thrown at meal replacement powders is that its not real food. Of all the Weezy lyrics, likely the most quoted for its swagger would be Real Gs move in silence like lasagna. Kennedy says that according to Merriam-Webster, the “g” is officially silent in “lasagna,” which should pretty much dead all confusion right there. BET’s Carl Chery adds “If we start being technical with lyrics, then we’ll have to void a lot of these rappers’ punchlines.” (Very true, Carl Chery.)īut Vulture checked with our peerless copy editor Alicia Kennedy, and she’s strictly pro-Weezy. But then if you slow down and think about how the ‘g’ and the ‘n’ connect, you realize they work in conjunction to make the pronunciation of the word come together so it takes the sting out of the line.” That seems to be the general consensus, although no one’s too upset about the apparent flub. Over at Billboard, Mariel Concepcion pondered the question, and then actually called people up to talk about it! Says MTV’s Jayson Rodriguez: “A cursory listen and the line comes off clever. In his review of The Anthology of Rap, New York book critic Sam Anderson points out “one of the great paradoxes of rap: The toughest, coolest, most dangerous-seeming MCs are, at heart, basically just enormous language dorks.” Forcefully bringing that point home this week has been the chatter surrounding Lil Wayne’s crazy comeback single “ 6 Foot, 7 Foot.” Among many, many other awesome things proclaimed on the hyper-dense track, Weezy lets it be known that “Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.” And now the world retorts: Dope line, but is the “G” silent in lasagna? ![]()
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