didactic

instructional; instructive (especially excessively)

Heard in 10 songs (846K+ combined views) — most famously in "The Black Angel's Death Song" by The Velvet Underground.

Updated August 8, 2026

Songs Featuring “didactic”

The Velvet Underground - The Black Angel's Death Song

Time: 2:25

And if the stone glances off
Split didactics in two
Leave the color of the mouse trails

The Velvet Underground - The Black Angel's Death Song

Waxahatchee - Ice Cold

Time: 0:07

Run it back, boys
It's didactic
It's white noise

Bun B - Recognize

Time: 1:38

Then relay on my tactics
Debo on some didactic shit
I'm just out here tryna educate

Shrine of Malice - Beelzebub

Time: 3:18

I, beast, rape you of your senses
Vile didactic, traumatizing your psyche
Consume my name, consume my spirit

Akira the Don - What The Hell Is Water? [This Is WATERWAVE]

Time: 1:15

This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches
The deployment of didactic little parable-ish stories
The story thing turns out to be one of the better

Akira the Don - What The Hell Is Water? [This Is WATERWAVE]

Snapcase - First Word

Time: 1:16

Let's start the end
Faithless commanders lead the faithful to didactic
thoughts

Eliggah - Dirty Freestyle

Time: 1:49

I rap alcoholic, should've wrapped up with condoms
This world prophylactic, this life is didactic
I scorned at the warnings and turned on my morals

Didactic MK - Silhouette

Time: 0:22

There's a birth in this
Didactic MK is that what my purpose is
You did your work with Mercury in heaven

Fool Effect - Self Taught, Self Made, Self Paid

Time: 0:00

I talk to myself so don't wanna be didactic
Just don't understand why your teachin' is so drastic

Fool Effect - Self Taught, Self Made, Self Paid

Short Stack - Sweet Emergency

Time: 0:02

What do I know your face from?
This didactic poetry could kill us all
And my prerogative is simple