Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
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Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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