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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.

Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.

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.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

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.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.