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I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.
Maren Morris
Love
Love Is
Writing
Country
Style
Lyrics
Melodies
Structure
More
Had
Writing Style
Tight
Always
How
Been
Linked
Rhymes
Storytelling
Pop
Ear
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
Margaret Atwood
Later
Immediate
Favor
Echoes
Poems
Poets
Tend
Conceal
Like
Lines
Modern
Middle
Rhymes
Placed
Placing
Them
Avoid
Many
Our style of hip-hop, our style of beats, our style of rhymes - you gonna give us burn. We gonna get our burn that we deserve.
Prodigy
You
Style
Our
Give
Beats
Hip-Hop
Get
Burn
Rhymes
Gonna
Us
Deserve
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
Rakim
Life
Knowledge
My Life
Reading
Understanding
Spitting
Self
Taking
Studying
Got
Going
Rhymes
Started
Applying
My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.
Rakim
Music
Writing
Words
Try
Approach
Like
Instrument
Make
Track
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Up
Different
Rhymes
Patterns
Rhythms
Using
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
Rebecca Makkai
Myself
Book
Mother
Three
Had
Goose
Read
Taught
Rhymes
Comparing
Letters
If you're a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you're an artist where maybe the focus is really the talent and the different things you bring to the game, I believe it's more understandable.
Rick Ross
You
Game
Hurt
Battle
Writing
Rapper
Focus
Believe
Emcee
More
Could
Talent
Understandable
Block
Artist
Maybe
Where
Different
Rhymes
Really
Your
Different Things
Challenger
Things
Bring
Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.
Roshon Fegan
Writing
Singing
Starts
Once
Rapping
About
About An Hour
Write
Songs
Head
Hour
Lot
Off
Done
Just
Rhymes
Theme
Then
Chorus
Start
Flowing
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
Saul Williams
Life
Thought
My Life
Become
Would
Poetry
Never
Always
Making
Making Up
Up
Rhymes
I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.
Shaggy
Lyrics
States
Knack
Had
Coming
Came
Up
Rhymes
Realised
Unites
With 'Ready to Die,' that was some of the most honest rhymes of all-time. There's some real dark material on there that Biggie was going through.
Statik Selektah
Dark
Some
All-Time
Through
Most
Ready
Material
Real
Die
Going
Rhymes
Biggie
Honest
I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?
Steph McGovern
Will
Grass
Says
Wince
Someone
Wrong
Mass
Like
Annoying
Said
Sounds
Fewer
Rhymes
Poor
Should
Farce
Less
Many
'Rapper's Delight' came from the TV entertainment show 'Good Times,' but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists answered, covering brutal truths in their rhymes that were uncomfortable for society to confront.
Steve Stoute
Good
Entertainment
Rapper
Society
TV
Brutal
Delight
Uncomfortable
Good Times
Narrative
Answered
Came
Were
Shift
Covering
Times
Truths
Artists
Rhymes
Confront
Show
When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
Talib Kweli
You
Creative
Song
Decision
Thinking
Strictly
Once
Those
Out
About
Songs
Beats
Studio
Put
Make
Selling
Than
Different
Rhymes
Package
Decisions
Created
Businessman
Street
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
Tre Cool
Music
Song
Nursery
Price
Like
Alphabet
Fisher
Rhymes
I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger.
Tyga
Time
Videos
Definitely
Rapping
Visuals
Inspired
He
Him
Because
His
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Loved
Rhymes
Younger
Really
Reason
Why
Watch
Early
Started
I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.
Vic Mensa
Words
Own
Lyrics
Out
My Own
Write
Count
Songs
Print
Same
Different
Rhymes
Used
Syllable
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke
Love
World
Say
Muslim
Muslim World
Finds
Poetry
He
Go
Tape
America
Just
Rhetorical
Rhymes
Skill
Sucks
Bin
Things
Doing the Best I Can' is a sure fire hit. Incredibly commercial. But what could you say about it? Catchy and good to dance to. But 'Nothing Rhymes' is different. A much bigger risk but it was lyrics people could talk about. So that was the one to launch me on.
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Best
Good
Me
You
People
Dance
Fire
Nothing
Incredibly
Lyrics
Say
I Can
Launch
About
Risk
Could
Catchy
Talk
Sure
Doing
Hit
Commercial
Different
Bigger
Rhymes
Much
I'm real particular about delivery. You can write the illest rhymes in the world, but can you deliver it right?
DJ Premier
You
World
About
Write
Deliver
Delivery
Particular
Real
Rhymes
Right
I'm not saying I'm even half as talented or a quarter as talented as any of the people I'm inspired by, but if I hear a beat Busta Rhymes would absolutely kill, I'll use my voice to do a flow similar to his.
Doja Cat
Saying
People
Half
Would
Similar
Voice
Inspired
Beat
Absolutely
Talented
Quarter
Hear
His
Any
Rhymes
Use
Even
Flow
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