I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.
It's hard to say a favorite rapper. If I had to pick two, I'm going to go with Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z.
I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.
Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long.
Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!
We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign.
I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only....Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks.
Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic.
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.
My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level
Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.
However, I'm older, wiser, more mature, and can deliver the rhymes in a different way. Because I guess I have a more holistic viewpoint and approach.
Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous,
Always misbehaving and mischeivous,
Causing aggravation, I'll never pause,
Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.
Busta Rhymes, I have to give him credit for one thing: he always lays the red carpet out for me when I'm in New York.
When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!
I think, for myself, as an artist, the progression is a lyrical progression and what I choose to target my lyrics at and how I construct the rhymes.
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.
My rhymes are like shot clocks,
interstate cops
and blood clots,
my point is your flow gets stopped.
?fter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.
I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.
I started writing rhymes in fact when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was actually into hip hop before anything else.
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years,
But weak ideas irritate my ears.
Is this the best that you can make?
Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait.
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something I'm going to dedicate more time to doing.
My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
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.
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
I'm always in the studio with my dad. I've written a few songs. I'll start off writing rhymes, then freestyles, then I add in beats.
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts,
Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.
Yes, I know.
Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.
Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
For the young Gaels of Ireland
Are the lads that drive me mad,
For half their words need footnotes
And half their rhymes are bad.
Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.
I worked with Busta back in the days, shoutout to the OG Busta Rhymes.
It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.
I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.
I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.
I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.
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.
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.
If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like if you are an athlete and you want to rap, you better bring the bars. Don't come in with nursery rhymes.
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