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Rhyming is Just the Beginning
A lot of rap music features as much figurative language as any Shakespearean sonnet or William Blake poem. Rap music is often full of examples of poetry terms. Rhyming words is just the beginning.
Our Nine Favorite Uses of Creative Metaphors and Similes
9.
"See, I drop the greats like clumsy waiters drop plates."
- Mr. Man on "Fortified Live," Fortified Live
8.
"RRRRROAW RRRROAW like a dungeon dragon,
change your little drawers because your pants are saggin'."
- Busta Rhymes on "Scenario," Low End Theory
7.
"Coming from the deep black like the Loch Ness,
now bring apocalypse like the Heart of Darkness."
- Talib Kweli on "We Got the Beat," The Beautiful Struggle
6.
"Like Slick Rick the Ruler I'm cooler than a ice brick,
got soul like those afro picks, with the black fist, and leave a crowd dripping like John the Baptist,"
- Black Thought on "Mellow My Man," Do You Want More?!??!!!
5.
"I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve."
- Big Boi on "Atliens," Atliens
4.
"Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare...
I'm sweet like licorice, dangerous like syphilis."
- Lauryn Hill on "How Many Mics," The Score
3.
"I come fresh like your breath after you brush,
wack Mc's like that orange soda get crushed."
- Fatlip on "Pharcyde," Labcabincalifornia
2.
"Throwing out the wicked like God did the devil,
funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me,
we're in like that, you're dead like Presley."
- Q-Tip on "Steve Biko," Midnight Marauders
1.
"My rhymes are like shot clocks,
interstate cops
and blood clots,
my point is your flow gets stopped."
- Talib Kweli on "Hater Players," Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Blackstar
Our Ten Favorite Uses of Big Vocabulary
10.
"My rep grows like the nose of Pinocchio, Just because I've mastered the art of braggadocio."
- Akrobatik on "U Can't...," The Lost Adats
9.
"I gaze into the sky and measure planets by parallax, check out the retrograde motion."
- Wyclef Jean on "Zealots," The Score
8.
"I'm known for causing spontaneous combustion, constantly jumping through miscellaneous subjects."
- Roscoe on "What I Look Like," Young Roscoe Philaphornia
7.
"Holding my raps, Olden is golden and black, extolling virtues of rap, with monkeys riding my back."
- K-Os on "Emcee Murdah," Joyful Rebellion
6.
"Dreams of euphoria, aurora, to another galaxy, fallacy, be this microphone, but get lifted, lyrically I'm gifted."
- Lauryn Hill on "The Score," The Score
5.
"Wes Jackson had the vision, and brought it to fruition with a little hard work, perseverance and intuition."
- Aheru on "Soon Come," Soon Come...
4.
"Phased from your original plan, you deviated, I alleviated the pain, with a long-term goal."
- Pharoahe Monch on "Simon Says," Internal Affairs 3.
"We don't sell dope that you distribute, we don't contribute to your clandestine activity, my soliloquy may be hard for some to swallow."
- Andre (3000) on "Wheelz of Steal," ATLiens
2.
"Claiming that you've got a new style, your attempts are futile, oooh child, your puerile brain waves are sterile."
- Lauryn Hill on "How Many Mics," The Score
1.
"You stopping us is preposterous
like an androgynous misogynist,
you picking the wrong time, stepping to me when I'm in my prime
like Optimus, Transforming..."
- Talib Kweli on "Twice Inna Lifetime," Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Blackstar