Taylor Swift is arguably one of the greatest songwriters of our time. Songwriter. Writing her own songs. I emphasize this point because nearly no one in the Pop music realm does this anymore. …

Eminem has arguably one of the greatest “pen games” in Hip-Hop history. And Lin-Manuel Miranda is obviously world renown for his musical writing ability. So it’s not a far stretch to see these two have a few things in common. First, they can cleverly write extremely catchy songs. Secondly, they…

For someone obsessed with rap music and rhyming, reading to my child is very intense. “Silly Sally Went to Town” is an exceptional read though. At one point in the book Silly Sally meets a sheep, “a silly sheep, they fell asleep.” Then the question is posed, “How did Sally…

I hardly ever watch cable TV, especially news channels. But when I do, I like to play a game with myself for no other reason than to “stick it to the man.” Here’s how the game works: Watch CNN until they bad mouth Conservatives/Fox News/Republicans Change the channel to Fox…

End rhymes, Internal rhymes, Slant rhymes are all fairly well known in music and poetry, but what about “Illusion rhymes?” An Illusion rhyme is usually a group of multisyllabic words that when spoken sound like perfect rhymes, but when broken down they only loosely, if at all, rhyme. …

I worked in downtown Detroit for almost 2 years, and as beautiful of a city as it is, it still had/has it’s share of homeless people. One sign I would see over and over though, exclaimed this: “Too Ugly to Strip. Too Honest to Steal.” This may seem simple, stupid…

With TikTok being the new kid on the block of social media street, there’s not as much sophistication when it comes to the way the app currates content for its users. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. can basically read our minds when it comes to what we subconsciously want to see…

Finding Compound rhymes (also called Multisyllabic rhymes) in music today is very rare, especially in Pop music. Even where rhyming matters the most though, in Hip-Hop, only very basic compound rhymes appear. Way back in 1979, “Rapper’s Delight,” by Sugarhill Gang was the first Hip-Hop song to make it in…

I don’t like reading nursery rhymes to my kiddo the normal way they’re meant to be read. I try to give the words some flavor and bounce my daughter on my knee while reading. But while doing that I had a thought, “oh my gosh, this sounds exactly like all…