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Hip-Hop | Music’s Smartest Genre | Lyric Breakdown

Rap is easily one of the smartest musical genres to ever exist, yet it’s mainstream popularity is overly saturated with dumbed down preschool rhyme schemes and Trap beats made just to get a head nodding. But alas, I am here to break down some of the most clever lines in…

Rap

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Hip-Hop | Music’s Smartest Genre | Lyric Breakdown
Hip-Hop | Music’s Smartest Genre | Lyric Breakdown

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How Taylor Swift and The Notorious B.I.G. Are The Same

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. …

Songwriting

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Taylor Swift Writes How Biggie Smalls Raps
Taylor Swift Writes How Biggie Smalls Raps

2 days ago

Encanto and 8 Mile Have Basically the Same Soundtrack

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…

Hip Hop

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Encanto and 8 Mile Have Basically the Same Soundtrack
Encanto and 8 Mile Have Basically the Same Soundtrack

Mar 30

Reverse Engineering a Nursery Rhyme | Silly Sally

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…

Childrens Books

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Reverse Engineering a Nursery Rhyme | Silly Sally
Reverse Engineering a Nursery Rhyme | Silly Sally

Mar 28

Political Ad Critique Pt. 4: Is an Aggressive Message a Good Message?

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…

Email Marketing

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Political Ad Critique Pt. 4: ALL CAPS, What Does it Mean to You?
Political Ad Critique Pt. 4: ALL CAPS, What Does it Mean to You?

Jan 23

What’s An Illusion Rhyme?

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. …

Hip Hop

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What’s An Illusion Rhyme?
What’s An Illusion Rhyme?

Sep 1, 2021

Homeless & Humorous

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…

Detroit

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Homeless & Humorous
Homeless & Humorous

Aug 1, 2021

The TikTok Algorithm (needs work)

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…

Titktok

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The TikTok Algorithm (needs work)
The TikTok Algorithm (needs work)

Mar 19, 2021

How Rappers Use Compound Rhymes to Make Poetry in Music

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…

Hip Hop

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How Rappers Use Compound Rhymes to Make Poetry in Music
How Rappers Use Compound Rhymes to Make Poetry in Music

Oct 13, 2020

The Direct Correlation Between Modern Rap and Nursery Rhymes

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…

Nursery Rhymes

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The Direct Correlation Between Modern Rap and Nursery Rhymes
The Direct Correlation Between Modern Rap and Nursery Rhymes
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