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“I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.”

Knows Years Firsts Together Song Stage Kings First Time Albums Rhyme Godzilla King Kong

Author:Bone Crusher

“Everybody has they're own audience you know what I'm saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell wanna hear my music. They write rhymes and make music for the people they feel wanna hear they're music.”

People Knows Feels Writing Audience Rhyme

Author:Bun B

“The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid.”

People Way Years Long Reason Enough Strong Sound Attitude Paid Reason Why Wheels Etc Rhyme Dressings Scope Inbreds

Author:DJ Shadow

“People always have these debates about who their favourite rapper is. And I think it's based upon what mood that particular person is in. If someone's favourite rapper is a lyricist then they're focused on rhymes or substance. If someone's favourite rapper is a party rapper, you know, someone who makes music about the clubs... "Oh, he's my favourite rapper". No, his subject matter is your favourite.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Matter Party Subjects Particular Clubs Focused Debate Mood Substance Rapper Favourite Rhyme Subject Matter Lyricists

Author:Immortal Technique

“When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.”

Knows Way Want Sometimes Together Certain Expression Rap Rhyme

Author:Wyclef Jean

“I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?”

“Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mind Said Done Moving Sound Years Ago Claims Rational Thirty Echoes Rhyme Urgent Closing Thirty Years Pun Closing Off

Author:Gregory Orr

“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.”

Wanted Turns Rhyme Displacement

Author:Randall Mann

“I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!”

Want Stars Pops Rhyme Nursery Pop Stars Nursery Rhymes

Author:Charli XCX

“I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.”

Looks Mean Ends Boxes Internals Rhyme Sonnet Assonance

Author:Anna Journey

“Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.”

Writing Hands Choices Force Bits Term Decision Ties Etc Plot Nonfiction Brutal Rhyme Writing Poetry Word Choice

Author:Emily Susan Rapp

“One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my own books so that the chapter titles and the epigraphs and pictures all kind of form a tapestry. In this book, I retell fifteen of the stories. You have the critical frame, and then you have these rosettes like the motif in a carpet.”

Trying Kind Book Matter Stories Form My Own Subjects Critical All Kinds Titles Chapters Fifteen Rhyme Repetition Carpet Subject Matter Tapestry Mirroring Motifs Epigraphs

Author:Marina Warner

“So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.”

Ifs Giving Writing Mean Sometimes Beats Hip Hop Hips Hops Rapper Rhyme

Author:Mark Ronson

“I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.”

Littles I Can Can Do Green Patterns Apples Rhyme

Author:Delia Sherman

“Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.”

Writing Wanted Lines Acting Rhyme

Author:Torae

“If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.”

Ifs Should Able Audience Records Stage Masters Rhyme Ceremony Master Ceremony

Author:Torae

“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.”

Ifs Writing Singers Fake Assumption Rapper Songwriters Rhyme Dylan Singer Songwriters

Author:Alan Light

“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.”

Men I Can Rhyme Haha

Author:Sean Price

“When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.”

Party Rocks Rapper Rhyme

Author:Ice T

“Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick”

Sometimes Rap Rhyme

Author:Daryl Barnes

“Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.”

Long Lost Findings Blue Satisfying Twins Rhyme Clicks Suitcases Fraternal

Author:Matthea Harvey

“In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.”

Writing Stills Ends Process My Own Huge Abandoned Rhyme Wordplay

Author:Matthea Harvey

“"Tabernacle" was probably the easiest song I'd ever wrote because all I really had to do was rhyme the words since the whole story, front to back, was already in my head. All I needed to do was verbalize it, and if it didn't have to rhyme I could've just freestyled it because I already knew what I wanted to say.”

Ifs Whole Stories Wanted Song Fronts Needed Rhyme

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.”

Years Firsts Artist Careers Decided Pursue Grades Serving Rhyme Juvenile Detention

Author:Yukmouth

“I just make [music] for the people that always enjoyed hearing from me. I make it for people that enjoy the energy of rap music or a good rhyme. I do it for the people I see everyday, not the Hollywood ass people, the normal people.”

People Energy Enjoy Normal Hollywood Everyday Hearing Rap Ass Enjoyed Rhyme Rap Music

Author:Mic Geronimo

“An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Fans Masters Appreciate Rhyme Ceremony Emcee Master Ceremony Appreciate Me

Author:Styles P

“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.”

Way Different Approach Different Ways Mature Wiser Rhyme Viewpoints Holistic

Author:MC Lyte

“I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.”

Writing Elements Patterns Singers Rhyme Lyricists

Author:Erykah Badu

“I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.”

Energy Force Melody Rhyme True Life

Author:India.Arie

“When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Two Ideas Play Form Needed Rap Bars Thirty Verses Rhyme Sixteen

Author:Kate Tempest

“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.”

Littles I Can Play Together Bits Little Bit Guitar Witty More Time Rhyme Wordplay

Author:James Paxton

“Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.”

Firsts Poet Decided Mere Like Me Idiot Pens Unnecessary Rhyme Trash Rhyming Quaint Uncool

Author:Gene Weingarten

“Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops Bless Rhyme

Author:Gene Weingarten

“I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.”

Writing Sometimes Song Spontaneous Rhyme Writing Songs

Author:Chath Piersath

“What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.”

People Knows Battle Decided Rapper Rhyme

Author:Wyclef Jean

“There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.”

Men Way Writing Different Games Sound Stupid Majority Rap Different Ways Rhyme Stupid Men

Author:Rakim

“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.”

Self Reading Understanding Study Self Knowledge Rhyme

Author:Rakim

“When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.”

Firsts Today Reading Worst Critics Albums Rhyme

Author:Rakim

“I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.”

Writing Firsts Rhyme Thirteen

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting their information in rhyme just as much as in prose. The genre that we would think of as nonfiction often was written in verse in forms like the Georgic when people thought that one of the tasks of poetry was conveying arguments and information in a pleasant way.”

People Thinking Way Form Interesting Written Century Information Argument Tasks Genre Pleasant Prose Nonfiction Verses Rhyme Interesting Things 18th Century Conveying

Author:Robert Hass

“My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.”

Writing Rhyme Expletives

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.”

Knows Years Certain Conscious Etc Schemes Rhyme Hymns Placement

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.”

Littles Book Reading Parent Lines Doubt Clever No Doubt Rhyme

Author:Savannah Guthrie

“To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.”

Way Writing Mean Whole Facts Language Realizing Poetry Is Reach Out New Ways Rhyme Renewal Recreation Subtlety

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.”

Thinking Faithful Desks Rhyme Dictionary Alphabet Rhyming

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.”

Knows Years Firsts Bits Half Eight Rhyme Boston Traveller Nursery Half A Year Nursery Rhymes

Author:Sylvia Plath

“When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.”

Way Behavior Extremes I Realized Hats Rhyme Snares

Author:Eminem

“I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.”

Rhyme

Author:Ice T

“The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The beginning makes no sense whatsoever. It just, like, rhymes. And then all of a sudden I'll go into, I am an old woman named after my mother.”

Thinking Writing Kind Mother Song Rhyme Old Woman

Author:John Prine

“A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.”

Song Serious Rhyme

Author:Jarvis Cocker

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