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and cadence

definition of

and dual rhythmic relationship

and enjambment

and feet

and flow

and four-stress accentual verse

lack of

and linguistic prosody

and literary poetry

and meter

and metric perfection

and nursery rhyme

and phrasing

and rhythmic weight

and scansion

and scat

and song lyricist

and speed rapper

and sprung rhythm

and stress

and syllables

and syncopation

and tempo

Rhythm Science
(DJ Spooky)

Rhythmic weight

“Ride or Die” (Jay-Z)

“Ridin' Dirty” (Chamillionaire)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Coleridge)

Roach, Max

Robinson, Sylvia

“Rollin' with Saget” (Kennedy)

Rolling Stone
magazine

Roots

Ross, Rick

Roth, Asher

“Rough Justice” (Jagger)

Run-DMC

Runnin' Off at da Mouth
(Twista)

RZA

Saddler, Joseph.
See
Grandmaster Flash

Salon.com

Samberg, Andy

Santana, Juelz

“S.A.N.T.A.N.A.” (Santana)

Saturday Night Live

Scansion

Scat

Schoolly D

Scorpio

Seinfeld

“Sekou Story” (Nas)

Senneh, Kelefa

Shakespeare, William

Shakur, Tupac (Tupac; Pac)

ShantÃ©, Roxanne

Sha-Rock

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

“She's Alive” (Andre 3000)

Shock-G

Shyne

Signature style.
See also
Style

Signifying

and boasting

and braggadocio

and comedy

and commercialism

definition of

and dissing

and dozens

and gangsta rap

and invulnerability

and kenning

and O'Neil vs. Bryant

and parody

and toasts

See also
Battle rap; Cipher; Swagger

The Signifying Monkey
(Gates)

“The Signifying Monkey” (toast)

“The Signifying Rapper” (Schoolly D)

Simile

and tenor

and vehicle

See also
Punning simile

“Simon Says” (Pharoahe Monch)

Skelton, John

Skeltonics

Slant rhyme.
See
Imperfect rhyme

“Sleazy Gynecologist” (Slick Rick)

Slick Rick

Slim Shady.
See
Eminem

Smith, Dante Terrell.
See
Mos Def

Smith, Frankie

Smith, Stephen A.

Smoke Some Kill
(Schoolly D)

Smoothe da Hustler

Snoop Dogg

“So Many Tears” (Shakur)

Song lyricist

Soulja Boy

Souls of Mischief

“Sound of da Police” (KRS-One)

Spady, James G.

Spears, Aries

Speed rapper

Spielberg, Steven

Split rhyme.
See
Broken rhyme

Spontaneity

Sprung rhythm

“Stan” (Eminem)

Starks, Tony.
See
Iron Man

“Stay from Around Me” (Ab Liva)

Steele, Timothy

Steffans, Karrine (Superhead)

Stereotype

Sterne, Laurence

Stic.man

Storytelling

and alternate reality

and authenticity

and autobiography

and fiction

and gangsta rap

and human experience

and literary poetry

and nonlinear narrative

and persona

and reality

and thematic development

and voice

Streets

Stress

Style

and Biggie-Tupac debate (
see also
Notorious B.I.G.; Shakur, Tupac)

and biting (co-opting)

and borrowing

and commercialism

and content

and cultural heritage

definition of

and geography

and ghostwriting

and imitation

and innovation

and jealousy

and literary poetry

and originality

and ownership

and persona

and personal style

and predictability

and region

as repetition

and signature style

and spontaneity

and talent

and technique

and territory

and theft

and unconscious mind

and vernacular process

and voice

Sugar Hill Gang

Sugar Hill Records

Superhead.
See
Steffans, Karrine

“Super-rappin'” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)

Swagger.
See also
Signifying

“Swagger Like Us” (Kanye West)

Swan, T. J.

Syllables

“Sylvester's Dying Bed” (Langston Hughes)

Syncopation

Tajai

Talent

Technique

Tempo

“Ten Crack Commandments” (Notorious B.I.G.)

Ten Rap Commandments of Poetry

Tenor, and simile

Territory, and style

“Testify” (Common)

Theft.
See also
Borrowing

Thematic development

“This Can't Be Life” (Jay-Z)

Thomas, Dylan

“Threats” (Jay-Z)

Toasts

Too Short

“Trade It All” (Fabolous)

Transformative rhyme (forced rhyme)

Trigga Tha Gambler

Tristram Shandy
(Sterne)

“Triumph” (Wu-Tang Clan)

Troutman, Roger

True rhyme.
See
Perfect rhyme

Tung Twista.
See
Twista

Tupac.
See
Shakur, Tupac

“Twinz” (Big Punisher)

Twista (Tung Twista)

“U.B.R. (Unauthorized Biography of Rakim)” (Nas)

UGK

Unconscious mind

and rhyme

and style

“Undying Love” (Nas)

universalurban.com

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
(Donne)

“Valse Hot” (Roach)

Vehicle, and simile

Verbal dexterity

Vernacular process

and style

Village Voice

Voice (as instrument)

Voice (of storyteller)

and battle rap

and braggadocio

and first-person narrative

Walcott, Derek

Warren, Robert Penn

Washington Post

Waste Land
(Eliot)

We Got the Remix
(Clipse)

Weezy.
See
Lil Wayne

Weird Al Yankovic

West Africa

White, Barry

“White and Nerdy” (Weird Al Yankovic)

“White Lines” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)

Whitman, Walt

“Who Shot Ya” (Notorious B.I.G.)

“Why I Gave Up on Hip-Hop” (Parker)

Wiggins, Keith.
See
Cowboy

Williams, Juan

Williams, Saul

Wonder Mike

Wordplay

and alliteration

and anaphora

and antanaclasis

and assonance

and conceit

definition of

and epanados

and epistrophe

and epithets

and eponym

and homonym

and homophone

and kenning

and literary poetry

and metaphor

and metonymy

and onomatopoeia

and personification

and prosopopoeia

and pun

and punning simile

and repititio

and simile

Wordsworth, William

“Wrath of Kane” (Kane)

The Wreck of the
Deutschland (Hopkins)

Writer, JR

Writer's Block series (JR Writer)

Writing, vs. Freestyling

Wu-Tang Clan

XXL

“Ya Mama” (Pharcyde)

Yeats, William Butler

“Yo! Bum Rush the Show” (Public Enemy)

Young Jeezy

Yung Joc

Zapp and Roger

“Zealots” (Fugees)

Zion I

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bradley, Adam.
Book of rhymes : the poetics of hip hop / by Adam Bradley.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-0-786-74416-9

1. Rap (Music)âHistory and criticism. I. Title.
ML3531.B73 2009
782.421649âdc22
2008040250

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