When he rhymed, we rhymed too, believing that we could spit homespun verse to proclaim our majesty.
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Arranging the known elements in order of atomic weight, he believed he had discerned that, like a musical scale, every eighth element "rhymed" in the ways that sodium rhymed with potassium, and chlorine with bromine.
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Once I realized it rhymed and made sense, I never stopped.
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Has Wayne ever rhymed with more complexity than on the "Lollipop" remix?
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I mean, the last time this happened it rhymed with the plague.
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I didn't do shit that rhymed, so I'd just write some crazy shit.
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She downplays her prosody in subtly rhymed lines, and her subjects are similarly unassuming.
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I pronounced it over the phone as if it rhymed with plod, shod and trod.
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"So Below" rhymed, so she picked it, though she admits she likes the "slightly ominous" connotation.
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She neither rapped nor rhymed, but she alluded often to some of the show's signature numbers.
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GZA, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and various Killa Bee affiliates have all rhymed about the 52.
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DJs played breakbeats from soul, funk, rock, and Latin records while b-boys danced and MCs rhymed.
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That script, a series of rhymed couplets barnacled with topical quips, "was so impenetrably difficult," she said.
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His script serves up one after another, though it also includes straight exposition and chunks of rhymed verse.
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His vows are so exceptional because he delivered them as a spoken-word poem that rhymed and everything.
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Harper: Yeah, so we created a code using Python based on the mechanics of classical Chinese rhymed verse.
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Here were two baby-faced teenagers rapping effortless verses about shooting people with tight, precise, carefully rhymed bars.
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Who could forget the first time you realized that Eminem had just rhymed "spaghetti" with "heavy" and "already"?
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When the 26-year-old mixed-race native New Yorker began her musical career, she barely even rhymed.
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He shared a first name with Donald Duck, and his last name rhymed with "jump," her favorite activity.
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Most of these songs are super humorous, like her video reactions set to a trap beat and triple-time rhymed.
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It's taking the syllables of the audience's names and rhyming them together following the rules of classical Chinese rhymed verse.
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Hart's lyrics (and his rhymed spoken couplets for Angel and her sisters) are neither very glittery nor very frisky today.
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" It rhymed—or, as Mark preferred to put it, it echoed—"Putin" and "boot in" and "Clinton" and "no disputing.
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We went on a fact-finding trip to Granada and Valencia, but life there rhymed too closely with New York.
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The most popular verse form, he said, is called "ferskeytla," four rhymed lines that can be divided into two parts.
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Much of the script is in blank verse, with a heady surfeit of expanding metaphors, lyrical soliloquies and discreetly rhymed couplets.
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Some of these poems are in rhymed quatrains, and almost all are snapshot-size, taking up no more than a page.
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One of the students began to recite his lesson, half singing a few rhymed verses of the aqeeda in an unsteady tenor.
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She added that Bloomberg used nicknames like "dogface" and "Stopatruckski" (which rhymed with one target's last name) for women he found unattractive.
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In spite of the poems' frankness they had been conservative in form, consisting largely of rhymed lines of an equal count of syllables.
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If Mr. Grisales mispronounced a word, he would write out how to say it, which syllables to emphasize, what words it rhymed with.
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Even over the film's long production time, it was impossible not to notice how recent affairs "rhymed" with the history they were telling.
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Almost from the beginning of his career, when he was still called Cassius Clay, his rhymed couplets, like his punches, were brutal and blunt.
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The poet, who had a particular horror of miscegenation, was writing about my parents' wedding (and yes, he rhymed "Peggy Cripps" with "Negroe's lips").
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Downes rhymed the old medium's physical identity, as oily stuff spread flat, with the givenness of whatever in the world we can't help but see.
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David Greig's play, created with the director Wils Wilson, uses a Scottish pub setting and a rhymed verse style, with music composed by Alasdair Macrae.
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Edison not only rhymed "perspiration" with "inspiration"—he also talked endlessly about his experiments and trials, emphasizing just how much work went into every discovery.
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The authors' nearly perfect solution is a pastiche Caribbean score whose words are restrained and delicately rhymed but whose music is relentlessly grabby and emotional.
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David Greig's play, co-created with the director Wils Wilson, uses a Scottish pub setting and a rhymed verse style, with music composed by Alasdair Macrae.
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She was named Rosa Hinojosa, and he kept saying her name in his head, because of the way it rhymed, which somehow made him feel better.
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" Hometown son Kanye West, one of many Chi-town rappers to lament the city's violence, has rhymed, "I'm from the murder capital where they murder for capital.
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So he thought about that and realized there was one for his own son that was perfect: Simply, Blue, which also rhymed with his mother's name, Dru.
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"It's a slightly different sentiment to the innuendo-filled poem Paul wrote Mongeau when he revealed their wedding date at VidCon, where he rhymed "Tana" with "banana.
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Here was a black man prone to unexplained outbursts of violence that rhymed with the trauma of the show's main protagonist, a white cop, played by Justin Theroux.
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To this end, his work rhymed extensively (if unwittingly) with that of Italy's most prominent (and polemical) post-war intellectuals — the poet, critic, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Phife rhymed less often about Afrocentrism than Q-Tip, but both were more philosophical and humble than their contemporaries from Southern California like Snoop Dogg and Eazy-E.
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They, and Ms. Maiolino too, would develop a hot-colored style known as Nova Figuração ("new figuration"), which rhymed in places with American pop or French narrative figuration.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, was the target of protective protesters who recently marched to his home, chanting an expletive that rhymed with his first name.
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Drawing a large audience, the collective's members sang and rhymed about positive as well as painful issues such as First Nations and reparations, their uplifting spirits carrying the message.
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Pope's Homer read like Homer when it was published, although the idea of reading ancient Greek verse in strict rhymed couplets seems to us a brilliant Augustan period piece.
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In Lucas's defense, he wisely used his time with Rachel to recite an original poem—which was really bad and rhymed "smile" with "entail"—which Rachel seemed to find endearing.
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I decided to poke around the Archives for past themes I enjoyed, and came across this Lynn Lempel gem, which contained eight phrases that all rhymed despite having different spellings.
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Then you have someone like Shredda, a producer who's been quietly layering the beats over which the likes of Jammer, Shorty, P Money, and Footsie have rhymed in recent years.
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Who knows, maybe that future poetry will find its root in the added surprise this collection offers in the form of the several brief, untitled, rhymed poems that punctuate it?
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And you, dear audience members, are the co-authors of these numbers — feeding the onstage crew the words, ideas and emotions that they then transform into improbably rhymed performance pieces.
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Ms. Folds, a newcomer to the team with a singing voice that scales the heights of exasperation, took us on a rhymed excursion through the overcrowded purgatory of Times Square.
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But The Bloody Hand, as I am told this play is called, which with its canny vulgarity, frilly rhymed couplet dialogue, and fart noises, comes off as good-humored self-parody.
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On Reasonable Doubt's 20th anniversary, we talked to the men who took Jay Z's words to heart, the gangsters and drug dealers who were living the life that Jay Z rhymed about.
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Gene Brown: It's kind of a thing I got into naturally because I produced and rhymed and kind of knew about the little subtle things that made the differences in particular records.
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In The Get Down, characters sometimes talk in rhymed dialogue, like refugees from Luhrmann's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, and expository phrases float by like burners on the sides of subway cars.
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"When she once unwisely described a female political opponent of her husband's as a word that rhymed with 'rich,' she reported that her family had begun calling her the poet laureate," Meacham said.
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While presenting the award for best original score at the 2004 Tony Awards, the "Mama Said Knock You Out" emcees rhymed a hip-hop version of "Hello, Dolly" — which had Channing dancing and rapping herself!
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Musically, while other rappers rhymed about indulging in weed and Ecstasy and privately snorted cocaine, this film shows Wayne giddily mixing lean as his manager exasperatingly dealt with his artist in the grip of addiction.
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At the time "A Bay Bay" producer Mr. Collipark was the king of "snap music," a critically derided subgenre accused of watering hip-hop down into rhymed jingles from artists known to quickly fade away.
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Aaron Douglas had made boldly stylized drawings and designs for the anthology, which rhymed with the photographs of African sculptures that dotted its pages: masks from the Baoulé and the Bushongo; a grand Dahomey bronze.
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" I heard something else in that song, a rhymed chorus that didn't really rhyme: "I'm an Etch a Sketch (But now I'm all shook up)/ I'm a piece of wax (But now the imprint's lost.
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And like other reports that have linked kratom (pronounced either kray-tum or rhymed with atom) to fatal overdoses, there was a significant caveat in the C.D.C. numbers: the majority of deaths involved additional factors.
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There were frequent invocations of the project's first rule — "Do no harm" — and debates about whether to keep "thees" and "thous," and whether it was kosher to include more rhymed couplets than the original text has.
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An ace beatboxer known for his role in the a cappella Broadway musical "In Transit," Mr. Snow showcases his percussive talents but mostly narrates the action through a combination of rhymed spoken word and straightforward prose.
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That's when CAFE AU LAIT emerged from the cobwebs to make a grand entrance: AU LAIT double-rhymed with both OKAY and O'SHEA, their associated phrases followed the same rhythm, and they were all spelled differently.
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There's even an infamous 3.03,000-word "Ring Theory" blog post, in which a fan spent two years writing about how the prequels and the original trilogy "rhymed" with each other when viewed within a concatenated structure.
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It was a (sanitized) cover of Busted's "Year 27" in which the brothers sing about traveling into the future to find (inexplicably) "boy bands" and to discover that their records outsold Kelly Clarkson (random but it rhymed).
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He had picked it not only because it rhymed with my last name, but also because, as he knew, I had done a lot of online dating before fleeing to take this job on a cruise ship.
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Even if neither of the kids drank then, that's another way that "Travel Agents" rhymed with long-ago plot lines: Both episodes underscore that Philip and Elizabeth's kids are basically good, even when no one is watching.
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A guy outside started playing the congas while Monkey Guy explained arcane details about hockey officiating and told me he mostly followed snooker, which he pronounced with a long o so it rhymed with lucre rather than booker.
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Here's where it gets interesting -- just last year, Jay-Z called the NFL out, dissing the league in a song called "APESH*T" ... where he rhymed about turning down the Super Bowl halftime show to show solidarity with Kaepernick.
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In that delicious song, delivered with the driest of wit by Mr. Green, the narrator recalls a season of decadent parties on the French Riviera, in cascades of rhymed lyrics that grow more lunatic as the song trundles along.
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If page upon page of metrically stringent and dutifully rhymed lines with clunky allusions to Wittgenstein, Derrida, Mallarmé, Althusser, Joyce, Marx, Brecht, Benjamin, Adorno and Badiou — to name a few — strikes you as illuminating, then you'll enjoy this book.
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One of the few things that could be said of their mysterious and possibly fictitious creator, Opdebec, was that his name rhymed most usefully with mec (roughly "bloke"), a hard little word somehow apt, too, for his hard little wooden inventions.
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"While famous rappers like Eminem win Grammy Awards and make millions off the violent imagery in their songs, judges and juries are routinely convinced that lesser-known rap artists are somehow living out their lyrics as rhymed autobiography," Mr. Jones said.
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He was a black man in a country barely 50 years past Jim Crow with the middle name Hussein and a last name that rhymed with "Osama" running for president shortly after 9/11 and the launch of the Iraq War.
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"We was marching hands up not concerning the cops/Next thing you know, them bitches started pointing their choppers/They wanted to trip quick and start turning it up/So that f***ing QuikTrip we got to burning it up," he rhymed.
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BERLIN — In Germany's hugely popular hip-hop music scene, one of the biggest albums of the past year was from two trash-talking rappers who rhymed about their prowess in bed and in the weight room and about violently dominating their opponents.
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Ice Cube is such a talented storyteller that when he rhymed about a day in which he hooked up with a girl, watched some MTV, grubbed on Fatburger and didn't have to use his A.K., some apparently thought these were actual, sequential events.
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Instead she delivers a rhymed disquisition on "double-blind and peer-reviewed" empirical method that's over faster than Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" while repeating "We all enjoy results of scientific inquiry" three times just in case some dumbass missed the point.
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He embeds lines of poetry in journalistic essays like a rogue reporter; conversely, he'll forge a sonnet or rhymed tercets out of reported language, as he does in poems that incorporate the testimony of Tony Lagouranis, who witnessed the torture at Abu Ghraib.
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But what distinguished him even more than his prodigious output (more than 220,000 comments since 2008) was the form those comments took: verse — mostly limericks — perfectly rhymed, (usually) metrically impeccable and always germane to whatever recent news item had caught his eye.
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In 1973, using the pseudonym Lightnin' Rod, he released "Hustlers Convention," an album that unified the black tradition of toasts — rhymed stories about the heroic exploits of renegades and rebels, and the battles between them — with the contemporary sound of streetwise funk.
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The rhymed lines also shift position from one stanza to the next, creating a feeling of rippling movement that suggests leaves ruffled by the wind: Since winter ended for this tree, new leavesfilled all the branches, grew, could not restrainthemselves from coming.
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Mr. Odom also recites Shakespeare and inspirational verse about inner beauty ("be the best whatever you are") and about how skin shades may differ but everyone has feelings, along with some rhymed lyrics about dignity by Ms. Boykin, a longtime Ailey dancer.
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The hostless show opened with Janelle Monáe donning a Mister Rogers cardigan and belting out a medley with backup dancers and lyrics that rhymed "Parasites" and "Dolemites," followed by a quick, hit-and-miss joint monologue by former hosts Steve Martin and Chris Rock.
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"As you know, we started what I believe to be the most important Halloween tradition since someone rhymed the words 'Trick or treat' with 'Smell my feet,' " said Kimmel, 48, in reference to the beloved YouTube challenge, which is now in its sixth year.
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"I'ma jam this rusty knife all in his guts and chop his feet/You taking money away from Beaz and all my s*** away from me/Well your shift over at 3 and I'm gonna f*** up where you sleep," Knox rhymed at one point.
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Notorious B.I.G. / "Feelin It" / "Jigga My N***a" / "Picasso Baby" / "Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)" / "Encore" / "Takeover" / "Public Service Announcement" / "U Don't Know" / "Kill Jay-Z" Apple Music | TIDAL When Jay first entered the scene during his pre- Reasonable Doubt era, he rhymed super fast and rhythmically like his mentor Jaz-O.
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The first two of those were seen at the Classic Stage Company, where "The Liar" opened on Thursday, in impeccably acted productions that managed to make the preening fops, bawdy servants, blushing ingénues and romantic heroes of long-ago France seem like our contemporaries, only with an uncanny gift for rhymed verse.
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The opera's music will be provided by the vibration of the audience members' own phones, and the messages themselves will be a pastiche of straight narrative, images, video, and a poem composed of syllables culled from the audience members' names using a computer program modeled after a form of ancient Chinese rhymed verse. Confused?
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It begins: Poets and versifiers of African descent have been publishing poetry on American shores since the year 1746 when a slave woman named Lucy Terry penned a rhymed description of an Indian attack on the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts, a quarter of a century before the revolt of the New England colonies against Britain.
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His style favors successive tremors of bile and animus, often crudely rhymed so as to suggest doggerel or ad copy: I'm looking at a video of my goddess, One of a library of videos of love I have— Her performing for the iPad, bursting out of her bodice, And entering my eyes with some sort of sex salve.
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His line where he says "you the man in the city when the mayor fuck with you, the NBA players fuck with you, the badass bitches doing makeup and hair fuck with you" is one of his best ever—casually on beat and rhyming in a way that at first seems way off beat and not rhymed at all, while also effortlessly making you consider just how famous Drake really is.
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