In my imagination I playfully wrote "You and Me Again," I used some rhyming conventions, whereas before I was destroying rhyming conventions.
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Where The Daybooks are composed in various strict traditional forms, The Book of Baruch consists of prose poems, with considerable internal rhyming, off-rhyming, and anagrammatic play: "textured" prose, one might call them.
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Hitchener's terrible rhyming could only be driven by pure contempt.
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I think there's a lot of rhyming going on here.
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Perhaps that's what Orange Rhyming Dictionary's true legacy has become.
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If it's "amun," rhyming with famine, they are from Winters.
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Then, an emcee steps up and starts rhyming to the music.
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She began rhyming at 16, when she was interested in theatre.
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Since 83, however, the rhyming maxim has not really played out.
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The "Word rhyming with 'ignore' in 'I Am Woman'" is ROAR.
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At several points, characters speak in rhyming couplets for no reason.
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I spoke with Martin Connor, a writer and music theorist who analyzes the rhyming patterns, beats, and rhythmic techniques of some of the greatest rappers, to figure out just how rhyming in rap music has evolved.
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Men send women "gaekkebrev," which are poems or rhyming love notes, anonymously.
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Rhyming couplets can rarely be expected to serve as sound investment advice.
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It's a classic yet updated Tribe cut, with back-and-forth rhyming.
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The president last month made an offhand remark about rhyming the nickname.
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Vegan or not, just trust us—these muffins are worth rhyming about.
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We will now quit rhyming before we get to South Bend, Ind.
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The entire show is in rhyming couplets but it feels completely natural.
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" Few artists can pull off a rhyming couplet between "date" and "castrate.
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Click here to view original GIFKaptain Kristian's latest explainer video is a fun one: he explains how the anapestic tetrameter rhyming style of Dr. Seuss helped us better understand language as kids, all while rhyming in the video himself.
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If you weren't impressed by Shia's rhyming skills before ... Ryan might change that.
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The rhyming tales seem like what Dr. Seuss might have produced after hours.
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Over time, she developed rhyming skills that she channeled into energetic, moving anthems.
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What kind of a hack would lower himself to rhyming "Nietzsche" with "preachy"?
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I had a rhyming dictionary, the dictionary — it was just practice and determination.
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Clearly, one animal's clutter is another pig's livelihood in this buoyant, rhyming tale.
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Did you ever play any hand-clapping or rhyming games as a child?
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" But Cill was ready with his rebuttal: "You gave us rhyming names, Ma!
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Let's just say "marrow" and "pharaoh" never thought of rhyming until he insisted.
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She kissed boys, and I wrote dramatic poems about heartache in neat, rhyming couplets.
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But even without the rhyming, one assumes growth is still on the docket here.
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The rhyme-as-reason effect occurs when your brain finds rhyming statements more accurate.
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Instead, they were distinguished by being especially imaginative or touching or beautiful or rhyming.
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Readers are challenged to figure out rhyming riddles to unlock the password-protected chapters.
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The customer, Jay Whalley, sent his rhyming complaint to ASOS' support team via Facebook message.
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Keeping with the fashion of the time, Döebringer wrote the entire treatise in rhyming couplets.
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Apparently, "apples and pears" is another term for stairs in "Cockney rhyming slang" — who knew?
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She goes on to list more than a few of those "forevers" in rhyming couplets.
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If you've been rhyming her name with a certain tropical fruit, you've been mispronouncing it.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, could the history of early internet advertising be rhyming in 21?
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The detailed lyrics, boasting complex internal rhyming schemes, would become hallmarks of their musical union.
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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it's certainly rhyming, and it's a softer rhyme here." video
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All that remained was for me to help with rhyming ideas and check their understanding.
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A girl gets to ride on her dad's giant snowplow in this delightful rhyming tale.
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A rhyming name had seemed just right then; she couldn't have said why, at seventeen.
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" You note the clumsy rhyming couplet––the way that "everlasting" is shoehorned in against "thing.
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"It violates the rhyme created by the letter G rhyming with the letter P," he said.
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Then there's Joanna, the tiny, grinning woman with the horse-inspired moves and kooky rhyming instructions.
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Does the script leave room for a bizarre rhyming segment at the end of each episode?
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Rhyming her diary and mulling her cultural tribulations, she represents for young black working women everywhere.
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The speech (written in rhyming verse) is really a testament on behalf of all black humanity.
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He has also been known to deliver speeches in rhyming couplets at his friends' momentous occasions.
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And his simple rhyming verse made his poems easy to remember and to turn into song.
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The app combines a text editor, rhyming dictionary, and beats you might otherwise queue up on YouTube.
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" The mood swoops between feral despair and strung-out longing—check out Kurt rhyming "mother" with "summer.
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She usually starts with rhyming and combinations of first and last names and working in any idioms.
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It spawned memes and internet lingo and in-jokes and made non-rhyming jingles into a thing.
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Throughout Orange Rhyming Dictionary, Schwarzenbach shifted his lyrical focus away from the topics Jawbreaker was known for.
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At its core, Orange Rhyming Dictionary was an album that saw Schwarzenbach trying to reclaim his humanity.
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Over the next few months he became increasingly psychotic, stopped sleeping and started rhyming all his sentences.
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If you can pass a driving test while rhyming, how come baking a cake's such a challenge?
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Poem Note the way slant and full rhyming couplets provide graceful rails for this poem's difficult subject.
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With 236 rhyming words, it's short and sweet, and the NYPL says it's always in demand. 1.
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From those experiences I concluded that one of civilization's great challenges stems from millionaire rhyming with billionaire.
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Communicating in rough insults and rhyming slang, these artful codgers are, for a time, fun to watch.
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Don't just be a consumer, be a creator (or the rhyming version—be a maker, not a taker).
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He's ditched the meds and is back in town, knee deep in rhyming slang, alcoholism, and sago balls.
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"Do favors for the undeserving until they weep," the narrator advises the reader in the rhyming moral lesson.
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And here's a playlist highlighting songs that are prime examples of how great rhyming in rap can be.
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Jean Marzollo sent millions of children searching through elaborate photo collages in her "I Spy" rhyming picture books.
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We feed all those things into this movie and it just felt like an expanding, natural, rhyming universe.
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Between 2012 and 2013 he posted a hundred videos of himself on YouTube, showcasing his freestyling rhyming skills.
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And other projects, like Ranjit Bhatnagar's Pentametron Twitter bot that couples rhyming iambic Tweets, have explored online poetry.
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Surely, Orange Rhyming Dictionary had as many detractors as it did fans, but the public's curiosity certainly showed.
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Even my style of beat rhyming, when I first started that, everyone told me that's not really beatboxing.
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As titles go, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is exemplary: clear, rhyming, and conceptually precise.
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He described the title, a play on "the rain in Spain," as taking a stand against rhyming verse.
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These days, you're less likely to find Ice-T rhyming on the mic than mugging on your television.
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We wish you good luck, and would yell some goofy rhyming encouragement incorporating your name if we could.
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The story of the fugitive slave crisis is a rhyming story filled with echoes in our own time.
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I'm half- rhyming, aiming right between quick and dead like we could thread that needle and keep going.
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The name derives from "poesy," a kind of short-form poetry that often uses rhythmic or rhyming verse.
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And our show concludes with a rhyming tribute to the thousands of viewers who visited us this year.
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The state of rap's tomorrow: offhandedly delivered, mundanely detailed, incidentally rhyming, Primo resentful Drake meets primo unbothered Ross.
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Obviously, say more than 850,000 copies of "Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site," among many, many other rhyming best sellers.
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Now, you can add Chris Harris and Lane Smith's "I'm Just No Good at Rhyming" to this pantheon.
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"I'm Just No Good at Rhyming" is the perfect canvas for Smith's simple and absurd sepia-toned mischief.
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You have to start working on shaping the rhyming and what it's about so that it works musically.
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Once you've done a ton of rhyming and lyric writing, how do you continue to make it interesting?
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Backed by a voiceover of rhyming verses, the ad follows a couple as they scramble to prepare for Christmas.
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Ali's signature "trash talk" was peppered with rhyming, musical catchphrases, a little tongue-in-cheek and a lot memorable.
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He taught me about beat rhyming, which is when you sing or rap — tell a story — while you beatbox.
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Check out the lyrics to see the full track, and how far Drake's rhyming prowess has come since puberty.
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Like Cash's lyrics, the poems in "Forever Words" are written in plain language, usually with a clear rhyming meter.
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I'M JUST NO GOOD AT RHYMING: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, by Chris Harris.
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Instead of a rabbi, a stage and television actor officiated, opening with a rhyming rap about how they met.
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The writers have also furnished a clever script that goes well beyond the simple rhyming adventures of the books.
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I always come back to my first love, traditional rhyming lyric poetry (and still try to write it too).
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I'M JUST NO GOOD AT RHYMING And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups By Chris Harris.
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You know you have to make the meter right and the rhyming scheme is really important and the musicality.
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Once that worked, I made the "Jar of Smarts" and realized I had a fun rhyming scheme on my hands.
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He pronounced it like pie-nus, rhyming with minus, which was their running joke for reasons the man couldn't recall.
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Where D Double E opts for a monorhyme scheme, Rotten goes for a different tack, often using complex rhyming patterns.
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And then a moment later, he poses a question about the point of rap: Do you prize rhyming or honesty?
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I opened it and saw a smear of what looked like blood at the bottom of an unsigned, rhyming letter.
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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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It opened with a rhyming section and continued with self-deprecating jokes and humor about the sold-out $500 devices.
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But even though math is its primary focus, Peg + Cat also offers lessons in collaboration and teamwork, rhyming, and alliteration.
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Those poems were cast in rhyming stanzas so they could be transmitted orally over generations before they were written down.
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So it's a cute bit of historical rhyming that Joshua Bergasse, the director and choreographer of the City Center Encores!
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As fans of "Hamilton" know, this character does some ferocious rhyming as a friend and ally of the title character.
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He handles that remix in a similarly discursive way by rhyming "bag" with itself three times in a row. Whatever.
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Translating Brecht is no easy task, especially in the early rhyming poems that borrow their form from Dante and Shakespeare.
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Interspersed with the narrator's journey is a constellation of discrete stories that share rhyming motifs and certain turns of phrase.
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To this day, I still cheer for the three rhyming teams that attracted me at the ripe age of 5.
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They took some creative liberties with rhyming -- for example, "there" with "chamber" -- though their interpretation of the process was accurate.
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We're still yet to hear the debut album from Nehru, but that doesn't mean he's disappeared back into his rhyming cave.
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They were inspired to pen the rhyming piece after realizing transgender menstruators were often completely left out of conversations around periods.
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It involves duets, typically between a man and a woman, that are often delivered in seven- or ten-character rhyming lines.
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Even professional rappers struggle to think as fast as you need to pull off smooth rhyming lines that actually make sense.
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Released on October 27, 1998, Orange Rhyming Dictionary would polarize punks even more than Dear You had done three years earlier.
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But I heard the DJ, I think he threw on "Apache," one of them fuckin' breakbeats, and the guys started rhyming.
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The almost-rhyming connection to Biedermeier, a furniture and interior decoration style with strong Viennese associations, cannot be a coincidence, though.
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At this point, Schwarzenegger gives up on the whole rhyming thing and just kind of starts talking, but you know what?
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I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded.
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At $10,000 a throw, paid to his publisher, to support rhyming poets (a suppressed minority), King could have all he wants.
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However, he admits that as a budding poet, he has had to resort to seeking help in thesauruses and online rhyming dictionaries.
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"We just had a guitar loop and I was just telling my life — rhyming, free-styling," he explains of the writing process.
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"They're trying to follow the Trump model of rhyming nicknames and taglines, but that only works for the President," the strategist said.
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She calls it an "awesome privilege" to be able to pen the book, which features rhyming verses about her furry family member.
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The challenge to commit verse to memory grows in later sections, though rhyming and silliness give the longer poems a mnemonic boost.
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Hand-clapping routines, rhyming stanzas and intricate rules for tiny competitions; games born of the creativity, insight and idiosyncrasy of children's minds.
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Ali and Frazier fought for the third time in Asia in 1975, in a brutal bout which was given which rhyming nickname?
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Then I heard his lyrics, his melodic rhyming, and his singing and I got shivers hearing the track really coming to life.
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Or, I guess, because rhyming celebs' names is always funny, or because late-'80s Joel references invariably delight a certain kind of nerd.
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Sometimes they're just never-ending threads of rhyming words, or thousand-strong chains of users insulting the last person to post above them.
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Given a theme or a prompt, bertsolaris invent a poem of between eight and 703 lines, which must fit a prescribed rhyming form.
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Do you remember the moment in English class when your teacher told you that rhyming isn't actually that big a deal in poetry?
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The gang also made one big and amateurish mistake: They bragged about what they had done — often in expletive-laced Cockney rhyming slang.
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It's clear that she believed that reading to children could shape their minds and hearts, all through rhyming words and emotionally intelligible pictures.
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In 1555, Michel de Nostredame, or Nostradamus, published "Les Prophéties," a collection of nearly 1,000 prophetic and poetic quatrains (four-line rhyming verses).
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Taiwan Dispatch TAOYUAN, Taiwan — As the batter steps to the plate, the clamor crescendoes, a rhyming, thumping chant, often tailored to his name.
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Haikus are typically non-rhyming and consist of five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third.
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She addresses the audience in profanity-laced rhyming couplets that evoke the rollicking rhymes of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
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"Bay scallops," Marvin said, but pronounced it the off-Cape way, instead of rhyming it with "wallop," and we all stared at him.
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Rather, she seems to begin with themes and ideas that fall into a kind of rhyming pattern and then make them do somersaults.
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It has suddenly dawned on him that he is an artist, and much to Janice's disgust, he occasionally breaks into dreamy rhyming couplets.
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This might not sound too exciting at first glance, because the mobile-obsessed masses could hardly be bothered to read rhyming or free verse.
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Draped in flags and with their faces painted, protesters spontaneously erupt into chants that take the form of long, rhyming call-and-response poems.
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With the hashtag #WorldSeriesArtThrowdown, the two venerable institutions have taken to Twitter, trading rhyming barbs accompanied by images of work from their respective collections.
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"In homes and schools across the land, it is time for Christians to take a stand," he recited, ending his speech in rhyming couplets.
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He wants to publish a rhyming children's book, which technically he's already written, called Getting Dressed With Sarah, about body positivity for young girls.
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"It came out of play, the fun of rhyming, and the idea that language is a lot of different things," Hermann, 50, tells PEOPLE.
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Pork pies is an old London rhyming slang term for "lies", but Banks and Wigmore smiled and posed with the pies before eating them.
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This is reflected in the delicate, harp-infused instrumental and Las Vegas-shot visuals which form a refreshing backdrop to the pair's rhyming partnership.
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Ms. Margolin offers us a theme that consists of five rhyming phrases that start with the possessive form of the name of a country.
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The rhyming names, the matching sailor suits, the tomfoolery of mistaken identities, the two-places-at-the-same-time movie plot—genetics for gags.
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The eager little undead dancer is back for her third book, and she waltzes right into her classroom ready for some clever rhyming action.
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Mr. Hawley has pulled himself close to Mr. Trump, and as the candidate jetted around the state, the two men were all but rhyming.
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Moreover the metrical poem (emphatic iambic beat) attempts to reinforce its moralizing by rhyming; even those are predictable and seem sponsored by Dr. Seuss.
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Since she's from Houston, she has a pretty good handle on chopped and screwed, that drowsy, glutinous style of rhyming made famous in her hometown.
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And her rhyming schematics (she memorably tries to bounce "pajamas" and "bananas" off each other in "Goddess,") would never work in the current pop style.
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"In case you run out of time, this is how I see it so far," Conway said playfully, holding up two simple rhyming flash cards.
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Hart went a step further Sunday posting two photos of Zo along with a really sweet poem, although he might want work on his rhyming.
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Not that the poem, which hewed to a conventional rhyming meter, was one of his own favorites: "Damn My Captain," he reportedly said in 26690.
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Hicok's exhortation to accept responsibility for our future falls on conveniently stoppered ears: The final line, with its rhyming monosyllables, lands like a judge's gavel.
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Sparks of color, such as the green of the cantaloupe pith, punctuate the rhyming browns of the pancakes, maple syrup, plates, table and water glass.
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Mr. Agard and Mr. Yonas offer us a rhyming theme, where the first and last words of each of the four theme phrases are soundalikes.
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The bridesmaids that insist on doing a speech in rhyming couplets We see what you are doing there, and we don't really care about Jane's childhood.
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As a shy, chubby kid, drumming, singing, and rhyming offered him his first tastes of confidence, and a hint at something larger than what he knew.
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Jason Derulo is going to be doing a lot more rhyming with "drinkin'" and "thinkin'" because he's got a big country music project in the works.
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I knew NINEBARK, BIG SHOT and BOHEMIA but didn't get much traction from those three and had to take some chances with RHYMING and IRON AGE.
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Open Book If you can tear yourself away from Lin-Manuel Miranda's soundtrack, there's a more direct (if less rhyming) way to learn about Alexander Hamilton.
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But the most important piece of legislation rhyming with GDPR right now is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which comes into force on January 22st.
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After all, these are our moms and they deserve to be heard, not dismissed as a mob by Trump and the GOP's new cutesy rhyming slogan.
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He participated in groups like the Ladies Hit Squad and Pay As U Go, rhyming over music that was mostly centered around production and dance breaks.
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His name eventually became so well known in Australia that "reg grundies" or "grundies" became a common rhyming slang word for underwear in parts of the country.
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Behind the scenes: Along with simple, age-appropriate science concepts, the show weaves problem-solving, prereading skills such as rhyming, and basic shape recognition into the stories.
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" She invited people to listen to Blonde on Blonde, "an extraordinary example of his brilliant way of rhyming, putting together refrains, and his brilliant way of thinking.
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Struggling songwriter Roger sings the jingle to his wife as a distraction from writer's block, and the rhyming of "De Vil" with everything Disney fans could imagine.
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"Accident Prone" and "Jet Black" hid their explosiveness in lengthy instrumental sections, turning abstraction into catharsis and becoming a template for the bulk of Orange Rhyming Dictionary.
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There's a nice rhyming here: if the control panel of the Death Star itself looks an awful lot like a video broadcast switcher, that's because it is.
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" Gags like the observation about teenagers don't need to be germane, if they work, and the same goes for the rhyming prose of "before cellphones" and "pheromones.
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With one rhyming couplet, he's completely exonerated himself and j'accused you of a digestive felony, and there's not a damn thing you can say in your defense.
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Ms. Dewdney, the children's book author and illustrator who died Saturday at the much-too-young age of 50, had a genius for this kind of rhyming.
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The hope is that The Come Up Game's layer of self-expression, in terms of fashion, rhyming, and character agency, will create that sort of player oasis.
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For his "The Tempest" (2004), Thomas Adès embraced the dizzying range of an era of musical eclecticism, and Meredith Oakes provided rhyming couplets distilled from Shakespeare's lines.
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But more people admired him, even loved him, for his principled stands, his high spirits, his lightning mind, his winking self-regard and, yes, his rhyming motormouth.
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Based on an audience-suggested title, the costumed improvisers weave a play in the complex, often rhyming language of 17th-century British theater, complete with spontaneous songs.
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Drake cracked the code: he collapsed the distance between these archetypes, seeming equally comfortable rhyming about dodging bullets and baring his insecurities in a come-hither hook.
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There's a line in the first verse of MF Doom's track "Beef Rapp" that encapsulates everything I love about rappers who create complex rhyming patterns in their songs.
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Unusually, it's all in rhyming verse, but hear an actor like Eddie Redmayne or Sam West in the role, and Shakespeare's verse emerges as darkly troubling, not twee.
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As those rhyming "Boston Born, Boston Bred, Boston Soon To Be Wed" hashtags note, Dushku and her new fiancé have strong ties to a certain New England city.
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Like the notorious and brutally misinterpreted "shrimp on a treadmill" study, the notion of subsidizing a rendezvous of rhyming cowboys perfectly showcased their claims of frivolous federal spending.
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Common was leaving Equinox when we asked him about Lillard's rhyming ... wanting to know if the NBA star actually has the goods when it comes to hip-hop.
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Folks were quick to chime in with their own rhyming couplets, though this time they were less about border security and more about repeatedly dunking on the president.
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This particular rhyming sequence has been lip-synced by over 1,400 people, making it one of the most popular lip-synced sounds on TikTok among its conservative community.
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I like those gangsta rap records where they would big themselves up, where they're rhyming and like, 'I'm really good at sex'—that old school hip-hop rapping.
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Small children generally crave rhymes, as they crave repetition — and we all know that it's easier to memorize a rhyming story and repeat it over and over again.
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Ms. Lovette's "Not Our Fate" explains its title in the program — quoting a 12-line rhyming poem by the dancer Mary Elizabeth Sell — and yet it's a misnomer.
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In these instances, the only people left telling us not to worry — rhyming their responses with the vindicated defenders of the nascent internet — have suspiciously much to lose.
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For example, I usually tell them to avoid rhyming couplets, because they govern the poem and tend to be comic - but this has heavy rhyme, and it's heartbreaking. pic.twitter.
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Told in rhyming verse, Carroll's trademark use of deep reds and blue give the proceedings an eerie whimsy, and her layouts — always brilliant — furl and explode across the page.
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Malta, Alderney and the Isle of Man (which markets itself under the witty, if questionable, rhyming slogan of "Where you can") have tempted e-gaming firms to their shores.
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Berry's wit and eye for detail remains unmatched, in part because Berry rarely strayed from the format he had mastered: The two-and-a-half minute rhyming pop song.
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For over a decade, the brothers have scoured Los Angeles for any audition with decent pay and rhyming character names, and in that time they've built a small empire.
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To go deeper with writing rhymes and raps in the classroom, explore Flocabulary's Lyric Lab, a tool that provides students with rhyming word suggestions and definitions as they write.
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Meyers' team did their best under the circumstances — special points for rhyming "zenith" with "penis" — but the musical talents of the Jonas Brothers blew them out of the water.
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They note he was born under the Chinese zodiac sign of the Bull, and have made word plays rhyming his family name, which sounds like the Chinese word for ox.
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Pundits and reporters took note of her rambling, edgy-seeming, sometimes-rhyming presentation in Iowa, with Mr. Trump standing nearby, occasionally looking as if he wished it would wrap up.
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It's a delightful variation on the Elf on a Shelf rhyming meme that surfaced last year, and the results are a reminder that the internet is actually quite good — sometimes.
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Gates and Thugger bring a whole lot of flavor and bounce to the track, Thug throwing in some of his signature adlibs while Gates modulates his voice through his rhyming.
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And Moore's profanity-laced insults and rhyming speech in the middle of the movie, called "Signifying Monkey," has gone on to gain popularity with stand-ups, rappers, and other entertainers.
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In "The Lion Roars," Rick Ross comes swaggering in to announce, "Pull up in that Rolls-Royce, can you hear the Wailers?" before rhyming about "coming from the bottom" himself.
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Born and raised in a "famously custard-yellow enclave" called Sunset Lodge, built by a "local Jew," Abdullah lived with his Papa and Mummy and four brothers with rhyming names.
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In the original German the interlocking rhymes have the simple mnemonic power of devotional verses for the layman; each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet exhorting the reader to compassion.
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In a video posted to YouTube just after Christmas, a woman in a blond wig and lethal-looking lipstick spits rhyming insults at Ms. Pinkins while a backing track plays.
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Combining whimsical drawings with clever rhyming couplets, the diary — more graphic novel than ordinary journal — portrays the physical and emotional hardships of a spirited stick figure, the author's alter ego.
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He can bend the rules of grammar and spelling to suit his own stylistic intentions, which to me is more impressive than rhyming a thousand syllable structures together in MLA format.
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For example, the opening case of Spirit of Justice has you facing off against a mellow musician monk named "Pees'lubn Andistan'dhin" who speaks in rhyming couplets and allegedly witnessed the crime.
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I feel like, if you're really dope at rhyming and you can adhere to what's new and making people listen, then that barrier of being feminine or masculine should just disappear.
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"The only thing I would say that is concerning — there is some rhyming nature to the fact there are no covenants in deals anymore and structure doesn't matter anymore," he said.
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Bird was there and Bigger and King and Malcolm and millions of other Xs and crosses, along with Mahalia singing, Duke Ellington composing, Gwendolyn Brooks rhyming and Michael Jordan slam-dunking.
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But I most dread the rhyming history we are plunged into now: the merciless pummeling of a woman who dares to obstruct the glide path of a conservative Supreme Court nominee.
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It was a long-lined rhyming comic ballad about a powerful slugger who comes to the plate with the game on the line only to fail miserably, in epic and classical fashion.
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Rhyming over the bombastic horns and anxiety-inducing '808s of Quay Global, Bigg D, and a cadre of other Quality Control producers, the women command these tracks like sex-positive drum majorettes.
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Whether rhyming about his candidacy, his plan to build a wall along the border of Mexico, his statements about Muslims, or just his hair, Donald Trump made it into almost every submission.
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Still, there remain questionable aesthetic choices—excessive rhyming dialogue à la Spike Lee's Chiraq, for one—which tend to distract from the wonderful performances of Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, and Jaden Smith.
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He then declaimed a series of obviously fictional passages (in rhyming verse) depicting Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, engrossed in a series of athletically challenging sexual activities with barnyard animals.
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In many ways, Orange Rhyming Dictionary felt like Schwarzenbach trying to figure out who he was if not the singer of a band that people couldn't help but care so deeply about.
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If you don't say you're good, then you're not a dope MC. One of my first films, This Is the Life, was about the artists who were rhyming at the Good Life.
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With the most marvelous and specific visual examples from everywhere, it is an obsessively detailed history and explanation of the human drive to symmetry, balance, rhyming and the desire to "fill" space.
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Here, on "Round & Round," slowthai's rhyming is urgent and frenetic, barely contained by the beat, and as a whole, the track has a palpable sense of being on the brink of something explosive.
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The short, rhyming collection of basic particle physics concepts "will lead you to minuscule particles, high-tech equipment, far-out phenomena and fascinating theories" write the book's authors, Lauren Biron and Chris Smith.
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JIM RHODESNorfolk, Virginia You say potato… Is Johnson (July 22nd) being deliberately provocative in suggesting that scone is pronounced by Britons to rhyme with "gone", whereas Americans pronounce it as rhyming with "cone"?
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As it turns out, the rhyming phrase originated from the superstitious Victorian times, where the presence of all four things is believed to bring good fortune to the bride on her big day.
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The Late Show host destroyed Trump's speech one clip at a time immediately afterward on Tuesday, but on Wednesday night, he looped back to pick up one particular feature of Trump's speech: rhyming.
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We thought that instead of just reporting on the general content of this fictional work, it might be fun to try writing an opening chorus in rhyming German that had the proper accents.
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Anyone can make rhymes when there are no rules and you get to make up the words; the art of rhyming is in finding actual words in unexpected collisions that resolve in grace.
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An east London boy with Jamaican parents, he spits in a way that remains London to the core, mixing Patois with slick, East End talk and the odd spot of cockney rhyming slang.
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In "Hip Hop Dog" (2010), written by Mr. Raschka, the often rhyming words of the story spiral around the page, compelling readers to rotate the book like a record or a compact disc.
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With not much in mind but the lyrical approach of local hero Chloe Escott of Native Cats fame, the song leans on rhyming couplets to convey ideas of self-doubt and post-romance heartache.
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While the lyrics lean toward the earnest, Cosentino did allow herself a wink on "Everything Has Changed," rhyming "lazy crazy baby" as a nod to the doubters who have dismissed her writing as repetitive.
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His famous admirers included Issac Asimov, a science-fiction writer, and a taste for the nerdy was always a hallmark: one popular song was a jauntily rhyming recitation of all of the chemical elements.
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" One that won't be heard outside a comedy club was Paisley's parody of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," employing a woman's private body part for perhaps the most creative rhyming of "North Carolina.
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We broke the story ... Lillard's being heavily courted (see what we did there) by huge rap labels looking to turn his heavily praised rhyming skills into some moola ... and Dame is weighing his options.
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The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart is the eponymous tale of an uptight academic who specializes in the study of Border ballads, or long narrative rhyming poems that originated along the Scottish-English divide.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO The ASAP Mob first arrived in hip-hop as a crew of aesthetes, but what's become clear over time is that the mode the members thrive in the most is rowdy rhyming.
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"There's an old saying about how history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes, and we're definitely in a rhyming mode," said Edward T. O'Donnell, a historian at College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts.
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The actress Cordelia Wege gives an impressive rendition of this stream-of-consciousness rant that mixes political outrage with rhyming nonsense and winds up like a mash-up between Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Seuss.
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As for rhyming "swarthy" with "friend of Dorothy," that just about passes muster, but it's as if all involved had settled for the second-best option and were still waiting for inspiration to strike.
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But despite its edgier trappings — a darkly minimal set, stylish modern costumes — it, too, is highly faithful to the text, which is performed in a modern, rhyming translation by Jürgen Gosch and Wolfgang Wiens.
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Rhyming over the classic 2Pac and Snoop Dogg "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" beat, Megan comes off strong and wastes no time addressing her haters while reiterating why she's among the best in the game.
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Self-published in 2005, the rhyming book tells the story of a group of Santa's elves who hide out in houses around the country to watch children and decide if they are naughty or nice.
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Long before his Flash-like rhyming as the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned Broadway sensation earned him a Tony Award nod, Diggs was semi-homeless in New York.
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Her signature, though, was the "I Spy" series, begun in 220, in which Ms. Marzollo's rhyming text invited the reader to try to find various objects and shapes in elaborate scenes photographed by Walter Wick.
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Along with a photo taken during Marie's sorority formal, the Maguires attached a rhyming, six-verse narrative poem that detailed the story of how they met, and why they wanted to work at the Oscars.
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Bridle emphatically cautioned that kids might start out enjoying cute rhyming songs about sleeping bunnies, but eventually the YouTube algorithm's iterative process leads them down a path to videos of superheroes beating each other up.
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The graduate of the School of Visual Art has been tight with the rapper, whose real name is Jamel Phillips, since way before he was rhyming on a major label or running his own clothing company.
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After rhyming off a handful of candidates, we settled on what seemed like a solid choice: winger Jaroslav Svejkovsky, who scored four of his 23 career goals on the last day of the 1996-97 season.
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When you hear it for the first time, it can be jarring — the bar that typically ends with P seems to stop short at N, and the timing and rhyming are thrown into disarray after that.
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Other returning Brits deliver fine voice work as well: Matt Lucas, as the rhyming Tweedles, Stephen Fry (Cheshire Cat), Michael Sheen (White Rabbit), Timothy Spall (Bayard the bloodhound), Barbara Windsor (Dormouse) and Paul Whitehouse (March Hare).
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Known instantly for rhyming with the word vagina, Regina is a glowing metropolis/leading producer of stagnant lake smell and, as luck would have it, something Sean Paul (remember "We Be Burning"!?) couldn't resist any longer.
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But for whatever reason, Jeezy decided to reach out to a major star for a prestigious remix, and so we get the awkward spectacle of Nas rhyming over a "Fuck Up Some Commas"-style siren loop.
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His father, Max, a carpenter who sang in local choirs, was from Pinsk in Belarus, and his mother, Eva, was from Minsk, also in Belarus; he once wrote a song playing with the cities' rhyming names.
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In this book you do something really well that we rarely see on the page, which is lay out the interior, mental process of composing a rap, or any kind of rhyming verse, for that matter.
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The comedian Eric Andre was among many on social media who have criticized XXXTentacion's behavior, and the rapper Vic Mensa freestyled a verse at the BET Awards rhyming "loser" with "domestic abuser" in a taped clip.
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But the mixing of politics and pleasure has inspired endless amusement among Danes, some of whom demonstrated their skills in rhyming the names of politicians with different slang expressions for masturbation in posts on social media.
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For nearly a century, the work, subtitled "The Play About the Death of the Rich Man," has been preaching (in rhyming couplets) against avarice and exhorting the festival's well-heeled audiences to do a charitable deed.
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They are full of startling images and strong feelings, and cannot be pinned down to a single style or type: They are sometimes surrealist, at other times rhyming and formal, often both in the same poem.
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Rockefeller Center revealed their selection to the public through a series of rhyming tweets, invoking the spirit of some of your favorite Christmas stories as they encouraged fans to guess the location of the highly anticipated tree.
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Occasionally they'll try a big political statement; I won't quote the French bit on "Noise Pollution" except to request that bands refrain from rhyming "Je suis Charlie" with "Can't you see I'm feeling magnifique" in the future.
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I originally wanted to call it Mack's Mysteries but nooooooooo, we had to go with History's Mysteries cause rhyming is better than alliteration, I guess—I've been assured if the name sucks we will be changing it.
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Orange Rhyming Dictionary was decidedly more buttoned up than anything Jawbreaker had done, but it showed that punk was mutating in ways that brought it closer to indie-rock, effectively building a bridge between the two genres.
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A lot of the basic understanding of the meaning behind of the song—once you got that basically in place it's really just the task of getting the rhyming scheme and making it fit to the music.
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There's nothing not to full-body love about this, really: if the slinking-through-the-dark vibes or nimble verses don't get you, the pre-chorus rhyming "nee-nor, nee-nor" with "need more, need more" definitely will.
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There's a multimedia slide presentation, scads of comedy, wordplay, and pop-culture trivia, and even a musical element: while the clues work like those in a normal crossword puzzle, they also happen to be rhyming hip-hop lyrics.
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Yet somewhere in there remains a bit of the young teen who had to go from giggling at Dr. Seuss' rhyming verses to performing for school friends, to freestyling road-side in all-male clusters of total strangers.
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Most similar perhaps to Rae Sremmurd, Dreezy is a natural stylistic chameleon, fully comfortable synthesizing the precise, impeccably delivered rhyming of someone like Jay Z with the spacey world of trap production and diving into melody when necessary.
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" Mr. Buckley especially admired the rhyming couplets that Ms. Provensen devised for each commander in chief in her countdown, calling them "wee masterpieces of concision that manage to boil down each president to a felicitous and memorable quiddity.
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The poet Debris Stevenson has started up a project called Poet in the Corner, which celebrates Dizzee Rascal's seminal album by taking the rhyming schemes from Dizzee's songs and using them as the structural bedrock for her own work.
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Jean Marzollo, who sent millions of young children searching through elaborate photo collages for an eclectic collection of objects in her "I Spy" rhyming picture books, died on Tuesday at her home in Cold Spring, N.Y. She was 21993.
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Penguin Books, a "a rhyming summary of highlights from the O.J. Simpson double murder trial" in the Dr. Seuss style was not a parody but instead a "satire," which was not subject to protection under the fair use doctrine.
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After spending years in the eye of a storm, and the entirety of Orange Rhyming Dictionary attempting to make peace with his past and his current self, he was finally able to stop and smell the flowers—quite literally.
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As the years wore on, and guitarist Brian Maryansky, formerly of The Van Pelt, joined the band (though he toured with them in support of Orange Rhyming Dictionary), Jets To Brazil would skew further away from their shared pedigree.
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Children's Books BUSY BABIES Written and illustrated by Amy Schwartz Building blocks, removing socks, with their mamas, in pajamas — almost anything you can picture a baby or toddler getting up to makes an appearance in this casually rhyming book.
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"The idea is that using that rhyming mechanic, like Issa does in the show, you're hyping yourself and that gets you through the choices that you make throughout your day, whether it's in work or your relationships," Mustapha says.
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Rhyming, pithy and playing on Netanyahu's nickname, the slogan targeting Arab politician Ahmad Tibi seems a puzzling choice for a right-wing leader whose main rival in Monday's election is not Tibi but Benny Gantz, a former Israeli general.
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Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley showed off her rhyming skills on Monday night's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, rapping a recap of all eight Star Wars movies ahead of The Rise of Skywalker's release next month.
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The company whose name was previously one half of a rhyming couplet with the words "who are they?" just came out with a super expensive device to rival the iPhone X and Galaxy S25, and everyone was perfectly fine with that.
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Margin of Error isn't all about catastrophe, although those certainly are the most captivating moments, like an Edward Gorey-worthy series of 1938 work safety postcards from Italy's National Board of Propaganda for the Prevention of Accidents that feature rhyming couplets.
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The conceit of Mr. Rugoff's show — and it's a good one on paper — is to have shrunk the number of participants and asked each to contribute at least two works, which appear in two rhyming shows in two different locations.
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It features Amadeus rhyming "Euroskeptic" with "unalphabetic," and there's also a Trojan horse (I think?): Occasionally, though, the performances aren't just strange — they actually highlight people who are on the verge of becoming famous, or even launch their careers entirely.
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If you're as picky about rhyming picture books as I am, you'll be excited that the former children's poet laureate Hoberman, whose meter never falters, has created this clever ode to the sun and its globe-spanning, life-giving power.
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And fear that a sunny Candlemas Day means a longer winter is widespread in folklore from throughout Europe in the form of rhyming proverbs: Some of these superstitions, including in Germany, England, and Eastern Europe, were linked to animals, particularly bears.
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" In 1898, the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable noted that Friday is considered an "unlucky day" in Spain, and cited yet another rhyming aphorism: "But once on a Friday ('tis ever they say), / A day when misfortune is aptest to fail.
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But it was on his 2007 hit "Homecoming," off his third studio album Graduation that he decided to voice his appreciation for his hometown city, rhyming about his love for Chi-Town and his guilt over leaving "her" to pursue his musical dreams.
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Right now there are eight items available to look at, four of which are immediately available to interact with on the web: Giorgio Cam (best on mobile), which identifies objects seen by the device's camera and hypes them up in a rhyming fashion.
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The actual style of the play didn't hew as close to Hamlet as it did to 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte, with its exaggerated, archetypical characters and rhyming verse, and commedia dell'arte's English relative "Punch and Judy," with its bawdy, violent physical humor.
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The idea of people clamoring for a debut album seems strange on its face, especially for a band that had yet to release a single song, but in its own way, Orange Rhyming Dictionary was a follow-up to an entire scene.
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The Boring Co. notes that these will be "rhyming," and I presume they mean that literally – but they probably also have the serious purpose of making sure Elon's corporate lawyers can once again enjoy something resembling sleep when these go out to customers.
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"Gaelic is a stressed vowel-rhyming system of long and short vowels, while Irish singing is a lot more 'roll-y,'" said Mary Jane Lamond, Cape Breton's most accomplished Gaelic singer, pausing in a pub to sing a few crystalline, rhythmic phrases.
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Much of the plot of "Little Nothing" is driven by what Kate Bernheimer calls the "intuitive logic" of the fairy tale, further powered by what Charles Baxter once named "rhyming actions" — events and circumstances and details that recur throughout, setting up haunting echoes.
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When: Opens Thursday, October 20, 7–29pm Where: Schindler House (2969 N Kings Road, West Hollywood, California) Los Angeles-based artist Stephanie Taylor uses simple linguistic and rhyming connections between words as the starting points for musical pieces and works of art.
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" In the concluding couplet of Scenters-Zapico's sonnet, where rhyming is required, she quotes those lyrics but buries their rhyme inside the final line, severing the connection between longing and loneliness: "A la lima y al limón, tú no tienes / quien te quiera.
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Of all the things President Donald Trump has broken in his time in office — norms, records for unpopularity, his supporters' love of football — few expected that he would break the indomitably sunny spirit of America's favorite rhyming history teacher, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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The cleverly rhyming "The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade" written by Justin Roberts and illustrated by Christian Robinson tells the story of the unobtrusive, uncommonly observant Sally McCabe who finds her voice when she speaks up for compassion and unites her school.
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As early as the day after the bombing, it broadcast a call-in program in which voices of men who claimed to be fighters in the area who were not affected by the powerful bomb could be heard between rhyming Islamic chants.
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" After a wealthy venture capitalist moved to Indiana and immediately began running for Congress, the big question echoed from The Indianapolis Star newspaper, like a rhyming couplet from Dr. Seuss: "And, by the way, who is this new Hoosier who calls himself Trey?
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He railed against the county council, ran once for office as a Republican environmentalist and put up billboards along the highway that borders his property, copying the old Burma-Shave advertising campaigns that told punchy jokes in a series of rhyming signs.
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From Shel Silverstein's quirky verse, to the silly dilly songs and poems of Alan Katz, to more recent rhyming picture books like Sue Fliess's romping holiday parody "We Wish for a Monster Christmas," short and funny wordplay continues to be a sure shot.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay in "Poem with 3 Stripes," one of his earliest collage booklets and a playful example of concrete poetry.
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Ambush is the kind of rapper who can pull off freestyling over a Kendrick beat—jumping from lines about how "man can't tell me 'bout trapping" to rhyming black hair shop Pak's with hair grease Dax—while wearing white knee-length white socks and Birkenstocks.
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"Mirror (Fireworks)" has John taunting opponents with an updated fairy tale rhyme ("Tell a hater who's the biggest flexer of them all" rhyming with… you can guess what) while "Get Away" bolsters itself with thudding, tribal percussion layered into the usual trap kit sounds.
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From the simple nursery rhyme–like bars of Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" to the smooth East Coast flow of Notorious B.I.G.'s hit song "Hypnotize" to the speedy delivery of Kendrick Lamar's "Rigamortis," rhyming in rap music has not only evolved, it's gotten better.
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The police were able to solve last year's burglary using surveillance footage from the Hatton Garden area that had caught the men on camera; the police later bugged several of their cars and overheard the men boasting about the heist in Cockney rhyming slang.
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Though the movie is examining a very real social ill — and pulling no punches in its critiques of ineffectual politicians and macho idiocy — Chi-Raq's style is very theatrical, with rhyming dialogue and frequent musical numbers performed by stars like Nick Cannon and Jennifer Hudson.
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Like the rhyming picture book, which is illustrated by Peter Emmerich, the show introduces the audience to more than an alphabet's worth of stars, from Audra McDonald to Liza Minnelli (here, "Liza with a Z"), as well as characters and members of theatrical creative teams.
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By the time the Grimms finished their final revision, almost all of Cinderella's speech was gone, except for her rhyming invocations to the birds who help her pass her stepmother's tests, or to the tree at her mother's grave that gives her a ball gown.
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In this puzzle, Mr. Nediger has taken eight examples of words using the "schm" prefix, seven nouns and a last name, and created cryptic clues that use the actual definition of the word in conjunction with another clue to create a rhyming, auditory pun.
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The Posenenske exhibition, which has been organized by Ms. Morgan and the Dia curator Alexis Lowry, commands us to reassess other art using serial forms, whether Flavin's rhyming arrangements of fluorescent bulbs, LeWitt's exhaustive variations of crossed lines, or On Kawara's day-by-day paintings.
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Still, the search for the rhyming of the father's painting and the son's cinematography reveals the power of later, less celebrated films in color — among them "Picnic on the Grass," which was shot on the grounds of the elder Renoir's home on the Riviera.
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On "Guatemala," he finds an unusual hook in swallowing final consonants, rhyming an impressive array of vowels distorted to sound identical ("private"/"denial"/"Guatemala"), as the electronic pool of a beat flows by quietly; it's the one song on Swaecation that features Jxmmi as well.
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His film strings together moment after moment of that wow, with dazzlingly complicated shifts in perspective achieved entirely with pen and ink, plus some lovingly crafted silent comedy and a fun voice performance by a rhyming Vincent Price as the villain (recorded mostly between 1967 and 1973).
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"REDMERCEDES" has an odd beat that rides a shrill siren loop, but both of the guests, Missy Elliott and grime rapper AJ Tracey, have enough experience rhyming on left field production that they tackle the track with aplomb and help put it in a new context.
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Materials | Student journals, computer(s) with Internet access, projector, copies of the Flocabulary 25 Year in Rap work sheet and rubric, access to The Learning Network's special Year-End News Quiz for 193 and Flocabulary's Week in Rap archives; optional access to a rhyming dictionary or website.
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An inescapable presence in our Ohio home, Rumi was the annoying elder who forever tested the limits of my Persian hospitality, challenging my limited Farsi with his antiquated medieval verse and dismissing my American hunger for brevity with his seemingly endless collections of rhyming couplets and quatrains.
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Dolemite Is My Name tracks how, in the 1970s, Moore reworked the tall-tale, rhyming shit talk of his local neighborhood vagrants into a hilariously profane comic persona, and then used the proceeds from his popular comedy records to bankroll a feature film based on his act.
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Over the past few years, Netflix has embraced a smart strategy of adapting beloved children's books into animated films, and one such adaptation is The Gruffalo, a clever rhyming tale of a mouse who learns a valuable lesson after making up stories to get out of trouble.
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"When you think about Morgan and Peter rhyming, it's historical in itself," said Elliott, explaining why she chose to participate in the ad, in an interview with EW. She also said that she never thought her 2001 song would pop up in a Super Bowl commercial 17 years later.
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Rhyming in topic nearby is the large jubilant work, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (after Harriet Jacobs)" (1997) by Rollins & K.O.S. — festooned with vertical bars of colorful ribbons that trail carefreely onto the floor, expressing the young protagonist's innocent fantasies of freedom while in hiding.
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Puckett, who joined the service in 1998, sketched the rhyming adventure "Murray the Horse" after passing a horse in a field while listening to a radio announcer report on "sports and activities you can only complete backwards" — he imagined a story about a horse that runs in reverse.
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I don't have too much to note as far as the clues go, but I do like the rhyming clues for 17-Across and 49-Down, and I'm glad that the mentions of the Möbius strip and Klein bottle in my clue for TOPOLOGY made it into print.
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Eisenman likes rhyming contemporary subjects with motifs from the past, including, as she told Gioni of a number of pictures, a timeless gesture of "shoulders curled in and our eyes reverently looking down"; it's a pose familiar from classic paintings of religious piety, reënacted whenever we check our phones.
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LIKE, by A. E. Stallings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In this collection, "we get the rhyming wit one expects from Stallings, although in the best poems here that wit is attractively darkened by experience," said our poetry columnist, who named this one of the best poetry collections of 2018.
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Voting for Trump won't bring about an American Holocaust, but it could usher in a new yet rhyming phase of history in which US citizens and immigrants from certain backgrounds are targeted and legally discriminated against, have their civil liberties curtailed, and even get forcibly relocated into "safe" areas.
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" The cover art of 21 Savage's Issa Album is an illustration of the rapper holding a foam cup, intimating the rapper's own lean habit, which he raps about on "Numb the Pain," rhyming, "I'm sippin' codeine, not brandy / And I'm sippin' codeine, I'mma addict ... Numb the pain with the money.
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"How'd my life get so damn small?" the usually upbeat Moore muses at a low point, before stumbling upon the idea of developing a character around the crude comedy associated with an urban toast about a foul-mouthed pimp, Dolemite, whose rhyming patter served as an inspiration for early rap.
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The president last month made an offhand remark about rhyming the nickname in an interview with Fox News host Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityTrump calls Juan Williams 'pathetic,' 'always nasty and wrong' Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Maher stands by recession remarks: 'Very worth' getting rid of Trump MORE.
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A MINUS Epic Beard Men: This Was Supposed to Be Fun (Strange Famous) On their second why-the-fuck-not, hirsutely sub-elderly Rhode Island alt-rap careerists-without-a-cause Sage Francis, 42, and B. Dolan, 38, do their bit for class consciousness by rhyming about their work life.
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I don't endorse Wayne's viewpoint per se, but I do endorse the fact that this is some of the sharpest rhyming you will ever hear on a song: Nicki: "Now it's not hard to find me / Top behind me / You be Harry Potter and I'll be Hermione" Wayne: Follow Kyle Kramer on Twitter.
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In spite of the digitalization of newspapers and Mr. Bleck's own struggles with attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, he has managed to carve out a niche — and earn a modest living — reciting rhyming versions of the news and selling printed papers, night by night, table by table, in some of the city's fanciest establishments.
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When George and Ira Gershwin wrote their own Strauss tribute, a couple of years later, the waltz "By Strauss," Ira had to cheat a little and make all the rhymes German, including rhyming "Strauss" with "Fledermaus"—the difference between "Fledermaus" as a rhyme and "Mickey Mouse" being the difference between talent and genius.
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Moana's big song, "How Far I'll Go," as well as "I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors)" and "We Know the Way," are fairly standard show tunes inflected with a strong Polynesian influence, whereas both the crab's song "Shiny" and Maui's introductory number "You're Welcome" are sly, with a lot of fast-paced internal rhyming.
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In rhyming couplets, it lists various provinces of China and laments how hard it is for diners to keep up with the influx of new dishes from these regions: But then food from Szechuan came our way,Making Cantonese strictly passé…Then when Shanghainese got in the loopWe slurped dumplings whose insides were soup.
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As mayor of Richmond Mr Kaine sent his children to tough, mostly-black city schools—an act which was itself an example of history rhyming: he married the daughter of the moderate Republican governor of Virginia from 1969 to 1973, A. Linwood Holton, who ended his state's ferocious resistance to civil rights and desegregated schools.
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But he's also starred as a rhyming genie in Kazaam, rapped in Aaron Carter's smash hit "How I Beat Shaq," conducted the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, earned the nickname "Diesel" at a mixed-martial arts gym, gone platinum with a debut album in 1993, and served as the global spokesman for Krispy Kreme.
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In terms of Joron's own poetic practice, this musical tuning toward criticality —toward the emergence (and emergency) of ontological lament — plays out on the page through a formidable ensemble of techniques, including the use of densely patterned consonance and assonance, internal rhyming, strategic caesuras, the masterful modulation of vowel sounds, and entrancing homophonic orchestration.
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His machine gun-referencing moniker comes from his rapid-fire triplet rapping style, but on those releases, he nimbly jumped between rhyming circles around his peers ("Money Mitch") to crooning love ballads ("You Were Right") to basking in near-tropical-house euphoria ("Ronda (Winners)," which THUMP named as one of the best tracks of 2016).
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And it's one of my favorite entries because you can't read it and not think of him, and I do that a lot in the book where I don't say his name and the reader has to come to the conclusion that this is very relevant to our time and that history is rhyming.
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Instead, he proves the impact of Katrina on the city more indirectly, by showing that he, a guy displaced by the storm, is its most valuable export, which he does via this expert-level rhyming: Don't get sent to the ER. Respect the power of the Juelz/Wayne duo and listen up right now.
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Twitter's spokeswoman also make the (obvious) point that not all bots and automation is bad — pointing to a recent company blog which reiterates this, with the company highlighting the "delightful and fun experiences" served up by certain bots such as Pentametron, for example, a veteran automated creation which finds rhyming pairs of Tweets written in (accidental) iambic pentameter.
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Dave Kehr, writing in The New York Times when a restored version played at Film Forum in 2002, said the film might seem simply "a work of extraordinary journalism, but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry, visual (in the rhyming of gestures and shapes across images and sequences) as much as verbal."spectacletheater.
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Instead, it's more revealing to focus on the technical rules Future revises, or ignores: He long ago melted the line between singing and rapping, but sometimes, he changes the rhyming syllable mid-verse, as if he's forgotten, or doesn't care; he raps in abstracted fragments and yet manages to sing a heartfelt duet with Rihanna ("Selfish").
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Paul Julian (a veteran of the Looney Tunes background team) and Les Goldman (who shared an Oscar with Chuck Jones in 1966 for "The Dot and the Line") employ creepily angular imagery to illustrate Maurice Ogden's poem "The Hangman," a rhyming allegory about a town's acquiescence to an executioner who keeps demanding victims for his gallows.
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In the middle of exploring the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, he finds himself searching onstage for another way to say "beauty," and what he comes up with — "optic trick" — is the highlight of the entire joke, a term with a strong point of view and a pair of rhyming consonant sounds that echo off each other.
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Amidst woozy narrative stretches that seem beholden to Stephen Vincent Benét, we hear from the subject himself and from many others, including a lyric David Lilienthal (with whom the left-leaning Rukeyser fully sides) and a rhyming, rollicking F.D.R. But it is Willkie who gets under Rukeyser's skin the most, irritating her away from thirties agitprop and toward a genuinely artistic ambivalence about her protagonist.
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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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