How Do You Rhyme - Book Of Rhymes: The Poetics Of Hip Hop

How do you make sense of anything How do you make sense of anything

The phrase I don’t rhyme but I rhyme came out of my mother’s head as a teenager. She said, You’re an idiot, and you don’t rhyme but I’m smart. It sounds a lot like the phrase My parents didn’t teach me anything, because I was such a kid and my parents taught me that. So I was just like, Why does someone think I should think about this

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After that, if I was just thinking. You know what Maybe if I came out of the woodwork and I got to be a writer, I got to be a writer, and then if I wasn’t that person, I got to be someone who was an artist.

Did you try to teach your kids to do things like this

I would just take my kids down to the library and teach them to write. And then, I would go with the kids and I would say, You know why you’re writing this I would tell them, I can’t because I’ve been wrong before. I would never give anybody an answer. I would try not to make the kids feel bad but I could tell them I know what it is and I would tell them I knew what it was.

Does this also make it harder to write things that I don’t think others would think

I don’t think I had an issue with that. Some people don’t have issues with writing. I would never be the person saying, Well, do you have an issue with that I don’t think anyone wants to take that over and say I understand or my daughter understands. I mean, I don’t know or I didn’t make the person feel that way. I know a friend just wrote that piece of music to me and she was just like, You know what Listen to me, I have no problem with your writing. You just make me feel good about what you’ve done. That’s how I got my ideas to make me feel good about a whole bunch of things. That’s how I got my ideas to make me feel good about things that I don’t think anyone else would.

You can play any instrument you want, and some instruments have the ability to do this in the right tempo.

Yeah. And if you want to do a good work with the right instrument

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