Episode 205: Rakim is Good at Rapping
On the TFT Podcast, Ryan and Jordan listen to and discuss “Paid in Full” and “Follow the Leader” by Eric B. & Rakim.
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Poetics Of Rap on Overthinking It
The Bel-Airiad
O Reader, by your leave I tell the tale / Wherein all my existence was transformed…
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Episode 47: Men Are Coming To Destroy You
Sheely, Stokes, and Wrather call an audible, diving into Friday Night Lights Season 1.
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Top 10 Uses of Food as Metaphor in Hip Hop
Time to get funky, like an old batch of collard greens.
Overthunk: A Defense of Cussin’ in Hip-Hop
In a genre devoted to wordplay, foul language is not a necessary evil but rather a positive good.
Musical Talmud: Shakey Dog
Wu-Tang alumni tend to be more formally adventurous than most rappers, but here Ghostface has taken it to another level by creating a song with no form whatsoever.
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Kanye West Doesn’t Suck Ass: Even the Superficial Raps are Super Official
If this analysis of the themes developed in Kanye’s lyrics doesn’t convince you that he is a better rapper than many other Top 40 regulars, it is worth remembering just how low the bar is.
Poetics of Rap: Lil’ Wayne and, um, kenning
In a recent post on Lil’ Wayne, a fellow OTI blogger claimed that “Thus, Lil Wayne is not great because his metaphors and similies are tight, but because he mixes these metaphors with an avalanche of tropes and techniques including … Continued