Nas Does This Thing Where You Cant Tell What He Rhymed the Last Word With

[PhonZhi]

Like sometimes he'll rap where he doesn't pause after the word that the last word intentionally is suppose to rhyme with. Its like a run-on sentence or something. For example on Thugs Mansion:



He goes

I'm capable of anything/
My imagination can give me wings/
to fly like doves, over the streets...watching many things/
Kids walking home from school on drug blocks, missionaries/
pass out papers that read "Love God"


Now if you listen to the actual song he doesn't put a space between "drug blocks" and "missionaries". To the untrained ear, you're like, what the hell did "love god" rhyme wit??

It actually sounds like "love god" doesn't rhyme with anything if you don't catch the "drug blocks" syllables.


Another example is his verse on the Lil Wayne outro joint:




Look who crept in/
Wit automatic weapons/
Reppin/
QB, to the death of him that/
n1kka that inspired/
lyrical tyrants/
like Kanye West & Em


Again, if you listen to the actual song, there's no space between "death of him" & "that", making it seem to the untrained ear that "west & em" sounds out of place and don't rhyme with anything.

He does this pretty often I've noticed. He's had me rewinding hella verses because I didn't initially catch what the last word of the bar was supposed to rhyme with

 

[ManBearPig]

Royce rhyme schemes are like that too

 

[Ziggiy]

Like sometimes he'll rap where he doesn't pause after the word that the last word intentionally is suppose to rhyme with. Its like a run-on sentence or something. For example on Thugs Mansion:



He goes

I'm capable of anything/
My imagination can give me wings/
to fly like doves, over the streets...watching many things/
Kids walking home from school on drug blocks, missionaries/
pass out papers that read "Love God"


Now if you listen to the actual song he doesn't put a space between "drug blocks" and "missionaries". To the untrained ear, you're like, what the hell did "love god" rhyme wit??

It actually sounds like "love god" doesn't rhyme with anything if you don't catch the "drug blocks" syllables.


Another example is his verse on the Lil Wayne outro joint:




Look who crept in/
Wit automatic weapons/
Reppin/
QB, to the death of him that/
n1kka that inspired/
lyrical tyrants/
like Kanye West & Em


Again, if you listen to the actual song, there's no space between "death of him" & "that", making it seem to the untrained ear that "west & em" sounds out of place and don't rhyme with anything.

He does this pretty often I've noticed. He's had me rewinding hella verses because I didn't initially catch what the last word of the bar was supposed to rhyme with

The Carter 4 Outro one he puts just enough of a pause where you can tell what he's rhyming but the Thugz Mansion verse you have a point.

He does this type of rhyme pattern/flow more from Gods Son-Hip Hop Is Dead. He didn't really do it earlier in his career

 

[TheJet]

The bars nerds on here have a term for it, but that's actually one of the things I like about the Gawd

 

[PhonZhi]

The Carter 4 Outro one he puts just enough of a pause where you can tell what he's rhyming but the Thugz Mansion verse you have a point.

He does this type of rhyme pattern/flow more from Gods Son-Hip Hop Is Dead. He didn't really do it earlier in his career

Yep, gods son is when I first started to notice it

 

[PhonZhi]

The bars nerds on here have a term for it, but that's actually one of the things I like about the Gawd

@Malcom Rhyme King what's the name of this rhyme scheme breh

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Sometimes a nikka just talkin to you. This some dut-tuduh ass shyt frfr

 

[George's Dilemma]

@Malcom Rhyme King what's the name of this rhyme scheme breh

Slant rhyming.

 

[PhonZhi]

Here's one that really had me like

when I first heard it



Take the weight of the world on my shoulders...I hold it/
So I consume most the pain for my nikkaz I roll wit/
Cuz see the streets ain't no Gold's Gym/
papi, and if I feel it going down then my nikkaz'll spot me


On this one he says "golds gym" at the end of the bar, making the listener anticipate the ending of the next bar to end with the "gym" sound. But instead he puts "papi" at the beginning of the bar and rhymes it with "spot me". Had me confused first few times I listened and had to go back and rewind to make sense of it

 

[UpAndComing]

More threads on the art of lyricism. 5 star thread

 

[NoHalfWay]

Like this one?

Jettin, checkin my message on the speaker
Boppin to Mona Lisa brown reefer, ten G's, gun and my Visa
CD crankin', doin' ninety on the Franklin-D-Roosevelt
No seat belt, drinkin' and thinkin'

 

[MJ Truth]

Nas is just the GOAT, his writing is on such a level that he just tries out different rhyme patterns and all kinds of shyt and it ALWAYS comes out ill.

Meanwhile mainstream rap fans think Eminem is the king of rhyme schemes.

 

[smokeurobinson]

Nas is just the GOAT, his writing is on such a level that he just tries out different rhyme patterns and all kinds of shyt and it ALWAYS comes out ill.

Meanwhile mainstream rap fans think Eminem is the king of rhyme schemes.

Lets just focus on Nas...lets not shyt on one rapper to big up the other.


because real talk...put Em and Nas in a URL battle tommorow.....i got my money on Em


*not trying to go off topic, i'm just saying*

 

[ISO]

Yeah, this style of rhyming was all over Life is Good

 

[PhonZhi]

Slant rhyming.

What about when rappers literally "split" words in 2. Andre 300 and Eminem does this alot.

Matter fact Stacks did it on that Outro joint:

Pulled her ponytail to my body/
She's the only gal that was smart e/
nough to call me Mr. Benjamin, in the middle of a wild party


He split the word "enough" at the end of the bar and carried it over to the beginning of the next bar. I love when rappers do that


Ima make a thread on that too soon