Friday, March 29, 2013

Rappers Have an Ear for Rhyme


       Driving home tonight I heard a rap artist on the radio doing his thing, a thing I'm not used to hearing often.  I caught a rhyme that I doubt I would hear anywhere else.  "Righteous" was rhymed with "I might just."

       A lot of different letters and separate words in there that don't seem to add up to a "rhyme that chimes."  But it does.

        If we only take note visually of words and letters, we can be led astray from their actual sound in connected speech.  The rap artist wasn't.  Give it a try a couple times, more if necessary.  (Yes, the "t" at the end of "just" doesn't quite match, but in conversational English, that final "t" jus(t) gets lost.)


      

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