King Lance wrote:Gonna listen to that Pac Div x Blu x Kendrick Joint, you can't find more classic than this song
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King Lance you should make a Kendrick discography thread

King Lance wrote:Gonna listen to that Pac Div x Blu x Kendrick Joint, you can't find more classic than this song
SliK wrote:King Lance wrote:Gonna listen to that Pac Div x Blu x Kendrick Joint, you can't find more classic than this song
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King Lance you should make a Kendrick discography thread
Trimss wrote:Tech's verse is dope but I like Kendrick's more and I also liked All 6's and 7's a lot more.
Table wrote:Rhymes do add to the lyrical aesthetics, though. 2 lines with rhymes leave a better impression in the mind of the reader than 2 lines with the same content bar the word selection preventing the rhyming. Anything that leaves a better impression is better expressed and hence is in accord with the dictionary definition of 'lyricism'. Same with metres.
And no, a song doesn't have to entail rhymes to be good lyrically, rhyming is just one of the many components that adds to what we know as the quality of being "lyrical."
But just like any poetic device, execution is what counts. A shoehorned rhyme doesn't make a piece of writing more lyrical.
Table wrote:Rhymes do add to the lyrical aesthetics, though. 2 lines with rhymes leave a better impression in the mind of the reader than 2 lines with the same content bar the word selection preventing the rhyming. Anything that leaves a better impression is better expressed and hence is in accord with the dictionary definition of 'lyricism'. Same with metres.
And no, a song doesn't have to entail rhymes to be good lyrically, rhyming is just one of the many components that adds to what we know as the quality of being "lyrical."
But just like any poetic device, execution is what counts. A shoehorned rhyme doesn't make a piece of writing more lyrical.
classthe_king wrote:Table wrote:Rhymes do add to the lyrical aesthetics, though. 2 lines with rhymes leave a better impression in the mind of the reader than 2 lines with the same content bar the word selection preventing the rhyming. Anything that leaves a better impression is better expressed and hence is in accord with the dictionary definition of 'lyricism'. Same with metres.
And no, a song doesn't have to entail rhymes to be good lyrically, rhyming is just one of the many components that adds to what we know as the quality of being "lyrical."
But just like any poetic device, execution is what counts. A shoehorned rhyme doesn't make a piece of writing more lyrical.
omg c'mon people. The lyrics stand by themselves, regardless of the artists willingness to pay attention. The rhymes help the lyrics sonically which makes the overall song better but they don't improve the lyrics themselves. You can say the same thing with delivery. 2 lines delivered by Biggie leave a better impression on the listener than the exact same 2 lines delivered by some terrible nerdy internet rapper. Is delivery apart of lyricism too? The argument falls apart.
Also, if a song doesn't have any metaphor or similes I'm willing to go on a limb and say that it's a shit song
classthe_king wrote:No. When read aloud the second one sounds better because the rhymes give it a natural flow...
classthe_king wrote:It still only help the line sound better tho, even if it was in the readers head...
Table wrote:classthe_king wrote:It still only help the line sound better tho, even if it was in the readers head...
better = more beautifully expressed, right? That's what the defintion of lyricism is.
What the readers took away from the lyrics is the message the artist tried to convey. They would have taken the same message had Slug phrased the lines worse, does that mean phrasing isn't a part of lyricism?
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