The world of hip-hop lyrics has changed dramatically. Simple rhyme schemes and generic topics don't cut it anymore! Rhymes are put under a microscope and there is not lyrical leeway for emerging artists. Get prepared now with The Art of Hip-Hop Lyrics. Inside The Guide: - Lyric Writing Exercises - Multi Syllabic Rhyme - Rhyme Schemes and Patterns - Outside the Hip-Hop Box - Creative Concepts - Legendary Lyricists - Rappers vs Emcees vs Writers - Freestyle Secrets Can you write songs that pass the test of time? How can you be more than just the next "flash in the pan"? This book will make you more than a "rapper," it will help you become a great writer.

This game changing approach to working with youth is now available for therapists, counselors, social workers and anyone who works with youth at-risk. The guide offers step by step, easy to follow lessons for mental health professionals to use with adolescents who love hip-hop music and culture. Whether you are a seasoned hip-hop veteran or a hip-hop novice, the culturally relevant techniques and exercises presented will help you create a "Rap Rapport" with your client and open up new ways to help them heal. The guide also details countless songs, artists and albums, all of which can be used in therapeutic sessions! Inside the Guide: -Listening Techniques -Writing Exercises -How to Bill for Hip-Hop -Themed Therapy -Hip-Hop History -"Golden Era" Messages

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and autobiographical approaches and explicates songs in relation to poetics. Unique to this volume, the essays focus not on a single genre but on folk, rap, hip hop, country, rock, indie, soul, and blues. The first section of the book provides a variety of perspectives on the poetic history and techniques within songs and poems, and the second section focuses on a few prominent American songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Stipe. Through conversational yet in-depth analyses of songs, the essays discuss sonnet forms, dramatic monologues, Modernism, ballads, blues poems, confessionalism, Language poetry, Keatsian odes, unreliable narrators, personas, poetic sequences, rhythm, rhyme, transcription methods, the writing process, and more. While the strategies of explication differ from essay to essay, the nexus of each piece is an unveiling of the poetic history and poetic techniques within songs.

A rhyming collection of dreams, passion, frustration and hip-hop.

This sequel to How to Rap breaks down and examines techniques that have not previously been explained—such as triplets, flams, lazy tails, and breaking rhyme patterns. Based on interviews with hip-hop's most innovative artists and groups, including Tech N9ne, Crooked I, Pharcyde, Das EFX, Del the Funky Homosapien, and Big Daddy Kane, this book takes you through the intricacies of rhythm, rhyme, and vocal delivery, delving into the art form in unprecedented detail. It is a must-read for MCs looking to take their craft to the next level, as well as anyone fascinated by rapping and its complexity.