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Split rhyme. See Broken rhyme
Spontaneity
Sprung rhythm
“Stan” (Eminem)
Starks, Tony. See Iron Man
“Stay from Around Me” (Ab Liva)
Steele, Timothy
Steffans, Karrine (Superhead)
Stereotype
Sterne, Laurence
Stic.man
Storytelling
and alternate reality
and authenticity
and autobiography
and fiction
and gangsta rap
and human experience
and literary poetry
and nonlinear narrative
and persona
and reality
and thematic development
and voice
Streets
Stress
Style
and Biggie-Tupac debate (see also Notorious B.I.G.; Shakur, Tupac)
and biting (co-opting)
and borrowing
and commercialism
and content
and cultural heritage
definition of
and geography
and ghostwriting
and imitation
and innovation
and jealousy
and literary poetry
and originality
and ownership
and persona
and personal style
and predictability
and region
as repetition
and signature style
and spontaneity
and talent
and technique
and territory
and theft
and unconscious mind
and vernacular process
and voice
Sugar Hill Gang
Sugar Hill Records
Superhead. See Steffans, Karrine
“Super-rappin’” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
Swagger. See also Signifying
“Swagger Like Us” (Kanye West)
Swan, T. J.
Syllables
“Sylvester’s Dying Bed” (Langston Hughes)
Syncopation
Tajai
Talent
Technique
Tempo
“Ten Crack Commandments” (Notorious B.I.G.)
Ten Rap Commandments of Poetry
Tenor, and simile
Territory, and style
“Testify” (Common)
Theft. See also Borrowing
Thematic development
“This Can’t Be Life” (Jay-Z)
Thomas, Dylan
“Threats” (Jay-Z)
Toasts
Too Short
“Trade It All” (Fabolous)
Transformative rhyme (forced rhyme)
Trigga Tha Gambler
Tristram Shandy (Sterne)
“Triumph” (Wu-Tang Clan)
Troutman, Roger
True rhyme. See Perfect rhyme
Tung Twista. See Twista
Tupac. See Shakur, Tupac
“Twinz” (Big Punisher)
Twista (Tung Twista)
“U.B.R. (Unauthorized Biography of Rakim)” (Nas)
UGK
Unconscious mind
and rhyme
and style
“Undying Love” (Nas)
universalurban.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (Donne)
“Valse Hot” (Roach)
Vehicle, and simile
Verbal dexterity
Vernacular process
and style
Village Voice
Voice (as instrument)
Voice (of storyteller)
and battle rap
and braggadocio
and first-person narrative
Walcott, Derek
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington Post
Waste Land (Eliot)
We Got the Remix (Clipse)
Weezy. See Lil Wayne
Weird Al Yankovic
West Africa
White, Barry
“White and Nerdy” (Weird Al Yankovic)
“White Lines” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
Whitman, Walt
“Who Shot Ya” (Notorious B.I.G.)
“Why I Gave Up on Hip-Hop” (Parker)
Wiggins, Keith. See Cowboy
Williams, Juan
Williams, Saul
Wonder Mike
Wordplay
and alliteration
and anaphora
and antanaclasis
and assonance
and conceit
definition of
and epanados
and epistrophe
and epithets
and eponym
and homonym
and homophone
and kenning
and literary poetry
and metaphor
and metonymy
and onomatopoeia
and personification
and prosopopoeia
and pun
and punning simile
and repititio
and simile
Wordsworth, William
“Wrath of Kane” (Kane)
The Wreck of the Deutschland (Hopkins)
Writer, JR
Writer’s Block series (JR Writer)
Writing, vs. Freestyling
Wu-Tang Clan
XXL
“Ya Mama” (Pharcyde)
Yeats, William Butler
“Yo! Bum Rush the Show” (Public Enemy)
Young Jeezy
Yung Joc
Zapp and Roger
“Zealots” (Fugees)
Zion I
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bradley, Adam.
Book of rhymes : the poetics of hip hop / by Adam Bradley.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-786-74416-9
1. Rap (Music)—History and criticism. I. Title.
ML3531.B73 2009
782.421649—dc22
2008040250