Rhyme Quotes

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.

Kate Tempest
- Thinking
- Needed
- Thirty
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

Talib Kweli Black Star
- Common
- Records
- Rhyme

If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.

Karla Kuskin
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

Erykah Badu
- Music
- Writing
- Elements
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.

Yasiin Bey Black Star
- Writing
- Book
- Reading
I hopefully try to find people and projects that my gut instinctively points me towards, and hope that there's some type of rhyme to them later.

Reid Carolin
- Projects
- Hopefully
- Later
It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.

Seamus Heaney
- Energy
- Poet
- Concern
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.

Andrew Hoberek
- Poetry
- Rap
- Techniques