The Boss Is Hungry: Every Food or Drink Name-Dropped in a Rick Ross Song
Tag: lyrics
Never be ashamed of how you live or where you from.
You stack a mill’, ***s will see how far you come.
T.I. – Be Better Than Me. My favorite song on Trap Musik besides Look What I Got. Here’s T.I. on the proper ingredients for success:
Stay down, stay on your grind and yo digits’ll come.
Bottom line? You gotta shine, no matter what you become.
These streets is 40 percent of yo’ mind and 5 percent muscle,
10 struggle, 10 time, and 35 percent hustle.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
A Crash Course in Rap Lyrics Through ‘The Anthology of Rap’ – New York Magazine
One of the great paradoxes of rap: The toughest, coolest, most dangerous-seeming MCs are, at heart, basically just enormous language dorks.
A Crash Course in Rap Lyrics Through ‘The Anthology of Rap’ – New York Magazine
It’s the lyric that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what makes it last.
Irving Berlin. This applies to many things besides songwriting.
Mondegreen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I didn’t know there was a word for this: “A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.” For example, CCR’s “There’s a bathroom on the right” and Hendrix’s “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”.
Mark Larson 