“B***h, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” Kendrick Lamar “Anti-lame, nigga/Take your girl like a pain killer” -2 Chainz “Castro,” Yo Gotti Featuring 2 Chainz, Quavo, Big Sean and Kanye West “I don’t really care about your postcode/Take your girl, no dinner, no rose” “Ten foreigns outside, b***h I feel like big Meech” 3. “She got me running like El Chapo/I sent my other b***h to Cabo” “Party like a cowboy or a rock star/Everybody play the tough guy ’til sh*t pop off” 2. Tupac Shakur, considered one of rap’s greats, was known for rhyming “Hennessy” and “enemies” time and time again-a rhyme construction that a number of rappers have taken to, including Drake, Eminem and Meek Mill. This leads to many rappers falling back on the same clichéd lines over and over throughout the years. At the same time, there seems to be a concentrated subject matter that most mainstream rappers constantly come back to. Despite a study proving that rap has the highest vocabulary among all the popular musical genres, there are but so many words that rhyme in the English language. The same is true when it comes to hip-hop lyrics.
Honestly, after 40 years and hundreds of artists who have come and gone, it is to be somewhat expected.
For every Kid Cudi, there is a (insert any number of emo SoundCloud rappers here). For every The Notorious B.I.G., there is a Gorilla Black and Shyne. In the genre’s four decades of existence, we’ve pretty much seen and heard everything, and then seen and heard another artist repackage that thing, throw a new shelf life on it and try it again. This goes for life in general and especially hip-hop. Via Unsplash As the old cliché adage goes, there’s nothing new under the sun word to J.