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<blockquote data-quote="Diasporia" data-source="post: 79399" data-attributes="member: 3217"><p>Rakim pioneered a practice previously unknown to hip-hop called 'Internal Rhyming'. Prior to Rakim, hip-hop music lyricism was usually rather simple from a structural standpoint and the ideas it expressed were easy and terse. Instead of two rhyming syllables within two lines at the end of the lines, as we would find in the older hip-hop style, we have 18 rhyming syllables in just four lines. Rakim also introduced a lyrical technique known as cliffhanging and popularized the use of metaphors with multiple meanings. His songs were the first to really impart hip-hop music lyrics with a serious poetic device sensibility. Has Tupac ever pioneered something of this quanity, ANYWHERE in his career?</p><p></p><p>Many hip-hop artists (both underground and mainstream) acknowledge a huge debt to Rakim's innovative style. He is given credit for popularizing the heavy use of internal rhymes in hip-hop—rhymes that are not necessary to the overall rhyme scheme of the verse, but occur between the endpoints of lines and stanzas, serving to increase the alliteration, assonance, and emphasis of the rhyme. He is also credited for the jazzy, heavily stylistic, seemingly effortless delivery of his lyrical content.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Diasporia, post: 79399, member: 3217"] Rakim pioneered a practice previously unknown to hip-hop called 'Internal Rhyming'. Prior to Rakim, hip-hop music lyricism was usually rather simple from a structural standpoint and the ideas it expressed were easy and terse. Instead of two rhyming syllables within two lines at the end of the lines, as we would find in the older hip-hop style, we have 18 rhyming syllables in just four lines. Rakim also introduced a lyrical technique known as cliffhanging and popularized the use of metaphors with multiple meanings. His songs were the first to really impart hip-hop music lyrics with a serious poetic device sensibility. Has Tupac ever pioneered something of this quanity, ANYWHERE in his career? Many hip-hop artists (both underground and mainstream) acknowledge a huge debt to Rakim's innovative style. He is given credit for popularizing the heavy use of internal rhymes in hip-hop—rhymes that are not necessary to the overall rhyme scheme of the verse, but occur between the endpoints of lines and stanzas, serving to increase the alliteration, assonance, and emphasis of the rhyme. He is also credited for the jazzy, heavily stylistic, seemingly effortless delivery of his lyrical content. [/QUOTE]
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