Best* rhymes in music

Got more soul
Than a sock with a hole

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I walk on water
But I ain’t no Jesus
I walk on water
But only when it freezes

(genuinely laughed out loud when i first heard this Eminem lyric)

Like figure skating
Like asphyxiating

Pretty sure nothing is like both of those things but it’s a good rhyme

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To be fair, I rhymed ‘ground’ with ‘ground’ on my last record…

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she live in a house / she stupid as a mouse

I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses
Can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries
Lyrically perform armed robbery
Fleeing from the lottery, possibly the spotted me

So many gorgeous internal rhymes. So satisfying.

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you mad fuckn genius

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Changing / rearranging

was lyin’ in a burned out basement
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin’ for a replacement
When the sun burst through the skies
There was a band playin’ in my head
And I felt like getting high

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This fly flow take practice like Tae Bo with Billy Blanks
“Oh, you’re too kind!” “Really? Thanks!”

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There’s a Steve Wynn (of Dream Syndicate) solo song called Younger which has some cracking rhymes:

Strip the hero of his skin
And see the freak show within
An attic space in the house of sin
With pompadours and paraffin
She strokes your hair and says with a grin
“Here’s the door but don’t come in
Come back when you’re younger”

Someone asked me, “Why is youth
Wasted on the rude and uncouth
Blinded on cheap vermouth
A would be poet in Duluth
Short on time, long in the tooth
Fantasies of John Wilkes Booth
Come back when you’re younger
Come back when you’re younger”

She dreams of an older man
Who holds delusions he still can
Deny he is an also-ran
Clutching to an empty plan
“Come and sit on my divan
Don’t say a word I’m your biggest fan”
Come back when you’re younger

Better minds and bigger hearts
Larger scale and cheaper parts
Faded patrons of the arts
High heeled post-operation tarts
Bitter ale and blunted darts
Sliding quickly down the charts
Come back when you’re younger
Come back when you’re younger
Come back when you’re younger

That second verse in particular with youth / uncouth / vermouth / Duluth / tooth / Booth.

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We’re from the family tree of old school hip-hop
Kick off your shoes and relax your socks
The rhymes are spread just like a pox
‘Cause the music is loud like an electric shock
I am known to do the wop
Also known for the Flintstone Flop
Tammy D gets biz on the crops
Beastie Boys known to let the beat
Mmm, drop!
Now when I wrote graffiti my name was Slop
If my rap’s soup, my beats is stock
Step from the table when I start to chop
I’m a lumberjack DJ Adrock
If you try to knock me you’ll get mocked
I’ll stir fry you in my wok
Your knees’ll start shakin’ and your fingers pop
Like a pinch on the neck of Mr. Spock

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Jesus, is just a Spanish boy’s name
How come one man got so much fame?

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Motion/ ocean/ notion

:sleepy:

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Landlord, landlord, where you at?
I’m hidin’ in the bushes with a baseball bat,
I need that sack that you made today,
Or watch me turn into Willie Mays.

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My brother’s got piles
He never ever smiles
You’d be glum
If you had his bum
My brother’s got piles

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chateauneuf du pape/rap

311, you want to get next to them
My name is Nick H-E-X-U-M

Imagine if you
had a child of two
You’re a single mom
with a son named Tom

You juice your fucking friends like Dracula
but when we kick you out you’re just Brokeula

Taller / baller / call her / (hat, bat) / impala

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They say hello, they say hola and they say bonjour
I’m pissed I never got to fly on a Concorde
I’ve been Southampton but I’ve never been to Scunthorpe
I’m fucking crazy with the kicks, call me Jean-Claude