Robert C L Watson wrote:
Current commercial (c)rap - not that I can bear to listen to it for
long - is sloppy and irregular in metre, and has either non-rhymes
such as "time" and "fine", or other symptoms of illiteracy. (Back to
the topic of literacy.) Hardly comparable to sophisticated works from
musical theatre.
What gets to me is that this *exact same* criticism was leveled at folk
music 40 years ago:
"The tune don't have to be clever
And it don't matterifyouputacoupleofextrasyllables into a line,
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English,
And it don't even gotta rhyme--excuse me, 'rhyne.' "
--Tom Lehrer, 1964
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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