Poetic Devices in Hip-Hop

 “Some issues need to be addressed like envelopes” - Andre 3000 “13th Floor/Growing Old” on Atliens

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Assonance
• Personification 

 “God's a seamstress who tailor fitted my pain” -50 Cent “Patiently Waiting” on Get Rich or Die Tryin’

• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

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“Yo, if rap gets jealous, words that were admitted // I used to be a public enemy, don't forget it” - K’naan “If Rap Gets Jealous”

• Metaphor
• Assonance
• Personification
• Consonance

“Put food on the table, fed the whole city” - Rick Ross “Valley of Death” on Deeper Than Rap

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Metaphor

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“Cuz it's cool when ya cause a cozy conditionin’ // Which we create, cuz that's our mission” - Snoop Dogg “Lodi Dodi” on Doggystyle

• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Repetition
• Assonance

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 “Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' these mockeries.” - Inspectah Deck “Triumph” on Wu-Tang Forever

• Assonance
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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“The most meanest emcee on this -- on this Earth” - Eminem “The Way I Am” on The Marshall Mathers LP

• Consonance
• Rhyme
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

“I’ll make you say, ‘wee ohh wee ohh wee, wee ohh wee ohh wee, wee ohh wee ohh wee,’ like a cop car.” - Lil Wayne “Mrs. Officer” on Tha Carter II

• Rhyme
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance

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 “I'm educated but I'm dumb on that microphone // Don't even bother, you'll get done on that microphone // I turn a father to a son on that microphone.” - Joell Ortiz “Microphone” on Slaughterhouse

• Repetition
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Rhyme

“Dress smart like a London bloke // Before he speak, his suit bespoke.” - Kanye West “American Boy”

• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhyme
• Repetition