Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course, as a ballad, you also read "Blood Song" as much for the way it tells the story as for the story itself. With a traditional ballad you may notice the rhyme scheme or alliteration. Here you marvel at Drooker's skill as an artist. Reminiscent of Masereel's woodcuts, Drooker uses scratchboard, where you carve out the lines rather than draw them in. Over this he adds layers of slate-gray watercolor for tone and depth. Then, amidst this near-monochrome world, at sparingly particular moments, he adds a zap of color: a bird, a butterfly, or blood...
...ladder / Count the pieces you’ve managed to gather / Does it matter? What you trying to achieve? / Let go of your throat if you’re dying to breathe.” Riding producer Ant’s skeletal boom-bap, Slug spits each carefully sculpted rhyme with a clarity and understated resolve that unfailingly drives his thoughts home. The results can be poignant and oft-disturbing, but nearly always manage to captivate...
...bargaining is dead, at least in America. Yet one beloved area bagel chain promises that services are negotiable. Now no one knows the allure of a catchy, meaningless rhyme more than the FM staff, but could this truly be a sham? Can an honest man finagle nothing these days? FM investigates...
RJD2 does share his space with a couple of very carefully selected MCs: Jakki has a very capable, if not entirely unpredictable battle-rhyme on “F. H. H.” (discreet for “Fuck Hip Hop,” surprisingly). But it is on “June” with MC Copywrite that RJD2 demonstrates that not only can he back a dextrous rapper, he can steal the show back again. The dense, shifting atmospherics range from mournful guitar noodlings to the everpresent bass/high-hat tussle that comes forcefully to the fore...
...hope and history rhyme...