Usage in Hip-Hop
The book How to Rap breaks multisyllabic rhymes down extensively - in it, Kool G Rap gives an example of this kind of rhyme, rhyming "random luck" with "handsome fuck", and "vans and trucks". Other examples in the book include two syllable rhymes such as rhyming “indo” with “Timbo” and rhymes with irregular numbers of syllables such as “handle it” and “candle to it”.
How to Rap shows that multisyllabic rhymes are used by the following artists – Big L, Canibus, Inspectah Deck, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, Eminem, Big Pun, Arrested Development, Masta Ace, Lady of Rage, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Esoteric of 7L & Esoteric, Game, Busta Rhymes, Method Man, Nas, and Notorious B.I.G., although there are many more not specified throughout the book.
Multisyllabic rhymes are one of several rhyming devices which have increased in usage throughout the history of rapping, along with such devices as internal rhymes and offbeat rhymes. Music scholar Adam Krims, writing in 2001, noted the following artists as exemplifying the increased complexity in rhyming, including use of multisyllabic rhyming - “members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, AZ, Big Pun, Ras Kass, Elzhi, and DMX just to name a few”.
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