https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ELnDPmI8w
[Verse 1: 2Pac]
Now we was once two niggas of the same kind
Quick to holla at a hoochie with the same line
You was just a little smaller but you still rolled
Got stretched to Y.A. and hit the hood swoll
'member when you had a Jheri Curl didn't quite learn
On the block, wit'cha Glock, trippin' off sherm
Collect calls to the crib, sayin' how you've changed
Oh you's a Muslim now? No more dope game
Heard you might be comin' home, just got bail
Wanna go to the Mosque, don't wanna chase tail
It seems I lost my little homie, he's a changed man
Hit the pen and now no sinnin' is the game plan
When I talk about money all you see is the struggle
When I tell you I'm livin' large you tell me it's trouble
Congratulations on the wedding, I hope your wife know
She got a playa for life, and that's no bullshittin'
I know we grew apart, you probably don't remember
I used to fiend for your sister, but never went up in her
And I can see us after school, we'd bomb
On the first motherfucker with the wrong shit on
Now the whole shit's changed and we don't even kick it
Got a big money scheme and you ain't even with it
Hmm, knew in my heart you was the same motherfucker that
Go toe to toe when it's time to roll you got a brother's back
And I can't even trip, cause I'm just laughin' at 'cha
You tryin' hard to maintain, then go ahead
Cause I ain't mad at 'cha
(Hmm, I ain't mad at 'cha)
Tupac uses slant rhyme throughout the song "I Ain't Mad at Cha". Most of the song 2Pac uses slant end rhyme and occasionally uses internal. He makes words rhyme with the way he says it, often times I never would have thought the words could have rhymed until he weaves them into his verses smoothly.
I agree. I think how he says the words definitely has an effect on making the song flow more smoothly. I also loved the slant rhyme: toe to toe and time to roll
ReplyDeleteHaving slant rhymes and internal rhymes helped this song flow continuously. For example: block and glock and i also liked Toe to toe, time to roll, as Kendra said. I agree with both Kendra and Jimmy that because of these types of rhymes the song flowed better.
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