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What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
312 Seiten
Englisch
City Lightserschienen am17.03.2022
A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-87286-876-2
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum17.03.2022
Seiten312 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 175 mm, Höhe 200 mm, Dicke 22 mm
Gewicht496 g
Artikel-Nr.57955944

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of ContentsWhat's Good: Notes on Rap and Language By Daniel Levin Becker Preface Rhetorical questions I'm into having sex, I ain't into making love Rewinding To be the man on the mic, to be the man on your mind On cool What's normal to us is an illusion to them On me I heard the beat and I ain't know what to write Serious rap What you hear is not a test Word machines I make butter flySlang evolution Speakin' my language if you talkin' 'bout tilapiaSlang and slipperiness You'll never find a rhyme like this in any dictionaryOn rhyme Try me, try meOn register Bitch I'm morose and lugubriousHaunted roots Hangin' on for dear lifeCode and contraband I got twenty-five lighters on the dresserIntelligences They don't call me Big for nuttin' Power play I'm on point like a elbow Word as bond Speech is my hammer bang the world into shapeAnti-simile I'm the motherfucking king like Oedipus=, Flip the script just like Marlon Brando# I got bars sentencingEconomy and time Four Seasons, three words: do not disturbSignifying chains I take seven MCs, put 'em in a lineRecycling Flow retarded, I'm on some Special Ed shit Elective chronology Once upon a time in the projectsAncestor worship We're holdin' on to what's goldenWriting/biting I got ninety-nine problems and a bitch ain't oneAggravated quotation Beat biter, dope style takerHyperlinks Wikipedia that, if you didn't knowOn cliche Kickin' the fly clichesWho wore it better? Now I'm butt naked in a LamborghiniDeniable plausibility Might look light but we heavy thoughOn first person I live it, I see it, and I write it because I know itTruth and consequence Calling her a crab is just a figure of speechCriminal slang I'm the biggest Dope Dealer and I serve all over townSelling work The dope I'm selling you don't smoke you feel On values I'm out here making sense 'cause I'm out here making dollarsOn the b-word Who you callin' a bitch?On the n-word She could be my broad and I could be her -On white people Please listen to my albumOn second person If that's your chick then why she textin' me?Is rap poetry? I take this more serious than just a poemWriting/not writing I wasn't born last nightWhat you hear is not a text I can't help the poor if I'm one of themOn possession Hi haters, I'm back off hiatusOn possession with intent to sell Cash rules everything around meSignifying ornaments I spell it how the fucks I wantOutsider art And all the people always know me for my comedyOn irony This is fucking awesomeDumb love Microphone check 1-2 what is thisCriticism and categories Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning goodA larger English Lampin' in the Hamptons like "What the fuck is a hammock?"Witness Party and bullshitmehr

Autor

Daniel Levin Becker is a critic, editor, and translator from Chicago. An early contributing editor to the groundbreaking lyrics annotation site Rap Genius, he has written about music for The Believer, NPR, SF Weekly, and Dusted Magazine, among others. His first book, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature (Harvard UP, 2012), recounts his induction into the French literary collective Oulipo, of which he became the youngest member in 2009. His published translations include Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure (Melville House, 2013), Eduardo Berti's An Ideal Presence (Fern Books, 2021), and Serge Haroche's The Science of Light (Odile Jacob, 2021). He is also co-translator and co-editor of All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 19632018 (McSweeney's, 2018) and the editor of Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer (McSweeney's, 2021). Levin Becker is a founding editor of Fern Books, English editor for the French nonfiction publisher Odile Jacob, senior editor at McSweeney's Publishing, and a longtime contributing editor to The Believer. He lives in Paris.