{"id":186675,"date":"2020-12-24T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=186675"},"modified":"2023-05-21T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:29:18","slug":"eminems-syllable-series-rhyme-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=186675","title":{"rendered":"Eminem&#8217;s syllable-series rhyme schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GbkMuRs_UA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nJust FYI, because it&#8217;s extremely important, and it&#8217;s a very serious matter:  <\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Book of Rhymes&#8221;, one of the best tracks on Eminem&#8217;s new album, released on the 18th, Eminem says the words &#8220;amygdala hippocampus&#8221; &#8211; and rhymes them &#8211;  not just the ends of the words but every syllable of each word. If he ever married again, and it wasn&#8217;t to Kim, whom he has already married twice, he&#8217;d marry a compound syllable rhyme. Amygdala hippocampus? I don&#8217;t even know what that is although I know it has to do with the brain. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;the amygdala hippocampus is gonna trigger the ignoramus&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to know what he means: My brain is going to make you feel stupid.<\/p>\n<p>But the rhymes are what matters. Not the meaning, but the rhymes. It&#8217;s a flex.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the &#8220;IG&#8221; sound:<br \/>\naMYGdala<br \/>\nTRIGger<br \/>\nIGnoramus. <\/p>\n<p>He turns amy&#8221;GDALA&#8221; and GONNA into a rhyme because of how he says it and the cadence. <\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s an internal rhyme: the  short &#8220;i&#8221; sound:<br \/>\nHipp<br \/>\nCampIS<br \/>\nIS<br \/>\nTr&#8221;I&#8221;gger<br \/>\nI&#8221;gnoramIS. <\/p>\n<p>Then the easy one: Campus and &#8220;ramus. <\/p>\n<p>Look at what he&#8217;s done. Why, Marshall. You&#8217;re almost 50. Relax. But he can&#8217;t relax.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which and this is from an older song: The phrase &#8220;beg the question&#8221; is so mis-used it should be retired. It does not mean &#8220;ask the question.&#8221; News anchors use it as &#8220;ask the question.&#8221; Journalists use it as &#8220;ask the question.&#8221; Film critics use it as &#8220;ask the question.&#8221; It bothers me every time. It doesn&#8217;t mean what you think it means. Please stop. One of the only contemporary people &#8211; outside of grammar nerds &#8211; who has used it correctly is Eminem. I suppose he is a grammar nerd then, 8th grade education and all. I can&#8217;t remember which song now, but I had to rewind it back a couple of times, thinking, &#8220;Holy shit &#8230; I think that&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just FYI, because it&#8217;s extremely important, and it&#8217;s a very serious matter: In &#8220;Book of Rhymes&#8221;, one of the best tracks on Eminem&#8217;s new album, released on the 18th, Eminem says the words &#8220;amygdala hippocampus&#8221; &#8211; and rhymes them &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=186675\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186676,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186675\/revisions\/186676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}