Bar #12
That's That
MF DOOM
Already woke, spared a joke, barely spoke, rarely smoke Stared at folks when properly provoked, mirror broke Here, share a strawberry morning Gone, an' more important spawning, torn in, poor men sworn in Cornish hens switching positions Auditioning morticians, saw it in a vision, ignoring prison Ignoramuses enlist and sound dumb Found 'em drowned in cow's dung, crowns flung Rings a Tinkerbell, sing for things that's frail as a fingernail Bring a scale, stale ginger lingers Seven figures invigor Nigga, fresh from out the jail, alpha male Sickest ninja injury this century, enter plea Lend sympathy to limper Simple Simon rhymin' emcees Trees is free, please leave a key These meager fleas, he's the breeze And she's the bee's knees for sheez, G's of G's
Rhyme Scheme
Syllabic-saturation flow featuring dropped-rhoticity slants and seven distinct phonetic clusters.
Producer Notes
DOOM displays his 'Golden Ear' by exploiting the dropped rhoticity of AAVE, creating a perfect /ɪ-ə/ triplet with 'lingers', 'figures', and the truncated 'invigor.' He maintains structural integrity through seven distinct phonetic pivots, most notably the transition from the long /eɪl/ pocket ('frail', 'fingernail', 'jail') into a final, exhaustive marathon of long /iː/ sounds. By utilizing mosaic rhyming to treat the phrase 'G's of G's' as a phonetic equivalent to 'emcees' and 'sympathy,' DOOM achieves a state of lyrical saturation where the rhyme scheme becomes the primary percussive element of the track.
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