Rigamortis

And this is rigor mortis and it's gorgeous when you die Ali recorded and I'm Morpheus, the matrix of my mind I'm out the orbit, you an orphan and a hairdresser combined I'm on the toilet when I rhyme, if you the shit, then I decline I climax where you begin and then I end on cloud nine And that's important when you morph into an angel in the sky And don't be forging all my signatures, my listeners reply And tell me that you biting style, you got a hell of an appetite And I'ma be here for a while, just buckle up before the ride Or knuckle up if you can fight, we always making 'em duck or die A suit and tie is suitable and usual in suicide CSI just might investigate this fucking parasite

Rhyme Scheme

One dominant end-rhyme vowel (/aɪ/) sustained across all twelve bars as a deliberate monorhyme, with the trailing consonant shifting bar to bar (mind/combined on '-nd', decline/nine on '-n', appetite/fight/parasite on '-t', ride/suicide on '-d'), reinforced by internal echoes of the same vowel (rhyme, climax, tie) and a separate 'or' motif running underneath as connective texture

Producer Notes

Kendrick holds a single vowel target (/aɪ/) for all twelve bars without ever switching sounds — a monorhyme, which is rare to sustain this long without going stale. He avoids monotony two ways: by letting the trailing consonant drift underneath the constant vowel (-nd, -n, open, -t, -d), and by running a quieter secondary internal chain on 'or' sounds (mortis/gorgeous/Morpheus/recorded/orbit/orphan/important/morph/forging) plus smaller internal pockets (style/while, suit/suitable/usual) as connective texture beneath the dominant rhyme.