wordplay


though most commonly used with reference to rapping/mcing to a beat, how an artist plays with the acoustics or meaning of words for artistic effect within song, written verse, poem or freestyle

this includes the constructing of bars/lines with:

words of double/triple meaning for humour or effect.

words that are not obviously recognisable as rhymes to one another when pr-nounced correctly yet may share -ssonance and there for can be used in place of standard rhymes structurally with in a verse.

also multiple rhyme patterns within lines added for show effect and cohesion.

wordplay is one of the technical areas that can be -ssessed when judging how technically skilled an rapper/mc is.

pharaohe monch,big l,big pun, eminem are some examples of mc’s whose work can be particually rich in wordplay.
he my sell allot of alb-ms but he aint got good wordplay
when you play around with words to have 2 meanings.

here are some examples i heard before
wordplay examples
“ya got 2pac dreams but keep yur head up”
“wearing you out, just another casual-tea(casualty)”

the art of playing on words and how words come together during freestyle rap. might involve punches, if not seperetly indicated.

see freestlye
that was some illin wordplay, man!

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