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What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language
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A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis.
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A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis.
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: City Lights Books
- Seitenzahl: 312
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 200mm x 175mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 494g
- ISBN-13: 9780872868762
- ISBN-10: 0872868761
- Artikelnr.: 61114307
- Verlag: City Lights Books
- Seitenzahl: 312
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 200mm x 175mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 494g
- ISBN-13: 9780872868762
- ISBN-10: 0872868761
- Artikelnr.: 61114307
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 1963–2018 (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.
Table of Contents
What'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 fly
Slang evolution
Speakin' my language if you talkin' 'bout tilapia
Slang and slipperiness
You'll never find a rhyme like this in any dictionary
On rhyme
Try me, try me
On register
Bitch I'm morose and lugubrious
Haunted roots
Hangin' on for dear life
Code and contraband
I got twenty-five lighters on the dresser
Intelligences
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 shape
Anti-simile
I'm the motherfucking king like Oedipus
=, ≠
Flip the script just like Marlon Brando
#
I got bars sentencing
Economy and time
Four Seasons, three words: do not disturb
Signifying chains
I take seven MCs, put 'em in a line
Recycling
Flow retarded, I'm on some Special Ed shit
Elective chronology
Once upon a time in the projects
Ancestor worship
We're holdin' on to what's golden
Writing/biting
I got ninety-nine problems and a bitch ain't one
Aggravated quotation
Beat biter, dope style taker
Hyperlinks
Wikipedia that, if you didn't know
On cliché
Kickin' the fly clichés
Who wore it better?
Now I'm butt naked in a Lamborghini
Deniable plausibility
Might look light but we heavy though
On first person
I live it, I see it, and I write it because I know it
Truth and consequence
Calling her a crab is just a figure of speech
Criminal slang
I'm the biggest Dope Dealer and I serve all over town
Selling 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 dollars
On 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 album
On second person
If that's your chick then why she textin' me?
Is rap poetry?
I take this more serious than just a poem
Writing/not writing
I wasn't born last night
What you hear is not a text
I can't help the poor if I'm one of them
On possession
Hi haters, I'm back off hiatus
On possession with intent to sell
Cash rules everything around me
Signifying ornaments
I spell it how the fucks I want
Outsider art
And all the people always know me for my comedy
On irony
This is fucking awesome
Dumb love
Microphone check 1-2 what is this
Criticism and categories
Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good
A larger English
Lampin' in the Hamptons like "What the fuck is a hammock?"
Witness
Party and bullshit
What'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 fly
Slang evolution
Speakin' my language if you talkin' 'bout tilapia
Slang and slipperiness
You'll never find a rhyme like this in any dictionary
On rhyme
Try me, try me
On register
Bitch I'm morose and lugubrious
Haunted roots
Hangin' on for dear life
Code and contraband
I got twenty-five lighters on the dresser
Intelligences
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 shape
Anti-simile
I'm the motherfucking king like Oedipus
=, ≠
Flip the script just like Marlon Brando
#
I got bars sentencing
Economy and time
Four Seasons, three words: do not disturb
Signifying chains
I take seven MCs, put 'em in a line
Recycling
Flow retarded, I'm on some Special Ed shit
Elective chronology
Once upon a time in the projects
Ancestor worship
We're holdin' on to what's golden
Writing/biting
I got ninety-nine problems and a bitch ain't one
Aggravated quotation
Beat biter, dope style taker
Hyperlinks
Wikipedia that, if you didn't know
On cliché
Kickin' the fly clichés
Who wore it better?
Now I'm butt naked in a Lamborghini
Deniable plausibility
Might look light but we heavy though
On first person
I live it, I see it, and I write it because I know it
Truth and consequence
Calling her a crab is just a figure of speech
Criminal slang
I'm the biggest Dope Dealer and I serve all over town
Selling 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 dollars
On 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 album
On second person
If that's your chick then why she textin' me?
Is rap poetry?
I take this more serious than just a poem
Writing/not writing
I wasn't born last night
What you hear is not a text
I can't help the poor if I'm one of them
On possession
Hi haters, I'm back off hiatus
On possession with intent to sell
Cash rules everything around me
Signifying ornaments
I spell it how the fucks I want
Outsider art
And all the people always know me for my comedy
On irony
This is fucking awesome
Dumb love
Microphone check 1-2 what is this
Criticism and categories
Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good
A larger English
Lampin' in the Hamptons like "What the fuck is a hammock?"
Witness
Party and bullshit
Table of Contents
What'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 fly
Slang evolution
Speakin' my language if you talkin' 'bout tilapia
Slang and slipperiness
You'll never find a rhyme like this in any dictionary
On rhyme
Try me, try me
On register
Bitch I'm morose and lugubrious
Haunted roots
Hangin' on for dear life
Code and contraband
I got twenty-five lighters on the dresser
Intelligences
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 shape
Anti-simile
I'm the motherfucking king like Oedipus
=, ≠
Flip the script just like Marlon Brando
#
I got bars sentencing
Economy and time
Four Seasons, three words: do not disturb
Signifying chains
I take seven MCs, put 'em in a line
Recycling
Flow retarded, I'm on some Special Ed shit
Elective chronology
Once upon a time in the projects
Ancestor worship
We're holdin' on to what's golden
Writing/biting
I got ninety-nine problems and a bitch ain't one
Aggravated quotation
Beat biter, dope style taker
Hyperlinks
Wikipedia that, if you didn't know
On cliché
Kickin' the fly clichés
Who wore it better?
Now I'm butt naked in a Lamborghini
Deniable plausibility
Might look light but we heavy though
On first person
I live it, I see it, and I write it because I know it
Truth and consequence
Calling her a crab is just a figure of speech
Criminal slang
I'm the biggest Dope Dealer and I serve all over town
Selling 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 dollars
On 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 album
On second person
If that's your chick then why she textin' me?
Is rap poetry?
I take this more serious than just a poem
Writing/not writing
I wasn't born last night
What you hear is not a text
I can't help the poor if I'm one of them
On possession
Hi haters, I'm back off hiatus
On possession with intent to sell
Cash rules everything around me
Signifying ornaments
I spell it how the fucks I want
Outsider art
And all the people always know me for my comedy
On irony
This is fucking awesome
Dumb love
Microphone check 1-2 what is this
Criticism and categories
Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good
A larger English
Lampin' in the Hamptons like "What the fuck is a hammock?"
Witness
Party and bullshit
What'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 fly
Slang evolution
Speakin' my language if you talkin' 'bout tilapia
Slang and slipperiness
You'll never find a rhyme like this in any dictionary
On rhyme
Try me, try me
On register
Bitch I'm morose and lugubrious
Haunted roots
Hangin' on for dear life
Code and contraband
I got twenty-five lighters on the dresser
Intelligences
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 shape
Anti-simile
I'm the motherfucking king like Oedipus
=, ≠
Flip the script just like Marlon Brando
#
I got bars sentencing
Economy and time
Four Seasons, three words: do not disturb
Signifying chains
I take seven MCs, put 'em in a line
Recycling
Flow retarded, I'm on some Special Ed shit
Elective chronology
Once upon a time in the projects
Ancestor worship
We're holdin' on to what's golden
Writing/biting
I got ninety-nine problems and a bitch ain't one
Aggravated quotation
Beat biter, dope style taker
Hyperlinks
Wikipedia that, if you didn't know
On cliché
Kickin' the fly clichés
Who wore it better?
Now I'm butt naked in a Lamborghini
Deniable plausibility
Might look light but we heavy though
On first person
I live it, I see it, and I write it because I know it
Truth and consequence
Calling her a crab is just a figure of speech
Criminal slang
I'm the biggest Dope Dealer and I serve all over town
Selling 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 dollars
On 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 album
On second person
If that's your chick then why she textin' me?
Is rap poetry?
I take this more serious than just a poem
Writing/not writing
I wasn't born last night
What you hear is not a text
I can't help the poor if I'm one of them
On possession
Hi haters, I'm back off hiatus
On possession with intent to sell
Cash rules everything around me
Signifying ornaments
I spell it how the fucks I want
Outsider art
And all the people always know me for my comedy
On irony
This is fucking awesome
Dumb love
Microphone check 1-2 what is this
Criticism and categories
Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good
A larger English
Lampin' in the Hamptons like "What the fuck is a hammock?"
Witness
Party and bullshit