Dr. Seuss, Trap Rapper

There’s a really viral video of someone rapping the book “There’s a Wocket in My Pocket” by Dr. Seuss to Walk it Like I Talk It by Migos ft. Drake. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH7lNOm8Uc8&ab_channel=Dr.Seuss

Looking back on this video, it’s interesting because Migos are known for popularizing the triplet flow. So in the song Walk It LIke I Talk It, the chorus goes: “Walk it like I talk it,” but is sung like “walk-it like-i talk-it” which creates a choppy yet catchy chorus, with the stress on the first syllable of each pair. The triplet flow is extremely useful in bringing lots of intensity in a song,  It’s kind of the new thing in trap, and many club songs, like Bodak Yellow (Cardi B), Panda (Desiigner), and Bad and Boujee (Migos), utilize this flow to create a clear rhythm to dance to. In fact, with the triplet flow, many artists simply need to rhyme two or three syllables across the triplet. But with Dr. Seuss, the triplet flow is easily applied thanks to how he writes his poetry. Seuss tends to focus on rhyming two key words, which can be used as the stressed syllable in the triplet flow. Since poetry and music (especially rap) are so intertwined, it’s cool to see how rappers can utilize rhyme schemes in poetry. For the most lyrical MCs, they find a way to construct rhymes throughout two to three lines. Here’s a video detailing some of Eminem’s rhyme schemes, but it’s Eminem, so be warned. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HIdAdMWShU&ab_channel=Spited

Eminem’s known for literally filling notebooks upon notebooks detailing and deconstructing words and how to rhyme them. And looking at his rhymes, it’s really daunting and insane to think of how lyrically talented he is. If only he became a children’s poet instead of a rapper...