After analyzing the music of some of hip hop’s biggest artists, from Eminem to Public Enemy, linguists at the University of Manchester in England noticed something pretty impressive.
As it turns out, Grammy Award-winning rappers seem to have an intuitive sense for rhyme, using subtle rhyming patterns called half-rhymes (like “hop and “rock”) much more often than traditional rhymes (like “cat” and “mat”). See the difference?
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Kimper and Middleton are hoping to present the new research at a conference in the next year or so.
