Burroughs cut-up machine (for that clunky, surreal Ghostface flavor)
Rhymezone dictionary (”What else rhymes with ‘yo’?”)
LucJam’s American Brandstand chart (if you’re gonna drop brand names in your rhymes, be original about it. These are already taken.)
Sample FAQ (innovation by association)
The Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive (double-check insular references)
Monthly Archives: April 2003
Web-Based Tools for Aspiring MCs
April 29 03
Weblogs: The Stats
April 29 03
Number of new weblogs launched per day, according to Terrence Smith’s report on the NewsHour last night: 2,160
Number of professional journalists with personal weblogs who have recently been forced to stop blogging by their employers, according to Mark Glaser’s latest column: 3
Average American newspaper reporter’s base salary, according to Salary.com, in dollars: 31,092
Estimated amount of [...]
Music About Music
April 28 03
In his new meditation on the turntable in ctheory, Seattle writer Charles Mudede calls upon Heidegger, Marx, Walter Benjamin, Afrofuturist David Goldberg, DJ Marley Marl, Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky and, unfortunately, Tone Loc to shed light on the true essence of the turntable. Worth a read, as he goes miles beyond the typical turntablist refrain [...]