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The Rhyming Dictionary

While some consider it cheating, a rhyming dictionary is a great resource in helpful tools for a rapper's lyrics and hooks. Being stuck at the end of a bar, figuring out how it can rhyme, may be worse than writer's block. This is because you actually have pre-determined what you may say in the next bar but are stuck on "one word" and often only a tricky syllable. Resist the temptation to strain your over-used brain and pick this tool up at any popular bookstore chain. Rhyming dictionaries are not like regular dictionaries in that you can look up your word and "oh there it is". Sometimes you must find the vowel, multiple-vowels or the ending of that particular rhyme, for example for "calling" you would search "ing" and it would show you a large list of words that end with ing. A con about using a rhyming dictionary is that with overuse you may lose the "organic" nature of your flow. This results in a highly technical sound with always flawless vowels and ended rhymes, for technical emcees it may actually be a desired and preferred sound. Rappers and songwriters all know that it is perfectly fine for frequent application of "almost rhyming, but not quite" words in a lyric.

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