On Some Serious Next Millennium Rap Ishhh: Pharoahe Monch, Hip Hop Poetics, and the Internal Rhymes of Internal Affairs

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-84

  Alim, H Samy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American Language; Hip Hop culture; language and literature; poetics; rhyme

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248700101     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424202250619     Document Type: Article

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