I'm always impressed with the sonic effects of good rap music. The internal rhyme and slant rhymes are often ingenious and surprising in ways I don't find in even some very good poets. In listening to someone like Andre 3000, you never hear "creep" and nearly nod off expecting "sleep." It's something we can learn from, as poets. Certainly it's had a powerful, though I suspect largely unconscious, effect on what rhyme is pleasing to me, and therefore how I write it when I use it.
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