Title: Eminem -- Bach of Rap Author: Anonymous Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/EwShdUA6 First Edit: Wednesday 18th of March 2015 09:41:26 PM CDT Last Edit: Wednesday 18th of March 2015 09:41:26 PM CDT Eminem - Business  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdS3WVYr834 [Lyrics: http://genius.com/Eminem-business-lyrics]   This is a work of genius, and Eminen knows it.   This entire song is about rhyming un-rhymable words in incredible inter-woven compactness in a manner so smooth we do not even notice.   He spends his first few lines directly saying that we're about to witness a masterpiece. He says this with the primary words, "witness", "purest", "rawest", "flawless", "hardest", "honest", and "artist", all of which have essentially or literally no rhymes. (They have, respectively, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, and 0 rhymes.)   The name of the song is "Business", which has zero rhymes, and the theme of the song is Batman and Robin, both of which have zero rhymes. He employs both of these words in the subsequent line, and in the next line employs the words "Saddam" and "Laden", neither of which rhyme with anything.   He ends the next line with the rhymeless word "pilot".   He ends the line after this with the rhymeless word "hinges", rhymes with "oranges", "syringes", and then transitions to rhyming "inches" (again, no rhymes).   The first line of the hook ends with the rhymeless name of the song, "Business", which he rhymes with "what is this"  and "get a witness" (which also has no rhymes).   VERSE 2   The first line ends with "miracles", which has no rhymes. He promptly rhymes it with "wilikers" and "syllables", neither of which have any rhymes. The next line ends with "Gotham", which has no rhymes, and the next line ends with "criminals", which has no rhymes. He rhymes "rap criminals" with previous "bat syllables".   The line after this employs the phrase "skip to your lou" ("your lou" has no rhymes), and ends with the phrase "do best" (no word or word-string rhymes with this). At this point I will cease to bother pointing out rhymelessness; this property will be true of all subsequent references.   The line after this ends with "to it". (The nearest rhyme "conduit" has no rhymes.) Then "the shit". Then "hated on". He rhymes "they exaggerate it all so much" with "they make it all up". (The final two syllables of both of these phrases have no rhymes, let alone the whole things.) He ends the next line with "no such thing", immediately rhymes it twice, and then finds a rhyme for "so much more", and then rhymes "carnival" twice, and then, as if signing the piece, finishes by with two rhymes of his own name "Marshal", neither of which is its only rhyme "partial" and, of course, neither of which has any rhyme.   VERSE 3   Third verse functions exactly the same way. In the first two lines he's found two rhymes for "duo" (one of which is the first two syllables of "you already"), and rhymes "dynamic" with "why panic", and rhymes "capable". He then rhymes "duet" 5 times in the space of 2 lines (one of which is the first two syllables of "and Elton"). In the next two lines he rhymes "get to see an MC" with "these beats and be", while simultaneously beginning a rhyme-streak with "(so) freely": ("freely" has no rhymes"). The rhyme-scheme in the subsequent, concluding 6 lines is just insane. Everything rhymes.     ----     It almost goes without saying that this is all only scratching the surface. The internal rhymes, beginning rhymes, partial rhymes, phoneme-evolution, etc, all make this piece a compactly interwoven, non-linear masterpiece. Just as Bach imposed on himself such hurdles as the austere rigidity of the fugue or his strengthened notion of canon only to impose on himself structure of unrivaled stringency in which he then composed so beautifully and seamlessly that the extraordinary technical hurdles across which he bounded are not even noticed, so did Eminem impose this technical hurdle on himself, and composed in it so masterfully that nobody even noticed.   --------------   _______And this is not at all an isolated incident._________   His other composition in the same album, "Square Dance", is also of this exact same form. "Square Dance" has no rhymes, and in the song he employs exclusively rhymeless words and phrases. Among the exceptionally impressive are his immediately rhyming "Bush administration" with "mush the Senate's face in" and "push this generation".   This makes me wonder in how many of his works Eminem imposed on himself extraordinary technical hurdles that the public has not even noticed.