/lit/ - Literature

>>2499298
this thing called rhymin'
no different than coal minin':
we both on assignment
to un-earth a diamond

>>1751622

Mobb Deep are great.

this is such a weird question for /lit/ because most of the music I like has little to do with the vocals, and the stuff with the best lyricists are all rappers.

KRS One, Slick Rick, Outkast, Mos Def, pretty much all of Wu particularly Gza, Bahamadia, MC Lyte, Biggie, Tribe, Posdnuos, Eric Sermon...

trying to include some new cats. Qwel, maybe? I don't enjoy him as much but his flow is pretty incredible.

for non rap lyrics, I love rock but none of it really compares, critically speaking. I'd have to go with Jimmy Van Heusen (wrote Sinatra's stuff) and i dunno, Gershwin. I guess X's John Doe and Exene were pretty good. I heard they met at a poetry workshop.

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