The release of Cam’ron’s “Purple Haze” album in 2004 was one of my favorite moments in hip-hop. Specifically, listening to this song for the first time at the two man listening party I did with Chris Glenn. Such a good song.
I gave Cookie nookies, with the girls, got known/
This my two brim hat, call me Sherlock Holmes/
Whole world got blown, so I tell hoes…
I remember looking at Chris when he said “Sherlock Holmes”….wow. Its one of my favorite rap lyrics of all time and no one has figured it out. One of the great mysteries of rap…
Cam’ron carries rhyme schemes so far without making them seem forced. It shouldn’t be possible in English. To quote wikipedia:
In English, highly repetitive rhyme schemes are unusual.[citation needed] English has more vowel sounds than Italian, for example, meaning that such a scheme would be far more restrictive for an English writer than an Italian one - there are fewer suitable words to match a given pattern. Even such schemes as the terza rima (“aba bcb cdc ded…”), used by Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, have been considered too difficult for English.
Does that hold water, Cam? Miss you Camilla!
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