Joshua Lerner is dropping knowledge like Galileo dropped the orange. “I try to start off with sixteen dots on the paper.” This is how Rakim explains his process of writing to Ice-T in Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap. He continues. “If it’s a sixteen bar rhyme then at least I know what I’m dealing with. I see, like, a graph in between them four bars. And within that I could place so many words and so many syllables.” Ice-T just laughs and shakes his head. “Even though you explained it,” he responds, “n**** can’t do it.” Around the time that Ice-T was getting his mind blown on tape, NYU Law student and rap devotee
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Joshua Lerner is dropping knowledge like Galileo dropped the orange. “I try to start off with sixteen dots on the paper.” This is how Rakim explains his process of writing to Ice-T in Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap. He continues. “If it’s a sixteen bar rhyme then at least I know what I’m dealing with. I see, like, a graph in between them four bars. And within that I could place so many words and so many syllables.” Ice-T just laughs and shakes his head. “Even though you explained it,” he responds, “n**** can’t do it.” Around the time that Ice-T was getting his mind blown on tape, NYU Law student and rap devotee