A list of things you absolutely, must not, ever, rhyme with or say in a rhyme:

• Life, knife, strife, wife
• People/steeple
• “Tight like a virgin”
• Lyrical/miracle/emperical – piss off
• Rap/wrap – presence/presents wordplay
• “Got more bars than prisons” or something similar eg “More bars than Alcatraz”
• Using gun bars when you are a bedroom MC, or indeed any MC really
• ‘So hot i melt the wax’ or so cool I something something = generic
• Anything pork/bacon and muslim-related is a bit done now as well
• Smoke you like a cigarette/spliff/blunt – blearghhh
• Meditate/elevate/levitate
• Words ending with “ation”
• Gettin’ higher than a (insert high/tall thing here)
• I’m sick like…(I’ve got a cold/chlamydia/athlete’s foot etc)
• Your bars are too weak like a fortnight, or weak like seven days or argh
• “lyrical” as simile modifier e.g. “lyrical bullets” etc. (lyrical creams)
• Rappers who drop similes then pause or emphasise the end of the bar like it’s the most amazing and profound thing ever uttered eg. i got bars…Armley prison.
• Mans don’t know about my hustle except that presumably now an uncommonly large amount of people do know about my hustle as I took the time to mention it in excruciating detail in a rap.
• Swag…in any context
• Generalising about how hard it was growing up in “X” area is the worst kind of stating the obvious
• Rapping the alphabet through and counting, especially 1, 2, buckle my shoe etc
• Anyone that emphasizes the last word on a bar with a pitched up/down repeat
• Rhyming “funny” and “money” and “honey”. My God man.
• “City” “pity” “shitty” is horrific