https://ihhsdb.com/ Cataloguing similes in hip-hop, one track at a time Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://ihhsdb.com/ya-fallin-off-like-paul-daniels-wiggy-hair/#comment-10256 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:02:28 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1512#comment-10256 […] Like I said in the intro, we arrive to some fairly standard rap bragging. But Brown is setting us up for that second verse. It’s a shame he went for metaphor in that first line, I’m not interested in those. And anyway, Albert made his simile debut in the last track. […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/swingin-through-your-town-like-your-neighbourhood-spider-man/#comment-10255 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:01:41 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=85#comment-10255 […] there’s one problem. The first track to go under my similescope was the Wu-Tang’s Protect Ya Neck. While I intend to catalogue every hip-hop track ever, I’ve only done 35 so far. I think it’s a […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/writing-like-shakespeare-on-the-top-tier/#comment-10254 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:01:02 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1549#comment-10254 […] touch on this particular Jack. But we have already seen similes involving Jack Be Nimble, and Jack of falling down a hill fame. If anyone knows a hip-hop track with a simile that references Jack Horner or Sprat do let me know. […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/overdue-like-a-library-book/#comment-10253 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:00:42 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1784#comment-10253 […] Yes, imagine if hip-hop didn’t exist. Life would be more boring, but I’d have more free time. Timbs (as in Timberland boots) are a certified hip-hop staple. Yet we’ve only had one other Timberlands-related simile, in our last track, where Charizma told us ‘I kick rhymes like Timberland boots’. […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/swimming-in-beats-like-a-dolphin/#comment-10153 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:30:17 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1337#comment-10153 […] Diggin’ up crazy shit like psychology (Pa, Deda B., 1992) […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/swingin-through-your-town-like-your-neighbourhood-spider-man/#comment-10152 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:00:23 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=85#comment-10152 […] Rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger (Chef, Raekwon T., 1992) […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/mcs-be-hooked-like-addicts/#comment-10073 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:00:48 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=873#comment-10073 […] including quimiles, so we have instead a record-breaking haul, with 28 in total. It’s beaten Bahamadia‘s superb effort by two similes, and we looked at that over five years ago. We’re long overdue a new champion. […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/she-talk-so-big-like-she-could-fit-godzilla-in-her-mouth/#comment-10072 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:00:27 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1024#comment-10072 […] sand of old-school. The youngest track I’ve picked apart looking for simile morsels is now seven (2018’s Polka Dots). I do sometimes listen to more recent hip-hop, but maybe I should make more of an […]

]]> https://ihhsdb.com/if-i-lie-my-nose-will-grow-like-a-little-wooden-boy-named-pinocchio/#comment-9806 Mon, 12 May 2025 12:00:14 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1480#comment-9806 […] nursery rhymes didn’t touch on this particular Jack. But we have already seen similes involving Jack Be Nimble, and Jack of falling down a hill fame. If anyone knows a hip-hop track with a simile that […]

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