crime Archives - Internet Hip-hop Simile Database https://ihhsdb.com/tag/crime/ Cataloguing similes in hip-hop, one track at a time Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:51:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 It’s like bedtime without your PJs https://ihhsdb.com/its-like-bedtime-without-your-pjs/ https://ihhsdb.com/its-like-bedtime-without-your-pjs/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:41:51 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1819 Image: Annie Spratt via Unsplash If I’m going to catalogue every hip-hop simile ever, I’m going to have to get a wriggle on. In 2024,…

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/its-like-bedtime-without-your-pjs/feed/ 0 Ya fallin’ off like Paul Daniels’ wiggy hair https://ihhsdb.com/ya-fallin-off-like-paul-daniels-wiggy-hair/ https://ihhsdb.com/ya-fallin-off-like-paul-daniels-wiggy-hair/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:29:52 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1512 Back to the UK and looking at the similes in the second part of Jehst's Trilogy that's not a trilogy.

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/ya-fallin-off-like-paul-daniels-wiggy-hair/feed/ 4 You lying like a politician https://ihhsdb.com/you-lying-like-a-politician/ https://ihhsdb.com/you-lying-like-a-politician/#respond Thu, 27 May 2021 14:31:37 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1436 Talib Kweli meets Al Green and Kanye West in this month's simile-analysing odyssey.

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/you-lying-like-a-politician/feed/ 0 Catch more wreck on your dome than a deranged fucking barber https://ihhsdb.com/catch-more-wreck-on-your-dome-than-a-deranged-fucking-barber/ https://ihhsdb.com/catch-more-wreck-on-your-dome-than-a-deranged-fucking-barber/#respond Mon, 09 Nov 2020 19:21:36 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1246 Guru and Krumb Snatcha get all het up about fake MCs in this classic Gang Starr track.

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/catch-more-wreck-on-your-dome-than-a-deranged-fucking-barber/feed/ 0 I’m picking words like the best crops https://ihhsdb.com/im-picking-words-like-the-best-crops/ https://ihhsdb.com/im-picking-words-like-the-best-crops/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2020 12:44:49 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1169 Put down that mouse burger, it's time to look at the similes in The Four Owls' 2015 track Rice Torture.

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/im-picking-words-like-the-best-crops/feed/ 3 Inventing new ways just like a scientist https://ihhsdb.com/inventing-new-ways-just-like-a-scientist/ https://ihhsdb.com/inventing-new-ways-just-like-a-scientist/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:49:51 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1055 Lock up your daughters: Kool G Rap's in town and he's about to unleash some pretty obscene similes.

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/inventing-new-ways-just-like-a-scientist/feed/ 3 Mysteries blistering like the gold on Mr. T https://ihhsdb.com/mysteries-blistering-like-the-gold-on-mr-t/ https://ihhsdb.com/mysteries-blistering-like-the-gold-on-mr-t/#comments Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:10:35 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=903 13 similes and only half of them make sense? Must be Del the Funky Homosapien. This sounds like a job for the Simile Police.

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/mysteries-blistering-like-the-gold-on-mr-t/feed/ 1 MCs be hooked like addicts https://ihhsdb.com/mcs-be-hooked-like-addicts/ https://ihhsdb.com/mcs-be-hooked-like-addicts/#comments Tue, 31 Dec 2019 14:37:34 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=873 I risk the ire of the farmer-butcher mafia by putting Bahamadia's 1996 track Three Tha Hard Way under my simile microscope.

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/mcs-be-hooked-like-addicts/feed/ 2 Surround your sound like a Spandex pant leg https://ihhsdb.com/surround-your-sound-like-a-spandex-pant-leg/ https://ihhsdb.com/surround-your-sound-like-a-spandex-pant-leg/#respond Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:44:01 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=684 Find out why Spandex is so called as we put the similes in Roots Manuva's Join the Dots under the microscope.

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