materials Archives - Internet Hip-hop Simile Database https://ihhsdb.com/tag/materials/ Cataloguing similes in hip-hop, one track at a time Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:52:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 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 The flow’s mad jazzy like Dizzy Gillespie https://ihhsdb.com/the-flows-mad-jazzy-like-dizzy-gillespie/ https://ihhsdb.com/the-flows-mad-jazzy-like-dizzy-gillespie/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:14:48 +0000 https://ihhsdb.com/?p=1384 With Jeru the Damaja as our guide, we explore the very fabric of what is and isn't hip-hop in this simile-laden track

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]]> https://ihhsdb.com/the-flows-mad-jazzy-like-dizzy-gillespie/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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