UK Archives - Internet Hip-hop Simile Database

Their lips look like crispy bacon

Rayner — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:05:17 +0000

It's time to see how the West Midlands’ diss track whizz kid likes to throw down similes.

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I got more flavour than the packet in macaroni

Rayner — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:55:01 +0000

I think it's time to discuss your philosophy of drug use as it relates to artistic endeavours: namely simile spotting.

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Ya fallin’ off like Paul Daniels’ wiggy hair

Rayner — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:29:52 +0000

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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The flow’s mad jazzy like Dizzy Gillespie

Rayner — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:14:48 +0000

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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I’m picking words like the best crops

Rayner — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 12:44:49 +0000

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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She like a white-rumped sandpiper

Rayner — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:32:44 +0000

Swet Shop Boys take us on a whirlwind tour of birdlife in this lovely little track.

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Burning them like charcoal

Rayner — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:15:13 +0000

Want to find out which historical character ruined a hedge while drunk in a wheelbarrow? Then don your tuxedo, prime your toxic masculinity and read this.

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Surround your sound like a Spandex pant leg

Rayner — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:44:01 +0000

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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Flippin’ the intricate like Asian origami

Rayner — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 08:21:22 +0000

A track that features a simile so long you need to listen to it twice to fully appreciate it (unless you're a Luther Vandross fan, in which case you won't appreciate it).

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More rhymes than is lines in ya database

Rayner — Fri, 24 May 2019 12:58:21 +0000

A notable entry in that it not only opens with a simile, but a negative simile. Oooh. We also discuss a particularly contentious comparative.

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