I risk the ire of the farmer-butcher mafia by putting Bahamadia’s 1996 track Three Tha Hard Way under my simile microscope.
Nas is like…well, all sorts of things. Find out what as we look at his 1994 classic It Ain’t Hard To Tell.
Handsome Boy Modeling School take centre stage as we introduce a new law set to revolutionise the taxonomy of hip-hop similes.
Seven tracks in, and we’ve already hit 100 similes. Find out the three differences between fudge and caramel as we look at the Beastie Boys’…
How many mics do the Fugees hit on the daily? Don’t expect an answer from this evasive bunch, but do expect a plethora of similes…
What links Tonto, John Candy and Donna Summers? The clown prince of hip-hop, Biz Markie, slips them into similes in this characteristically weird track.
It had to start here really. Wu-Tang’s debut single kicks off with a solid simile and never stops throwing them at you.