We return after a year off to a pretty bog-standard track with only 10 similes. Don’t say I never treat you well.
Das EFX’s excellent simile use is slightly marred by their love of irritating nonsense words in our latest trip down simile lane.
Lizzo whips her sword out and delivers a nice slice of simile action in her 2013 track Be Still
Trevor, Barry and Shamele are here to throw some disappointingly average similes at you in this archetype of hip-hop simile.
I think it’s time to discuss your philosophy of drug use as it relates to artistic endeavours: namely simile spotting.
Some disturbing, some gross and some strangely normal similes in this disquieting DJ Shadow and Danny Brown number.
Who sells sea shells on the sea shore? It’s Run-DMC, picking a peck of pickled similes in 80s classic Peter Piper.
Talib Kweli meets Al Green and Kanye West in this month’s simile-analysing odyssey.
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
Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth let us explore their big basement in this classic posse cut.