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African-American Rhyming Stereotypes

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Additionally, Hip hop is considered as contemporary African-American rhyming games. Previously, rhyming games are used as an inspirational comical approach to indicate race relations between African-American slaves and their white masters and escaping plantations. Such as "Bre 'r Rabbit tales" . Hip-hop journalist Davey D connects the African oral tradition to modern rap: "You see, the slaves were smart and they talked in metaphors. They would be killed if the slave masters heard them speaking in unfamiliar tongues. So they did what modern-day rappers do--they flexed their lyrical skillz." Hip hop has developed as a form of resistance to the subjugation of working-class African-Americans in urban
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