Eminem is Amazing.

March 25^th

Eminem finds five words that rhyme with ‘orange’ on ‘60 Minutes’ by Chris Lee

Okay so reading the heading of this article to say I was slightly judgemental is an understatement!  

I like Eminem because he raps about real world things like racism, violence and abuse towards women and children, not wanting fast cars or all the money in the world; but seriously, no one, even he, can rhyme something with orange.  However, I guess as they always say: never judge a book, well article in this case, by its cover.  

I was quite surprised amazed to see that Eminem could rhyme orange.  He believes that by using prosody and simply changing the way the word is pronounced you can rhyme anything with another word.  

In the article he raps about an orange by saying: ‘four-inch, door hinge in storage’ and that he has: ‘porridge with Geo-rge’.  When reading the article I took one look at those words and automatically thought that the only word that could slightly rhyme with orange is hinge.  

So here I sat saying the words aloud trying to mimic the way he would say it.  Of course as you can probably imagine I looked like the biggest fool in the world!  Amazingly it works!  By changing the prosody I could make storage rhyme with orange but didn’t know it until reading this article.  Maybe there are other words too. 

It would be very interesting to see what he could make rhyme with purple. 

So I guess the saying still remains correct: don’t judge a book by its cover.

Lee, C 2010, Eminem finds five words that rhyme with 'orange' on '60 Minutes', Pop & Hiss, accessed 25 March 2012, <http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/10/eminem-finds-five-words-that-rhyme-with-orange-on-60-minutes.html>.