What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language De bakvis And so it adapts to

And so it adapts to the conditions it is given

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he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning

Liliane Giraudon’s Sphinx practically drips with the blood of its enemies

What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language De bakvis And so it adapts toDaniel Levin Becker What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis, a set of freewheeling liner notes, and a love letter to the most vital American art form of the last half century. Over a series of short chapters, each centered on a different lyric, Daniel Levin Becker considers how rap's use of language operates and evolves at levels ranging from the local (slang, rhyme) to the analytical (quotation, transcription) to the philosophical