The Phonetic Rap Yo

This is my final project for my phonetics class...and my rap debut plus lyrics.


I was sitting sippin coffee in caribou one day
And I tried to think deep bout what I had to say
So I grabbed me some paper and a pen too
And this is how Ill describe phonetics to you
On a hot august day as first class was adjournin
I heard kitty martin say own you own learning
Unsure what this meant, far as I could tell
Id be teaching myself everyday til the bell
After a while as classes got rollin
I realized yo that its me whos controlling
The reading the writing and memorizing
My grades all about how much time Im comprizin
So when I sat down to open my book
My hand got a cramp all the notes that I took
A phonemes a sound, a letters a grapheme
When theyre up in a unit you call it a morpheme
Next up on the list is a minimal pair
An example of this would be share and care
One thing you must know to learn bout this better
Is the phonetic alphabet each sound is a letter
Allophone, allograph and distinctive feature
All kind of confused me had to ask the teacher
Its the variant pronounciation and the sequences
Difference in the sounds where in the mouth it frequences
Next page read bout syllables onset n rhyme
Coda n nucleus Id clap out in time
Little did I know these were way more than this
So I started studying up cuz I knew I couldnt miss
Vowel is the nucleus the onset n codas
Are usually a consonant like in the word sodas
Open or closed are the way sullables be
Just check that las letter like in cab n bee
Moving right along started some anatomy
Knew I had to learn it cuz of practicality
Big muscle is the diaphragm tracheas windpipe
OMG I hate this stuff but have no time to gripe
The larynx houses vocal folds which adduct and abduct
Phonation same as voicing is the vocal folds product
The lips the teeth the palate and the alveolar ridge
The velum glottis and the tongue are serving as a bridge
Between the noise inside your throat and what you want to say
Theyre articulators and theyre workin night and day
Now Im past the basics and Im movin to the vowl
Crazy quadrilateral made me want to throw the towel
Retracting lips and rounding them, advancement and tongue height
Are features of a vowel that will make you say them right
A diphthong and a monophthong have to do with sound
By two and one respectively are these vowels bound
Theres 14 of em all in all and the go like this
i for key, ay for say, /I/ for miss and kiss
/ae/ for mad oooo for moon and an epsilon for red
Uuuh for could /o/ for ok still crazy ones ahead
The backwards c for law still confusing to this day
But Im careful not to mix it up with simple little a
Now heres some fun upside down v
But nothings as crazy as that backwards upside down e!
Finally whats up are two sounds that sound the same.
Stressed and unstressed schwar if you call em by their name

Now movin on page 108
I soon began to really hate
Non-resonants vs. resonants
All of them were consonants
Stop fricative and affricate
Oh man my mind just cant forget
For all of these my nose is closed
Each one my tongue a special pose
Now comin to the resonant
Explainin I aint hesitant
From the nasal liquid and the glide
My nasal cavity cant hide
Manner place and voicing were a big priority
Air flow, place and vocal folds claim authority
Over how you say the sound and whether its correct
And if the word your thinking of comes out as you expect
Citation vs. connected speech is up in ch. 6
If you talk in all citation then you better get it fix
Connected speech is human talk the other I dont know
If you talk all day citation form it. would. be. A. show.
Reason for the differences is called assimilation
Overlappin ticulators: coarticulation
Because of this as it goes some mistakes are made
Listen what I say and dont you let if fade
Elision and epenthesis metathesis too
Are omission and addition and transposition foo!
Timing stress and intonation suprasegmentals
Theyre what make your message sound hard mean or gentle
Now the last thing Ill cover is couple of disorder
My apology my song isnt shorter
Between phonological and articulation
To learn a lot about ems gonna take some concentration
Weak syllable final consonant some people delete em
Is mostly helps em out if you just keep repeatin
Re-re-reduplication can be tough
While cluster reduction it aint enough
All righty folks its been my pleasure
Give you this phonetics treasure
Hope you learned enough today
to take that test and earn an A.

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Tags:

• phonetics
• rapping
• girl rapping
• phonology
• review
• phonetics practice
• yo

[orchid098]

I'm a linguistics student, and I think I love you. lmao

[tizon86]

shawty go hard

[reneedddd]

I'm about to take phonetics, and this was actually really informative haha

[jlroelofs07]

Peas.

[sillymeix2]

this is amazing. 

[YeezyTaughtMe]

Smh, PoS human.

[vchesterley]

This is absolutely terrific! I teach Phonetics and I use this in my course. Thank you so much for putting this on You Tube. Well done!

[fhad59]

fauk you



[RanDom4Lif311]

A course yall must be fuckin white!

Sorry but who are closer to blacks...Whites or Mexicans!

[tintiano]

You rock!

[TheMastermindTM]

The song is pretty good but more impressive is all information you put into it. I'm a rapper and I was curious about how I should be stressing my syllables better but there are some terms I now want to Google! Lol