Rappers should salute Dr. Seuss on his birthday

3/2/2012

"The Lorax," an eco-film, is dropping today, but there's newsness of Seussness we've yet to relay. Did you know that Theodor Seuss begat rap? Check the match-ups and mashups and this link and that. He taught HOVA and Slim all the flow that they knowses, when they mama read "Green Eggs" while blowin' they noses. And by capping the asses of Dick and of Jane, old Geisel hip-hopped kid lit -- wouldn't you claim? He fronted on one thing, we do have to say -- he wasn't no doctor. But neither was Dre.

 

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Do you hear Dr. Seuss rhythms in hip-hop?