K. Flay

When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

American Musician

Kate Christensen

Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

American Novelist

St. Vincent

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

Future

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

Gus Dapperton

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that is wordplay, so that stayed with me when I started writing songs.

Bad Bunny

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

Puerto Rican Singer

Polo G

Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.

DaBaby

Everything is organic. I got the wordplay, I got the vocabulary to really, really rap.

Cordae

I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.

Offset

I gotta keep my wordplay and make sure I don't lose nothing.

Wordplay often introduces a sense of humor into writing or speech, making it more engaging and memorable.

Creative Humor

Wordplay may use words that sound alike but have different meanings, known as homophones, to create a funny or clever effect.

Sound Similarities

Understanding wordplay requires a good grasp of vocabulary and the subtleties of language.

Language Fluency

 Who here has been to a black church? We got a couple of hands. You go to a black church, their preacher starts off and he realizes that he has to engage the audience, so he starts off with this sort of wordplay in the beginning oftentimes, and then he takes a pause,

Christopher Emdin: Teach...

 Poetry has a shape that we can usually recognize. Its line breaks help readers navigate the rhythms of a poem. But what if those line breaks disappeared? Would it lose its essence as a poem? Maybe not. Enter the prose poem. Prose poems use vivid images and wordplay