Tribe

  • Cliche v. Individual Expression:
    • “When we get hungry we eat the same [.] food–the Ramen noodle”
    • (also specific)
    • What are they expressing, there? What’s the cliche version?

 

  • Specificity:
    • the ramen noodle
    • the OG Gucci boots

 

  • Power verb:
    • “[people] in the hood livin’ in a fishbowl
      gentrify here now it’s not a shit hole”
    • (also concise)

 

  • Concision
    • “VH1 has a show that you can waste your time with
      Guilty pleasures take the edge of reality“
    • that’s just tight phrasing–not a lot of filler, still on rhythm, almost every word contributing something new

 

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