# Rapmatics

**Year:** 2016
**Role:** Designer
**Client:** Self
**Tags:** stories-and-dataviz, music, personal-projects
**Case study:** /work/rapmatics

Music has many properties — pitch, rhythm, tempo, and others — but repetition is
what makes something feel musical. These doodles are a tribute to patterns of
repetition and poetic structure in hip hop.

![Lyric diagram for `Can I Kick It`](/work/rapmatics/can-i-kick-it.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `Give It To Me`](/work/rapmatics/give-it-to-me.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `So What'cha Want`](/work/rapmatics/so-whatcha-want.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `Party Up`](/work/rapmatics/party-up.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `The World Is Yours`](/work/rapmatics/the-world-is-yours.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `Work It`](/work/rapmatics/work-it.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `Izzo`](/work/rapmatics/izzo.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `The Bridge Is Over`](/work/rapmatics/the-bridge-is-over.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `Children's Story`](/work/rapmatics/childrens-story.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `Next Episode`](/work/rapmatics/next-episode.gif)
![Lyric diagram for `Shimmy Shimmy Ya`](/work/rapmatics/shimmy-shimmy-ya.gif)

### Further reading

- [Repetition defines music](http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2014/repetition-defines-music/) — Ethan Hein
- [Repetition begets awareness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTINOGFv-Dw) — Weezy F. Baby

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