Rhymes in the Flow

The authors discovered their mutual love of rap music at the University of Michigan, where Macklin Smith taught a popular course in rap poetry, and Aurko Joshi was a student. Macklin Smith is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Aurko Joshi is Product Manager at Collibra, a data management firm.

Rhymes in the Flow is the product of great learning and greater passion. By turns playful and provocative, incisive and irreverent, the book excavates some of rap's mysteries: how MCs flow to a beat, how the art of MC-ing has evolved over the years, how rap styles are born. The authors' passion is apparent, as is the impressive range of their research. Smith and Joshi have written a hip-hop book like no other." - Adam Bradley, author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop