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4/2/2004:  The trick of writing Rap or Song lyrics is to express ideas in few words and in a rhythm.  Some of the things you learned in school may not apply!
AIN'T THERE AN AIN'T?
LYRIC QUALITY CONTROL Tip #1
By Bob Dennis

There Ain't No Ain't

     In my grade-school days a favorite lesson of the English teachers' was that "ain't" is not a word that's in the English language.  They would say that the "correct word" was "aren't, or sometimes isn't"  Aren't is a contraction of the two words, "are not," was how the lesson went.  ....

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