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    Posted: 01 November 2015 at 3:37pm

At the moment I think my weakest elements is creating decent metaphors and story telling. I wondered if anyone had any advice to give on these aspects ? I know with metaphors you describe something and say it was something else without using the words LIKE or AS. For example

''Her smell was my oxygen'' =  Simple Metaphor.

How does one create more complex metaphors ? The only one I can think of which might be more complex is Eminems Not afraid metaphor 'My demons are doing jumping jacks now = working out. 

Also if anyone knows any rappers who are dope on metaphors and story telling that they could share that would be awesome.
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Chino XL is the King of Metaphors...

On LA... check out some of Cuba/IceC's or Orion's old shit...

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Really appreciate the post Perfecto. 

I'll listen to a couple CHINO XL albums and check the other ones

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The two emcees that have helped me out most in terms of wordplay and metaphors are Chino XL and K-Rino

K-Rino also has the most incredible storytelling pieces of alltime IMO
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