The Rhyme Marathoners

Who can keep one rhyme sound going the longest?

The Record Holder
21-line streak
Atmosphere

Most rappers flip to a new rhyme sound every 2-4 lines. Totally normal. But these artists lock into one end-rhyme and just refuse to let go. We're talking 10, 15, sometimes 20+ consecutive lines riding the exact same sound.

Top 10 Marathoners

The longest runs of back-to-back lines sharing one end-rhyme

#1 Atmosphere
21-line streak
every woman is a queen every man is a joke
some funny, some cheap, some smart enough to cloak
she says she loves speed cause it's twice as cheap as coke
and the high when she peaks makes her fly like a crow
biography i read, piece by piece it unfolds
From "A Heave and A Ho"
#2 Kool G Rap
18-line streak
for steady cash flows, niggas'll blast you past the astros
blow you like afros, the little fast hoes that last all the fast dough
they splash foes, red as tabasco, they lay your asshole where the grass grow
runnin' wit armies like they castro
them donny brasco's get johnny Doj around they last holes
From "Cannon Fire"
#3 Juelz Santana
16-line streak
suicide, it's a suicide
tell 'em seek and you will find 'cause i'ma lose my mind
kick a nigga ass, then give him my shoes to shine
it's do or die, i come from where we used to crime
the uzi 9 more important than school supplies, the pools is dry
From "Bloody Mary"
#4 Lauryn Hill
15-line streak
ageism, sexism, racism, chauvinism
capitalism running through them like the rumour business
separatism, skepticism, modernism, atheism
television running through them like an organism
mechanism, despotism, poisoning the ecosystem
From "Consumerism"
#5 Migos
14-line streak
and they been hating on me since i was a lil' boy tell me something i don't know
it's been a long road
i put in work but no cheat code
pen on paper like kinko
never look back and won't sell my soul
From "3 Way"
#6 Big Pun
13-line streak
where my girl at, quick to bust the mack, better believe that
she always got my back
nigga twirl that about to blaze a sack, where the weed at
she don't know how to act
'cuz that's my girl black with that monster rap, better believe that
From "14 Ms. Martin"
#7 Jeru the Damaja
13-line streak
this is to my brothers and sisters in the ghetto
trying to be like pablo, deniro, al pacino
you be all right until you run up on columbo
get caught red handed, so you got to go
you lose the crib, the car, the women and the dough
From "Blak Luv"
#8 Kodak Black
13-line streak
i was taught every dog got his day
when them bullets go to spark and the dog gotta lay
better hope to god he don't jump with the k
mr. (?), by the park they'll break
when you getting money, fuck niggas gon' hate
From "4th Quarter (Feat. The Kolyons)"
#9 Wiz Khalifa
13-line streak
we make history and made it twice
off of saving nikes and convincing girls to stay the night
that's our way of life,
dropped 2009 to say it twice
every day's a flight
From "10 Piece"
#10 Denzel Curry
12-line streak
so be aware or gimme your eyes, inclined to be wise
don't let the three-six turn to a nine, wait, let me rewind
don't let the three-six hypnotize minds, so god is my guide
this pen's a mighty sword on my side, my voice could crack skies
create a code amongst the black lives, make sure it's archived
From "13 Zatoichi (feat. slowthai)"

So How Rare Is This, Really?

How longest streaks spread out across 206 artists

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4
26
5
40
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36
7
46
8
20
9
13
10
7
11
6
12
4
13
1
14
1
15
1
16
17
1
18
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20
1
21
Longest streak (lines)
7
Median
9
Top 25%
11
Top 10%

Atmosphere's 21-line streak puts them in the top 1% of all artists we looked at.

Does a Long Streak Actually Mean Anything?

Honestly, it's a fun metric more than anything. A long rhyme streak does suggest a deep vocabulary, sure. But it also makes you realize how vague rhyming actually is. It's really a spectrum that we try to put labels on ("perfect", "slant", "near"), and where you draw the line changes the numbers completely.

A 4-line streak is just two couplets. Nothing special. But 10+ lines on the same sound? That does take some doing. You need ten different words that all match, back to back, while still making sense as lyrics. Whether that's "skill" or just a specific writing habit is probably up for debate.

What's interesting is where these long runs tend to show up. You'll find them in verses building toward a climax, story sections where the narrative carries the rhyme forward, or straight-up flex bars where vocabulary is the whole point.

Full Rankings

RankArtistLongest Streak
#1Atmosphere21 lines
#2Kool G Rap18 lines
#3Juelz Santana16 lines
#4Lauryn Hill15 lines
#5Migos14 lines
#6Big Pun13 lines
#7Jeru the Damaja13 lines
#8Kodak Black13 lines
#9Wiz Khalifa13 lines
#10Denzel Curry12 lines
#11Jay Rock12 lines
#12Lil Baby12 lines
#13Polo G12 lines
#14Rakim12 lines
#15The Game12 lines
#16Bun B11 lines
#17Drake11 lines
#18Gucci Mane11 lines
#19JID11 lines
#20Kanye West11 lines
#21Lil Yachty11 lines
#22Pimp C11 lines
#23A$AP Rocky10 lines
#24Big Sean10 lines
#25Chamillionaire10 lines
#26Chance the Rapper10 lines
#27Clipse10 lines
#28Del the Funky Homosapien10 lines
#29Gunna10 lines
#30J. Cole10 lines
#31Jean Grae10 lines
#32Juice Wrld10 lines
#33ScHoolboy Q10 lines
#34T.I.10 lines
#35Three 6 Mafia10 lines
#36Ab-Soul9 lines
#37Black Star9 lines
#38Boogie Down Productions9 lines
#39Cam'ron9 lines
#40DaBaby9 lines
#41Danny Brown9 lines
#42Doja Cat9 lines
#43Ice Cube9 lines
#44Joey Bada$$9 lines
#45Kendrick Lamar9 lines
#46Kool Keith9 lines
#47LL Cool J9 lines
#48Latto9 lines
#49Mos Def9 lines
#50The Diplomats9 lines

Showing top 50 of 206 artists

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How We Figured This Out

We looked at roughly 38,000 tracks from over 200 artists. The rhyme detection uses vowel-based matching (sometimes called slant rhyme), which means two syllables count as rhyming when they share the same vowel sound. So "joke", "soul", and "explode" all rhyme because of that long-O vowel, even though the consonants around it are completely different.

A streak counts consecutive lines where the final word's last syllable shares that same vowel sound, with no repeated words allowed. That last part matters. It captures how hard it is to keep pulling fresh rhymes while staying locked on one sound.

Quick disclaimer: no rhyme analyzer is going to be perfect. Regional accents change everything. Artistic pronunciation bends words in ways a dictionary can't predict. And slang? Forget about it. Think of these numbers as a starting point for exploration, not some kind of final verdict.

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Last updated: February 3, 2026