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I wanted to say exactly this. If you’ve ever written rap/freestyled then this is how it’s generally done.
You write a line to start with
“I’m an AI and I think differentially”
Then you choose a few words that fit the first line as best as you could: (here the last word was “differentially”)
Then you try them out and see what clever shit you could come up with:
Then you sort them in a way that makes sense and come up with word play/schemes to embed it between, break up the rhyme scheme if you want (AABB, ABAB, AABA, etc)
You get the idea.
Edit: in hindsight, that was a horrendous example. I suck at this, colossally.
Is that why it's a meme to say something like
Because the freestyle battle rapper already though of things that rhymed with "say" and it might be "gay" perhaps
Freestyle rappers are something else.
Some (or most) come up with and memorise a huge repertoire of bars for every word they think they might have to rap with and mix and match them on the fly as they spit
Your example above is called a “filler” though, which is essentially a placeholder they’ll often inject while they think of the next bar to give themselves a breather (still an insane skill to do all that thinking while reciting something else, but they can and do)
Example:
The combination of fillers is like playing with linguistic Lego.