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Dave · single
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Black
Dave
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
And if he's white you give him a chance
He's ill and confused
If he's black he's probably armed
You see him and shoot
Look, black is growin' up around the barbershop
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Meaning
Dave flips "the blacker the berry" into a line about media bias. A Black killer makes the tragedy feel more clickable, while whiteness gets softened into excuses like illness or confusion.
Race
media framing
public sympathy
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Pen game, measured.
Two scores per track. A deterministic technical score for craft — rhyme schemes, vocabulary, flow — plus an AI score for lyrical depth.
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Technical score
87
/ 100
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Rhyme density 9.1
Internal and end rhymes per line
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Vocabulary richness 8.4
Unique words across the track
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Multisyllabic rhymes 7.8
Rhyme spans with 3+ syllables
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Flow variance 8.9
Cadence changes across bars
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