Is Rap Poetry?
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Re: Is Rap Poetry?
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Rather like country music then.CaitlinGonya wrote: ↑23 Dec 2017, 10:37 It is, in my opinion, poetry in its crudest form. Some can be beautiful but when it degrades a group of people it is crude and shameful.
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I love poetry, but in comparison to rap, I feel like it's a pretty flat medium. Or maybe I just haven't found the right poem
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I think the best example is Tupac his lyrics are very strong and meaninfull and gave hope to many people even if they were questioned and banned when they first came out, and even today many people still question them but no one can deny they are powerfull and poetry.
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Thats amazing i didnt get interest in poetry untill one of my teachers made as compare it to music too so i find your story cool.LovelyD27 wrote: ↑05 Sep 2018, 23:08 I have a funny story about this topic, from about 20 years ago, when rap and heavy metal first met and riots were a thing at concerts. Public Enemy (rap) and Anthrax (metal) toured together and one of their stops was in Oakland, CA. Local media was all over the concert because local racial tensions were high at the time. My English teacher, this four and a half foot tall elderly lady, decided to take this local story and turn it into a class on poetry. She had every student bring in song lyrics of their favorite song - and she rapped every single one of them dressed as Flava Flav! It didn't matter if it was Metallica, Frank Sinatra, NWA, or the Bee-Gees, it was rapped to a beat. Then she did the same thing with poems by Dylan, Woodsworth, Shakespeare, Frost, and Poe. Turning poetry and rap on its ear for me, I had no real interest in either until that day...
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And just like 'traditional' poetry not all of it is good or bad.
It's a matter of personal taste or an acquired appreciation.
Just about anything written down or performed can be construed as poetry if one wants to actively approach it that way.
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