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Lots of people listen to hip hop and, while the quality varies a lot, it is remarkable that a very popular musical genre is poetry.
by mejutoco 4y ago
Lots of people listen to hip hop and, while the quality varies a lot, it is remarkable that a very popular musical genre is poetry.
- Gigachad 4y ago[flagged]
- barry-cotter 4y agoThe Iliad and Odyssey and the Icelandic Sagas are in large part about killing people and Persian classical poetry is about the joys of wine so why not?
- 082349872349872 4y ago...and post-muslim persian poetry is about the love of allah, cleverly disguised inside a metaphor of the joys of wine, so Ms Ciccone was neither as novel nor as blasphemous as she was portrayed in the late twentieth century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFIRdlMuGY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFIRdlMuGY
- 082349872349872 4y ago(a) there's much more to hip-hop than one of its more commercial subgenres. (b) if Sinatra were alive today, "My Way" would be gangsta braggadocio. bonus tracks: - the OG (with a very different lyric!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjpRSREHX1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjpRSREHX1Y - NWA meet RP: "witness the extent of my cricket knowledge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSflRlHPay4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSflRlHPay4
- tristor 4y agoWhy is it not poetry? Poetry is about format, it isn’t really subjective to the same degree as other types of art. You could argue it’s bad poetry, but it’s definitely poetry.
- deathgripsss 4y agoHow narrow minded, there is a wide range of themes and topics in rap that isn't gangsta rap
- dijit 4y agoEminem is pretty commercial of course, but you can't tell me this doesn't share similarity to poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAX6EA9RpnE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAX6EA9RpnE