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Poetry is pretty popular. Most of it is called hip hop now, though.
by weeksie 11y ago
Poetry is pretty popular. Most of it is called hip hop now, though.
- JadeNB 11y agomurbard2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708591) made a similar point earlier.
- zyxley 11y agoTwo examples that come to mind... Grandmaster Flash's "The Message": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqky4dSGJnE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqky4dSGJnE http://genius.com/Grandmaster-flash-and-the-furious-five-the-message-lyrics http://genius.com/Grandmaster-flash-and-the-furious-five-the... Kanye's "Jesus Walks": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYF7H_fpc-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYF7H_fpc-g http://genius.com/Kanye-west-jesus-walks-lyrics http://genius.com/Kanye-west-jesus-walks-lyrics Both are lyrically dense and poetic enough that the only thing really making them "music" rather than "spoken word poetry" is having a backing track.
- peter_l_downs 11y agoYou might also like Milo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGwD-0OYuM&list=PL_KFGCl1leB8YOEz9ZEvKMiRV76MvnOl- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGwD-0OYuM&list=PL_KFGCl1le...
- ExpiredLink 11y agoSome of it is called hip hop now. Some of hip hop is poetry.