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Is Rap Poetry...?
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re
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7/30/2009 9:40 AM
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Jules |
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NoMoreCages
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7/30/2009 9:43 AM
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"Yo Yo, you my ho!"
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"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But can they suffer?" - Bentham |
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Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2009 9:46 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
Old school rap was talent,
They rhymed and made sense
What they call rap today is just a bunch of monkeys that can't coherently talk into a microphone. |
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Just me
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7/30/2009 9:48 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
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Regards
Jules Quoting: re 731078
Mos Def can be pretty righteous, but most aren't.
Lyrics are all poetry, by the way, good and bad. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 717402
7/30/2009 9:50 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
If you consider a retard's scribbles on a pad of paper to be a novel.
then yes...rap is poetry. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 738011
7/30/2009 9:52 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
rap is burpetry and fartetry |
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Richard Strong 
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7/30/2009 9:52 AM
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"Man i wouldn't touch that shit"
"Me either"
"Ho go home and wash out ya beaver"
"The air was making me sick"
"She pulled her panties down and the bitch had a dick"
^^^^^True Poetry^^^^^ Eazy E |
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re
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7/30/2009 10:20 AM | |
40 creek
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7/30/2009 10:25 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
no rap is not poetry |
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40 creek
User ID: 737944
7/30/2009 10:26 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
pink floyd is poetry. |
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Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2009 10:32 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
rap is not for white people. |
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re
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7/30/2009 10:33 AM | |
Angelseverywhere
~Fire & Ice~
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7/30/2009 10:37 AM
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All music lyrics are poetry....including rap.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William Blake
An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing. ~Lao-Tzu
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquina
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 704809
7/30/2009 10:38 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
you will never hear the good stuff on the radio, just keep thinking you know what up, back to mtvland with you |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 738050
7/30/2009 10:51 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
I would certainly say some Rap is poetry. Take a gander at some lyrics by PM Dawn
Ways of the Wind
"I wore a ring that was taken so hastely,
Thinking naively that it guaranteed my safety
I'm looking at eyes that have stumbled across a shooting star
Saying that's alright, I know the kind of man you are
Holding on is like the ways of the wind,
Holding on is like the ways of the wind
How many things I recall I can't take too far
She's good at collecting
and counting on the things you are
Forever racing the flames she loved to put me through
I was never a good seahorse
But I can practice rides on you
Another world, another space,
another mind insists I'm crying
I once experienced time with you
Now all exists through rage and sighing
Simon says I love you
But not as much as you display
Who says its alright
Then Simon says she's yesterday
Holding on is like the ways of the wind
Like holding on a Nova Star
Holding on is like the ways of the wind
The constant search for who you are
Oh, life
Underneath love's theme lies a superficial chain
Whatever seduced the barrier
Thinks everything should stay the same
I'm meeting mind say,
Hi I think I love you
I never used to run from love
But calculate what I've been through.
Whatever love, whatever vibe,
Whenever I'm convinced you're lying
Ask me for my mind and I
Will ask you why your sighs are dying
Introduce the melancholy
I've felt since last I saw you
You say it's alright
But I'm crushed till it decides upon you
Holding on is like the ways of the wind
I only hope you'll understand
Holding on is like the ways of the wind
finding you've no place to stand
Send my deepest sympathy
To the flowers of December's garden.-acapo" |
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Béla Bartók
User ID: 744297
8/7/2009 5:42 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
Rappers I monkey flip em with the funky rhythm I be kickin
Musician, inflictin composition
of pain I'm like Scarface sniffin cocaine
Holdin a M-16, see with the pen I'm extreme, now
Bulletholes left in my peepholes
I'm suited up in street clothes
Hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes
Y'all know my steelo with or without the airplay
I keep some E&J, sittin bent up in the stairway
Or either on the corner bettin Grants with the celo champs
Laughin at baseheads, tryin to sell some broken amps
G-Packs get off quick, forever niggaz talk shit
Remeniscing about the last time the Task Force flipped
Niggaz be runnin through the block shootin
Time to start the revolution, catch a body head for Houston
Once they caught us off guard, the Mac-10 was in the grass and
I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin
Pick the Mac up, told brothers, "Back up," the Mac spit
Lead was hittin niggaz one ran, I made him backflip
Heard a few chicks scream my arm shook, couldn't look
Gave another squeeze heard it click yo, my shit is stuck
Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot now I'm in danger
Finally pulled it back and saw three bullets caught up in the chamber
So now I'm jetting to the building lobby
and it was filled with children probably couldn't see as high as I be
(So whatchu sayin?) It's like the game ain't the same
Got younger niggaz pullin the triggers bringing fame to they name
and claim some corners, crews without guns are goners
In broad daylight, stickup kids, they run up on us
Fo'-fives and gauges, Macs in fact
Same niggaz'll catch a back to back, snatchin yo' cracks in black
There was a snitch on the block gettin niggaz knocked
So hold your stash until the coke price drop
I know this crackhead, who said she gotta smoke nice rock
And if it's good she'll bring ya customers in measuring pots, but yo
You gotta slide on a vacation
Inside information keeps large niggaz erasin and they wives basin
It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind.
Now thats poetry. Maybe a bit radical, but hey. Rap sucks now, though. |
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The Guy
Mr. Know-it-All
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8/7/2009 5:55 PM
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Most definitely. A lot of it isn't any good, though. |
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California Dreamin'
User ID: 706857
8/7/2009 9:57 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
its the poetry of da streetz muthafuckah! |
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Sou£
User ID: 337613
8/7/2009 9:59 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
Depends.
2Pac: yup
Soulja Boy: somebody betta get em before I do.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. |
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tangelo
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8/7/2009 10:04 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
In a word....no. |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/7/2009 10:06 PM | |
SoSayWeAll
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8/7/2009 10:13 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
You have GOT to be kidding... Poetry?
I would think that some basic comprehension of, and ability to properly use, English might be considered a prerequisite for poetry.
That being said, I've always thought that RAP was actually a contraction of the word CRAP... The word might most appropriately be written as 'rap with the apostrophe taking the place of the 'C' or possibly as (C)rap.
Yes, I do rather LIKE that one! |
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4by2 
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8/7/2009 10:15 PM
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Thoughts Faux Fodder
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8/7/2009 10:16 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
All music lyrics are poetry....including rap.
 you always say the perfect thing :-)
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/7/2009 10:22 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
Definition: Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define. |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/7/2009 10:23 PM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
Re: Lyrics of Tupac Shakur. Closest to rap poetry you'll ever get. 'Changes' and 'Thugz Mansion' are good songs. |
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Béla Bartók
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8/8/2009 11:19 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
Again, some forms of rap is poetry. Some not. soulja boy, no... Old-school nas, yes. Are they a bit ignorant? You can make that case and you might win. But it it poetry for the most part. |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/8/2009 11:21 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
no its monkeys makeing words fit together |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 740955
8/8/2009 11:23 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
Rap is garbage that allows people who can't read or write music, sing or paly an instrument to call themselves "musicians". |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 480595
8/8/2009 11:23 AM | | Re: Is Rap Poetry...? | Quote |
If you consider a retard's scribbles on a pad of paper to be a novel.
then yes...rap is poetry. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 717402
Well said |
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Angelseverywhere
~Fire & Ice~
User ID: 699520
8/8/2009 11:24 AM
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All music lyrics are poetry....including rap.
you always say the perfect thing :-)
Hi honey!! how have you been?
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William Blake
An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing. ~Lao-Tzu
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquina
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby |
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