Rap: Poetry?

[Dramatic]

In your opinion is Rap poetry? I reckon it is. I am also too lazy to add a poll.

[sharkitax]

Rap is poetry about "Hoes and b1tches :P Dont inf me for that

[maggerz]

Like i always say.

Rap is the downfall of society.

NO.

[Elite]

Rap is poetry for those gangsters who do not wish they admit there soft.

Rap is also for faker white boy wannabes -looks at Johncena54- I mean you.

((Not sure if 54 is the right numbers.))

[Strelok12]

Rap is also for faker white boy wannabes -looks at Johncena54- I mean you.

((Not sure if 54 is the right numbers.))

Indeed,rap was meant to be used by REAL black gangsters,not white trashes,due to their fault Rap just became into a huge piece of crap,Soulja boy and 50cent please?

Inf me for "Racism" mods,the truth always hurts.

[Calisniper13]

Depends on the rapper.

Soulja Boi=No
Apathy=Yes
Talib Kweli=Yes

[Soul]

Rap was something black slaves did to pass the time working in fields. So in a way it is actually poetry describing life (older rap did anyway) in slavery. The newer stuff like Soulja boy & 50 cent and etc. isn't poetry it's posetry.

[DaMan]

Retards

Attempting

Poetry

[Dax]

Retards

Attempting

Poetry

Daman, no likee rap=P

Rap is poetry with a beat. So yes, rap is poetry.

[wut]

I can stand some Rap,

like the actually some what good ungeround crap like Cannibal Ox.

But once you get into crap like god damn Lil Wayne or Soldier Boy I would rather shoot myself in the foot.

[CMD1]

Sometimes it is to me.

[fearcross]

i only like some hip hop/rap.

[wut]

This is what good rap is,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ICdCJNaKI

It = Poetry.

Most other crap is retards with a beat.

[DaMan]

Daman, no likee rap=P

Rap is poetry with a beat. So yes, rap is poetry.
Lets look at some lyrics of songs of popular rap artists of today and see if they have any intelligence at all in their songs. I'll take 1 segment from the lyrics of 1 of their songs and make a valid judgment on if it is poetry or not.

Example 1: Lil Jon - Get Low

3,6,9 damn she fine hopin she can sock it to me one mo time
Get low, Get low 2x
To the window, to the wall, (to dat wall)
To the sweat drop down my balls (MY BALLS)
To all these bitches crawl (crawl)
To all skeet skeet mother------ (mother------!) all skeet skeet got dam (Got
dam)
To all skeet skeet mother------ (mother------!) all skeet skeet got dam (Got
dam)

Poetry? Not Even Close

Example 2: Lil Wayne - Lollipop

Okay, lil' mama had a swag like mine
She even wear her hair down her back like mine
I make her feel right when its wrong like lyin'
But Man, she ain't never had a love like mine
But man I ain't never seen an --- like hers
That ----- in my mouth had me lost for words
Told her to back it up like berp berp
And make that --- jump like jerp jerp
And that's when she

Poetry? Not Even Close

Example 3: Soulja Boy - Crank Dat Soulja Boy

Soulja Boy Off In This Hoe
Watch me Lean And Watch Me Rock?
Super Man Dat Hoe
Then Watch me Crank Dat Robocop?
Super Fresh, Now Watch Me Jock
Jocking On Them Haterz Man
When I Do Dat Soulja Boy
I Lean To The Left And Crank Dat Dance
(Now You)
I'm Jocking On Yo ----- ---
And If We Get The Fightin
Then I'm ----ing On Your -----
You Catch Me At Yo Local Party
Yes I Crank It Everyday
Haterz Get Mad Cause
"I Got Me some Bathing Apes"

Poetry? Oh God No. That Was Just A Random Jumbling Of Words

Example 4: T-Pain Can't Believe It

I could put you in the condo
All the way up in Toronto
Baby put you in the fur coat, ridin the Murciélago
I put you in the beach house
Right on the edge of Costa Rica
Put one of em lil' flowers in your hair have you looking like a fly mamacita
(Fuego)
Cuz you look so good
You make me wanna spend it all on ya
Get up out this club
Slide with ya boy
We can do what you wanna, Yeah
Baby I brought you in the back cuz you need a lil' persuasion,
Plus you need a lil' ventilation
Let's talk about youuu and meeeee

Poetry? Hell No. He Can't Even Spell 'Cause'.


I can do this all day.

[wut]

I can top you Daman with good rap.

Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy

Ate up by vultures, the politicians
In a dog eat dog culture, that'll sick 'em
Lack of mineral, we take it personal
A pigeon can't drop **** if it never flew
Every day is no frills, empty krills
Broken 40 bottles and m.c's with skills
I rest my head on 115
But miracles only happen on 34th, so I guess life is mean
And death is the median
And purgatory is the mode that we settle in
"No doubt"

Poetry? I do believe so.

Coolio - Gangster's Paradise

They got this situation, they got me facing
I can't have a normal life, I was raised by the state
So I gotta be down with the 'hood team
Too much television watching, got me chasing dreams

Poetry? Yar

I could go on.

[DaMan]

I can top you Daman with good rap.

Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy

Ate up by vultures, the politicians
In a dog eat dog culture, that'll sick 'em
Lack of mineral, we take it personal
A pigeon can't drop **** if it never flew
Every day is no frills, empty krills
Broken 40 bottles and m.c's with skills
I rest my head on 115
But miracles only happen on 34th, so I guess life is mean
And death is the median
And purgatory is the mode that we settle in
"No doubt"

Poetry? I do believe so.

Coolio - Gangster's Paradise

They got this situation, they got me facing
I can't have a normal life, I was raised by the state
So I gotta be down with the 'hood team
Too much television watching, got me chasing dreams

Poetry? Yar

I could go on.
I am talking about present day popular rappers.

Cannibal Ox: Probably from like 10 years ago and I have never heard of him.

Coolio: Isn't he from like 10 years ago?

Present day rappers. Their were good ones back in the day but all the ones now suck and are retards.

[wut]

I am talking about present day popular rappers.

Cannibal Ox: Probably from like 10 years ago and I have never heard of him.

Coolio: Isn't he from like 10 years ago?

Present day rappers. Their were good ones back in the day but all the ones now suck and are retards.

Cannibal Ox is 2 different people.

And they are from like,

2007ish.

[Eiliosdraye]

Rap is poetry without the lyrics, trying to make a song but failing because there is no good sounding rap.

Don't start with the "ganster's paradise" because that still sounds like crap.

[DaMan]

Cannibal Ox is 2 different people.

And they are from like,

2007ish.
TOO BAD!

They are not popular to be an example!

[wut]

TOO BAD!

They are not popular to be an example!

Thats why its called underground music.

[Calisniper13]

Lets look at some lyrics of songs of popular rap artists of today and see if they have any intelligence at all in their songs. I'll take 1 segment from the lyrics of 1 of their songs and make a valid judgment on if it is poetry or not.

Example 1: Lil Jon - Get Low

3,6,9 damn she fine hopin she can sock it to me one mo time
Get low, Get low 2x
To the window, to the wall, (to dat wall)
To the sweat drop down my balls (MY BALLS)
To all these bitches crawl (crawl)
To all skeet skeet mother------ (mother------!) all skeet skeet got dam (Got
dam)
To all skeet skeet mother------ (mother------!) all skeet skeet got dam (Got
dam)

Poetry? Not Even Close

Example 2: Lil Wayne - Lollipop

Okay, lil' mama had a swag like mine
She even wear her hair down her back like mine
I make her feel right when its wrong like lyin'
But Man, she ain't never had a love like mine
But man I ain't never seen an --- like hers
That ----- in my mouth had me lost for words
Told her to back it up like berp berp
And make that --- jump like jerp jerp
And that's when she

Poetry? Not Even Close

Example 3: Soulja Boy - Crank Dat Soulja Boy

Soulja Boy Off In This Hoe
Watch me Lean And Watch Me Rock?
Super Man Dat Hoe
Then Watch me Crank Dat Robocop?
Super Fresh, Now Watch Me Jock
Jocking On Them Haterz Man
When I Do Dat Soulja Boy
I Lean To The Left And Crank Dat Dance
(Now You)
I'm Jocking On Yo ----- ---
And If We Get The Fightin
Then I'm ----ing On Your -----
You Catch Me At Yo Local Party
Yes I Crank It Everyday
Haterz Get Mad Cause
"I Got Me some Bathing Apes"

Poetry? Oh God No. That Was Just A Random Jumbling Of Words

Example 4: T-Pain Can't Believe It

I could put you in the condo
All the way up in Toronto
Baby put you in the fur coat, ridin the Murciélago
I put you in the beach house
Right on the edge of Costa Rica
Put one of em lil' flowers in your hair have you looking like a fly mamacita
(Fuego)
Cuz you look so good
You make me wanna spend it all on ya
Get up out this club
Slide with ya boy
We can do what you wanna, Yeah
Baby I brought you in the back cuz you need a lil' persuasion,
Plus you need a lil' ventilation
Let's talk about youuu and meeeee

Poetry? Hell No. He Can't Even Spell 'Cause'.


I can do this all day.

Why the hell did you pick all these fail rappers? Pick someone good.

[DaMan]

Why the hell did you pick all these fail rappers? Pick someone good.
There are no good ones left.

2pac: Dead
Biggie Smalls: Dead
Eminem: Pretty Much Retired

I can't think of any others, they all fail.

[Eiliosdraye]

Why the hell did you pick all these fail rappers? Pick someone good.
There are no good rappers.

[Calisniper13]

Because you think mainstream

Apathy:Best
Chamillionaire:Beast
Talib Kweli:Beast
Army of the Pharaohs:Beasts
Jedi Mind Tricks:Beasts
Immortal Technique:Beast
Tech N9ne:Beast

I can do this all day.


Assuming rap is garbage because of Lil Wayne is like assuming Metallica sucks just because they had one crap album.

[Dax]

Have some Chamillionaire:


Police think they can see me lean
I'm tint so it ain't easy to be seen
When you see me ride by they can see the glean
And my shine on the deck and the TV screen
Ride with a new chick, she like hold up
Next to the playstation controller is a full clip and my pistola
Turn a jacker into a coma
Girl you ain't know, I'm crazy like Krayzie Bone
Just tryin to bone ain't tryin to have no babies
Rock clean itself so I pull in ladies
Laws of patrolling you know they hate me
Music turned all the way up until the maximum
I can speak for some *bleep* tryin to jack for some
But we packin somethin that we have and um will have a *bleep* locked up in the maximum
Security cell, I'm grippin oak
Music loud and tippin slow
Twist and twistin like hit this dough
Pull up from behind and is in his throat
Windows down gotta stop pollution
CDs change *bleep* like who is that producing?
This the Play-N-Skillz when we out and cruisin
Got warrants in every city except Houston but I'm still ain't losin

[Chorus]

[Verse 2 - Krayzie Bone]
I been drinkin and smokin holdin shiz cause a brother can't focus
I gotta get to home 'fore the po po's scope this big ol Excursion swerving all up in the curve man
N been sippin on that Hennessey and the gin again is in again we in the wind
Doin a hundred while I puff on the blunt
And rollin another one up, we livin like we ain't givin a fbomb*
I got a revolver in my right hand, 40 oz on my lap freezing my *bleep*
Roll a nword tree, green leaves and all
Comin pretty deep, me and my do-jo
I gotta get back to backstreets
Wanted by the six pound and I got heat glock glock shots to the block we creep creep
Pop Pop hope cops don't see me, on a low key
With no regards for the law we dodge em like fbomb em all
But I won't get caught up and brought up on charges for none of y'all
Keep a gun in car, and a blunt to spark, but well if you want, nword you poppin dark
Ready or not we bust shots off in the air Krayzie Bone and Chamillionaire


Note: I think I edited all the "inappropriate" content

[DaMan]

Apathy: who?
Chamillionaire: he's alright
Talib Kweli: who?
Army of the Pharaohs: who?
Jedi Mind Tricks: Sounds like a show in vegas
Immortal Technique: lolque?
Tech N9ne: Is that a gun spelled wrong?

Replies in red (no sheet sherlock!).

[TjHooker]

Rap is poetry about "Hoes and b1tches :P Dont inf me for that
"Boats N Hoes"
Rap is the downfall of society.

nice post. before rap was popularized wiggers werent invented. its jus embarassing to watch whities try soldier boi. this is a retard attempting it (http://youtube.com/watch?v=etLE3ALWZaM)

[Calisniper13]

DaMan, that's my point. The best are not known by mainstream listeners.


Mainstream rap is garbage.
But don't bundle it up with the last remaining good Rap.

[DS]

Yeah Rap is poetry.

Now all you need is a good beat to make a single..But IMO Kanye West is pretty good.

[Dramatic]

After Tupac died everybody wanted to be a rapper, Tupac was a legend. Tupacs rap are still the best.

[maggerz]

Because you think mainstream

Apathy:Who?
Chamillionaire: Saucks.
Talib Kweli:Who?
Army of the Pharaohs:Metal?
Jedi Mind Tricks:Nerd Rap?
Immortal Technique:He's good.
Tech N9ne:

Lolquote :D .

[patriotsrock]

cant spell crap without rap,
usually they talk yes "talk" about sex drugs, and violence.
Its all computer generated too.

[PieDude]

There are no good rappers.

coolio is the only somewhat good one

[gangste28]

wtf
come on people why do you hate rap
its not always bout hoes and such
eminem raps about alot of other things
The Game explains so much of his lif ewhen he came of HAte it or loveit and Mylife
Rapper dont have to be black either
You peopl eare so rasict if you think that
Man plz dont hate on rap
and most poetry can become rap

[BTM4444]

it kind of is i notice them rhyming a lot in most of my songs

[gangste28]

thank you DF4444

[Hamo]

Rap is poetry about "Hoes and b1tches :P Dont inf me for that

^ that is so correct that i will agree..

And rap sucks.

[gangste28]

screw you Hamo
you dont care how these found on the streets