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Today my question is, is hip-hop and poetry the same or should I just let one of them go? What are your thoughts?
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Hey fam, hey. So rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip hop is a culture. Hip hop is different than rap. Hip hop is culture. It's clothes, it's shoes, it's fashion, it's slang.
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But you can't let go of the thing because rap is literally spoken word rap has always been there whether it's skits Some scats from Ella Fitzgerald or a poet like Eckhart Arapos saying something to an eerie beat It's always been there in some form or fashion
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And nah, you need both because they're different. Even though you can do spoken word to a beat, rap is meant to be repeated in the same tone every time. No g-
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You can make a spoken word album but the difference of spoken word versus a rap is more so the intention of following the beat versus being the beat. It's so different but some rappers are so good like Kendrick Lamar.
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To the point where they become an instrument, a tool, like a drum, like a guitar. So, never get rid of hip-hop, never get rid of poetry, because sometimes you don't have to speak poetry, but you have to rap a rap.
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Ms. Marvel Storm, everything you said is spot on. That was very insightful. 100%. Now my opinion on this...
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I can't speak in depth how you just did, but you're right, hip-hop is like a culture. I agree with you on that.
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But I can speak on poetry as a writer myself of poetry. It's actually a class of poetry. It's called slam poetry. I would urge you to look it up.
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And I didn't even know that existed. I had written this four-page poem and when I read it Somebody said that's called slam poetry You know and I had no idea.
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Now as we know, because there's so many tools out there, there's a lot of musicians and rappers and so forth, but they have no flow at all. It's all synthesized.
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Like, I'm gonna read one of my poems at some point on stereo as slam poetry and you read it with conviction.
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As to Ms. Marvel, when you said spoken word versus like flow, I was thinking like mace. Like he basically just speaks the words to a beat. He doesn't really rap like...
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Like a Kendrick Lamar or Drake, you know what I mean? Even 50 Cent, he kind of doesn't really sing, he just speaks the words.
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I think poetry is a form of hip hop. I think poetry is the pioneer, the OG of hip hop. And there's no way you could let it go because it's art. And it's a...
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Very interesting you asked if hip-hop could be let go. Hip-hop was just the next cultural step of black expression. It was called that but that ain't what those who started it called it.
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