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Originally Posted by willravel
Or I could tell you that my job is not to rap or to write poetry, but that doesn't mean I can't tell that lyrics are crap compared to real poets. Would you really compare the above with Walt Whitman?
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Not many "real" poets can hold up to Walt Whitman, so why would you do that of rappers? You're missing the point here. Rap is not the poetry Whitman was concerned with. What would you say if I told you that Homer pwns Whitman? What is the point of that?
If anything, rappers are doing what was pioneered by William Wordsworth: "Speaking in the language of common man." People in inner-city Detroit don't speak like Whitman did; why should they rap like him? Besides, Whitman was mainly free verse, rap needs a strong 4X4 beat, often with rhymes.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
"Hark," quoth muthafuckin' blackbird, "Nevermo', bitches!"
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Holy shit, Crompsie. You've got to stop killing me with this stuff.
Do Shakespeare! Do Shakespeare!