RAP OR POETRY A unique look at verse

RAP OR POETRY? A unique look at verse

POETRY or RAP? “Remember we were so young / When I would hold you / Before the blood on the leaves” RAP: Kanye West, Blood on the Leaves

“Gonna buy me a knife with / a blade ten inches long. / Shall I carve ma self or / that man that done me wrong? ” POETRY: Langston Hughes, Suicide

“Freedom a drug that’s bought and sold / Giving to steal and cruel kind, / a heart to fear, to doubt a mind” POETRY: e. e. cummings, [my father moved through dooms of love]

“It’s a treachery hidden up the sleeves of men / Magic will only work for those who do believe in them” RAP: Salt ‘n’ Pepa, Blacks’ Magic

“Hell is empty / And all the devils are here” POETRY: William Shakespeare, The Tempest.

“Flame on, I know the light is bright but keep on watching me” RAP: KRS-One, Hip-Hop Vs. Rap

“May God forgive us though we dwell inside a paradox” RAP: 2 Pac, Revolution

“That Holy Water that you soak in has been poisoned / When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless” RAP: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Same Love

“I was twenty years behind the times / so you found an audience ready. / I do not disown you, / Do not disown your progeny” POETRY: Ezra Pound, Salutation the Second

“The Shot that killed him yes I heard / as I heard the Thousand shots before” POETRY: Gwendolyn Brooks, The Boy Died in My Alley

“For you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit / And give you lightning and thunder as a dowry / […] And I would clasp the constellations across your waist” RAP: Mos Def feat. by Jill Scott, Love Rain (Remix)

“I was saying it to stop / the sensation of falling off / the round, turning world / into cold, blue-black space” POETRY: Elizabeth Bishop, In the Waiting Room

“The versatile, honey-sticking wild golden child / Dwelling in the Rotten Apple, you get tackled / Or caught by the devil’s lasso” RAP: Nas, The World Is Yours

“I was ten when they buried you. / At twenty I tried to die / and get back, back to you” POETRY: Sylvia Plath, Daddy

“It is deadly, terrifying / It is the Inquisition, the / Revolution / It is beauty itself” POETRY: William Carlos Williams, The Crowd at the Ball Game

“Take my hand we’ll pick my plantation / Of Daisies for a bouquet of Soul / Life will begin at the cut of a rim / Take it as filled to the rim as in brim” RAP: De La Soul, Eye Know

“But at my back in a cold blast I hear / The rattle of the bones” POETERY: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“I wonder if they miss me, as long as I make history / Now my soul is feeling empty, tell the reaper come and get me” RAP: A$AP Rocky, Long. Live. A$AP

“The soul’s escaping through this hole that is gaping / This world is mine for the taking / Make me king” RAP: Eminem, Lose Yourself