Poetry is a dying talent that no one in this day and age seems to even want to bring back to life. Why? Why is it that people want to leave their poems swimming amidst the pages of their diaries, never to see the light of day? Does having poetry as a hobby make you a nerd?
Poetry is underrated and overshadowed by more exciting pieces of writings like "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games". When people hear the word "poetry", they think Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. These guys were, no doubt, geniuses in what they did; their fingers dancing across ancient pages, giving birth to history's most famous and most studied poems of all time. But it's wrong to think that only Shakespeare and Poe were able to paint a portrait of poetry; Tupac was, in my opinion, as much of a genius and as much of a poet as these guys.
Rap is the greatest form of music. The Google search results however, truly disappointed me when I searched for a definition of 'rap'. According to Google, rap is "a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically...". U.S BLACK origin? I'm not entirely sure what Google is trying to say here; that rap originated from black people or that rap is popular amongst black people?
Let's clear something here, rap originates from West Africa, so yes Google, rap does originate from "black people". However, if we talk about who rap is popular amongst, the answer isn't "black people", the answer is everywhere and everyone. Rap plays an incredibly important role in today's music and effects a large variety of societies (African, American, Hispanic, Indian, Asian).
If we were to take rap and open it and search inside, we would find poetry; the greatest, most emotional, most ripe, and most intelligent form of poetry.
I love poetry and I write poetry as well, but Shakespeare isn't my role model. My role models are Tupac, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Wu Tang Gang, K Camp, Eminem, and my personal favourites, The Weekend. If you truly listened to hits or singles by these rappers, you'd begin to understand who they are and where they come from. You'd understand just how intelligent they really are. Lastly, you'd understand the depth of their emotions.
Poetry is my second religion, it runs in my bloodstream and I love spilling the deepest most darkest of my thoughts onto a white, crisp canvas, but truth be told, no one can do it better than Tupac. Upon his demise, we lost an amazing rapper and an incredibly intelligent poet.
In the heart of rap, you find poetry, and in the heart of poetry, you find Tupac, and in the heart of Tupac, you find young poets like me. Rap paints a vivid and vulnerable picture of poetry, and no Shakespeare or Allen Poe could have ever painted poetry any more beautiful than Tupac did.
Poetry is underrated and overshadowed by more exciting pieces of writings like "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games". When people hear the word "poetry", they think Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. These guys were, no doubt, geniuses in what they did; their fingers dancing across ancient pages, giving birth to history's most famous and most studied poems of all time. But it's wrong to think that only Shakespeare and Poe were able to paint a portrait of poetry; Tupac was, in my opinion, as much of a genius and as much of a poet as these guys.
Rap is the greatest form of music. The Google search results however, truly disappointed me when I searched for a definition of 'rap'. According to Google, rap is "a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically...". U.S BLACK origin? I'm not entirely sure what Google is trying to say here; that rap originated from black people or that rap is popular amongst black people?
Let's clear something here, rap originates from West Africa, so yes Google, rap does originate from "black people". However, if we talk about who rap is popular amongst, the answer isn't "black people", the answer is everywhere and everyone. Rap plays an incredibly important role in today's music and effects a large variety of societies (African, American, Hispanic, Indian, Asian).
If we were to take rap and open it and search inside, we would find poetry; the greatest, most emotional, most ripe, and most intelligent form of poetry.
I love poetry and I write poetry as well, but Shakespeare isn't my role model. My role models are Tupac, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Wu Tang Gang, K Camp, Eminem, and my personal favourites, The Weekend. If you truly listened to hits or singles by these rappers, you'd begin to understand who they are and where they come from. You'd understand just how intelligent they really are. Lastly, you'd understand the depth of their emotions.
Poetry is my second religion, it runs in my bloodstream and I love spilling the deepest most darkest of my thoughts onto a white, crisp canvas, but truth be told, no one can do it better than Tupac. Upon his demise, we lost an amazing rapper and an incredibly intelligent poet.
In the heart of rap, you find poetry, and in the heart of poetry, you find Tupac, and in the heart of Tupac, you find young poets like me. Rap paints a vivid and vulnerable picture of poetry, and no Shakespeare or Allen Poe could have ever painted poetry any more beautiful than Tupac did.