poetry vs hip hop

[Blac Satyr]

^^^ LOL! virgin, the wonder of your pussy is just deep, it even surpa**es the power of the minds of those in this hizzay!

jay - i dont even know what to say, other than: master master master master
deep, deep, deep, deep

I get deep, I get dip, Eye. get D.e.e.per...

So how about you lace us with sum of your piece mpho?
yeah, you welcome

[mphossiblepunkstah]

  ya'll are full of shit( i said that wit alot o love)! the sarcasim is...... deep, common is a poet, guru is also one, ded prez, tha roots, the list is endless and no veggie-pusssy im not a poet-a** but i bet my flow/poetry is phatter than your ryhmez flat-a** phly-r than what you scribble on paper and call 'hip-hop', im a poet/mc i appreciate both these lifestlyles( poetry aint just what u say: your words are what you are)   

[SUPER RUTHLESS]

ya'll are full of shit( i said that wit alot o love)! the sarcasim is...... deep, common is a poet, guru is also one, ded prez, tha roots, the list is endless and no veggie-pusssy im not a poet-a** but i bet my flow/poetry is phatter than your ryhmez flat-a** phly-r than what you scribble on paper and call 'hip-hop', im a poet/mc i appreciate both these lifestlyles( poetry aint just what u say: your words are what you are)   

Ag please cmon now, poetry like music has a wide variety of styles and taste. Nursery rhymes is poetry, the dumb stuff at skul is poetry, rap is poetry... But lately poetry seems to only be referred as the dread locked, deep thinking, finger snapping type of poets....

Me i started out with poetry which eventually led me to rap

[mphossiblepunkstah]

that is a very stereotipical way o lookin at at, not all poets have dreadlocks or always gaan aan about black consciuosness  just like not all rappers wear baggy jeans or bape and rap about bling they dont have its all in da mind.....i blend both a these but i stil call my self  a poetress.....no dreadlocks, i dont call myself  black-child and i mos def do not wear capri pants

[Myth]

ded prez  

who that?

[J-oNE/Pat-B-Rick]

^^^^ no myth no. pls tell me u jokin. lol dats a gud joke... omg sori i cnt seem t ignore that u don dead prez. actuali its almost understandable. ax mokaba t huk u up.

[TATEguru v.2K9]

Yea, yea, ok, alright

Ya'll know them niggas that I'm talkin bout
The ones that ya'll be seeing at the coffee house
Soon as they get the mic I start walkin out
And swear that they skill the most talked about
It's time to bring the emcees on, I'm sick of niggas lookin
Bitch trying to read poems and try to battle
Me with sandals and capries on, come on dog
I'm about to get hyped with this, shed some light to this
So called black righteousness
Even though ya'll niggas might not cuss like me
At the end of the night ya'll just trying to f*** like me
So what's the reason for the hating, niggas with dreads
Calling they self gods with white girls named Caitlin
And I'm cool with interracial dating, but I aint about
To hear no f***ing speeches cause I wanna have some bacon
I rock and swerve, that's why I cant f*** with
Coffee houses man, get on my god damn nerves
And deep down ya'll know that I'm right, man shit I'm bout
To kick some Trick Daddy next poetry night like
My black queen
Don't know nan nigga

© Phonte...


That pretty sum up how I feel about poets. Not the actual poetry... just the poets themselves ...

"Why you all up in my face like, 'Yo, Yo, Y-y-y-yo'!"?
Word to the Nicolay Remix.

Rap is a subset of poetry. R-A-P = Rhythm And Poetry.

So what you are asking is like asking who is more African, South Africans or a Zulus ...

[mphossiblepunkstah]

  tru that

[J-oNE/Pat-B-Rick]

oh. u back

[mphossiblepunkstah]

wat ya mean "oh you back"?

[Moar]

I think that both poetry and hip hop are deep, 

[RearrangedReality]

LOL. VirginP-word is killing me again.

[THAT LADY!]

I feel like poets make this shit soooo fcken complicated.
I know it gets deep, but some peeps like using bombastic words = deepness. 

[mphossiblepunkstah]

tey sho do

[fahfee]

Poetry is the foundation of rap. It is not suprising that many rap artists started out writing poems and/or maintained that skill throughout their career (see Tupac). Instead of focusing on the art, I think most posts here are comparing the lifestyle choices of urban-poets to the flashier rap-lifestyle. They might be more similar than you think.