Anyone who talks about poetry having lack of market success without considering rap to be poetry is defining their terms to get their result. Failing that, they need to set out precisely how it fails to be poetry.
How does rap fail to be poetry? Please show your working.
The usual style of complaint is that their favoured style of poetry is not sufficiently popular. Compare any fan of an out-of-favour style of anything complaining that no-one is interested in real X any more, therefore society has descended into philistinism. This is only slightly a caricature.
How does rap fail to be poetry? Please show your working.
For me, the deciding factor for finding a rap song enjoyable is almost always the music and is very rarely the words. I’ve also noticed that the semantic content of the words is fairly unimportant, but what is important is how the words sound (I think this is sometimes referred to as the rapper’s “flow”). I’m not a poetry buff, but I take it that what the words mean is fairly important for a poem.
Here’s an example (music video, lyrics NSFW). If you look up the lyrics to this song they’re completely inane, but the beat is incredible and the words flow together well. The point of the work seems to be different from that of a poem.
Anyone who talks about poetry having lack of market success without considering rap to be poetry is defining their terms to get their result. Failing that, they need to set out precisely how it fails to be poetry.
How does rap fail to be poetry? Please show your working.
The usual style of complaint is that their favoured style of poetry is not sufficiently popular. Compare any fan of an out-of-favour style of anything complaining that no-one is interested in real X any more, therefore society has descended into philistinism. This is only slightly a caricature.
I don’t even like rap and this one’s glaring.
For me, the deciding factor for finding a rap song enjoyable is almost always the music and is very rarely the words. I’ve also noticed that the semantic content of the words is fairly unimportant, but what is important is how the words sound (I think this is sometimes referred to as the rapper’s “flow”). I’m not a poetry buff, but I take it that what the words mean is fairly important for a poem.
Here’s an example (music video, lyrics NSFW). If you look up the lyrics to this song they’re completely inane, but the beat is incredible and the words flow together well. The point of the work seems to be different from that of a poem.