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.
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.