Get with the times, old man! Since the 1970’s hip hop has only been growing. Hip hop tracks keep topping the charts and new artists just keep coming with the creation of soundcloud, a platform which enables homemade rappers to publish their work online for free. Hip hop has been around for almost half a of a decade, so academic study of it is long overdue.
Hip Hop is just poetry with music played in the background. An example familiar to us would be “dear mama” by Tupac. The verses have rhyme, enjambment, alliteration like “mama made miracles”, imagery like thanksgiving dinner and selling drugs, onomatopoeia like “whoopin´”, repetition of “you are appreciated” and apostrophe of Tupac’s father and Tupac's siblings and drug dealer friends.I believe that all these poetic devices qualify hip hop songs to be considered a genre of poetry. …show more content…
The majority of hip hop was written by people of colour in the low income bracket of society, unlike most of the academically acclaimed poetry which was written by white men who were usually rich and powerful. The biggest names in hip hop are Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Kanye West, Jay Z and Dr. Dre, all people who were born and raised in the “hood” and made their way to the top. The most academically recognised names in poetry are Shakespeare, John Keats, John Donne. All of them were white men who were wealthy and privileged. Although poetry is becoming more diverse by the day, it is time we speed it up with the inclusion of hip hop as a form of
Hip Hop is just poetry with music played in the background. An example familiar to us would be “dear mama” by Tupac. The verses have rhyme, enjambment, alliteration like “mama made miracles”, imagery like thanksgiving dinner and selling drugs, onomatopoeia like “whoopin´”, repetition of “you are appreciated” and apostrophe of Tupac’s father and Tupac's siblings and drug dealer friends.I believe that all these poetic devices qualify hip hop songs to be considered a genre of poetry. …show more content…
The majority of hip hop was written by people of colour in the low income bracket of society, unlike most of the academically acclaimed poetry which was written by white men who were usually rich and powerful. The biggest names in hip hop are Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Kanye West, Jay Z and Dr. Dre, all people who were born and raised in the “hood” and made their way to the top. The most academically recognised names in poetry are Shakespeare, John Keats, John Donne. All of them were white men who were wealthy and privileged. Although poetry is becoming more diverse by the day, it is time we speed it up with the inclusion of hip hop as a form of