Posts Tagged ‘Rhymes’

Beats & Rhymes: Revisiting Wisdom and Knowledge
A few years later, he was an intern at Rap Pages magazine before he graduated high school. By 21, he worked with B-Boy Kingdom, Loud Records and Rumble/Pickininny Records where he learned grassroots distribution and promotion.
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Cadence Weapon announces Hope in Dirt City, hopes the crowd will move this
The only time he got a rise out of them was when he did the rap bit from Return to the Sea's “Where There's a Will, There's a Whalebone.” They just didn't know. Even after two phenomenal albums, Breaking Kayfabe and Afterparty Babies (TMT Review), …
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop’s revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC’s wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.

Examining rap history’s most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America’s least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

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