Of course not ALL rappers can write poetry. Just a select few.I doubt any pure poet can write a rap song of any substance. Poetry reminds me of the blues. I don't like it. Too melodramatic. I think my experience as a rap lyricist makes poetry east for me.
Poem I just thought up:
Holocaust Prayer:
I bow my head to the light in the nights sky
find no comfort inside. Ask not of you lord. I ask why?
Cries is what we hear, suffering is what we feel, for we
are the hated the end is near.
Lord why is it that ye from Bethlehem, that sacrificed his
cattle to Jehova be the lamb, to the beast that forever
eats the wicked twisted cross of the German?
Why is it that he who bear the holy star of David,
be marked with a scarlet letter and suffer from such
hatred?
Oh lord I do not understand, please deliver ye from misery
and take me back to Bethlehem.
* Now you might think my poem sucks. I don't care poetry sucks. But you can't deny that it is in fact a poem. Now can any of you so called poets write anything close to a rap? Can you step into my domain. I think it shows that rap as an art-form is more complex, abstract, inclusive. Rap artist are more versatile, talented, intuitive than poets.
Poem I just thought up:
Holocaust Prayer:
I bow my head to the light in the nights sky
find no comfort inside. Ask not of you lord. I ask why?
Cries is what we hear, suffering is what we feel, for we
are the hated the end is near.
Lord why is it that ye from Bethlehem, that sacrificed his
cattle to Jehova be the lamb, to the beast that forever
eats the wicked twisted cross of the German?
Why is it that he who bear the holy star of David,
be marked with a scarlet letter and suffer from such
hatred?
Oh lord I do not understand, please deliver ye from misery
and take me back to Bethlehem.
* Now you might think my poem sucks. I don't care poetry sucks. But you can't deny that it is in fact a poem. Now can any of you so called poets write anything close to a rap? Can you step into my domain. I think it shows that rap as an art-form is more complex, abstract, inclusive. Rap artist are more versatile, talented, intuitive than poets.