Rap is by far my least favorite genre of music. It sounds like pure cacophony in my ears, and I will listen to anything but rap.
But after listening to a little of it recently, I noticed something interesting. Rap actually sounded like poetry!
The cuss words don’t exactly radiate the “poetry” mood, but they are. They use the aesthetic properties of rhythm and meter to make the song better. A rapper is forced to use rhythm because they are preforming this song. It needs to sound nice and flowing (catchy, too!).
The words that a rapper says also have the poetry feel. Some raps seem to talk about very deep issues in a totally unique way.
While raps, cacophonous and full of cusses, don’t sound good to my ear, I see the root of all the appreciation and glory that rappers get. Rap is an art that we should appreciate, like any other. If someone is having trouble doing this, ask them to write a rap of their own. They will soon stumble into the challenges of rhythm, meter, and syllables. They will realize that rapping takes a lot of skill.
I’m probably the last person to realize this, but rap is a very unique form of poetry.
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