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		weeksie on June 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Disliking Poetry Poetry is pretty popular. Most of it is called hip hop now, though.

zyxley on June 12, 2015 | [–]

Two examples that come to mind...

Grandmaster Flash's "The Message": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqky4dSGJnE http://genius.com/Grandmaster-flash-and-the-furious-five-the...

Kanye's "Jesus Walks": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYF7H_fpc-g http://genius.com/Kanye-west-jesus-walks-lyrics

Both are lyrically dense and poetic enough that the only thing really making them "music" rather than "spoken word poetry" is having a backing track.

peterldowns on June 13, 2015 | | [–]

You might also like Milo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGwD-0OYuM&list=PL_KFGCl1le...

JadeNB on June 12, 2015 | | [–]

murbard2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708591) made a similar point earlier.

ExpiredLink on June 13, 2015 | [–]

Some of it is called hip hop now. Some of hip hop is poetry.

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