shares: "It's been said that the thing that makes rap special, that makes it different from both pop music and written poetry, is that it's
built around two kinds of rhythm. The first kind of rhtyhm is the meter. In poetry, the meter is abstract, but in rap, the meter is
something you literally hear: it's the beat...
the other is the flow...If the beat is time, the flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it.
The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow."
SoLoPo
is
wow'd.
DesertKiWi
wonders
who said this.
assumes Jay-Z.
lazyD
says
SoLoPo assumes correctly.
DesertKiWi
wonders
if Jay-Z writes or studies poetry.
isnt sure, but knows in his teenage days he would study the dictionary in order to go above and beyond with his diction.
lazyD
says
no, he's focused on the lyrical part of it, but to read his book is to see how much he knows about writing. Amazing.
Fat Boy
wonders
if he's studied writing at a college, or just done lots of it & performed enough to hone his craft?
lazyD
says
he didn't graduate high school. He's extremely intelligent and self-taught.
Chuck9
says
wow. What is his book called?
Fat Boy
wonders
about this whole "Education" thang, when this (admittedly rare) guy is so sharp and we're cranking out graduates who struggle
to spell their own degree programs. 
agrees. But this guy is unique in his drive. That alone would make a world of difference in students.
that FB has a good point. I learned the most I ever learned about poetry from another person, not from formal education.
SoLoPo
thinks
passion is the key.
tibbits
says
my husband is uneducated, but intelligent and sophisticated. Formal education doesn't work for all, but a few people can self- educate