With Hip-Hop, you need to look to "Old-School" (old being the 80's, yo) or indie stuff. The hip-pop that suburban white kids listen to, the gangsta-lifestyle glorifying stuff isn't worth the time. The beauty to be found in it is as poetry, truly oral poetry as it was in ancient times. The poetic forms and rhythms of rap are similar to Anglo-Saxon poetry, actually. It's designed to be easy to memorialize, repeatable and conducive to improvisation. Come to think of it, the values are often similar to heroic poetry as well.
A lot of the earlier stuff is still...flavorful...but it is more about bemoaning the depravities of poverty than glorying evil. http://www.nutsie.com/song/The%2...Message/
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I like this one, good for dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Q...layer_embedded#
Ooo. That's pretty interesting. Perhaps I don't appreciate it because I don't appreciate much poetry (aside from, y'know, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Dante, Tasso, etc...) and simply amn't grocking what's there?
Is possible. I don't really grok dance a lot of the time, we each have our individual tastes and interests. Rap and slam poetry share a lot in common.
Yo' dawg, malcontent is flattering! And I love how you love the whitespace. I spent all last winter working on getting the minimal look down pat. Love me some dropcaps. Have you ever been to
http://ilovetypography.com
? It is wonderful.
Jay-Z would prefer Lattimore.
Listen to your Sam. That's a dude with good taste and right knowledge of a genuine medium perverted by money. Path dependency, anyone?
I was inspired to do this project when during a Homer class we watched this professor recite the Greek in proper rhyme and meter. He had done some research suggesting by earthenware depictions that there was typically a circle of men and women around the bard who would stomp their feet at the beginning of a foot and they rotate around the bard slowly, changing direction when there was a abrupt spondee meter. Man telling story + pounding beat + close proximity to fans...do you see where I'm going? If only I could find this video online...
Oh, yeah, the ancient form of poetry lends itself very well. Here's an example of some guys rapping some Chaucer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F...h?
v=Fc8XPv_qstA
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