The Language may be explicit to some veiwers but sometimes poetry has to be in order to make a point

Poetry Vs. Rap
My most favorite lecture we discussed about in the class involved the comparing of Rap to poetry. After many years of listening to Rap music I never drew the connection to the Art of poetry. What interested me was how rap music uses the same type of format as poetry, except in rap, the sentences are broken up into what is known as meters or bars, while poetry is broken up into stanzas. After the discussion I later researched more information on this topic and discovered rappers such as Common, Kanye West, and DMX all have taken part in actually poetry slams. Discovering the connection of rap to poetry has now helped me gain more respect for certain rap artists as well as rap music as a genre.