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Hello, I'm Natalia Mack.
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And today I will be discussing the hip hop aesthetic with the main question of
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is hip hop poetry.
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So some of you may be wondering how are poetry and hip hop similar?
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Well, much like poetry,
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rap music has been recognized for its powerful and lyrical complex forms.
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Um
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Rap is a verbal, musical art while poetry is a verbal,
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musical and typographical form of art.
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Um Rappers can be considered as poets as
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long as what they are preaching or rapping about
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is meaningful.
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Um
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Both poetry and hip hop share rhythm and meter flow in verses, expression,
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feelings and different meanings.
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Um
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R and meter uses language that creates the rhythm
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um
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verses and our stanzas stances are used in, in poems
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and verses are used in songs.
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Um
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And they separate ideas
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and
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um
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a similar trait that may not be listed here
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is repetition,
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which can be used in lines to do are the entire stands out the race.
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Um Next time we'll be talking about ballads,
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ballads are either a short,
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not short, but they can either be a poem or a song
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that narrates a story in short stances
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and
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the first type of ballad I'll be talking about is
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Jay Z's song Cry.
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Um
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Here's a verse right here on the side of me
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and
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his ballad, it's more of a slow type of vibe, but
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it's him narrating about a breakup from a previous relationship
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um due to his own neglect and infidelity
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and through the whole song, he just saying like how he feels about it and
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more stuff and that sort.
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Next,
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the next type of a ballad is I Two by
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Lely Hughes
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and
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he is expressing that he wants to be equal. But
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um
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every time company comes over, he gets chewed into the kitchen
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due to his skin color
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saying how yes.
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Um
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And next, I'll be talking about lyric poetry.
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Um
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Lyric poetry is a short poem often with song
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like qualities that expresses the speaker's personal emotions.
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And the first half of lyric poetry I'll be
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talking about is Nicki Minaj's the crying game.
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Um
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So Nicki Minaj wrote the occurring game
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um following the breakup of one of her relationships.
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And
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um
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basically, she's expressing the song through heartbreak. And
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throughout the song, there's certain lines um
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that
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are personal and
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um
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that means something significant to her.
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So
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I don't know if y'all know, but
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she, she wrote the song after her breakup with Saar
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with Safari Samuels. And
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there's a line in the song called
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Well, that goes, I'm just abusive by,
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I'm just abusive by nature not because I hate it.
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And
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um that line,
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that line came about because he says basically that
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she changed after she had real set of fame.
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Um And next, I will be talking about
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Maya Angelo's phenomenal woman.
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Um I had insult this into this presentation because
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um
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Maya Angeli wrote this from a feminist standpoint
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and
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it talks about her and how she feels well and how other people view her.
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She is a natural woman.
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Um
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She may not be the smallest or the prettiest, but
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everything is,
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everything is true to her.
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And that's really what makes her a phenomenal natural woman,
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which is what she describes throughout the whole poem, but it is amazing.
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Um
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And next, we'll be talking about form
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um
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in heaven's
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E P
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um by J Cole,
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J Cole uses in his verse. He uses rhyming words
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um
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which play a significant part in his song.
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Um
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And his song, like he uses um a lot of lines which are very meaningful to
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him, others and
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just the song in general.
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Um But yes, he uses rhyming words
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as you can see in this voice next to me.
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And then he also has very good meter.
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And next, we'll be talking about the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Um Edgar Allen Poe used a repetition as well. Well, yes, as well.
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Um
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Alternating between the stanzas, the last word in the stanzas
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um ranges between never more or nothing more.
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And
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um in the previous two lines in each Stanza,
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um
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he used the same word at the end of the line.
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Um So as you can see on the side of me, he uses shore and shore
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and
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each stanza ranges because there's different words that he said in each word.
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But yes, he does range between,
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um, never more and nothing more
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in his stanzas. Um Also,
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I didn't
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get to say this at the beginning of this slide. But
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um
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J Cole and Edgar Lapo, they both used for
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um
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going back to the first side with the,
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how is
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um hip hop and poetry similar.
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Um
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They both use rhyming words um
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in the rhyme meter, rhyme and meter which um
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adds on to their work
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very well. Um
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And their poems evokes a deeper meaning or a Philly
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which conveys a story or a setting which are used in all of the previous artists
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um
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works.
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And so
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with this being said,
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the question is,
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is hip hop poetry and my answer is yes, just because
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of just how everything flows together
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in the hip hop world because hip hop or
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rap music is just a contemporary form of poetry.
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And I feel like if the artist works it out very well, then it is poetry.