One of our homework assignments was to watch a video Professor Brady posted on the class blog. The video is called Anthology Traces Rap's Lyrical Journey, Poetic Roots and is about how rap music is so closely related to poetry. In both, flow is very important and has rhythm and complex rhyme schemes. I never really realized how similar rap lyrics where to poems.
After watching this video I looked at the lyrics to some of my favorite songs. One which is a song by Lupe Fiasco called The Show Goes On. I read the lyrics like a poem without the music on and it sounded just like a poem. In class Professor Brady read the lyrics to Loose Yourself by Eminem. I realized all the metaphors and literary elements he used in his song and it sounded like a poet wrote not Eminem who is portrayed as a bad member of society by some people.
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