Brent Wood
IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: IX. Issue 2, 2014, p. 3-18., ISSN 1336-7307
DOI: 10.17846/PA.2014.9.2.3-18
The popularity of Rap music has elicited a variety of critical responses, but very little focus on the poetry itself. This essay discusses Rap’s ties to earlier forms of African-American folk-poetry and analyzes the conventional structures of rhetoric, rhythm and rhyme within which Rap artists operate.