Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.
I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.
Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
I just loved listening to hip-hop, I love the words. The angry words resonated with me.
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.
Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.
As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it.
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him to be working class. Eventually I thought a bus was a perfect visual way to move him, to drift him through the city, to have a measured kind of routine lifestyle. And all these things kind of congealed into the film "Paterson" eventually.
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since. No one nails urban despair quite like Eliot.
Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world.
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
