Yo, Hip-Hop's Got Roots

Some of it just needs a bit of time, a chance, but trust me, once you start to "get it" and see its connections to Hip-Hop and modern life and love, sex, war, loneliness, ecstasy and desperation (I'm telling ya, classic poetry is Deep with a capital D) you'll start to discover that some of this classic poetry I am yapping to you about is off-the-hook! Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Concord Hymn" Hyperbole: Hip-Hop I drive up to the ave, with the windows closed My bass is so loud, it could rip your clothes -LL Cool J Figurative Language: Classic I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats high over the hills -William Wordsworth Figurative Language: Hip-Hop I'm like the farmer planting words, people are seeds My truth is the soil; Help you grow like trees -Nas That's how you need to look at classic poetry. Some of it just needs a bit of time, a chance, but trust me, once you start to "get it" and see its connections to Hip-Hop and modern life and love, sex, war, loneliness, ecstasy and desperation (I'm telling ya, classic poetry is Deep with a capital D) you'll start to discover that some of this classic poetry I am yapping to you about is off-the-hook!