By me saying more, that doesn't mean I'm saying there aren't any. But I listen to both rock AND rap, and I find that; in terms of poetical technicalities, rap has got more hits than misses.
Also, I rap. I use that form of musical expression as that: musical expression. Maybe you formed that mentality cos of the way you THINK rap is, and not what you KNOW what rap is. I don't blame you. I bet 80% of the people here think the same way as you do. It's pretty much up to people like myself to prove otherwise: that rap is not "retards attempting poetry" (lol). It IS poetry.
I'm gonna quote verses from LOCAL rap acts. Try to see if you can feel the flow and structure of rhyme patterns and the attempted use of metaphors:
"These tears of rain I shed from the years of pain
My dreams shattered and it pierced my brain
Shredded pieces of writings that get flushed in the drain
Walk through the cemetery paths; memory lane
Here lies hiphop I`ll remember the name
Cause she was my first love and my first flame
Now get back to real-time I`m still runnin the game
Still spittin them verses that will pierce your brain
I wish I could re-wind and try to go back
So I try to freeze-time and spit on this track
My inner-soul translated thru this waveform
Immortalized even when the waves gone
I spit hard till the mic is saturated
But what happens when all of this evaporated
Huh? It`ll prolly go to my iris
And when its all gone my third eye gonna cry these (teardrops..)
"Teardrop" - Xstatix
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break the mould,
put a new shape into it
if you think you've been wronged,
time to get it up and get it right,
what they think all along
mute the cries of the biased lies,
open the eyes
of the blind-eyed
cynics
silence the chauvinist
rectify this, with justified acts
cementing the facts
about you the truth, in what you do
and prove that it's true
you, gotta have what it takes to make
and to break
the typecasted chains
bound to our name in inferior pain
they stain our face with dirt
slain our grace with hurt
blame our place on Earth
even though we're sources of birth
we're forces that's worth
each attention given
only my hope is that we will be given acceptance
but if you try to mock our peace
even if you try to break my bliss
i'll fight this mental twist
with my lyrical fist but
i'm not feminist, i'm sexist
only when a man's chauvinist
then i'll infect a diss like disease,
till their ego cease to exist.
"Sirens" - Sirens
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It's time to break the mental shackles
That's designed to be another label
With our instrumentals and our vocals
Amplified
Tearing structures down to rubble
Like the Tower of Babble
We're not disciples.
We're the ten commandments of the ancient times.
Like a sample from the Bible,
We battle at a level
So celestial
While we hover in the
Aura of divine.
We're the mystical
Magical
Primal forces. Sublime.
Acrobatical lyrics defying all that's been defined.
Unreleased verse- The House of Anonymous
As I mentioned, these are just three verses taken from our local acts. Of course, we got our influences from rap artists from the states and other countries. It is through such acts that we learn the proper use of rhymes, multies, and metaphors.
So.. does that make us retards?
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