Sentence examples for rap poetry from inspiring English sources

Spoken-word performers consider rap poetry.

He has found a part-time job with children with behavioural difficulties and is recording an EP of his rap poetry with the accomplished jazz drummer Seb Rochford.

Established in 2003, a program called Connect Force gives young people a safe place to engage in enriching activities and creative expression including hip-hop arts like dance, graffiti/mural arts, rap, poetry, music and education.

In addition to framing essays and commentary, the book parses hundreds of lyrics, and has led many to ask or re-ask a popular question associated with the genre: is rap poetry?

The shows -- featuring solo performers and full ensembles, many using music, dance or scripts in the form of incantatory rap poetry -- are "by, about or for the hip-hop generation or hip-hop culture," said Danny Hoch, the festival's executive producer.

Saturday 5 June, £3.70 adults, £2.60 children (01792 371206: www.onebiggarden.com) Hay Fever Children's Festival, Hay-on-Wye Stand-up comedy, singames games, rap, poetry, book readings, drumming workshops, dancing, historical theatre, role play and fancy dress - you name it, it's happening at this year's Hay Fever Children's Festival.

But its agitated style mirrors Piñero's streetwise pre-rap poetry and the chaotic criminal life of an artist who boasted, "I have to keep doing bad to keep the writing good" (Holden).

For the left-field crew, Flying Lotus spins future beats from inside a futuristic Rubik's Cube, Kate Tempest raps poetry truth bombs that hail Jeremy Corbyn's brave new dawn and Boy Better Know rampage through visceral grime tracks lamenting the preponderance of "many many man" in their immediate vicinity.

The result, which begins "orange interior / flamingo george / third text time / shelters memory," is a kind of visual scat-rap-poetry that's perfect for — even if it's not readily visible from — 125th Street.

Rap is poetry; in fact, most song lyrics would be considered poetry.

He transformed… DOWNTOWN CHRONICLES about a new "spoken word" movement described as Rap Meets Poetry.