It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they are more dramatic than the institutional/academic poets.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.