The rapper and poet Noname first rose to prominence in 2016 with her breakout album “Telefone,” which seemed to be bumping on every speaker that year. Her most recent album, “Sundial” (2023), further ...

Poetry is the structural rhetoric used to evoke emotional qualities. Rap is, at the etymological root, the chanting of rhymed lyrics in time to a beat. The literary facet of poetry has been around for ...

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Syrian American rapper and spoken word artist Omar Offendum explored the intersection of culture and art with Northwestern students Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Middle East and North ...

Neville Makhubalo (21) is what you call a poet/MC. With most poet/MCs, their poetry is their rap. With Makhubalo, his poetry and his rap are two different things. He can easily talk about tits and ass ...

If he hadn’t learned to rap — quite the “if,” considering he was a white, midwestern teenager at the time — we might not be talking about him decades later. As it turned out, rap changed his life.

Jay-Z has said that his new memoir Decoded will allow casual listeners of the genre to experience the "poetry" of hip-hop. The rapper - who will release the autobiography and lyrics booklet later this ...

There’s a creative group of students at Pittsburg High School (PHS) who’ve been stirring up attention and winning slam poetry contests throughout the Bay Area over the past year. A part of the PHS ...