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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talinthas" data-source="post: 1950219" data-attributes="member: 10339">I find that rap music, despite its lyrical content, is the spiritual successor to poetry.  Lately i've been listening to a lot of hip hop music, not for content, but for structure, rhyme scheme, rhythmic value, and i'm floored by the sheer technical artistry involved.  Jay Z, for instance, is brilliant at composing lyrics which follow highly advanced poetric structure.   Certainly, i regret that of the two branches of hip hop that arose in the early 90s, Gangsta rap gained ground over the more intelligent hip hop of folks like De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, and the rest.  But now with rap's overwhelming popularity, we're starting to see a minor resurgance in the other side of hip hop, with groups like the Roots, the Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Black Eye Peas, the Kwanum crew, etc gaining airplay.   Eventually, as the audience grows more mature, people will get tired of singing about Hos and crack and such and move on.  Heck, you can see this evolution within the corpus of Jay Z alone.  His first albums were raw and spoke of street stuff, while his later albums are more art than gutter trash.  Yeah, i like Hip Hop =)  But i'm also a metalhead and techno fan at heart =)  And dude, Metallica for life =)</blockquote>