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The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/t-magazine/rap-hip-hop-poetry.html
The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry
Though the two forms remain distinct, today’s rising stars in both genres are creating a shared literary ideal that gives voice to the Black and brown experience.
To create these letterpress posters, the Brooklyn-based artist Dread Scott chose lines and lyrics from contemporary poets and rappers featured in the accompanying essay. Here, Scott’s “slave grammar Sampled” (2021), inspired by Nate Marshall’s poem “slave grammar” (2020).Credit.Artwork by Dread Scott. Published by permission of Nate Marshall