I'm not a fan of rap. Can you convince me otherwise?
Well, would it help to know that rapping is like poetry performed in time to music?  
I suppose but its not as good as shakespeare. What else do you know?
in time to an instrumental track. Rap is often associated with, and is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, but the origins of the phenomenon predate hip-hop culture. The earliest precursor to the modern rap is the West African griot tradition, in which "oral historians", or "praise-singers", would disseminate oral traditions and genealogies, or use their formidable rhetorical techniques for gossip or to "praise or critique individuals." Griot traditions connect to rap along a lineage of Black verbal reverence
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Sally-Anne Hurley of "TheMusic.com.au" suggested that the rapper's lyrics may have been autobiographical; she and "Preezy" cited "Miss Left-Eye / All I wanna do is kiss your hand / Let you know I'm not just another fan / I am the man" and "Baby come with me, you'll be mine so we can make love on the 50-yard line" as possible references to Rison. Hurley also found "something quite character-like about Lopes’ rapping" in