Writing Style Investigation
There are various forms of writing in modern day culture, one which is often overlooked being Rap. When someone thinks of rap, they usually think of music from the hip hop culture, but the lyrics to a verse follow a rhyming scheme making the writing of a “rap” or “rap verse” in itself to be a writing style. Rap music is created when the vocalization of rhyming verses are incorporated with a beat, therefore freestyle rapping without music can be labeled as spoken word poetry and the pre-stage of this, being writing rhymes or raps in a rhyme book, a writing style. I always thought of real rap, being music with content, meaning and not just repetitive hooks and verses, to be a form of musical poetry so the idea of battle raps or freestyle raps equating to spoken word poetry didn’t come as an unfathomable thought to me. What I do find unfortunate is the fact that today’s music industry makes it difficult for rap to be portrayed as anything more than music and the lyrics in these raps hold no meaning making its lyrical worth, to me, be next to nothing. What I wonder is why spoken word poetry and its correlation to rap is not acknowledged and why raps can only serve the purpose of musical entertainment in this day and age when some of today’s greatest lyricists are also its amazing poets. Rap to me is almost an epitome of poetry in the sense that music is the poetry of sound and raps consist of rhyming verses equating to poetry, therefore rap music is the music of poetry or if you do the math, poetry². The writing style of writing raps or simply rhyming verses, is a style of writing I definitely want to do more of and explore to a greater extent and depth. By analyzing the verses to a rap and deriving meaning from it, maybe in the near future I can compose my own raps. 
