You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

And all you other cats throwin' shots at Jigga, | You only get half a bar: fuck y'all niggaz.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.