![]() That’s why rappers are always sampling people, because they can feel the continuity. You listen to old Lightnin’ Hopkins or one of them old blues singers, the form is not too far from something say Tupac would use…There’s no great difference between rap and talking blues. Of contemporary rap he stated in 2010: Music changes because the people change…but the forms are more closely related than people think. Amiri Baraka, marked figure of contemporary African American arts and founder of the Black Arts Movement (BAM), discusses what he terms as the “changing same” in his criticism of Black music and art forms, referring to the constant evolution of art that is necessary in order to keep the core spirit of expression consistent. ![]() Some see rap as one natural progression in African American oral forms, and strong cases can be made tracing the lineage between rap and forms such as the talking blues and oral storytelling. It can be difficult attempting to fully separate the two when defining their relationship, as their function and history intertwine so. ![]() ![]() Just as the boundaries between genres of music ebb and flow, the lines and limits between rap and poetry are likewise fluid and open. The shared forms and tenets of spoken word poetry and rap are prominent and many. ![]()
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