[Simon Green]

Now, let's be fair. While I can't stand the style of rap, the author of this piece is arguing for the recognition of this guy's lyrics....so let's take a look at a modern Shakespeare in our midst:

"i"

I done been through a whole lot
Trial, tribulation, but I know God
The Devil wanna put me in a bow tie
Pray that the holy water don't go dry
As I look around me
So many motherf-----s wanna down me
But an enemigo never drown me
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me

And (I love myself)
When you lookin' at me, tell me what do you see?
(I love myself)
Ahh, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police
(I love myself)
Illuminated-
All ya'll come to the front
(I love myself)
One day at a time, tryna go shine

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

[Lee'sGhost]

Actually, I totally agree. Both Shakespeare and Wordsworth are dead and buried. Let’s do the same with rap.

[PGalt]

LOL! post and thread.

[lee martell]

No. The Ebonics , the gratuitous profanity, coupled with poor sentence structure is getting in the way of true refinement.
I got more enlightenment from reading my last Fortune Cookie.

[Cubs Fan]

If rap is art, its an even lower form of art than etcha sketch and stick figures.

[MarvinStinson]

The Guardian (UK): Rap should be put on a par with Bach and Beethoven

[Jeff Chandler]

I’m not sure putting Dylan on the same level as John Steinbeck was a good precedent.

[dainbramaged]

RAP = Retards Attempting Poetry. With apologies to the retarded, of course.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Rap should be on par with vomiting and calling the mess art.

[onedoug]

Anyone who would make such an observation has clearly never read either Shakespeare or Wordsworth.

[jiggyboy]

If we valued black art, Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer would have been for literature

"You can never be 'woke' enough for the Left."

[House Atreides]

Yes, it’s far past time that we recognize the BRILLIANCE of those with LOW IQs. /s

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hedly Lamar?

[KC_Lion]

Kendrick Lamar should have been charged with murder as an accomplice for ruining Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video.

[MHGinTN]

To be politically correct when lusting for ‘inclusive’, if those targeted for inclusion cannot reach a minimal standard of excellence then lower the standards until the doofuses can be included as meeting ‘the standard’.

A greater racist methodology cannot be devised! Democrats own it ...

[BlackAdderess]

No way, I’m just wondering what sort of political interference allowed his song to beat out Cardi B. For sure, she’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but at least she gives voice to something real and isn’t so derivative like Lamar is.

[Captainpaintball]

Illiterature.

[dfwgator]

Personally, I think Tyrone Green was robbed....

Images by Tyrone Greene ...
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking - Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason —
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L ...
My land - lord ...
Def!

[Calvin Locke]

I’m pretty scunnered at all this watering down stuff, too.

[BlackAdderess]

It’s pretty obvious that the fix is in to elevate Kendrick Lamar, but the thing is that people who “fix things” are philistines who just want to dictate to people what everyone is supposed to like. If it is on their own dime, like the rich people who commissioned art throughout the ages, and in this way kept artists from starving, that is one thing, but this is not that. This is an attempt by people with doubtful taste trying to inflict this particular agenda item on the rest of us. (Kendrick Lamar, Nobel Prize for Literature, or whatever? Check!)

Art isn’t always pretty, and goodness knows Cardi B paints a gritty picture, but at least that picture is real and at least her work is an example of art reflecting life.

Kendrick Lamar did not deserve to beat Cardi B. for best rap song which started this engineered-feeling run of his.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Sorry, but this rap song is the defining rap song of all time.