I remember arguing with a colleague who was a creative writer in the English Department and who was angry that Bob Dylan got the Nobel Prize for Literature. My view is that poetry's origins are entwined with music, so why not? Not so sure if Rap has produced its Dylan, and not sure if the music form sets limits on what its lyricism can accomplish, and limits it to "rhyming" as people refer to it. But what do I know? I generally don't enjoy the form, and perhaps that's a blind spot.
I remember arguing with a colleague who was a creative writer in the English Department and who was angry that Bob Dylan got the Nobel Prize for Literature. My view is that poetry's origins are entwined with music, so why not? Not so sure if Rap has produced its Dylan, and not sure if the music form sets limits on what its lyricism can accomplish, and limits it to "rhyming" as people refer to it. But what do I know? I generally don't enjoy the form, and perhaps that's a blind spot.