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Jay-Z: "Rap Is Poetry"
JAY: Way to dickride Rap Genius, fam. We’ve been telling people about homophone rhymes.. we’ve been analyzing hip-hop’s Triple Entendres..
..we’ve even gotten quantified, measuring the metrics of rhyme density..
..but WHATEVER.. as long as the message gets out there, I’m cool with it.
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Posted June 15th, 2011