“Remember we were so young / When I would hold you / Before the blood on the leaves”
What is Hip-Hop -- blood on the leaves, Kanye West
100
“Flame on, I know the light is bright but keep on watching me”
What is hip-hop — KRS-One, Hip-Hop Vs. Rap
100
“For you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit / And give you lightning and thunder as a dowry / [...] And I would clasp the constellations across your waist”
What is hip-hop — Mos Def feat. by Jill Scott, Love Rain (Remix)
100
“Take my hand and we’ll pick my plantation / Of Daisies for a bouquet of Soul / Life will begin at the cut of a rim / Take it as filled to the rim as in brim”
What is hip-hop— De La Soul, Eye Know
200
“Gonna buy me a knife with / a blade ten inches long. / Shall I carve ma self or / that man that done me wrong?”
What is poetry — Langston Hughes, Suicide
200
“May God forgive us though we dwell inside a paradox”
What is hip-hop— 2Pac, Revolution
200
“I was saying it to stop / the sensation of falling off / the round, turning world / into cold, blue-black space”
What is poetry - — Elizabeth Bishop, In the Waiting Room
200
“But at my back in a cold blast I hear / The rattle of the bones"
What is poetry — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
300
“Freedom a drug that’s bought and sold / Giving to steal and cruel kind, / a heart to fear, to doubt a mind”
What is poetry — e.e. cummings, [my father moved through dooms of love]
300
“That Holy Water that you soak in has been poisoned / When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless”
What is hip-hop — Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Same Love
300
“The versatile, honey-sticking wild golden child / Dwelling in the Rotten Apple, you get tackled / Or caught by the devil’s lasso”
What is hip-hop — Nas, The World Is Yours
300
“I wonder if they miss me, as long as I make history / Now my soul is feeling empty, tell the reaper come and get me”
What is hip-hop — A$AP Rocky, Long.Live.A$AP
400
“It’s a treachery hidden up the sleeves of men / Magic will only work for those who do believe in them”
What is hip-hop — Salt ‘n’ Pepa, Blacks’ Magic
400
“I was twenty years behind the times / so you found an audience ready. / I do not disown you, / Do not disown your progeny”
What is poetry — Ezra Pound, Salutation the Second
400
“I was ten when they buried you. / At twenty I tried to die / and get back, back, back to you”
What is poetry — Sylvia Plath, Daddy
400
“The soul’s escaping through this hole that is gaping / This world is mine for the taking / Make me king”
What is hip-hop — Eminem, Lose Yourself
500
“Hell is empty / And all the devils are here”
What is poetry — William Shakespeare, The Tempest.
500
“The Shot that killed him yes I heard / as I heard the Thousand shots before”
What is poetry — Gwendolyn Brooks, The Boy Died in My Alley
500
“It is deadly, terrifying / It is the Inquisition, the / Revolution / It is beauty itself”
What is poetry — William Carlos Williams, The Crowd at the Ball Game
500
“America when will we end the human war? / Go f--- yourself with your atom bomb”