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Originally Posted by Justthefacts
MF Doom
Nas
Kanye (when he's being especially clever)
Andre 3000
RZA (early Wu-tang)
Plenty of rappers are literary poets.
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I would say I agree with roughly zero of those. I like Doom, Nas and Andre 3000, and while I don't think any of them write bad lyrics, they're a far cry from great literature. I don't have a problem with that, by the way. They make good music and the lyrics work fine with it. It's the nature of music as an artform that means that care is being paid to a bunch of different things, aside from the words, so it's not surprising that the writing isn't up the level of artforms where the words are the sole focus.