A Rap Connoisseur’s Favourite Poetic Rap Lyrics Explained

If you think this genre isn’t deep, you’ve been listening to the wrong kind of hip-hop

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I am a massive hip-hop fan. I’m not only talking about the stuff on the radio because some of those songs admittingly lack substance: I’m talking about lyrical hip-hop.

Rap was created to be a voice for Black people and has been a perfect outlet for oppression and racism ever since.

It has also been a voice for other people of other nationalities that may not have these deep roots in the genre, but still enjoy performing the music and writing the rhymes.

Atmosphere, God’s Bathroom Floor

From a head full of pressure
Rests the senses that I clutch
Made a date with divinity but she wouldn’t let me fuck
I got touched by a hazy shade of god, help me change
Caught a rush on the floor from the life in my veins

I’ll start this list with my favorite rap group, Minnesota’s Atmosphere. Slug, who is the rapper of the group and writer of the rhymes, writes storytelling hip-hop lyrics about struggles he’s never experienced.

This is my favorite thing about this group, Slug is so good at capturing the essence of struggles he has never had himself. Ant, Atmosphere’s deejay, picks the perfect musical…