Jay-Z “Rap is Poetry”

“Some of the things Biggie wrote,” says Jay-Z, “if you take those lyrics and pull them away from music and put them up on the wall, someone will say, ‘This is genius…this is genius work.'”

JAY-Z speaks on his best selling book, “Decoded”. He also sheds light on the fact that rap/hip hop should be looked at as poetry, and claims that certain hip hop artists can and should be respected as poets.