[00:00.00]This poetry is though-provoking
[00:01.98]And there's though behind it
[00:03.40]And there's great writing in rap as well
[00:06.54]You know you never hear
[00:07.85]Rappers being compared for
[00:09.63]Like the greatest writers of all time
[00:11.70]You know you hear Bob Dylan it was
[00:13.69]So was Biggie Smalls
[00:14.86]You know some of the things that Biggie Wrote
[00:17.45]Excuse me, flows just grow through me
[00:19.68]Like trees to branches, cliffs to avalanches
[00:22.35]It's the praying mantis
[00:23.69]Deep like the mind of Farrakhan
[00:25.93]Rakim, I mean listen to some of the things he wrote
[00:29.18]Classical too intelligent to be radical
[00:31.51]Masterful, never irrelevant: mathematical
[00:33.78]I mean you take those lyrics
[00:35.63]And you pull 'em away from the music
[00:37.50]And you put 'em up on the wall somewhere
[00:39.32]And someone had to look at 'em
[00:40.45]They would say "this is genius!"
[00:43.11]"This is genius work!"