Lyrics That Sounds Like Poetry

[SajN]

Post any verse or chorus or lines that sounds very poetic, or reminds you of poems.

I thought this one did:

It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
but things changed, and that's the way it is

[SajN]

rap is basically poetry over a beat, so all verses ..

I know it is. But I want some good examples, that pretty much sounds like a poem over a beat.

I mean, you dont think of poetry when you listen to Fack, ey?

[Hadez]

Tupac - "If I Die Tonight"
full of sexy alliteration.
Verse 1
"They say pussy and paper is poetry power and pistols
Plottin on murderin motherfuckers 'fore they get you
Picturin pitiful punk niggaz coppin pleas
Puffin weed as I position myself to clock G's..."

"...My enemies scatter in suicidal situations"

"...Pockets is packed with presidents, pursue your riches..."

"I'm sick of psychotic society somebody save me"

Verse 2
"Polishin pistols prepare for battle pass the pump"

"Callin the coroner come collect the fuckin corpse"

"Picture perfection pursuin paper with a passion
Visions of prisons for all the pussies that I blasted"

Verse 3
"Pissin while practicin how to pimp and be a playa"

"Pistol whippin these simps, for bein petrified and lame
Disrespectin the game, prayin for punishment and pain"