Writing rap poetry

Here's an idea worth exploring. They say rap is the spoken poetry of the day, a new poetry form that may or not involve rhyming words but definitely does not involve musical rhythm (like songs). Most rap is against oppression or injustice, though more later-day regimes have co-opted it out and use it to promote authoritarianism and oppression.

I want to start writing rap. Because traditional form of poetry is not sufficiently powerful (or popular) for powerful stressful messages that argue for a fundamental reshuffling of social-political institutions. My friend TK (from Tufts, in california right now) writes and recites rap with her 5-year old cousin, and they're the most adorable powerful rap performers. They're inspiring enough that I want to get in on that too. It's unclear where I'd start from, but I do know what I want to write, so that's something.

This is to just remind myself that I should be writing rap.

Toodles.