This bothers me. That's the subject of the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/07/24/bia.jon.goode/index.htmlHip-hop?
See a performance:
http://www.laymanlyric.com/jon_goodeI'm sorry. Creative, cultural lyrics, yes, entertaining yes, but wordsmith? If prolific is the only deciding factor maybe. But No. Now Gwendolyn Brooks is another matter altogether. She is a wordsmith. Or Jupiter Hammon. Now he was a wordsmith.
It's referred to as 'The Spoken Word Revolution.' We've now raised hip hop from slang to art to a literary style?
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