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...ever been in before, ever," he tells the documentary's offscreen interviewer. "Although I might have been wrong about that." No, that's about right. The musical exploration went according to his plan. What he hadn't expected was the stardom. He says of his first idol, the folk poet Woody Guthrie, "You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live." Dylan's fans found the same home truths in his work...
...suggest that an entire genre of music has not grown and evolved just as its listeners have is simply uneducated. There is more to hip-hop than the mainstream media choose to embrace. There is a whole world of music, from rapper Talib Kweli to hip-hop poet and singer Saul Williams, that isn't a painful "audio beat down." I have a hard time with labels like black music and white music. Why can't people just listen to music, period--rock, rap or whatever they want...
Certainly one of the reasons that my father still inspires people is because of the language that he used to really change this country. So that's obviously a very large-scale example. People think a poet is someone who sits alone. In fact, poetry has come out of the oral tradition. It's something people shared. It has a vitality that kids really respond...
...style. Lest anyone think she's getting classy, the title track is about being very drunk, hitting on the wrong guy and getting a tooth knocked out when "a big ole girl walked outta the blue/ 10 ft. 2 with a bad attitude." (The video features Kid Rock, the poet laureate of sloshed hookups.) "I'll never run from being trashy," says Wilson. "I love the homemade stuff I get with 'Redneck Woman' on it. Apparently, the Bedazzler is back in." --By Josh Tyrangiel...
...Duresny Nemorin and that was a part of my poem, "Who Am I," which basically describes me. I was born and raised in Miami, Fla., by my Haitian parents Marie and Dany Nemorin. Poetry is a big part of who I am. The poets who interest me the most are Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. I used to wonder how poetry captivated me, but then I realized that music minus instrument = poetry. Most of the poems I wrote at the beginning of my 7th-grade year were about my crushes, but as the school year ended...