Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose….

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art..

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art..

Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme ….