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Best Hip Hop Poems

Below are the all-time best Hip Hop poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hip hop poems written by PoetrySoup members


What Happened To Hip-Hop
What happened to Hip-Hop, how did it end up like this? 
the biggest song on the radio is by a rapper who didn't write it
And...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growth, hip hop, history,
Form: Free verse



Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner Winner
I don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows 
how to serve the perfect dose.

Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hip hop, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I Noticed
Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme
One Step At a Time
adventure, growing up, hip hop, repetition, word play

A ONE STEP AT A TIME ©
Life is but a hopscotch path
Players vying for placement
Rules to follow aground
Tokens...

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Categories: hip hop, adventure, growing up, hip
Form: Verse
Premium Member Cake Walk
take a frosted walk
clad tip to heel in baked pumps
cupcakes for your feet...

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Categories: hip hop, art, bridal shower, creation,
Form: Senryu



Before and After
Bust to the extreme 
And collide with your foes 
Be ruthless and heartless
When smash on them hoes 
Leave no stone unturned 
When your searching for...

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Categories: hip hop, anger, conflict, crazy, hip
Form: Rhyme
Shawty Got Swag
$hawty Got $wag

Shawty got swag,
Shawty mad dope.
Face all cheesin’,
She real turned up.
Goin’ to da club,
She steppin' wit her peeps,
Lookin’ so ratchet,
She’s straight up hoochie.

No racks...

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Categories: hip hop, character, fun, girl, hip
Form: Free verse
Love Or Help
You live to love,
When you love to give.
That life you never had
Like forever, had no wealth.
Still had a hand to help.

All I have is
dreams for...

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Categories: hip hop, hope, inspiration,
Form: Acrostic
Not Another Day
Impulsive or compulsive

Either way it's not conducive

Living with this disorder

Can't be good for my liver

Obsessions, when do they stop?

Compulsions, when do I stop?

Let me illustrate...

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Categories: hip hop, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
It Reads Like a Rap
Your rhyme reads like a rap they say,
a rap I say,
a rap they say,
perhaps but rap is rhyme you see,
it's rhyme really,
it's rhyme you see,
this...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hip hop, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Two Hand Clap
I've got a fist full of Buddha,
And a fist full of Rand,
A pocket full of Jesus,
And the other's filled with sand,
That's in case I need...

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Categories: hip hop, america, anti bullying, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To Eminem
Without you there's no doubt I'd be
a man without this poetry,
you brought the artist out of me,
my rhymes make up your legacy.

The millions that you...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hip hop, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Fork In the Road
I can give a chick an option
And she'll pick the other path
Just to divide herself 
Like she out here doing math
Calculating all the ways things...

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Categories: hip hop, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: I do not know?
I Was Wrong
Wrong
Was I
To push love
So un-returned
At first though the love from you came later
I lost mine, rapt in imagination
So time forgot
Our passion
Mislaid
Sin...

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Categories: feelings, hip hop, how
Form: Tetractys
Resurrection
(Chorus)
You think you've got swagger but really you hobble,
you've got the jet lagger and you're drunk so you wobble,
don't start on me mate 'cus I...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hip hop, humorous, power,
Form: Rhyme

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