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-HopWhat 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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Categories:
growth, hip hop, history,
Form:
Free verse
Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner WinnerI 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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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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Categories:
hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
ONE STEP AT A TIMEadventure, 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
Cake Walktake 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 AfterBust 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 RapYour 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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Categories:
hip hop, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fork in the RoadI 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 WrongWrong
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
A Tribute To EminemWithout 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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Categories:
hip hop, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Categories:
hip hop, humorous, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Two Hand ClapI'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
Starry EyedIn my hand an empty pack of camel crushes... I smoked them all.
All the pacing from the stress has beat the pavement raw.
Anger from...
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Categories:
hip hop, child, dad, dedication, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Kartoon KnucklesDraped and locked like a curtain in Guantanamo
I use my words to peel scalps like Geronimo
Just like a teen girl my mouth has a heavy...
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Categories:
hip hop, beautiful, celebration, death, future,
Form:
Alliteration
Walk awayCheap wine dimmed in the candle light thinking my life's bleak like her dreams keep cramping my sleep and I've had it with uncleaned teeth...
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Categories:
hip hop, break up, courage, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Life In The StreetsGun shots rang out but no one hears.
A life comes to an end but no one fears.
A casual habit now a sin that in prisons...
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Categories:
addiction, hip hop, image,
Form:
Free verse
Smiles and CriesIt doesn't matter what you say because I'm going insane
I've put a bullet in my brain, what's the name of the game that...
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Categories:
depression, hip hop, june,
Form:
Rhyme
The RavingFrom 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.
Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men
Who...
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Categories:
hip hop, parody, raven,
Form:
Narrative
16 barsits a thirst thats hard to quench you did it well,
we all draw water from the well in the cellar, to go, inter-stellar
in...
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Categories:
hip hop, image, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Daft From BathYou look stupid in videos on phones at the start,
you don't look like "Badmans" calling women a tart,
when I see those skits I think what...
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Categories:
hip hop, england, funny, giggle, hilarious,
Form:
Rhyme
The View You Choose 2 Point 0Somedays I feel like I'm surrounded by bars and bricks
encaged on a stage in tar that sticks.
There's an agonisingly unfamiliar reflection in the mirror,
as my...
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Categories:
dark, depression, hip hop,
Form:
Rhyme
Man Made And ManufacturedThe human synchronized synthetic sympathetic empathy I robot schizophrenic mechanism
My lifelines technological I think therefore I am and showing potential
Experimental experience my influence controls the...
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Categories:
creation, future, hip hop,
Form:
Rhyme