Break Beat Poets

August 2016

The success of hip-hop may be greatly underestimated in traditional literature, but the impact it’s had on modern-day poetry is insurmountable. Thanks to the Breakbeat Poets—a collective of the new generation of writers and songwriters—the line between traditional literature and modern rap lyrics has been blurred, making the connections between the sonnets of Gwendolyn Brooks and rap lyrics of Nas as evident as ever.

The collection of artists featured in the Breakbeat Poets spans over four decades and represents real-life documentaries of the 20th and 21st centuries.