Poetic artists

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Hey, who are your favorite poets or lyricists from all genres and styles.

Please post your videos and links with examples of good lyrics.

A few I am currently checking out are:

Saul Williams

Allflaws

EL-P

Ghostpoet

 

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new Allflaws video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNms_DaAG0&feature=plcp

 

[redbaron]

Jim Morrison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agtparb19a0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pkymTQysNg

 

[C.J_Finn]

Jim Morrison, Mark Lanegan, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen are the biggest ones that I can think of.

Sorry for the lack of videos, but youtube is giving me problems at the moment.

 

[Layne Staley]

Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth for me, no question. The entire My Arms, Your Hearse album is a dark poem that I still struggle with each time I listen to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjK3i5uWkno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxUKmK8qnI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j88hwnmoFLI

 

[Radiant Shadow]

Eyedea and Abilities:

Smile

The Dive

(This one is disjointed near the middle because the song is fused together where it was parts one and two.)

Paradise

Even shadows have shadows

Birth of a Fish

(This one goes hand-in-hand with Powdered Water, too.)

Here for you

 

[srf4413]

big resounding YES for E&A. Eyedea has the most profound influence on me. I've only listened to them for about a year. Most of the hip hop I've been getting into is pretty poetic.

El-P
Killer Mike
Aesop Rock
Big KRIT
Talib Kweli

Just recently started listening to Rage Against the Machine. Zach Dela Rocha is pretty damn good.