well hip hop is rap, rap stands for Rhythm and Poetry, poetry is literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. if that's not what hip hop is also, i don't know what is.
Explanation: i found this on google for a more deeper response about " How can Hip-Hop better understand Shakespeare?" "How is Shakespeare similar to hip hop? Shakespeare used this double-beat five times in each line of blank verse in his plays. This explains that the technical term for this is iambic pentameter. It is similar to the beat that runs through hip hop music."
