Why "Spoken Word" Makes me Nervous

And next up on the docket, a caffeine-fueled, paranoid rant about poetry.

And I want to really clear something up here, I'm not complaining about all Spoken Word.
It's just, when you have something that could be Rap, but is called Spoken Word, then what are we really getting from that?

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Sources:

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook

Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard Peterson

Grand Slam Poetry Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGWGohIXiw

Hip Hop vs Spoken Word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JMnZvM0RUQ

Rap vs Spoken Word: Rudy Rudacious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t38gwc-fC6I

Drake Acapella Freestyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2oQdE6Jlyc

Elvis Presley & The Black Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1pXw1DmsA

Akala: The History of Cultural Appropriation In Black Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58wqAvdZ6CA

Big Mama Thorton - You Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbSXVc451Q

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVIttmFAzek

Cultural Appropriation Interview: Elvis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQFzlLzEjE

The Grapevine | Is Bruno Mars a Cultural Appropriator?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9NTvCyprsA

Bruno Mars is a Culture Vulture *TRIGGERED*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2FJKkBgzk

Knockoff Youtubers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ds2VwBAw2I

Here's Three Stories About YouTube Plagiarism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtJ7bte_zg

Mohammed Kammah And Noor Kadry - Egyptian Jingle Bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yws4zc07OJE

Leylet Eid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-AYz_VvtYc

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