Jay-Z is a poet and he know it

Jay-Z reckons rappers are "the poets of our generation", which might come as news to this generation's poets. The hip hop king told NME: "We're the poets of our generation! Those truths and those honesties need to be told and sometimes that will rub people the wrong way but that don't mean you don't tell them... I think when rap is done brilliantly it can inform you of a problem, things that are going on".