Stanzas on the street: is grime poetry?

Rap has long been defended as a legitimate literary discipline, so why not grime? Live magazine's Omar Shahid and Robbie Wojciechowski talk to the main protagonistsWhat is poetry? Is it Wordsworth's "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings", that "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity"? Or is it just a form which lyricists use to manifest their feelings? Though grime MCs aren't recalling tranquility, so much as expressing the everyday hardship, angst and struggle of the inn...

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