the decline in rap quality is directly correlated to literacy. these guys don’t read books!!! they don’t write!!! there’s no longer this intense path between poetry to spoken word to rap. the guys are not literate.
8 y/o daughter lost her hearing. Had to learn to sign. Struggled at first as none of her friends knew how to talk to her. One day I noticed our Labrador run to the treat cupboard after she signed "treat?" to her. In the absence of friends our dog had learned sign language for her