Is Rap/Hip hop Poetry

1) Yes Rap/Hip hop  music is poetic expression because it evokes emotion in the listeners and it also contains the poetic elements. If the lyrics were to be read, the reader would be able to experience some type of feelings. Even though majority of Rap/hip hop music is poetic expression not all songs are, or have the substance to be poetic.

2) Rap/Hip hop music contains all of the poetry literary terms such as simile, metaphors, rhythm and rhyme, and denotation & connotation. In the Hip hop Samples given on the paper:
"Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare." - Similie
"Im sweet like licorice, dangerous like syphilis."- Similie and Rhyme
"Like Slick Rick the ruler i'm cooler than a ice brick,/got soul like those afro picks, with the black fist, and leave, and leave a crowd dripping like John the Baptist,"- Rhyme, Assonance and Consonance.
A particular Rap/Hip hop artist that uses enjambment in his lyrics is Busta Rhymes. He continues and never seems to stop.

3) I would say that I am a context critic. The tone and the use of words are important to me. You could say one thing so many different ways and get so many different meanings out of it. If a person can come up with a different way to say something, I really appreciate them and that is why we have different genres, but an artist from hip hop and an artist from punk rock could sing about the same topic but the different elemest they use and how they put it together makes them unique. I think this is why I can appreciate music from different genres and not be closed minded.