Can you tell? Shakespeare v. Hip Hop

"He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce"

• Shakespeare

• Kanye

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"There's no way I can pay you back, but the plan is to show you that I understand."

• Shakespeare

• Tupac

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"That's an ill phrase. "

• Shakespeare

• Notorious B.I. G

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Holla, Holla"

• Shakespeare

• Chance the Rapper

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

" I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven."

• Shakespeare

• Kanye

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Just as high as my heart."

• Shakespeare

• Drake

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Sleep is the cousin of death."

• Shakespeare

• Nas

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God."

• Shakespeare

• Eminem

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"To all the seeds that follow me, protect your essence."

• Shakespeare

• Tupac

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Thou art raw."

• Shakespeare

• Common

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3