Shakespeare or Hip Hop

'To destroy the beauty from which one came'

• William Shakespeare

• Hip Hop

Answer explanation

Sean Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z, 'Can I live?'

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

'Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit'

• William Shakespeare

• Hip Hop

Answer explanation

Eminem (ft. Jay-Z), 'Renegade'

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

'Men do their broken weapons rather use than their bare hands'

• Hip Hop

• William Shakespeare

Answer explanation

William Shakespeare, Othello (The Duke in Act I scene 3)

<-- this is a painting of Othello, not Shakespeare

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

'No, I was not born under a rhyming planet'

• William Shakespeare

• Hip Hop

Answer explanation

William Shakespeare, in Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick in Act V scene 2)

<-- once again, not Shakespeare, but Kenneth Branagh playing Benedick in his 1993 film adaptation

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

'The most benevolent king communicates through your dreams'

• William Shakespeare

• Hip Hop

Answer explanation

RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, 'Impossible'

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

'Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires'

• William Shakespeare

• Hip Hop

Answer explanation

Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act I scene 4)

<-- this is an engraving of Macbeth

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

'Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define'

• Hip Hop

• William Shakespeare

Answer explanation

Wu-Tang Clan, 'Triumph'

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

'To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day'

• Hip Hop

• William Shakespeare

Answer explanation

Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act V scene 5)

<-- a close-up of the engraving you saw before (still Macbeth)

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

'Life . . . is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'

• Hip Hop

• William Shakespeare

Answer explanation

Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act V scene 5)

<-- (yes, this is Shakespeare)

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3