Meta DuEwa Jones states it best in his article on hip hop entitled “HIP_HOP NOW: An Introduction” published by John Hopkins University Press “In order to do competent and compelling hip_hop scholarship, one must be present and active in the places where hip_hop happens.” In an interview that Jones with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, explains how rap artist such as Tupac, Nas, and Jay-Z are “rhetoricians” whose linguistic skills are essentially overlooked based upon the morality of how rap is displayed. Dyson further explains in the interview that the writings of profound author such as Hughes, Chaucer, Giovanni, Whitman, and Shakespeare all share the same level of rhetorical genius. Rap can be interpreted as another form of poetry that tells a story. Boston University Professor of English Anita Patterson explains in her journal article “Jazz Realism and the Modernist Lyric: The Poetry of Langston Hughes” she analyzes a section of one his poems entitled “Flight”. She explains how a black man running a way from dogs because some white men thought he was sleeping with a white woman. Now the same way that Patterson is able to capture a story from these few lines of Hughes is the same way that we as readers can read the lyrics of rap artist and understand the story and passion behind the lyrics. Hughes was a main figure amongst other poets in his time that greatly fused the Harlem culture within his work. All writers embody the same sense of expression. In order for one to write an emotion of happiness, sadness, anger, or fear must be communicated. In essence rap models the rhetoric of poetry with its own unique culture.