Who first called what "floetry" and when?

I don't know, I just recently heard the term for the first time from this girl named Abiyah I got to hear/meet in Cincy at the Midpoint Music Festival.

What she did was pretty cool. Real mellow, more sparse than most hip-hop, more emphasis on word choice than vocal performance, but I liked it.

I don't know who first used it, but I kinda like it. It's more aesthetically pleasing on my ears than "rap" in a weird way...where the word "rap" is so abrupt and harsh (kinda like the movement), the word "floetry" is more floatilla-ish (in the multiple syllables and excess of soft consonants).

Eh, it's all vocalizin'. Some people do it well, some people do it crappy. Actually, let me rephrase that...people do it; some people like it, other people don't.

Album may be genius (or even worse than the generically boho-bougie video) but this song is wiggidy-wack.

and when did it become conventional wisdom? lexis nexis pplz im counting on yall - dude keeps calling himself the original maverick, was there some o.g. maverick flashpoint where this was solidified? friends of mine have claimed the nickname is self-applied - is that true? did it come from his books? was it (as suggested on nro) from voting against going to lebanon? how did he become a maverick?

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On May 9, urban poet Smoov Da Speeka performed in front of hundreds at Power Studio in Miami's Design District, drawing from a collection that includes themes on AIDS, black nationalism and unity. Taking the mike at nearly midnight, Smoov recited and acted out his verse. He calls the combination "floetry" (flow and poetry).

"I am p--ed off, and I have a lot to say. I say it in poetry," says Smoov, a sometime dock worker who goes by the name Antonio Matthews when he is not rhyming. At the International House of Pancakes in North Miami, Smoov was dropping rhymes over T-bone steak, eggs and hash browns while the wide-eyed and giggly girls in the next booth watched.

Smoov had been inspired about 15 minutes now; his words are hot and the food is cold.

The Miami Herald

May 16, 1997 Friday FINAL EDITION

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