Hip Hop, is it poetry?

I think that Hip Hop ("The popular street culture of big-city and inner-city youth, characterized by rap music.") is just another word for rap ("A form of popular music characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic accompaniment.") is a contemporary form of poetry. The reason I think that Hip-Hop and poetry share common elements such as metaphors, rhymes, and lyrics. A poem is a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of condensed language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
Poems and lyrics contain elements of people and their surroundings to describe the artist/writers emotions, moods, and feelings. Some examples of these elements are a dark room, which represents sadness and fear, a bright day, representing happiness and joy. Artists use human emotions such as anger, happine...