It's getting to be a bit dated now, but you might enjoy a book & CD called "Sounding Off: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution" which is edited by Ron Sakolsky & Fred Wei-Han Ho.

I agree that hip hop ideas are interesting, but from the poetry side, I can tell you it gets pretty tiresome, pretty fast. I was a judge at last year's National Poetry Slam. One can only take screaming, angry male rap and hip hop rhyme bustin' for so long...

I speak from experience when I say that five days of it is too long.