The poem “She Is” by the Last Poets relates to the reading because they both touch on identifying and claiming space. In the reading, the author mentioned that hip hop has provided “a distinctive understanding of the social terrains and conditions under which ‘real’ black cultural identities are formed and experienced” (9). The poem brings up some of these conditions in phrases like “She picked us up and out of the bile and vomit and the blood of our prayers,” and “our Gospel is where she baptized us.” Further on, we see a claim in space when the Last Poets claim places like Memphis, Louisiana, Chicago and so on.