Public Enemy's Harsh Honey

I did some unintended research, the kind in which one interesting thing leads to another, which leads to Chuck D.

​The sequence was as follows:

​1. Found at a thrift shop:
Greek Lyric Poetry, translated by Willis Barnstone. (Bantam Books, 1962).

2) I flipped to the Hellenistic era poets in this anthology, since I've incidentally been reading Plutarch's Hellenistic Lives.

3) There I randomly turned to Kallimachos or Callimachus. He was a poet and scholar who critiqued long-form verse, and wrote among other things epyllia, or miniature epics.​

“The sweet myrtle of Kallimachos
​is always full of harsh honey”

​said the Stephanos of Meleagros.

(Willis Barnstone, translator, doesn’t identify 'the Stephanos of Meleagros' after this comment. Perhaps he’s referring to Stephanus Grammaticus, who was included in a much older anthology, the Greek Anthology.)

Anyway, what caught my eye was:

4) this idea of the epyllion, or mini-epic—a tempting project. Though mini, the form still employs epic meter, or

5) dactylic hexameter (A line of 6 dactlys. In English, this sounds like “higgeldy piggeldy,” times 6).  

Along with Kallimachos and epyllion, I reviewed dactylic hexameter in Wikpedia, and in  a rather Wikipedia-esque way, that entry doesn't fail to mention:

6) the classic rap song, "Bring the Noise"—a recent example of lyrics spoken in epic meter.

​Thus, six steps to Public Enemy’s ‘harsh honey:’

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Postscript: Writing Prompt

Write an epyllion, no matter how short, whether using dactylic hexameter lines or not. It could narrate a protest, perhaps, involving honey. ​