Why is Shakespeare relevant today? Shakespeare is relevant today in our modern world because of hip-hop. If he was never born, then there wouldn’t be any signs of hip-hop anywhere in the world. He was also the one to make English language better, and add some new words to learn. The art council is distributing funding to at least four companies who work in hip-hop theatre. Hip-hop is a performance culture being managed by theater companies in the UK. Hip-hop tells stories because mixed in with all of the music, the beats, and the rapping, it makes everything that is old, become brand new. There is an original relationship between poetry of all types of appearances. “If Shakespeare was alive today, would he be a rapper?” If you look at