yeah! I caught him a few weeks when he was on tour with Anticon, picked up
his 'hemispheres' cd - love his style, at first I thought he was too nasally
or maybe it was the accent, but then as he kept going and I listened to the
lyrics I really started to like it.. speaks so much faster than many of the
emcees I've seen before and has great stage presence - heaps of energy and
expression.. Jel's beats are nice too..
the only other mc's I like are MC Conrad with LTJ Bukem, and one of the
locals here - Cameron James Brown/MC Sureshock - both have lovely rhythmical
lyrical styles.
quoted 148 lines A decent MC for the purpose of idm freestylin' would be
>
> A decent MC for the purpose of idm freestylin' would be
> DoseOne. He did an album with a producer called BoomBip (or
> Bip Boom I
> don't remember) that was called cirlces. The production
> ranges from fairly
> standard hiphop to really amazing hiphop and acid jazz to
> pseudo-hardcore and
> complete ambience. Doseone manages rap over almost all of
> it, or talk
> anyway. Some of what he does is free verse poetry or just
> spoken word but
> it's allways fairly intelligent and appropriate. Like when he
> reads the washing
> directions on a shirt (very rhythmically) it's stupid (and
> entertaining) but a
> helluva lot betta then hearing one more MC shout HOLLA!
>
> It's really good pseudo rapping and I suggest anyone
> interested check
> him out.
>
> I'm not sure about the availability or much else about the record
> though.
>
>
>
> -peter
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> i think the problem with most emcees (and probably most
> producers) is that
>
>
> they have this sort of mindset... i mean no offense by this,
> but this is
> why
>
> hip-hop has become so fucking stagnant in the past, oh, 7 or
> so years.
> sure,
>
> there's some good stuff coming out, but it's such a small
> percentage of the
>
>
> overwhelming onslaught of uninspired and derivative garbage
> that it's made
>
>
> shopping for good rap music like thrift shopping (ironically,
> it's mostly
>
>
> the older stuff that's the gems!).
>
>
>
> as far as freestyling goes, a good emcee should be able to
> freestyle over a
>
>
> washing machine. no- that's a bad example (too rhythmic,
> maybe). a good
>
>
> emcee should be able to freestyle over merzbow. maybe that's
> a bad example
>
>
> too... i think you get the point, though. being an emcee is
> being able to
>
>
> articulate an experience- whether real or surreal- verbally
> and, regardless
>
>
> of the musical background, he/she should be able to meld with
> the sounds
> and
>
> allow it to influence his/her delivery or provide contrast to it.
>
>
>
> about a year ago after a recording session, i was driving
> with diverse
> (look
>
> for his single on chocolate industries at the end of this month) and
>
> listening to oval's szenariodisk. he started freestyling over
> track 7 (if
>
>
> you have it, get it out and imagine it- it was hot!).
>
>
>
> anyway, i am by no means saying that the way to advance
> hip-hop is to get
>
>
> real experimental and far out and have someone rhyme over
> morton subotnick
>
>
> or something, but perhaps that's because i know most hip-hop
> heads are such
>
>
> purists that they would denounce it as backpacker shit anyway...
>
>
>
> zak
>
>
>
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