quoted 6 lines This reminds me of something I have been meaning to ask about. What do
>This reminds me of something I have been meaning to ask about. What do
>people think about freestyling to IDM? Can this sound good? I have had
>several people ask me to hook up a microphone and freestyle to my set.
>..... This just seems bizarre to me, there just doesn't seem
>to be enough of a predicable beat in some of this music for people to
>freestyle to.
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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