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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