The Art of Rhyme
"The human voice is enchanting, so you combine that with something
to say based on your experiences, based on your political understandings,
and then you weave the words in such a way that it's in somewhere in between
song and speech but it's not a speech and it's not a song
it's you become you...in your poetry."
"Rap is just a stem, a part on the branch that comes from what we [African Americans]
are all about. This is better understood in a Baptist church. The preacher, he's philosophizing
a line of some truth, and he's speaking very clearly. In order to get the church in the movement
of the rap that he's coming down with, he has to get more than a cadence going, he has to
get a rhythm going. And it's the rhythm that signifies and identifies where he goes next, and if
it gets good the preacher's no longer speaking, he's just making sounds."
"Freestyle...where you just respond to the impulse has to be the most spiritual...you have no idea
what you're going to say next...it's coming from something that's not directed. This is what most of
our creative expression does, it's so spiritual we don't need a book, we don't need an explanation,
we are musicians, we're artisans...we are poets."
"[Freestyle rap is] Improvisation homeboy!"
I love hip hop.
to say based on your experiences, based on your political understandings,
and then you weave the words in such a way that it's in somewhere in between
song and speech but it's not a speech and it's not a song
it's you become you...in your poetry."
"Rap is just a stem, a part on the branch that comes from what we [African Americans]
are all about. This is better understood in a Baptist church. The preacher, he's philosophizing
a line of some truth, and he's speaking very clearly. In order to get the church in the movement
of the rap that he's coming down with, he has to get more than a cadence going, he has to
get a rhythm going. And it's the rhythm that signifies and identifies where he goes next, and if
it gets good the preacher's no longer speaking, he's just making sounds."
"Freestyle...where you just respond to the impulse has to be the most spiritual...you have no idea
what you're going to say next...it's coming from something that's not directed. This is what most of
our creative expression does, it's so spiritual we don't need a book, we don't need an explanation,
we are musicians, we're artisans...we are poets."
"[Freestyle rap is] Improvisation homeboy!"
I love hip hop.