I can liken it to the way that the Hiero crew was always on their own jocks about their own freestyling abilities. I simply never understood that. And that's coming from someone who liked all of their early albums...a lot. The reason why I couldn't agree with them that they were good freestylers is that I had previously heard so many different other freestylers actually adding some style to their improvised raps. With Hiero it was always merely some simple, cat-in-the-hat shit and that's it. Granted at times Opio was prone to go off in more than just a rudimentary way, but still it didn't add up to the way that a PEACE or Mikah 9 would be all over the map (in a good way) with their freestyles.
What I suspect Hiero was genuinely proud of was the fact that they could pull off a freestyle, most times, without falling off beat. OK, that might get your foot in the door, but now that you're here show me something that I haven't heard a million times before from kindergarten teachers, commercial jingles, etc. Give me something that not only sounds good melodically but makes me have to challenge myself to hear the full brunt of. In other words, code your cadences with a style of speech that an MC Pat Boone couldn't pull of if he tried.
Man, I love to listen to myself type. My ten tin soldiers line-dancing like pros across this clattery plastic dancefloor on a mild incline.
This keyboard is my djembe, my bongo head, and my coworkers in the adjoining cubicles are the whirling dervishes - they also like to listen to my typing as well. Every time my thumb hits the spacebar it's like the weekly commercial garbage truck has just set the empty dumpster down. It's fucking definitive. BOOM.
That's right Jimmy, click clack clatter, the blank space is erased as I create matter. But laws of equilibrium maintain that nothing is ever truly created or lost, so for each blank space I erase by filling, something else inside me has now become blank. This is a law in the universe. Two strangers looking at a girl's ass collide in a movie theater lobby, and now popcorn is flying everywhere. Her ass looked like a ceramic peach covered in a magician's silk.
Back to the flow-zone:
I contend that the Young Joc "It's Goin Down" flow would not exist without J-Kwon's "Tipsy", and loath as I am to crown the one J-Kwon with anything, I really think the Tipsy Flow[/b] has become a force of nature with which we must all reckon, just as we must with Jay-Z's Incredulous Whispering Flow.
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Why you gotta put Defari on blast like that?
On that OH NO album, Rasco...someone who I used to not only withstand, but actually sort of enjoy...especially made me want to snap the vinyl in 2.
You've got no one to blame but yourself for that, homeboy.
Yes, I know this. It doesn't get much more simplistic than a Rasco verse.
You know, you ask some dumb fuckin questions.
I typically don't like portraits that are done as stick figures either.
Call me crazy.
Then answer it.
What do you get out of placing such significant value on THE ART OF THE MC, the technical aspects of rapping.
and Bun B fulfills these desires for you?
Seriously, WHAT are you guys talking about?
Yeah, where's he been?
As for this thread, you might as well be making RJD2 sounds.
BleepbloopbloppsqueekWHIRRRRRRR....
soulstrut didnt come up in the conversation though.
i guess he's been busy?
Read this again.
And then once more, aloud.
Ahhhhh - I see it now. It's all coming into focus.................