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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I still hate sloppy rhyming.
Slick Rick and Rakim are roilling over in their graves everytime they hear shit like this....
haha! I still dig on the tunes, I just hate the fucking lazy rhymes, people pretending to freestyle shit that they pre-wrote and have practiced in front of a mirror for days. I hate that sit!!!!!!!
But no one cares as long as the track is bangin'.
and fuck Bob Dylan too. Boring ass motherfucker....ha!!!! |
Of course people practice their freestyle lines. Battle rappers rehearse constantly, I'm sure, planning certain lines for certain opponents and memorizing encyclopedias of witty retorts to insults. But I've been to a few rap battles, and if the audience notices that you use the same line twice, they give you hell for it. They also seem to have a sense about whether or not something has been rehearsed.... Again I'm sure most of it has, but people can tell when you're reciting vs. improvising.
And I do think it's possible to just get really really good at improvisational rapping. It's possible to learn how to improvise with instruments. And if you use your voice and words as your instrument, I think that certain steps can be taken to legitimately become really goddamn good at freestyling. It probably requires an almost constant effort to to expand one's vocabulary, to learn new words and new slang, to play with pronunciation and practice new flows and deliveries. But I think it's possible.