Hip Hop is an almost encyclopedic information storage mechanism, you can learn the complex street politics of gang life in Sacramento California to getting a course on the history of how Reaganomics was the worst thing to happen to urban America. I will be honest, and this is where I tell people, I have learned a whole lot more about the world from Hip-Hop than most genres. His stories had that much more punch because he was so good atĤ) The Hitchcock of Hip-Hop and how Hip-Hop is jam packed with more random knowledge than most music genres
– According to īiggies rhyme schemes mastered an insane sense for time and tension, utilizing delayed or exaggerated phrasing to lend his rhyming a strange tension. For example, the rhyme scheme ABAB means the first and third lines of a stanza, or the “A”s, rhyme with each other, and the second line rhymes with the fourth line, or the “B”s rhyme together. Lines designated with the same letter rhyme with each other. The patterns are encoded by letters of the alphabet. Rhyme scheme patterns are formatted in different ways. Which has a strict meter: a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed Poems with rhyme schemes are generally written in formal verse, Rhyme schemes canĬhange line by line, stanza by stanza, or can continue throughout a Sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza. Biggie on the other hand had both an inventive rhyme scheme and the capacity for reaching into the most colorful terminology in the English language to dazzle us. His flow is a by product of his rhyme scheme, where he stresses his vowels and consonants, and of equal importance his pacing is also a huge part of his flow. Young Thug for example half sings, half raps and half mumbles, it sounds like a psychadelic mashing of half enunciated phrasing and warbled singing under a thick bed of auto-tune, but his genius is his flow. The ability to both establish and in equal measure ignore a rhyme scheme is central to how an emcee establishes a style. In the world of poetry the rhyme scheme is pretty important, but not all the time.
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Every rapper taps Scarface, The Godfather, Casino or Goodfellas, biggie had the balls to reference Abel Ferrara’s “King of New York” a visually sumptuous movie starring Christopher Walken accompanied by equally capable supporting cast of Laurence Fishburne and Wesley Snipes. His capacity to reference this little known movie by an iconic underground film-maker speaks to how his taste level was ahead of his time. Its intriguing because it allows biggie to exist in a world that wasn’t there when he did “Ready to Die” on his debut he was half screaming half shouting, on this album as Frank White there is a restrained poise. Being larger than life is equally about attaching oneself to totems of popular culture in this case the whole Frank White character in biggie’s music, is an intriguing concept. Its about me, me and me, and in the act of operating from ego one has to make oneself larger than life. Narrative arch is so central to rap, because its an ego driven art form. Second thing Biggie taught me about music: Self Mythologizing as central to creating a lasting narrative arch One such artist was Christopher Wallace AKA Notorious B.I.G. Despite this schizoid approach to loving rap, I do have seminal artists whose sound, style and aesthetic, challenged everything I heard previously and greatly altered how I listened to music, and in major ways how I see and judge art. As you can tell I got made moods, I’m a schizophrenic rap fan as I am a schizophrenic music fan. When I’m in my the south got something to say mode on my its got to be Pimp-C or Juvenile. When I’m on my mystical black rap shit its got to be Mach Hommy and if I’m on my the west don’t get enough love, with a smile I christen early Brotha Lynch hung or Too short, better yet if I’m on my greatest Hip Hop scribe shit its got to be Andre 3000 or KA. When I’m on my New York is the best shit I unflinchingly christen Biggie Smalls the illest of all time. When I’m on my boom bap shit it has to be 94 Nas or 96 Jay-Z. If I’m in the mood for youthful irreverence and pointing a large middle finger at all the old heads, my favorite rapper is probably young thug. I like to say my favorite rapper, depends on how I am feeling.
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