4/15/2023 0 Comments Freestyle lyrics rhyme![]() Rhyming was technically simple, rhythmic and party oriented. As seen in the clip Busy Bee would call out “ If you were born in New York City say ‘ You know that!’” and the crowd would resoundingly respond with a “ You know that!” Busy Bee, and scores of others at the time, was known for the call and response interaction with the crowd. In 1981, there was one emcee who was dominating the emcee battle scene, Busy Bee Starski. 84)”.ĭespite its “simple syncopation’, songs like That’s The Joint symbolized a change in hip-hop, which now began to showcase the vocal, “DJ’s no longer enjoyed the eminence or the central role their billing implied…the rise of the rap producer, the arrival of some extraordinary rappers and the increasing flow of capital propelled hip-hop music into a period of remarkable stylistic development (Chang, pp. “Early hip-hop featured simple syncopation-matching beats or more specifically pulses to syllables- and that explains why early rappers often paused between syllables (hip…hop…you…don’t…stop) and generally rapped slower than their lyrical descendants (Cobb, pp. The verses were often separated by only the group calling out “ That’s the joint!” There is hardly any difference in the syncopation or delivery between the four emcees as they alternate verses throughout the song. There is no specific length to the songs verses, varying from 10 all the way to 18 bars. “Party people” and the calling out of band members were very common for the era as is the rhyme scheme AABB where the AA correlates to the bass/place and the BB correlate to the told/soul. “ Jeff is the rhythm and Kay is the bass(A)/Sha-Rock shocking the whole darn place(A)/now here’s a little story ya got to be told(B)/party people in the place, you got a whole lot of soul(B)” One of the biggest hits at the time (1980) was the nine minute long, “That’s the Joint” by The Funky Four plus One More. ![]() ![]() In the late 1970’s and very early 1980’s the emcee’s with the most recognition were party emcees whose lyrics were boastful but the main content was always about the house party and/or the dance floor. 16)”, so should not have been a surprise to anyone when the emcee started to put his stamp on the party. From Pigmeat Markham to Slim Galliard (late 1920’s and 1940’s respectively) to the Last Poets and Muhammad Ali “Rhythmic talking styles have always been a part of African American culture (Stanley, pp. The birth and incremental expansion of hip-hop culture in the early and mid 1970’s is now considered just a sliver of the whole hip-hop pie for one big reason it was before the emcee started creating stories with his words. A time when the South Bronx was creating a music and lifestyle out of necessity, a time when the music was local and regional, a time when a hip-hop party mainly consisted of bboy circles, a time when emcees were at the party to support the DJ and keep the party lively. While its acceptance and subsequent takeover of the mainstream market share may seem ordinary to younger generations, the memory of a different time still is tattooed on the brain of many who consider hip-hop as their life sake. 419), hip-hop has made its way into the homes of every household in America and most of the civilized world. Whether it is a Honda automobile commercial, Swatch watches, clothing or even Vodka spirits (Chang, pp. The music, the style, and the lingo are all reminders that the baby boomers seat on Madison square garden has been replaced with a seat tagged “Hip-Hop Generation”. When one turns on the television in 2013, it is impossible to avoid being bombarded with hip-hop culture. The purpose of this paper is to explore the puzzle of words which emcees configure each time they take a pen to the page, its various stages of importance and how it has evolved and/or devolved over time. While the performance art has taken on many names, the one necessity that all emcees have in their repertoire is the art of rhyming. To those in hip-hop culture and raised in the hip-hop generation, the actual verb of rapping has also been called “flowing”, “spitting”, “emceeing”, just to name a few. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines rapping as a “Musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (“rapped”) to musical accompaniment”. ![]() (Please Click Each Pic for Video Examples) ![]()
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