The Art Of Rap

Today in class we watched a documentary called "the art of rap."  I really enjoyed this documentary. It introduced a few things about rap and rhyme that I'd never really came across. I really enjoyed the acapella freestyles throughout the film. I thought that all of them were unique to one another and they all had different styles and patterns in the way they were spoken/rapped. 

My favorite was Rakim. I liked his because he used an extensive vocabulary and he had a unique flow that featured rhyme after rhyme after rhyme and a lot of internal rhyming. I also thought it was pretty cool how he tried to explained how he writes his raps and how his lyrics actually have more meaning. 

Another one of my favorites was immortal technique. We had previously listened to a little bit of him when we listened to "Dancing With The Devil". I thought he was interesting in the fact that he physically gets his adrenaline up before he raps and it gets him going mentally to spit verses and write raps.