For those of you who have read my breakdancing blog, I am slowly getting somewhere. Right now I can do a front hand spring and can do some of the basic C-walk moves. What I really want to learn, though, is the cheat 720 twist (cause it looks sooo kickass. But that's a story for another day, and another blog post. O yeah, here are the guys who really inspired me to start b-boying:
Do I have any hope of someday becoming as good as they are? Hopefully you don't have to start when your 5 months old to be that good.
However, I have also wanted to rap for quite awhile to add to my gangsta image (which admittedly, isn't very gangsta. Imagine a little asian kid (although I am growing bigger through intense workouts) wearing prep clothes). For the past month or so, I have been writing out verses, and trained my voice to be more rythmic, as well as training my flow. On the other hand, my freestyle rap still blows. My mind doesn't go that fast, and I can't think of good, rhyming new verses off the top of my head instantaneously. If there are any freestylers here, could you tell me if freestyling skill is more based on natural talent or practice? Either way, every day since about a week ago I come home and engage in a fierce freestyle battle against a printed out image of a celebrity. Yesterday it was Rosie O'Donnell (I hate that fat bitch), and today it was Kim Jong Il. Yes, sad, but someday you'll be amazed when I completely skool the best freestylers in the world.
And yeah, heres my fellow chink Jin completely owning a stammering black dude at a freestyle battle:
Ehhh not my style I guess, I usually go for the Power Moves and Footwork more than just flips and jumps. For Power Moves I would say B-boy Physicx and for Style I would say someone from Gamblers ... but then again when you think Korean usually its Power Moves ... dunno
For freestyle rap you gotta practice practice practice. The more you do it the quicker you will be at coming up with rhyming words, partly because you are looking in your memory for things youve heard before and know what works. Some freestylers just go for hours on end daily with their crew just kickin it freestyle.
On March 09 2008 12:01 Try wrote: For the past month or so, I have been writing out verses, and trained my voice to be more rythmic, as well as training my flow. On the other hand, my freestyle rap still blows. My mind doesn't go that fast, and I can't think of good, rhyming new verses off the top of my head instantaneously. If there are any freestylers here, could you tell me if freestyling skill is more based on natural talent or practice?
I believe my freestyling talents to be pretty crap.
I've practiced some with a friend of mine, and he has sooo overtaken me even though I write and listen to rap way (slight exaggeration) longer. I explain it to myself thus: He's an actor, and is therefore used to being spontaneous and have a clearer, more free* mind. When we started out freestyling half a year ago (we both mostly only freestyled while in eachother's company), the difference in skill level wasn't very apparent. Now, it's huge.
It's like flowing, if you want. It's only after you've practiced it for a while that your talent in articulating really kicks in.
And I'm really hungry, so fuck this stupid reply. I'm off to eat, you noobs!
_____ *isn't there a better way of wording a "stronger" 'free'? Like, "easy, easier, the easiest", "free, _____, the ______"? HALP PLZ!!
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