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Smooth Criminal On Beat Breaks · by R.H.S.
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It is the breakbeat that first gave rap’s peculiar and galvanizing cadence a platform to launch itself into the wide world and above the stars. T La Rock catapulted our minds with his warp speed thesaurus but did not forget to pronounce the breakbeat phonetically and lovingly as if roaring a sweet nothing equation.
The breakbeat was the mesmerizing backdrop for flocks of rappers to plug into and claim, to establish a beachhead, and declare that something, usually the oceanic self, was important, worth noticing, worth hearing.
The boom-bap has boomed and bapped and been around the block and then some. It will do so forever and ever and ever and ever because that’s the way it’s supposed to be. At the chromosomal level it is a perpetual motion machine. But even a fine tuned machine cannot replicate itself without making mistakes – every copy is a new mutation, another way to get retarded.
We’ve been cold acting dumb since jump, but the shit we do and the way it’s received continues to become more varied and interesting. In fact, we have flipped so many scripts that even in the increased absence of turned table we’re on some ol’ next shit.
Right now, Jay-Z’s acapellas are the breakbeats that tech-loving spectators turned musicians are using as a platform to anchor their vision and then shoot it around the world and back at speeds once thought fanciful. The narrative the travels the world is no longer that of Jay-Z, or even Frank Lucas, as these are mere names fixed in historical particularity, vulnerable to entropy.
Instead, like an impeached president or a subversive drummer swinging in and out of the pocket and beautifully imprecise, the slightly off kilter breakbeat that is Jay-Z’s voice, born and nurtured on breakbeats itself, is ground zero for reinterpretation and revitalization, the landing strip for ideas that outshine our individual contributions but embrace our conversations equally.
It’s a new day. Wipe the cold out your eye and glue it to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutube. Streets is watching, people are talking.
I don’t know exactly what you said, but it’s well said. One of Hip Hop’s most traumatic moments for me happened when my favorite NY rappers began rapping on KEYBOARD DRUMS. That Mobb Deep album…Murda Musik…just caught me off guard.
— Peter Piper Feb 14, 10:09 AM
Rammelzee, is that you? I knew you were still doing your thang.
— T Feb 14, 02:31 PM
hahaha…. murda musik scared me
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— reef Feb 14, 11:26 PM
Wow. Im with comment #1 on this, wondering what you just said.
Kinda overkill man. Don’t try to Hardardize breakfast conversation cousin.
— JMack Feb 15, 06:54 AM
I guess you have some kind of point, but the thing is, Jay-z’s acapellas suck these days, sooooooo…. I mean, it’s nice that everyone’s remixing American Gangster but you can’t turn a sow’s ear into a pretty purse, or however the saying goes. Yeah.
— tray Feb 16, 03:03 AM
Tray, whether or not Jay-z’s vocals live up to the standards of scandinavian inernet hiphop enthusiasts, they are still a catalyst and centerpiece for self-started musical expression now.
— R.H.S. Feb 16, 10:22 AM
e-beef
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