The TIME Barrier.

luka

luka

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contender for best record ever though. timing is probably better than anyone ever too. everything in its proper place.
 
luka

luka

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scansion. craners got a masters in english literature from leeds university. he can explain it.
 
luka

luka

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it's virtuoso stuff. but i guess you can say the same about Art Tatum and that's definitely sealed behind the TIME barrier.


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Published on Aug 16, 2010
no words...Art Tatum, the greatest pianist ever. Incredible Virtuoso and absolute Genius.

broadcast, Los Angeles 1940
 
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sadmanbarty

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it may well be an irreconcilable generational thing (or a me being dumb thing), but it's still got that limerick cadence and rhythm. within a couple of years rap had evolved beyond that.
 
luka

luka

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with a limerick the rhyme scheme you typically has the first two lines in one pattern
and the nexxt two with fewer syllables which creates what i think of as a kind of suspension
which is resolved by the return to the original pattern in the last line, which provides a resolution
 
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sadmanbarty

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sorry i won't be able to give you a very articulate description of what i mean. it's clunky. i've just skimmed through cuban linx, dare iz a darkside and the infamous and the flows flow much better. i don't know if you could say they're more converstaional. less limerick-like.
 
luka

luka

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well you play drums so and this conversation is very easily translated into drum patterns presumably. it's all dividing and patterning time.
 
luka

luka

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if you just look at line lengths here you can get a sense of what's giving you the limerick feeling i think

Follow me into a solo
Get in the flow - and you can picture like a photo
Music mixed mellow maintains to make
Melodies for MC's motivates the breaks
I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
Now it's a daily word
I can get iller than 'Nam, a killin bomb
But no alarm - Rakim will remain calm
Self-esteem make me super superb and supreme
But for a microphone still I fiend
This was a tape I wasn't supposed to break
I was supposed to wait, but let's motivate​
 
luka

luka

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yeah of course but im not sure i view it as progression and think of rakim as being more naive.
 
luka

luka

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kool g rap is a much more modern mc and although hes very technical my guess is (would have to check up on this) that the rhyme scheme is more stable and fixed.
 
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