Do you like hip-hop?
Yes, hip hop has a good rhythm and lyrical content that is quite topical. How about you?
I like it. What groups or artists do you prefer?
I like the old school rappers that would use DJing/scratching with turntables and inspire breakdancing.
Have you heard of The Roots?
Yes, they are really good on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, I love that The Roots are the house band.
Yes, they're amazing. One of the greatest. Old school rapping is pretty cool, as you stated.
in time to an instrumental track. Rap is often associated with, and is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, but the origins of the phenomenon predate hip-hop culture. The earliest precursor to the modern rap is the West African griot tradition, in which "oral historians", or "praise-singers", would disseminate oral traditions and genealogies, or use their formidable rhetorical techniques for gossip or to "praise or critique individuals." Griot traditions connect to rap along a lineage of Black verbal reverence
be positive hip-hop. Hip-hop that can really generate good spirit, the spirit of the music and just good energy. I'm excited about the album 'The Dreamer, The Believer'. I feel blessed that I got to work with No I.D. I'm enthused to do hip-hop, which is something that I have to do when I feel it. It's the spirit and energy of hip-hop that made you just enjoy it and love the music and not feel like, 'Man