A lot of artists make their way up by underground freestyling and participating in rap battles. There are a lot of rappers out there who have no freestyling talent at all, and still make it big within the hip hop industry because of the songs that have been produced for them. There have been many artists who have come onto the scene slightly but have disappeared temporarily or permanently. Take Papoose for instance he made it real big with free styling, and he did alot of mixtapes working with DJ Kay Slay, but he never did that well getting commercialised. He got featured on many tracks such as Busta Rhymes' "touch it (remix)", Joe's "where you at" and chamillionaire's "ridin' (remix)".
Another good up-and-coming underground rapper is Cory Gunz. Although not well known now, in the underground scene he is known for his complex freestyling skills. These are the kind of rappers that should be making a name for themselves, but aren't getting the recognition they deserve, well in our opinion anyway.
Heres a taste of some good freestyle rappers courtesy of BET. The rappers featured are, Willie Northpole, Blaq Poet, Hime and Cory Gunz, with DJ Premier. Enjoy!
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1 comment:
What I believe Hip Hop Artist need to realise is the difference between free style and music tracks. As Hip Hop is a really big commercial industry Hip Hop artist will need to realise they need to aim for their audience to succeed. Look at the way Timberland works towards what the industry wants and even a hip hop producer tries producing pop Tracks. So at the end of the day no one wants to hear a track with freestyle lyrics all the time.
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