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>DELIVERY: This is where he does <BR>>a FATALITY on the competition. <BR>>BT is always ON THE BEAT. <BR>> Listen to other "amateurs" (the <BR>>"underground" is littered with 'em) and <BR>>even some vets to see if <BR>>their rhymes land on the beat. <BR>> See, not always!! For <BR>>example, El P, who is ill <BR>>with the pen, is not always <BR>>on beat (damn this annoys me). <BR>> Even the dopest poets sometimes <BR>>land offbeat (I think even Common <BR>>is guilty sometimes - no flames <BR>>please!!) The rhythm in Black <BR>>Thought's voice is a gift that <BR>>VERY FEW in the game have. <BR>> Even if you just heard <BR>>his rhyme a cappella you'd still <BR>>be noddin that noggin. <P>Funkyprez is 100% right on this point. Remember that old drunken freestyle he did? Even if topically it wasn't his best, he was still on beat even tho there was no beat. (is that possible?? <img src="http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/Images/happy.gif"> ) But I think you know what i mean, he was following a the beat in his head. Lotsa times you hear someone freestyle and he is stretching shit out just so he can think of a word that rhymes. I guess this says something about his freestyling prowess as well but freestyling on beat with no beat is pretty impressive if you ask me.<P>I think one of the best demonstrations of him rhyming on beat is on his last verse on Pass the Popcorn (Not popcorn revisited). He's solo with just finger snaps and each line is dead on beat, and when the ?uest starts bringing the beat back and building it up Thought flows at the same pace and makes for one of my favourite verses of all Roots songs. <P>Phil<P>"Okayplayer.com, first the Web, next, the World!" - Phil copyright 1999

  

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Is Black Thought the BEST MC in 1999? [View all] , funkyprez, Tue Jun-22-99 08:28 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
mos def
Jun 22nd 1999
1
ONE SHINE
The Black Knight
Jun 24th 1999
11
      one shine
Jun 24th 1999
12
In my opinion...
Dee Phunk
Jun 23rd 1999
2
mcs
Jun 23rd 1999
3
Tyriq
Jun 23rd 1999
4
SHO NUFF!
SAVIR
Jun 23rd 1999
5
...you got my vote...
jabril74
Jun 23rd 1999
6
yes, n/m
Jun 23rd 1999
7
I see it as a tie
Jun 23rd 1999
8
EL-P is RARELY on beat...
EL Juba
Jun 23rd 1999
9
off beat
KRH-ONE
Jun 24th 1999
10
you is not lying my brother...................................
Jun 24th 1999
13
the BUSINESS of music
Jun 24th 1999
14
thanks
Jun 24th 1999
15
Roots are quite incredible like that
Joe Haber
Jun 26th 1999
24
you dont need their acclaim
Jun 24th 1999
16
Spin is a bad magazine period
Jun 24th 1999
17
iambic pentameter...
vrn
Jun 24th 1999
18
iambic pentameter
Jun 24th 1999
19
      sorry....
KRH-ONE
Jun 24th 1999
21
((Pat on the back)) Sorry bout yall gettin slept on, cousin..
EL Juba
Jun 24th 1999
20
I hear you!!!
butterflymil
Jun 25th 1999
22

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