Quick thought. This is in response to a note one of the greatest emcees on the planet wrote:
Music is simply the arrangement and manipulation of energy reproduced audibly. Whatever that means to the individual is correct.
Hip Hop, as a whole, is a static genre. We throw on a beat, let it loop, and rap over it. While that works, it's like saying visual art should only be in two dimensions.
I notice in other genres that the music is more dynamic. Calling it as I see it. Colonel Uppercut just got back from this salsa concert. The energy of the songs never stayed the same. It was rising or falling or the music was changing...hype as hell even though I don't know spanish...lol
If talking about an album, a good analogy would be an amusement park. Every individual song is a ride. Some of them are like the Pirate Ship... easy and mild, others are the Millenium Force with buildups, dips, loops, intros and other complicated shiiet. Shout out to Cedar Point.
It's up to us to make Hip Hop more dynamic...to play around with energy and such.
~ The Uppercutamos.
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One thing that I definitely love about Salsa music is how the live instruments, even when recorded, influences the mood of the song...and maybe thats one of the reasons why I liked MTV Unplugged so much (does that still come on? Idw TV anymore) is because the live instruments does something different to the song. It brings it alive, it brings energy...so yeah i agree, playing with the energy does make the music more dynamic...i personally am a fan of guitars and drums...thats why i like when rappers get on songs with alternative rock bands and such...'tis all!!
Vio
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