Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
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- Kevin Fitzgerald
Summary
Kevin Fitzgerald's documentary on the freestyle tradition in hip-hop, shot over seven years and featuring Mos Def, Supernatural, Freestyle Fellowship, Jurassic 5, The Last Poets and many West Coast underground figures. The film situates improvised rhyming within a longer Black oral tradition.
Hip-hop relevance
The earliest theatrical doc devoted specifically to freestyle as a discipline, including pre-written-vs-off-the-dome debates and the Project Blowed / Good Life Cafe LA scene. A primary source for the late-1990s underground.
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