Freestyle Rap

Freestyle rap commonly refers to rap lyrics which are improvised through a cappella or with instrumental beats.

It is similar to other improvisational music such as jazz. A rap group from Los Angeles describes it as being "like a jazz solo". Rap battles are sometimes improvised in this way.

In the book How to Rap, Big Daddy Kane and one member of Freestyle Fellowship note that originally a freestyle was a written rap on no particular subject – Big Daddy Kane says, “in the ’80s when we said we wrote a freestyle rap, that meant that it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style… it’s basically a rhyme just bragging about yourself.”

 There are two types of freestyle.

• An old-school freestyle: basically rhymes that have been written
• Improvisational rapping: “coming off the top of the head”*

*That when you don’t write it and say whatever comes to mind

Let see a Rap battles :)

According to the previous post, "Rap is an expression, it allows one to express one self -our ideoligies, emotions, values, life, hopes and dreams".

The following video shows Rap can express happiness & hopes etc. The key characteristic is the rap features a rapper and Hong Kong Chief Executive.

References:

•  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_rap

• Edwards, Paul, 2009, How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC, Chicago Review Press, p. 181-182.