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Hb the Engineer Grafh closed out with a slew of freestyles over some of the hottest beats in the game such as Pusha T ‘s Infrared,” Lil Wayne ‘s Uproar,” Cardi B ‘s Money” and more. Always one to highlight upcoming stars (see Lloyd Banks and Obie Trice), DJ Green Lantern has put together, along with Grafh's assistance, "The Oracle Mixtape," a collection of freestyles, unreleased tracks, and other verses from Blackhand Enertainment's premier artist.
From an interest perspective, I'm more fascinated by rhymes versus stories (as I mentioned on Day 3 of the month ), but I also don't Bars on I 95 freestyle  think I should completely neglect the fact that freestyle rapping is a wonderful means of storytelling and creative expression.



Tonight, I had a group of friends over to hang out, and eventually the conversation found its way to freestyle rapping. This is a fairly extreme example, but, the more and more I practice freestyling, the more I realize that basically any two words can rhyme with the right pronunciation.
Grafh was known for his unbridled personality and graphic wordplay, which prompted some to call him the black Eminem , but those qualities are reflections of his past. During each session, I turned on an instrumental track, generated 50 random words (via ), and started freestyling, incorporating the words into my freestyle.

Punchline-drive freestyling can be effective even with very minimal or basic rhymes, as long as the last word of the punchline lands smoothly. Today, I reviewed the footage from the past week of my freestyling practice sessions, and have found particular sets of rhymes that I naturally tend to lean on more heavily.
In other words, my goal this month is to close my Taste Gap”. Thus, especially at the beginning of the month, I plan to spend a significant amount of time writing rhymes, instead of freestyling them. The challenge of this style of freestyling is quickly crafting the perfect punchline while simultaneously rapping the setup.
Today, I wanted to continue my use of constraints as a mechanism for creating more diverse freestyles, and, to do this, I turned to the board game Apples to Apples, incorporating the random phrases of the cards into my practice. In other words, even though my freestyling is getting better, my persona as a freestyle rapper is certainly not.

My freestyle maintains continuous flow for three minutes. Listening back to this session, there are some lines that, at the time of rapping them, I thought were gibberish, but actually turn out to constructed of real words and reasonably topical ideas. By using the metronome as the beat for my freestyle, I'll be able to build my freestyling abilities and confidence at a slow tempo, and then ramp up the speed in a controlled and measurable way.
In this format, I not only needed to successfully land rhymes, but I also need to select what I wanted to rhyme about (which isn't something I've had to do while using random words). So, today, I decided to take a break and give my mind time to shed some of its habits.

Nevertheless, there seems to be two main reasons why this month didn't require too much training time: 1. A large part of becoming a better freestyle rapper is simply committing to freestyle in a serious and unfiltered way, and 2. In a typical, fully-focused, 15-minute training session, I could work through about 200 rhymes, which is significant, especially since I found the English language to be highly contained in terms of word types and rhyme types.