#Black thought freestyle lyrics serial#

They give us tension and resolution - the very things that make novels, movies and serial television so essential in our imaginative lives.īut does reality ever unfold like that? In recent years, young rappers have been decorating time in more lifelike ways, letting their words go blurry and slack, hedging their verses with fat pockets of dead air. Veterans such as Eminem and Black Thought tend to be meticulous, offering an orderly sequence of verbal events, a steady drip of rhymed conclusions, sometimes even a proper story with a beginning, middle and end. It’s important to remember that this generational clash is really just a clash of techniques - rappers of all ages are ultimately tasked with decorating time, and there are different ways to do it. The second hit the sales floor Friday: Eminem's new studio album, 'Revival.' And while these were two distinct chunks of music - Black Thought's deeds sounded herculean while Eminem's notepad seems to have exploded in the microwave - both were cheered as rebuttals to the mumble-jumble of Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Migos and all of the other young voices currently pushing rap into alien turf. The first one struck YouTube on Thursday: a locomotive 10-minute freestyle by Black Thought of the Roots. The year of mumble rap was rough on pedantic grumps who use the term “mumble rap” - a pejorative hurled at young artists who smudge their rhymes with melody.īut if these insurgent young wild-styles still perplex you, two new lightning bolts may have brightened your December skies.