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Transcription: [00:22:04]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Something that spoke to them and to their needs and it was either go with the flow or be left out.

[00:22:10]
So now, gospel music or the sound of the Cheribums is really the sound that's representative of black churches of all denominations throughout Afro-American culture in the United States. That's a real good point.

[00:22:25]
{SILENCE}

[00:22:47]
Well, the rappers came much further along. Rapping is a tradition of the 1980s. And from the Doo-Whops- Rapping really is a spoken tradition as opposed to the singing tradition.

[00:22:59]
In the Doo-Woppers, here we have tenor, bass, the whole range of vocal qualities here, but in rapping, what we're getting again is a part of this oral tradition, where it's important to be able to speak, speak well, and to create instantaneously and one of the principals that's carried out in the singing here is the lead singers in these groups improvise quite often.

[00:23:25]
Do you always know gentlemen, when you're leading a song, what you're gonna sing next? Tell us about it.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well, sometimes, uh, as far as the rapping you're talking about, the rappers are still dealing with a spoken, but it's also with a certain rhythm they hear.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Right

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
So, they've got to use certain syllables. You know, when they're saying words, as long as they get they match up.

[00:23:43]
Um, as far as the improvisation, as far as adlibbing, we get the basic structure down, the basic song. We sing the melody and then afterwards, we'll go into what we call "adlibs", which you heard countless of times where you say anything, as long as your syllables match up and as long as it sounds good to you.

[00:24:02]
And whatever point you wanna make. [laughter] That's just that.

[00:24:05]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Brother Brown

{SPEAKER name="Brother Brown"}[Cecil C. Brown]
I would like to answer the question once asked a little earlier about not using music, how you know where to start, or what pitch

Transcription Notes:
One of the speakers identified as "Brother Brown"