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Transcription: [00:17:21]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Best known as rapping. How many people out there know what rapping is?
{SILENCE}
[00:17:26]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
That's a good number of hands. Rapping is the creation of rhymes to a rhythm, to a meter, provided by usually recorded music, though not always.
[00:17:36]
Before we even get into a discussion of what rapping is, how it works, how people compose it, I'm going to introduce you to the people on the stage and let them do for you, let one of them do, a general rap, then we'll know what we're talking about.
[00:17:52]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Here on the stage with me we have the members of 2 rap groups. In the center, ladies first, the International Playgirls. Lazy Smurf and Lady Ice Tea. On the ends,
[00:18:06]
[Clapping]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
There we go, a hand for the International Playgirls!
[00:18:07]
[More clapping}
[00:18:10]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
On the ends, we have members of the Punk Funk Nation. Here we have Robbie B and (the end??) MC Caesar (??)
[00:18:17]
[clapping]
[00:18:22]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
All 4 participants, as of course, all participants in this area, are from Philadelphia. The best way to start,[whoop] since there were some of you--
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
That's a hand for Philadelphia, that's what we need. Let's go. Let's go. Alright!
[crowd cheering]
[00:18:36]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The best way to start to introduce people to what a rap is, is to have someone do a rap. Just a general rap. So, the first thing we'll ask, we need a rhythm, right? For a rap? Well we've got on the stage here MC Caesar, who's going to act as our beat box.
[00:18:52]
{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Get some reverb!
[00:18:56]
[MC Caesar starts beat boxing]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
A little volume.
{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
[increases volume of beat boxing]
[00:18:59]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
There you go.
{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
AB Yah
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Okay...heh[Laughs]
[00:19:02]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
One--
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Here's our rhythm machine! And Robbie B, could you go ahead and do a general rap for us here? To give the people an idea of what we'll be talking about?
[00:19:14]
{SPEAKER name="Robbie B"}
[Starts rapping]
See 1 for the treble, 2 for the bass, come on here beat box, rock this place. Say 1 for the treble, 2 for the bass, I came in the place to rock the bass. I wanna grab the mic I thought to turn it on, cause the beat don't stop til the break of dawn. You see the beat box playin, the rhymes I'm sayin, all the MC's I'll be slayin. Cause the rhymes I'm throwing down is all my own cause I'm the prince, uh, of the microphone. And you can take another guess because you rockin with the best from the north, south, east to west, uh, Robbie B rocks the, ver-y, very best. I got a lot of potential and a lot of finesse, yes, yesh, yall dont quit yall, you see Adam and Eve got knock at the knees for the apple in the tree, how could this be? I got a phd, master degree, rhyming on the mic comes naturally It goes hoo!
{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
hubba hubba ha hubba hubba hubba ha!
[clapping]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Let's have a hand for the Punk Funk Nation!
[clapping]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}