Polyrhythmic Rap?

[Mark Lybrand]

Okay. I am going to make an assumption, and I admit that the assumption may
be false, but give it some thought.

Assumption: The difference between rap and other song forms is that the
latter focus more on melody, while the former on rhythm, lending it to be
more percussive in nature. Extrapolating to multi-voice, the latter focuses
on harmony, but I am not familiar with rap that focuses on polyrhythms... it
seems to be mostly call and response. Extrapolating a little further with
the latter you have multiple melodic lines intertwining a la madrigal, could
you imagine a similar polyrhythmic rap construction?

I chose this news group, because I am a Latin music fan and personally feel
that this "polyrhthmic rap" would be more interesting in this context.

I guess my questions would be:

1. Is the assumption in any way valid?
2. Do you know of any examples of people doing this (like that a capella
group from Cuba whose name escapes me at present... but I don't think they
are strictly polyrhythmic and I think they focused on mimicking instruments
instead of singing actual words)?
3. Would this be interesting or just gimmicky?

Mark :)

[nina]

Vocal Sampling?

"Mark Lybrand" <mary...@shore.net> wrote in message
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[Mark Lybrand]

> Vocal Sampling?

Yep. That's the one. Thanks, Nina.

Mark :)

[pablo]

"nina" <esa...@adelphia.noidonthinkso> wrote in message
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> Vocal Sampling?

Bone Thugs & Harmony. Listen to "Crossroads" or stuff like that.

...pablo

[nina]

"pablo" <pablo.a...@hombre.dot.net> wrote in message
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i forgot all about them

[kaysee]

Vocal Sampling does lyrics to most of their stuff, as well as all human
voice as the "instrumentation".

kaysee

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