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- He doesn't really have much range in his tone / volume / speed. When you listen to his rap, it's just the same tone-of-voice / volume / speed the whole way through.
- He emphasizes certain syllables by raising the pitch of his voice for that one syllable, while the rest of his rap is in a fairly small range of pitches. This is exactly what Mos Def does.
- Example: "Gun Music" 0:22 → The only blood in the street is when the GOVernment spilling it, he just raises the pitch of his voice for that one syllable, and all of the other syllables are around the same pitch.
2002 - Quality
General comments
- He doesn't really have much range in his tone / volume / speed. When you listen to his rap, it's just the same tone-of-voice / volume / speed the whole way through.
- The accompaniment doesn't really have a melody / chord changes.
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- The accompaniment and Kweli are really competing for airspace.
- This sounded like pretty generic "I'm great" to me.
3. Get By
- This was produced by Kanye West.
- There isn't much of a melody, or at least it isn't easy to hear it. The loop is 8 bars. The first 4 bars is a piano playing some notes, but I'm not sure there's a chord change. The second 4 bars seems to be the piano switching between two chords.
4. Shock Body
5. Gun Music
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