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This form of music sprang from the hip-hop culture +of young, urban African Americans. +<p/> RS: But, as often happens +with black music, it is a white artist who is getting lots of attention +lately -- especially now that he's starring in a semi-biographical +movie, called "8 Mile." We're talking about Eminem. That's E-M-I-N-E-M, +a play on the initials of his real name, Marshall Mathers. +<p/> AA: +A top rapper is known as an M-C, meaning "master of ceremonies" or +"microphone controller." A few years ago Priest Da Nomad, a local M-C +from Washington came into our studios to talk about rap. +<p/> +PRIEST DA NOMAD: "To rap is basically just like to speak, but it's to +speak rhythmically. And when you -- you notice that when you talk +anyway, you kind of define a rhythm, but we don't really notice it. So +it's really like consciously doing it, and it's just using your brain, +which is a muscle. So it's like everything you do, it's like going to +the gym with your brain." +<p/> AA: "And you have to keep working out and working out and getting stronger." +<p/> +PRIEST DA NOMAD: "And there's different aspects of rapping. The one I +specialize in is improvisational rhyming, which is called freestyling." +<p/> RS: Give him a word, he'll think up a rhyme. Here he goes off on the word "word." +<p/> +PRIEST DA NOMAD: "We're going to break it down, the W, O, R to the aura +and the D -- that's me, representative from DC, calm MC's like +sedative, and that's a word, meaning to calm down, down I don't know, +maybe that's the way you go, adverb, when I come through, rhyming is +absurd. Or should I say the subject and the predicate -- before I hit +the predicate, you're looking at me, dang he got mike etiquette. Oh +goodness, smooth with this flowing eye, bust over the styles and hit +you with the flow -- it's like the Nile River, delivery, like poetry, +hit the high notes, like Al Green, on the scene, sort of like +Valvoline, my tongue was dipped in oil to slide by rhythms ... " +<p/> +AA: And he kept going. Priest Da Nomad started rapping when he was +twelve. He annoyed his teachers by tapping out rhythms on his desk. +<p/> RS: He mastered the art of freestyling with practice, but also speech training and working with others. +<p/> +PRIEST DA NOMAD: "We used to take speech exercises like doing debates, +doing alliteration, going through the alphabet, doing story telling and +environment rhyming, which is just picking things out in the +environment and rhyming about them and just practicing like that. I +read the newspaper every day. I try to feed my brain with as much data +as possible, and then you practice drawing upon that data in a split +second." +<p/> AA: Priest Da Nomad says rap lyrics don't have to be violent or vulgar. But tell that to the record companies. +<p/> +PRIEST DA NOMAD: "When you talk about money becoming an aspect, that +means things are going to happen to sell records. Certain artists and +certain types of music are pushed because it talks about a certain +lifestyle, and pop America -- white America -- is fascinated by that +lifestyle." +<p/> RS: "How different are you from the twelve-year-old who was pounding on his desk in junior high?" +<p/> +PRIEST DA NOMAD: "Well, I've grown and matured. I still have the same +passion, though. My whole thing with what I do is when I feel something +and when something moves me, I can't ignore it, and everyone from, like +teachers and parents -- my mother used to tell me, 'why are you doing + this?' She laughed at it at first because, she was like, 'OK, it's a +phase he's going through.' And then after high school -- we were +dealing with some record companies but before we could do a deal, one +of them folded -- I went to school for a little bit, to college, and +came back and got pulled back into music. Once I got back into it, I +was like, this is where my heart is and I'm not ever stopping." +<p/> MUSIC: "We Got" +<p/> +AA: We talked to Priest Da Nomad back in 1999, before he got the chance +to perform at a nationally televised millennium celebration here in +Washington. But, as he later told a Washington Post reporter, the +lyrics they gave him -- written by basketball star Shaquille O'Neal and +the rapper Coolio -- were "horrible." Too commercial. +<p/> RS: So +Priest ended up saying thanks but no thanks to the man who invited him: +the legendary black music producer Quincy Jones. Believe it or not, +Priest Da Nomad still has a career. +<p/> In fact, he's featured on +an album with another Washington D-C rapper, Storm the Unpredictable, +coming out in January -- plus he tells us he's working on a new album +of his own. +<p/> AA: And that's Wordmaster for this week. We're on +the Web at voanews.com/wordmaster, and our e-mail address is +word@voanews.com. With Rosanne Skirble, I'm Avi Arditti. +</span> + </smilText> + </par> +</body> +</smil> |