It's that time again for us at JEM to recommend some YouTube goodness. This time, we decided to help educate and elucidate on a couple of hip hop's main elements; namely Emceeing and Bboying.
First up is Kevin Fitzgerald's film about rhyming: Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme:Fitzgerald's insightful documentary explores the art's inception, development and high-fives and name-drops a ton of very credible MC's.
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Next is the Korean segment from the new Bboy film/documentary called Planet Bboy.
This is a compelling and comprehensive study of one of the lesser commercialised hiphop elements.
Korean bboys really are a force to be reckoned with. Of the recent battles I've seen, their skill, style and inventiveness really captures the imagination, with bags of jaw-drop, wow factor. This scene is an amusing mock-up of the North/South Korean divide headquarters, and what would happen if the two armies battled it out Bboy style:
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