Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
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Directed by Kevin Fitzgerald
The story
From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hip-hop--the rarely recorded art form of rhyming spontaneously. Like preachers and jazz solos, freestyles exist only in the moment, a modern-day incarnation of the African-American storytelling tradition. Shot over a period of more than seven years, it is already an underground cult film in the hip-hop world. The film systematically debunks the false image put out by record companies that hip-hop culture is violent or money-obsessed. Instead, it lets real hip-hop artists, known and unknown, weave their story out of a passionate mix of language, politics, and spirituality.
Cast & crew
Muhammad AliHimself
John ColtraneHimself
Yasiin BeyHimself
DJ Kool HercCast
Debi MazarHerself (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Kevin Fitzgerald
- Producer
- Joey Anuff
- Producer
- Paul Devlin
- Producer
- Henry Alex Rubin
- Editor
- Paul Devlin
- Editor
- Rachel Raimist
- Editor
- Isaac Solotaroff