{"id":10411,"date":"2019-10-03T20:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T00:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T20:41:52","slug":"can-you-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/03\/can-you-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you freestyle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10042019-04.jpg\" alt=\"Can you freestyle?\" class=\"wp-image-10405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10042019-04.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10042019-04-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10042019-04-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10042019-04-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Can you freestyle?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re referring to freestyle rapping, I&#8217;m afraid not. There&#8217;s a growing consensus amongst hip-hop fans that the days of freestyling are coming to an end or have already ended. There are probably some artists who may have the ability to do so, but you may have to do a lot of digging to discover them. One of my library friends seems to think Black Thought of The Roots may be one example of an artist who engages in what can be considered freestyling. Here&#8217;s a link to one performance done on a radio show some time ago: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/radio-freestyle\">bit.ly\/radio-freestyle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re referring to freestyle rapping, I&#8217;m afraid not. There&#8217;s a growing consensus amongst hip-hop fans that the days of freestyling are coming to an end or have already ended. There are probably some artists who may have the ability to do so, but you may have to do a lot of digging to discover &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/03\/can-you-freestyle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can you freestyle?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[824],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-freestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}