New Blues in the Mississippi Delta
New Blues in the Mississippi Delta
This chapter focuses on the musical style of TopNotch the Villain, a hip-hop artist from the Mississippi Delta. It explains that TopNotch’s freestyle technique reveals the rhythms of blues music, the complexity of poetry, and the song-like phrasing of the West-Coast G-Funk hip-hop collective. The chapter also mentions that the art and aesthetics that shape TopNotch’s verbal style are the result of many years of talking lessons in the church house, at home, in the schoolyard, and over the radio waves.
Keywords: TopNotch the Villain, hip-hop artist, Mississippi Delta, blues music, poetry, West-Coast G-Funk
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