Love, Peace And Beatbox Page #3

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special effects, of course.

You can imitate horses,

explosions, helicopters...

The Foley artist's craft, which

came in with silent films...

...is now called Beatboxing.

With 4XSample, we always prepare

sets of about four to six minutes.

For the simple reason that that's the

time limit you have in most battles.

Usually we rehearse at

my house or Mando's...

We listen to songs we want to

cover or use for bastard pop,

where you mix the beat from one

track with lyrics from another.

So we'll work out a set, and in

between maybe do some freestyle.

We'll just jam till we

come up with something cool

or an interesting pattern.

Pattern are specific sequences of

measures that can vary in length

and are repeated in loops.

And that's how sets are born.

But we've started using ten-minute

sets. It just gives you more time.

Four minutes, that

can be exhausting.

We did one set in the 2005

championships that contained 14 songs.

Just imagine, 14 songs in four

minutes, plus scratches and solo parts!

It gets too much for people to take

in. Of course we hear every single beat,

but for the audience,

it's just a blur.

By the time they recognize a song

and start clapping, it's long gone.

So we're cooling it down...

Doing longer sets...

and writing them down.

I'll kick the beat, you rap?

- Like always.

Yup.

- Yup.

What tempo?

- I don't know, around 95 or 98 bpm.

Okay...

No, seriously...

Sittin' here in the

park Makin' our mark

Enjoyin' the weather

Chillin' together

Berlinutz says turn it up, I agree

Berlin's cool, the place to be

And we're lovin' it, livin'

it, Beatboxin' and rappin' it.

That's me, I'm not no hectic MC

I do it nice and cool and easy

Keeping things real in my head So

many MCs in this town are stupid

So come on down And

see the best in town:

Wetlipz, Berlinutz, Zirkus Mandolini

And all the girls in bikinis

Girls dancing, baring it all And

I'll beat that weenie MC at pinball

I'm all charged with energy

Just like that dolphin on TV

So come and see us anytime We're

in our prime, we have the rhymes

Moving our lips a mile a minute

Keeps us sharp, keeps us fit

Oops, lost my thread But

that's okay, time for bed

Tomorrow it's off to work in

Neuklln Early bird gets the worm

When I do Beatboxing,

I'm the kind of guy who...

...was born to make other people laugh.

It may sound weird, but it's true.

It makes me happy when

I can get people to laugh

and say, "That guy's

cool. I dig him. "

That goes for when I

perform on stage, too.

You joke around with the

audience, keep the banter coming...

If a guy heckles, I might josh

him, "Just a minute, Sugar!"

Once they're laughing and

eating out of your hand...

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