https://soundcloud.com/gwatsky Here Is an artist I have been listening to on my iCloud. His name is George Watsky, he's been very popular in the last years, in 2010 he peaked at number 7 on the hiphop charts, he is also known very well for his fast rapping and poetry. He lived in los Angeles, he usually is addressed as "Watsky" as his stage name, and he was born September 15, 1986 (age 30). He is a Rapper/Hip-hop genre strict artist. He is signed for a company called "Steel Wool Media". I will now be posting some links to some personal favorite songs, Ive posted some of his pictures and a poem above, I will also post a link to his website above as well. Five favorite songs: (Click on the Text to listen) These five songs I feel best represent his style and his feeling of music. His Forms/Patterns: The forms and patterns are really unexpected especially in his song "Don't Be Nice" Their are a lot of hard to follow rhythms, and I can't tell if they are improvised or not. It always ends up leaving me in the dust when I try and follow and find out where he is doing with the rhythm's. Sampled Content: The only thing I found was a video which I will post Instrumentation: I have found nothing of any source of him playing any instruments, Im assuming he at leasts plays piano if he can create his own tracks. Texture: His texture can be very dark, a lot of hidden messages in his rapping and poetry, it also has a very good sense of humor as well. Genre Specifics: He has a very good sense of style when it comes to his work, I know I couldn't throw down sick beats like that at least not until later in my life, I feel like he might have started in a different place and came to rap and hip-hop meaning, most people come from a poor family of some sort and climbed to the top with their rapping, but I feel that Watsky might have just started from his poetry class or something like that. I will now talk about points as a musician that I noticed and some key points Id follow doing the same thing as Watsky has done. Thematic Content: This is the focus of his Genre, his theme. I felt that in his situation I wouldn't be the same genre as him so our themes would not be similar at all. I feel that this doesn't change much because I could still develop very strong bonds between his style and mine, I feel I could me more self expressive as he was and more independent as a individual, musician. Meaning and Message: He has a bunch of personal experiences when it comes to his rapping and he always finds a way to imbed it into his tracks, he talks a lot about the negativity to him in his life in his one song "don't be nice" as well. Poetic elements: If you watch the video of his poem above I posted, Its a great example of his style of rapping and poetry , he has a funny side to all of his poems but, as you listen to them they get deeper and deeper and more serous. This is kind of cool because he makes a smooth transaction in style as he also does a great job of adding variety and adding both spectrums of the poetic world. This artist has taught me a few things, I learned that rap is actually a form of poetry which then I recall somebody telling me long ago that RAP is actually an acronym for "Rhythm And Poetry" which is kind of funny because its hidden in blind sight. I feel like he didn't have both of these talents start at the same time, I feel that one had to have influenced the other or something. I feel like a key element in the hip hop frame of music is, solid rhythm, like dead on creative drum or synth drum patterns that have verity to draw in the listening for the whole track.I felt like hip hop is a very open genre with very little boundary that allows you to express yourself in anyway need by based on feelings. I also feel like what I learned and also had a good future idea for a music learning assignment is, I would make my students make some sort of poem, the typical rhyming poem no hikues or anything of the sort, then I would have them make a rhythm with a few other students and read their poem at tempo over them, this would help my students with their time and let them expand their creativity, and if students feel this is a bit easy they could try more difficult drum patterns at a faster tempo with longer or more complicated words, this way every student has a chance to grow.
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