Friday, November 19, 2010

Quicksilver in the street


Let’s end the workweek on an amazing note. I’ve featured rapper Sciryl Cooper in these pages before. You can see photos of him at work here
and here.
Why do I think a rapper can provide that end-of-week amazingness? What’s more South Bronx than hiphop?

Sciryl has an intelligence that interests me. He has an effortlessly prolific mind that moves like quicksilver in the street and is always a half dozen steps ahead of everyone else in the room. I once saw him do his signature HipHopA2Z live and I didn’t believe it. “This had to be planned”, I thought, meticulously memorized and then presented as if it were on the fly. A clever illusion.
No way, another musician told me. He does this live and every time it’s different. Really? Amazing.


Watch this 4:18 and see why I’m a fan. It’s all right off the top of his head.
But be warned, he uses a few bad words. 
Hey. It’s hiphop. And amazing.

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