20 June 2007

Hip Hop Workshop: Learn how to create your own illest lyrics over hip hop beats: Sunday 24 June

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Hip Hop Workshop

2-5 pm Sunday 24 June.

Learn how to create your own illest lyrics over hip-hop beats.

The ACT Writers Centre is offering a workshop for young people (aged 14 to 25). The workshop will be run by renowned Canberra duo MC Roshambo and DJ D’Opus who burst out the box with their recent debut EP The Question. The workshop will cover aspects of The Lyric, Beat and Production in a live setting.

Cost: only $10 for young people aged 15-25 / Others $45

Venue: Fireplace Room, Gorman House, Ainslie Avenue, Braddon
Bookings ESSENTIAL on phone 6262 9191 Hal Judge, Project Officer, ACT Writers Centre, Gorman House Arts Centre , Ainslie Avenue BRADDON ACT 2612 , Phone: 02 6262 9192 | Mobile: 0412 661 929 | www.actwriters.org.au

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Woody Mann-Caruso7:37 pm 21 Jun 07

Go touch your kids.

LOL.

Absent Diane12:51 pm 21 Jun 07

there you go.. don’t know that much about blondie.. I think the clash started doing it on sandinista, which was also a 1980 release.

The song “Rapture” from their 1980 album AutoAmerican is supposedly the first Hip-Hop song to reach number one

Youth Project Officer11:54 am 21 Jun 07

Some hip hop has all the elements of fine poetry. Thanks for your erudite comments, Absent Diane, and your brilliant rap lyrics, VYBerlinaV8. The Writers Centre offers workshops for all ages and genres of writing including how to write fantasy, journals, historical novels, poetry, essays, biography writing, comedy, magazine articles etc. Check it out: http://www.actwriters.org.au/be_writer/workshops.htm
It only costs $35 for electonic membership. Phone 62629191. Cheerz.

Absent Diane11:34 am 21 Jun 07

Pharrel Williams is a very talented producer. Timbaland is also a fairly talented producer but has low cred in some circles for completely ripping off unknown producers music without paying royalties or credit.

Don’t get succesful confused with talented.

AB, if they had telentless producers their stuff wouldnt be in the top 40.

Talentless performers perhaps. Talentless producers, i think not

Absent Diane11:09 am 21 Jun 07

A good rapper is exetremly percussive (not unlike beat boxing – which although impressive doesn’t do much for me).. check out someone like Gift of Gab (blackalicious) who uses complex rythymic movements coupled with complex lyrics in his songs, infact I am pretty sure he has one song where he is quoting/reciting chemistry or maths formulas or something; very impressive.

Other groups like Us3 (cantaloop anyone?) and more recently ozomatli incorporate heavy jazz elements(live muso’s and samples) into their music.

Also guys like G Love and Special Sauce who incorporate blues and pyschodelic stuff.

Then you have happy hip hop guys like J5, De La Soul, Ugly Duckling.. who are more trad DJ/ MC set ups but use funkier music and don’t promote violence.

And I think The Clash (one of my all time fave bands) were acredited as one of the first bands to incorporate rap into a more live/musical sense.

I think it is really sad that the crap that is played in the top 40’s is what most people associate with rap/hip hop. That stuff is rubbish laden with talentless performers and producers.

“There are some good artists out there, such as the Australian group Butterfingers.”

Easily the worst band in the world.

[Flame away, gangstas. Hip-hop is just complete c**p from any perspective: musically uninteresting , rhythmically repetitive, lyrically mindless. And the people who are in it, my god… you’d poke them with a stick rather than let them near you.]

Another narrow minded f**k who likes to think that hip-hop is for criminals. Go touch your kids.

neanderthalsis9:24 am 21 Jun 07

Agreed AD. While I am definately no Hip Hop fan (I would prefer chinese opera or or the marching tunes of the Bedlam Asylum Bagpipe Band to emenem or akon), there are some good artists out there, such as the Australian group Butterfingers.

Absent Diane8:49 am 21 Jun 07

like all music there is some good and some bad.

West_Kambah_4eva8:42 am 21 Jun 07

[Flame away, gangstas. Hip-hop is just complete crap from any perspective: musically uninteresting , rhythmically repetitive, lyrically mindless. And the people who are in it, my god… you’d poke them with a stick rather than let them near you.]

Comment by jemmy — 20 June, 2007 @ 5:27 pm

Hey, maybe hip hop thinks YOU stink!

rap = retards attempting poetry 🙂

VYBerlinaV8 now_with_added grunt5:54 pm 20 Jun 07

Amen.

I pretend to be a gangster so stupid people will identify with someone doing it tough, despite my millions of dollars and silly lifestyle.
I solve problems with violence.
I kill people and other people think that is cool.
I am homophobic, racist and mysoginist.
I have advanced women’s rights by decades when I refer to them as bitches and whores.
I wear ridiculous jewelry.
I have a complete lack of musicality which I attempt to counter with rhythm.
My rhythms are monotonous and the same as everyone else’s.
I don’t understand why white middle-class suburbanites in a foreign country empathise with me, but I will luxuriate in their money anyway.
I am a hip-hop god even though I have prostituted my hip-hop roots from the 60s.

[Flame away, gangstas. Hip-hop is just complete crap from any perspective: musically uninteresting , rhythmically repetitive, lyrically mindless. And the people who are in it, my god… you’d poke them with a stick rather than let them near you.]

VYBerlinaV8 now_with_added grunt5:12 pm 20 Jun 07

I’m a crazy broke man
From the weekend can
Dropping pipe bombs freaky
From my Charnwood van
On those Holt-side folk
While I’m high on coke
Scored from Amber Westin
On a weekend toke
Yah yah yah yah..

Don’t mess wit me
I fizz like alka selzo
I’m a tuff muthaphukka
With a tat that sez BELCO
I enhance my rage
Stealing cars from Page
And smash em up live
Down on Barry Drive
yah yah yah yah..

Absent Diane5:01 pm 20 Jun 07

don’t juxtapose me to the hoes
with tha gangsta woes
cause I got my 12 gauge shotty
shooting lyrical blows

They see me trolling…

… They be hating…

It’s called RiotACT, yeah that’s A.C.T.
filled with old wrinklies that smell like wee,
we whinge about this, we moan about that,
“Someone drove too fast!”
“Somebody shot my cat!”

Word-up, beeatches, jam nitty gritty,
we’re from the urban jungle called Canberra city,
well may be not a jungle, more like a garden,
and if you don’t like it the I beg your parden

Life in C-city is totally hard,
drive-by yellings and Floriade,
and you think that’s bad check out Civic at night,
full of little kids all hypo on Sprite

Word-up, beeatches, jam nitty gritty (etc etc)

Snahons_scv6_berlina2:48 pm 20 Jun 07

I’m a bad-a$$ booner
from quambyland
i’ll sell you coke
while I puff on smoke
and be damned if you don’t choke

on my .44 calibre bling
I’ll make you sing
my gangsta rapper prayer

“Please don’t shoot me quambo booner”
“please don’t shoot me quambo booner”
“I’ll give you want you need”

yeah….
don’t mess wif me with your east coast,west coast cr@p
I’m a bad-a$$ booner from quambyland
who’ll take your face
right off the map.

wiggiddy wak – I dont have to run riotact through Gizoogle today 🙂

Sweet

I’m the terror from Canberra and I’m on a roll
I’ve got ADHD and just like all me mates, I’m on the dole.
Mike in my left hand, Uzi in my right
Fu%k wiv me and I’ll shoot you out like a light
I’m a no hoper and I’ve got no brain,
and I’m gonna flush my whole life down the drain

West_Kambah_4eva12:28 pm 20 Jun 07

I can already do that, check this out!:

I’m the kung-fu hippy
From gangsta city
I’m a rappin’ surfer
You the fool I pity

Well it’s nice to have someone as positive as Stung on the site. You do better then champ.

speling optinal

Absent Diane11:11 am 20 Jun 07

whackas fukus? Rapping Romans?

wack as fuk

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