Freestyle The Art of Rhyme (2000)

From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles Freestyle the Art of Rhyme captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hiphopthe rarely recorded art form of rhyming spontaneously Like preachers and jazz solos freestyles exist only in the moment a modernday incarnation of the AfricanAmerican storytelling tradition Shot over a period of more than seven years it is already an underground cult film in the hiphop world The film systematically debunks the false image put out by record companies that hiphop culture is violent or moneyobsessed Instead it lets real hiphop artists known and unknown weave their story out of a passionate mix of language politics and spirituality