He entered the ring to a chorus of live singing by his compatriots who had flooded into Las Vegas for Mexican Independence celebrations; Mayweather arrived to the recorded rap chant of "Money Team", the epitome of the self-packaged ego.
Like Seasick Steve, the key to Son Of Dave's appeal lies in the mesmeric, mantra-like quality of his grooves, whether he's doing a strutting funk-blues rap chant like the opening "Old Times Were Good Times", combining hums, murmurs, handclaps and gently throbbing harmonica as on the spiteful "Your Mercedes", or effecting a slinky falsetto cover of War's classic "Low Rider".
There, under the master's tutelage, he creates a rap chant from the instructional material for Lariam, the antimalarial medication he took before leaving home, and teaches it to the enthusiastic children of the village (none of whose families, presumably, could afford the drug).
Atop them — rapping, chanting and singing their own lyrics — are voices that can keep pace with the syncopations or sail above them.
The music incorporates rhythm and blues, soul, tango, reggae, rap, Gregorian chant, French folk songs, and Indian ragas.
So as a part of World Stroke Day on October 29, the AHA/ASA, Dee-1, and Tha Hip Hop Doc are urging the public to sing, rap, or chant a tune that could save lives!
"Dolophine Methadose Lortab Norco Vicodin" went the rapped rhythmic chant in "REM Killer," one of the production's 18 songs, set over vamps and acoustic or electronic grooves that kept stuttering and catching themselves up short.
Their voices are bold and playful — rapping, sharing chants or harmonizing in overdubbed layers — with lyrics that offer shards of mission statements.
For the Beastie Boys, that means pilfering from the younger versions of themselves, which means in turn pilfering from the protean rhyme schemes and rap-along chants of the Furious 5 or the Cold Crush Brothers.
Throughout her appealing new album, "Tasty" (Arista), she flattens the tunes while emphasizing the beats -- whether she's sighing or whispering or rapping or chanting, her voice makes a great rhythm instrument.
That band, from Sacramento, has a great idea: nonidiomatic digital dance beats (sort of Southern hip-hop, sort of reggae, sort of hard-rock) with Zach Hill's hypercreative, improvised live drumming on top, and Stefan Burnett's mostly unintelligible yammering raps and chants.
