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