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Thug theory write this down lyrics9/14/2023 ![]() ![]() For example, this exact Notorious Thugz’ song could be notated in a 4/4 meter at 156 BPM (beats per minute, which is a mathematical measurement of tempo, the speed of a song), or in a 2/2 meter at 78 BPM. This makes the music sound twice as slow as it should be, since snares are only coming half as often as they should hence the term double-time. In double-time music, snares happen on the third beat of the bar, not the second, while bass kicks happen on beats 1, 2, and 4. This gives the music a strong, propulsive feel.ĭouble-time music upsets this straightforward feel a bit. Because of this, beats 1 and 3 generally have bass kicks land on them, while beats 2 and 4 have snares land on them. In a normal bar of rap music, beats 1 and 3 are the strong beats, while beats 2 and 4 are the weak beats. And we use beats, not minutes or seconds, to count music, because while we want minutes or seconds to always last the same amount of time so that everyone knows what we’re talking about when we use them, we want something else that can be fast OR slow in music, since some music is fast, and since some is slow. Just like 60 minutes make up an hour in everyday life, 4 beats make up a measure (another word for bar) in rap music. Beats are like the minutes of musical time, in that they’re a building block for it. In normal, non-double-time rap music, there are 4 beats to a bar. To talk about this more, let me make sure that we all know what a double-time beat is. That sounds kind of complex, so allow me to explain. That “way complicated” part to Bizzy’s rap that Ehab mentions, I think, is Bizzy’s ability to place notes in multiple rhythmic positions, each of which have various rhythmic meanings, over a double-time beat. >singing too fast doesn’t make you a goddamn skilled rapper but when it comes to Bizzy l’ve always felt something different and way complicated. As the reader, Ehab, who requested this analysis said in his original e-mail to me: Bizzy Bone is an expert at realizing this and taking advantage of it, and I believe that this is what separates him from Twista. ![]() The fact that the beat is slower actually means that the rappers have MORE musical positions in which to place their notes. ![]() The fact that the beat is in double-time doesn’t just mean that the beat is slower, however. The song is in a double-time flow, so the rapper either really has to rap slow to match the beat, or rap quickly, to act as a counterpoint to it. album, and Bizzy is on it! I obviously knew Biggie started it off, but I didn’t realize the guy after him was Bizzy - I just thought it was some random Junior Mafia member, who do many of the other cameos throughout the rest of the album.Īnyway, “Notorious Thugz” is one of the most unique songs in Biggie’s entire catalogue, in my opinion, because his flow is so much quicker here than it is on almost every other song he made. Scratch that - I THOUGHT I didn’t know any of his stuff, but as it turns out, “Notorious Thugz” is one of my favorite songs from that B.I.G. So, I haven’t talked about Bizzy Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony much in my writing not because I didn’t think he was good, but only because I didn’t know any of his stuff. ![]()
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