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LISTEN: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Handle The Vibe The similarities in style were enough to spark a beef over alleged biting, though it was quickly resolved before any escalation. In hindsight, 1997 was one of the greatest years in speed-rap history, with Bone’s double album and Twista’s classic Adrenaline Rush hitting shelves. Though their fastest flows would come later on, with 1997’s Art Of War standing out as an absolute clinic, Bone endure among most commercially successful double-time spitters in the game. Alternating between singsong sections and machine-gun bursts, the group’s flow on breakout single “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” earned immediate acclaim. After linking up with Eazy E and signing to ruthless records, Bone Thugs brought a new style to Creepin On Ah Come Up. Their first recorded album Faces Of Death (1993) skewed closer to traditional hip-hop of the time, the double-time flows similar in approach to Jaz and Tung Twista. Arguably one of the most influential groups in hip-hop history, Bizzy, Krayzie, Layzie, Wish, & Flesh-N-Bone developed a new take on double-time flow, deviating away from the breakbeat influences and implementing melodic elements. It’s impossible to discuss the art of chopping without mentioning Cleveland’s Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Unlike Jay-Z, who moved way from speed-rap, Twista embraced it as an integral component of his sound - even to this day. “I be makin' 'em jump and then sit up and lift the style, I be kicking and popping the rhythm I'm rocking and pumping.” Though the substance is somewhat surface-level, the sheer defiance of physiology is enough to astound even today. “Flowing the lyrical magic of mine I be mopping and sweeping, and breakin' 'em up and then makin' 'em break in a sweat,” he spits, after pledging to take a deep breath. Over some breakbeat production from DJ Rhythm, Twista let fly syllables at an insane rate, notably quicker than The Originators and other aspiring double-time spitters. The titular track ultimately earned him the Guinness World Record for fastest rap, a title he held for a decade. On April 7th, 1992, Twista dropped his debut album Runnin’ Off At Da Mouth. Meanwhile in Chicago, a young emcee by the name of Tung Twista was on the verge of making history. Even the Jigga Man gets in on the action, following the leader with the most dexterous and alliterative verse of his career he even riffs the oft-memed “lyrical miracle” scheme. A groundbreaking development, one Jaz picked up from studying blues and jazz. In his opening bars Jaz is spitting straight up tongue-twisters: “My rhyming and singing technique is applaudable, living in luxury, and it's affordable / no other brother is better than me, the J, the A, the Z.” That’s twenty-six words and forty-one syllables in five seconds.
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That style was on full display on 1990 single “The Originator,” which featured his young protege Jay-Z long before Reasonable Doubt. “That’s why I called it the triplet style. “I had to stuff those words, those extra syllables in the sixteen so it would transform those syllables into twenty-fourths, which became a triplet of an eighth,” he explained. Though the legendary emcee attacked instrumentals with more fluidity than ever before, New York rapper Jaz-O, also known as The Originator, stands as a key pioneer behind the “triplet flow.” A student of music theory, Jaz explained that his dexterous approach was the product of necessity. In the early eighties, while rappers like Kool Moe Dee and JJ Fad pushed the boundaries of expected tempo with “New Rap Language” and “Supersonic” respectively, Rakim was evolving the art of flow to new heights. Given that he’s currently the fastest rapper in the world, it seems a fitting time to reflect on the evolution of double-time rap, otherwise known as chopping. Making short work of his own preexisting world record, Em’s dexterity raised the bar for speed rap to lofty technical heights. On Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By track “Godzilla,” he closes the track by spitting two-hundred-and-twenty-nine words in thirty seconds.