Earlier last year Fresco was kind enough to field questions from the members in our battle forum. And like the trooper that he is, he came through and answered them with that special kind of Fresco pizazz that we’ve all come to know and love.
You can find Fresco on Twitter and be sure to check out the official Fresco MySpace page in order to get your daily Fresco fix. And be on the lookout for The So Clean Mixtape which is dropping March 19th.
Q: If you find that you’re a lot better at freestyling than your friends, how do you improve? Just keep doing it by yourself?
A: I’ve always been an adaptive learner. They say that babies have an abundance of active mirror neurons, and that’s how they learn to speak at a young age. I feel like my mirror neurons never turned off. If i spend a certain amount of time with someone, I will unconsciously master whatever they are good at just by watching or listening. It could be cards, videogames, computer programming, speaking another language, or in this case freestyling. I tend to out-do anyone I spend time with. So I’ve always been a little ahead of the curve on freestyling as compared to those in my area. I don’t really practice anymore, but when I was really trying to get good I would do a bunch of different games I made up. I would watch videos of great freestylers like Juice or NoCanDo, and pause the video at random intervals and try to predict their next line and then freestyle off of it for awhile. When I fell off I’d hit play again until I had something decent. Also I’d record all of these sessions and listen back to what I could’ve said or done better. That was one of a bunch of games I had, but I think the best thing that happened was I would just freestyle so much that my brain was on constant freestyle mode. I’d walk around life just rhyming words to the point where it got annoying to me, but it helped.
Major props to AZNRAPS.com for conducting this interview with Tantrum & Dum, two super sick Cali MCs.
