How Eminem Raps

12/24/2012

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Live Science magazine (November 15, 2012) explains how Eminem invents freestyle rhymes on the spot:

"Freestyle rappers such as Eminem and Philadelphia's Cassidy make up and bust out rhymes on the spot — a hugely challenging art form. Now, however, researchers have learned how the brain does it. A new study finds that when rappers improvise, parts of their brains linked to motivation, organization, and integration gets active, while portions responsible for self-monitoring and control get quiet. The findings suggest freestyle rappers essentially shut down the parts of their brains that might disrupt their creative flow.

"'If an athlete starts paying attention to what they're doing, how they’re going to move their body to catch a ball, they'll clutch and they won't do it,' said study researcher Allen Braun, the chief of the language section of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Freestyle rappers may face a similar challenge when making up rhymes."

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