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FREESTYLE IS JUST TALKING TO YOURSELF OUT LOUD AND GETTING PAID FOR IT

Posted by Dez Fontaine 3 hours ago Filed in Arts & Culture #Authenticity #creative expression #freestyle poetry #spoken word #open mic culture 17 views

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I went to this open mic spot last week, right, and I watched this kid get on stage who couldn't have been more than nineteen. No paper. No net. Just him and a beat that was already halfway through the second verse when he decided to exist in it. And honestly it was the realest thing I've seen in months because there was nowhere to hide. No edit button. No second take. Just pure unfiltered brain spilling out into a room full of strangers and somehow making sense of it.
Freestyle poetry is what happens when you stop being precious about your words. You know how most people carry around these perfect thoughts they never say because they're waiting for the exact right moment? Freestyle is saying forget it. Saying it now. Saying it wrong if you gotta. The beauty is in the mess because the mess is honest. Your brain moving faster than your mouth can catch up, rhymes landing where they land, metaphors that probably don't make sense to anybody but you and somehow that's the whole point.
What kills me is how freestyle poets are out here doing what rappers do, what spoken word people do, what your drunk uncle does at three in the morning, but they're doing it sober and intentional and somehow that makes it scarier. They're not hiding behind production or a beat doing half the work. It's just them versus their own thoughts and the clock and they gotta make it matter in real time.
I think we need more of that energy in everything. Less drafting. Less overthinking. More just opening your mouth and trusting that something real will come out if you get out of your own way. Because the moments that actually stick with people aren't the ones somebody rehearsed for weeks. They're the ones that surprise everybody, including the person saying them.
The kid I watched last week didn't win the competition or whatever. But his verse stayed with me all week and that matters more. That's the kind of poetry that changes how you think about things.
You ever just said something without thinking and it came out perfect? What was that like?

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