Freestyle music, also called Latin freestyle or Latin hip-hop is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area and Philadelphia, primarily among Hispanic Americans and Italian Americans in the 1980s. It experienced its greatest popularity from the late 1980s until the early 1990s. A common theme of freestyle lyricism originated as heartbreak in an urban environment typified by New York City.
However Freestyle is also a style of improvisation, with or without instrumental beats, in which lyrics are recited with no particular subject or structure and with no prior memorization. It is similar to other improvisational music, such as jazz, where a lead instrumentalist acts as an improviser with a supporting band providing a beat. Freestyle originally was simply verse that is free of style, written rhymes that do not follow a specific subject matter, particular beat, or predetermined cadence. The newer style with the improvisation grew popular starting in the early 1990s.
Break Machine - Street Dance (1983)
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait (1986)
Freeez - I.O.U. (1983)
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (1988)
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