What is flow in Rap music???

well desu that's understandable but i feel "insane flow" is subjective and preferential. I def see double time rappers having insane flows like the ones you named but i also like to include insane flows as being something just plain unique to the rapper and making it work.
fuck off i understood legit 20% of that and understood 80% bass. Young thug and everyone like him were the lowest of the low they were the mumble rapper before the mumble rap and trap rappers were even a thing and now because they are a thing Young Thug is decent compared to them but IMO still trash.
>he hasn’t taken the Harambe pill
i put it in my mouth and spat it back out along with your failed use of greentext.
Learn to greentext.

This

Take a drum for example. It repeat a phrase composed of multiple hits and eventually makes variations. That's exactly the same thing for flow.

A Rapper repeat a number of syllables(hits) in a certain way(rhythm) to create a "feel".

Melodic flow just means that the Rapper create the rhythmic feel from a melody that he repeats, like I don't know, a xylophone. Most Rappers until recently would create the rhythmic feel from a cadence and a certain arrangement of rhymes, rather than by varying their pitch.

In the same way you would repeat :
kick snare kick kick snare open-hi-hat

You can repeat(with a certain cadence) :
assonance rhyme assonance assonance _ rhyme
=
He take this shit and jump
Me make riddims and plumb

And then you vary from this basic rhythm

Melodic flow would be Bones Thugs-n-Harmony. They Rap but they vary the pitches for certain syllables(equivalent of drum "hits"), a bit like a xylophone, and from those changes of pitches they create a rhythm all while Rapping normally

Bizzy Bone recently released an album full of those kind of flows :
youtube.com/watch?v=kHd-_Ck1YVg

And yes, Trap rappers do this a lot too, though not as well as Bones, but still in a usually catchy way :
youtube.com/watch?v=zEKYF_lZbpA
youtube.com/watch?v=CJOZc02VwJM

Rap God isn't that insane. He rapped fast. Okay? King Los said it well :
>When I hear ‘Rap God,’ I’m like, ‘You didn’t rap godly, though
>You rapped great. Don’t get it fucked up. Your verbal ingenuity, through the roof, but bro, you didn’t rap godly. You didn’t rap godly. I could say, ‘Uh, summa-lumma, dooma-lumma, you assuming I’m a human / What I gotta do to get it through to you? I’m superhuman…’ I’m trying to tell you that’s the same thing Busta [Rhymes] did on Chris Brown’s ‘Look At Me Now.’ You didn’t say nothing

You're right; it's the vocal rhythm. Speed can be part of it, but it's not necessary for an "insane flow". Check out the verse that starts at about 2:28 in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=notWjOxOWLw
It's not particularly fast, but he uses clear and elaborate vocal rhythms. I'd also say this guy has "insane flow" despite his calm and relatively slow delivery: youtube.com/watch?v=8HSy0BeH5mM
Here's one of the oldschool gods of flow:
youtube.com/watch?v=KeaIjEQC4yo
Listen to the pattern and how he frequently plays with it like a jazz musician improvising on a melody (he's said he learned to rap from listening to Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet playing).
Those people praising those trap guys are idiots, and "melodic flow" is nonsense; they should be saying something like "melodic delivery".
I hope this is of help to you.

Delivery is part of flow

Vocal delivery, bro. Your voice, your tone, how mellow or aggressive you sound, your inflections, stuff like that. Choosing to be a little sing-songy is part of that.

>Melodic flow would be Bones Thugs-n-Harmony.
fucking nail on the head there i can't believe i forgot such an important group that legit crystallized "melodic flow" now that i've heard the term.

Agree with this. A lot of guys will Rap fast to sound impressive but they are not doing much when you actually look at their rhymes and cadences, or lyrics. Meanwhile there are people who Rap slow but lay their rhymes and syllables in a very impressive way which create an impressive vocal rhythm, all the while making sense and writing good lyrics.

in conventional poetry it's what they call "meter"

its just phrasing

Good flows to me are when they change up the lines while keeping the rhythm. Sometimes the lines go into the next 8 bars and they're constantly speeding up and slowing down. Stuff like Dark Fantasy

Listening to Wu Tang Clan always conjures up smooth, flowy visions of b/w cartoon characters behind my eyelids
i love it
youtube.com/watch?v=LB5iikR7aT0

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There is no beat in "conventional poetry", nor is there a delivery. Meter is not flow.

Based

>fuck off i understood legit 20% of that and understood 80% bass
You miss the point. It's not about what you understood, it's about how Young Thug's delivery and inflections made you feel. Forget the meaning.

You can't tell me those wouldn't be catchy as fuck without Young Thug on it :
youtube.com/watch?v=3x3g8BGH_io
youtube.com/watch?v=FlDsZzHyM5M
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz6OUIjtM6E

It gives me visions of Kung Fu movies.

According to the "The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop" :
>The rhythmic delivery of MCing is called flow. I distinguish three different aspects of flow, all of which are discussed by rappers as well as rap fans. The first aspect describes the process of the rhythm’s production, the air flowing out of the lungs, formed into a flow of sound. The second part of flow describes the musical result of the airflow synchronized to a musical arrangement called beat. A third aspect of the term flow reminds us – like the term groove – of the feel of music while perceiving it. Does the rapper’s flow make the audience’s heads nod with her/his delivery? Is he perhaps able to astonish us with his rhythmical mastery?
>Thus in “MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know” (1995) KRS-One calls on his audience to “(f)low with the master rhymer, that’s to leave behind the video rapper, you know, the chart climber.” This hints to the fact that not only producing, but even perceiving and judging the MC’s delivery, requires a lot of training. Flow is the result of learning, informed by listening to and comparing a huge number of songs and considering the negotiations fans, artists, and critics have about “good flow.”

I'm sorry, bigot, but Rap is a modern poetic form based uniquely Black. Rap is poetry because it means something and it comes out of the heart, from the soul. Poetry is supposed to rhyme, it is supposed to have a beat and the next rhyme has to come at a certain place in the next sentence.

Great black poets such as Nas are just as good as overrated White poets such as Shakespeare, Langston Hughes or Walt Whitman

flow is more about delivery than actual rhymes or content. Young Thug for example has very good flow, old school rap like the one you hear in rapper's delight for example does not have good flow. before some hip hop sperg gets angry, better flow does not necessarily mean better rapping

don’t worry about it cracker
flow ain’t for you, so sit down be humble.
youre time is up cuh

What a fucking retarded post.
>old school rap like the one you hear in rapper's delight
That's the only thing true that you said. The thing is that Rapper's delight has a poor flow because they make simple end rhymes, like "cat", "hat" etc..., with a not really interesting delivery. But it's not representative of what we would start to hear after and during the era of Rakim/Kool-G-Rap rap music.

kek good post

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yeah it does
the rhythym is in the melody or vice versa