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When an artist performs their own lyrics over the beat and melody of someone else's song. Differentiated from a Cover Version in that covers generally use the same lyrics with minor changes. Differentiated from Sampling in that there is rarely any change in the instrumentation. This is almost exclusively a trope in Hip-Hop and R&B. Like cover songs, the songs that are most often freestyled over are hit songs of any genre, although mostly (for the reason above), hip-hop, R&B, and pop songs. This is not always the case however, and it is not uncommon for a more popular artist to give an unknown a Colbert Bump by freestyling over their song. This is also related to Battle Rapping, though it's much more competitive than typical freestyling. The legality of freestyling is in a similar area to the legality of Sampling, which can be viewed at that page. Note that it's possible for a song to be a freestyle over an original beat — a freestyle traditionally refers to a rap song that doesn't use conventional song structures (e.g. no hooks) and aims to display the emcee free-associating with their typical subject matter. Often, pre-existing beats would be used for this, so the term is now applied to Freestyle Version songs as well, even if they use hooks and song structure. Also, a song being a freestyle shouldn't mean it's improvised — the majority of freestyles are pre-written, or occasionally made up of pre-written lines combined improvisationally. Fully-improvised lyrics are also called "off-the-dome" or "off the top" freestyle, which is virtually impossible to master; even many great rappers struggle with it. |
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The Weeknd did a freestyle version in 2014, freestyling over Lorde's "Royals", Ty Dolla $ign's "Or Nah" and Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" (although he significantly altered the beat for this one). | |
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Van Morrison tends to this when he does a cover version. His cover of It's All In The Game starts out as a conventional version sticking more-or-less to the official lyrics, but by the end it has diverged so much that on the Into The Music album, the second half of the cover is listed as a seperate track and given a new name (with songwriting credits for the lyrics given to Van). | |
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One famous case is when Paul Anka adapted Comme d'Habitude for Frank Sinatra as "My Way". The only thing the two songs hold in common is the tune. | |
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The end credits song of the English dub of Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker is "Make a Wish", a remix of the original Japanese ending theme, Asuka Hayashi's "Chiisaki Mono" (A Small Thing). "Make a Wish" has the same overall tune as "Chiisaki Mono", with half of the lyrics replaced with English-language ones. | |
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Azealia Banks freestyled over "Harlem Shake" when that song was popular. | |
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Juice WRLD did an entire freestyle set using exclusively Eminem instrumentals - in return, Eminem gave him a guest feature on one of his singles ("Godzilla"). (Juice's death happened before he could finish recording the feature.) Juice had a particular affinity with Eminem beats, and had a posthumous hit with "Doomsday", a freestyle he did with his friend Cordae over the beat to Eminem's 1999 single "Role Model". | |
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Frequent across J. Cole's earlier mixtapes, mostly over songs by Kanye West and Jay-Z (notice a theme here?), although also over Cassie's "Must Be Love", Missy Elliot's "Best Friend" and Talib Kweli's "Get By". | |
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Kendrick Lamar freestyled over Kanye West's "Monster" in 2010 and created a brilliant Villain Song out of it. | |
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