简介：FromneighborhoodcipherstothemostnotoriousMCbattles,"Freestyle:theArtofRhyme"capturestheelectrifyingenergyofimprovisationalhip-hop--therarelyrecordedartformofrhymingspontaneously.Likepreachersandjazzsolos,freestylesexistonlyinthemoment,amodern-dayincarnationoftheAfrican-Americanstorytellingtradition.Shotoveraperiodofmorethansevenyears,itisalreadyanundergroundcultfilminthehip-hopworld.Thefilmsystematicallydebunksthefalseimageputoutbyrecordcompaniesthathip-hopcultureisviolentormoney-obsessed.Instead,itletsrealhip-hopartists,knownandunknown,weavetheirstoryoutofapassionatemixoflanguage,politics,andspirituality.…