Korean freestyle Friday part 1: Huckleberry P and SOOLj

Just spent an hour on YouTube listening to freestyle raps in Korean, a language I don't understand. Here's Huckleberry P.

"Korean Freestyle Rap - Huckleberry P" (Watch on YouTube)

And here's Huck and SOOLj. Don't know if they're debating or organizing or what, but on the basis of their flow and demeanor, they've got my vote. Mayor and deputy mayor.

"Mic Swagger - 5편 Huckleberry P" (Watch on YouTube)

(Just beginning to explore this, but something seems to go wrong when Huck gets in an actual-for-real recording studio, usually as a guest rapper. He'll be spittin' fine but he'll be caught in a lugubrious arrangement, or the whole thing will be in tedious sincere-style rapping, the bane of Korean hip-hop. In contrast, this year's SOOLj EP, Electro SOOLj, is quite good - maybe 'cause it's fundamentally dance, and SOOLj has tendencies towards the other freestyle, the '80s one out of Miami and New York dance clubs.)

Korean freestyle Friday part 2: KARA and SOOLj

Mentioned in my last post that Korean freestyle rapper SOOLj has a leaning towards riffs out of the other freestyle as well, the great '80s postdisco dance music from Miami and NY and Jersey and Philly. Wouldn't be surprised if those riffs were all over Korea these days, though owing to the paucity of my knowledge, I've only found a few others, one of them being KARA's bright and lite "Jumping (점핑)":

"[Full HD] Kara - Jumping [Korean Ver.] MV" (Watch on YouTube)

("Freestyle lite" would seem to be a contradiction in terms, freestyle having been a music of passionate spirit and thick emotion, but there've actually been several excellent pop tracks in recent America that tone the freestyle down to a pang while still retaining the feeling: Vanessa Hudgens' "Don't Talk" and Brooke Hogan's "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdysSfFV2jo">About Us.")