
Soul Food Cypher has used its platform to traverse the Atlanta area making inroads in its cultural centers including the High Museum of Art, Roswell Cultural Arts Center and the Sound Table, spreading rhymes galore and encouraging audiences to participate. Members represent a wide array of rap aesthetics and are practitioners of hip-hop culture.
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Soul Food Cypher cofounders Alexander “COSTxONE” Acosta, Mark “MarkMont” Montgomery, Eric “Zano Bathroom” Ludgood, Wahid “Source One” Khoshravani and Majorica “DJ Acrojam” Murphy recognized the dearth of safe, inclusive spaces available to hone one’s freestyle skills in Atlanta and surrounding cities.įrom the start, Soul Food Cypher has been dedicated to performing and teaching freestyle rapping techniques and the theory behind it. Look for a Creative in Residence story each Thursday (and Wednesday, November 25) this month. ArtsATL’s Creative in Residence program seeks out Atlanta’s diverse voices in the arts. For the past eight years, the nonprofit Soul Food Cypher has operated a dynamic and interactive freestyle rap experience that features a live DJ. Rappers freestyle in order to show their acumen for rap aesthetics and their command of their respective language. Freestyling is the skill of improvising and articulating rhymes. It evolved from the toasts and “dozens” recited over live beats during early hip-hop parties.

Freestyling is the cornerstone of the rap genre as we know it contemporarily.
