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Due to a number of circumstances I haven't done much inspired music creation of my own freeform electronica recently, but it's been an amazing chance to try something way outside of my comfort zone. I generally don't listen to hip hop or rap. There's undoubtedly some excellent hard hip hop from the 80s and early 90s, but when it went 'gangsta' and more or less replaced messages with meaningless symbols, bragging about superficial wealth, and hate-mongering I lost interest. Then when it turned into something else entirely in the 2000s I lost the plot totally and stopped listening. But SoundCloud is a great place to discover people who are the real deal, and I was blown away by the 'realness' and originality of a Washingtonian freestyler going by the name of Mae Dali. I messaged him simply to say that I was inspired by the sheer, unfiltered originality of some of his many, eclectic tracks; ranging from rough and off-the-streets old school freestyle rhymes, to spiritually (his own, not born again 'something or other') tinged tracks that were unlike anything I'd heard. Intelligent, cryptic lyrics - mostly off the top of his head after pressing record- in a stream of consciousness style. Some of it is humorous, some of it calmly threatening, some of it thoughtful and soul-searching... Anyway, to my surprise, I ended up making a couple of tracks for him to rhyme over - and I sent them off as rough samples expecting him to ask for changes. To my greater surprise he used both and posted them in less than 24 hours of my sending them, with no changes at all to the music. Here's the second - my favourite. https://soundcloud.com/maedali/maealom-pt-2 I will now go back to what I was doing before - re-releasing some of my better original compositions with higher fidelity and extended length which are then availablle as free downloads for anyone who wants to hear something a bit different.