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Hey Folks, As many of you will know through my performances and content, I absolutely love freestyling and improvising. Even in elementary school, long before I knew about hip-hop, I recall making up silly songs on the spot to make my friends laugh.  Fast forward 2 decades and I've been doing a weekly freestyle show "Spontaneous Sundays with AllOne" for nearly 2 years now and constantly improvising rap in my shows.  This blog was prompted when a fan named Ryan sent a very complimentary email asking simply "HOW DO YOU DO IT?" So I thought a lot about it and polled an audience of some of my favorite improvisers that I know personally for their thoughts and responded with a version of the writing below.  I think anyone can freestyle if they practice and still I think it is one of the most impressive and amazing performances to watch whether it is musical, rapping, poetry, dance, acting or comedy.  Here are some thoughts.  I have so many personal and distant ar...

Hello my inspired and inspiring friends!    I had two days without Wi-fi so I'm catching up with myself!  I've got a light day today so here we go... I'd like to talk about my fun experiences in New York City with my friend Doug on Saturday!  I may not report this in a linear way, rather cluster it into ideas and concepts to make it more cohesive.... A brief back story of  Doug Widick      Doug is a really talented guy, a multi-instrumentalist, beat-boxer, comedic rapper, improvisational actor, teacher and writer among other things.  I initially met him when  Kaila Mullady , who beat-boxes for his hip-hop comedy improvisational group North Coast, brought him out to my February performance at Alphabet Lounge.  He was really encouraging and generous with his emphatic support of my work.  He wanted to introduce me to a lot of people and have me on his "positive hip hop mix-tape" (we did end up writing and recording a song abou...