WORDLESS RAP

A talk show set up. NPR music host - late 40s, grey haired and hip to music in the way of someone who's read about a lot, and a hip-hop artist. I am not culturally equipped to be writing this sketch.

HOST

Welcome back to "Check Your Levels" - the best music talk show on public Cleveland radio. Today our guest is "Pryde," a rap artist from the east side who's getting major buzz with the local indie labels. He's going to be on Conan O'Brien next week so we wanted to talk to him before he got too big for the show.

PRYDE

(laughs)

Naw, naw. Not gonna be THAT fast.

HOST

Well, from what I'm reading in the blogosphere, it might not be long for you. So I understand you brought one of your new tracks with you.

PRYDE

Yeah. It's called "Turn it around."

HOST

Well, let's hear it.

A beat starts.
Then a thick fuzzy bass.
After a vamp, a flourish of keyboards.
A super-modulated voice comes in saying "Turn it around!!!!!" with a reverberated echo.
All of it stop in silence, then resumes with a thump.
After another vamp, it all stops but the keyboard for a vamp.
Then another "Turn it around!!!!" maybe even more modulated.
Horns enter to match the bass.
A guitar solo.
Thick string orchestration.
It all comes to a close. We hear "Turn it around!!!!!" continue as the music stops.

The host and Pryde consider.

HOST

You're not really a "rapper."