Beach rap

This has nothing to do with guitars but is all about music. We had lunch at a beach restaurant here in Davao City on Mother's Day and found some boys roaming around and offering to rap for us for a few coins. I normally don't like giving money to mendicants but these boys proved they were no beggars: they launched into a few raps that had some social commentary in them, talking about living in Davao City and how difficult life can be.



It was a good thing my Nokia 6630 can take videos, so I shot this for your enjoyment. I asked them who wrote their raps, and they said they did it themselves. As near as I could tell, they would compose these raps and distribute it among themselves -- not by way of the written word, mind you, but simply by rapping to each other until they got it down pat. They were actually pretty talented, with my only observations being that their timing wasn't perfect and their "beatbox" wasn't too consistent. Still, for boys of about 10 who hardly go to school, they were good.
You'd be interested to know that we gave them a total of about 50 pesos for their performance, pretty good money for a few minutes of beach rap.