Com-style

Com-style, as short for Commercial style, or Rap of conciouness, a type of freestyle rap, which commonly refers to when a rapper freestyles continuously about a row of commercials coming up on the TV-screen. It is primarily known as a form of freestyle rapping used in rap-battles, as well as a form of conceptual art.

Origin In Oslo early 2010 some art-scholars presented a conceptual art-project in which a man was freestyling over commercials, and later during someone switching to random channels. After a while, the underground rap community in Oslo picked up the concept, and started applying it as a type of rap-battle game.

Concept

Com-style battling

A form of freestyling over various themes constantly changing, with the goal being that the contestants achieves a form of Stream of consciousness-rap, called rap of consciousness. Used in rap-battles, the opponents either raps back and forth between each new commercial, or between each new random channel, or they can freestyle about a chosen amount commercials each.

Conceptual art

As the term first came to use in a Norwegian art project, it was a form of rebellion against the commercialization. It involves themes as human intelligence, anti-commercialism, man vs. machine, etc.

The rap of consciousness, refers to the art movement surrealism, where they experimented with the written stream of consciousness, as a form of achieving an higher level of poetic language.