This is Your Brain on Rap
Freestyle rapping can be a lot of fun. We know it’s hard to make up rhyming lines in real time--that’s why we published a guide to it! But a good freestyle session with a few friends is exhilarating and usually hilarious. Turns out, freestyling is also good for your brain. Charles Limb is a doctor, musician and researcher. He wanted to know how freestyle rapping differed from rapping something pre-written. So he had someone rap in an MRI machine, first something pre-written and then a freestyle. The result? Limb found increased activity in the parts of the brain associated with…