Spike debuted its Lip Sync Battle television show April 2. Yesterday (April 16), XXL looked into some of Hip Hop’s more well-known acts and the times they were caught lip-syncing.
50 Cent lip-synced at the BET Awards in 2007 and Kanye West is signaled out for his 2013 Saturday Night Live performance, in which he lip-synced.
Producers John Krasinski and Stephen Merchant got inspiration forLip Sync Battle from a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon segment. They took the concept and flipped celebrity lip syncing into a full-length production.
LL Cool J hosts the program and Grammy-Oscar winners Common and John Legend have made appearances.
One one episode, actress Anna Kendrick and actor-producer John Krasinski faux sang to Jennifer Lopez and NSYNC.
For more on Common and John Legend, watch the following DX Daily:
Damn..bad enough pop acts lip-syncing but hip hop acts? Come on bruh..Got to have more class than that and it’s not like their even singing (although some of them do).Show some of them swag, get wit tha real and hook it up live yo..
50 didnt Lip syncing… He had mic Problems so he Skiped the 1. Part of Amusment Park n Went throu the crowed n only whats upped,
Why the FUCK should some one lip sync a ” Yeah” ? Dump fools
NEWS FLASH: NEARLY EVERY ARTIST LIPSYNCS.
80% of the artists that I’ve seen perform use vocal backtracks. To me, that’s lipsyncing, even if you are singing/rapping over it…it’s still a vocal backtrack -that’s kind of a no-no in the biz. Only top notch performing artists don’t use them. Go figure…
Lipsyncing and having a back-track are two different things, if you perform alone and don’t have a hypeman, how are you supposed to manage your breath to perform all those bars? Some rappers record their songs by 4 or 8 bars, and the words sometimes cover each other, so it is impossible for one person to rap it the same way as the record goes. Also the last words of every bar, or chorus, or just some parts are doubled (or how to describe it) on the record. Plus mind all the adlibs (Jeezy, French, Gucci, OJ, Kanye and similar rappers) and backround voices, it is just impossible. So stfu and educate yourself first!
generally what you’re saying is true but not always, not even close. there are so many artists out there that don’t use hype men that just rap through their verses without help. eminem doesn’t need a hype man, he just does it so his friends get some stage time. it used to be his best friend now it looks like his next best friend. tech n9ne does shows where he spits verse after verse at rapid speeds never missing a word and maintains breath. big puns fat ass used to spit long, intricate, fast as fuck verses as well. some guys use hype men, some guys need them. big difference between the two.
If you’ve ever been to an Eminem concert then you’d know he actually needs a hypeman, as most rappers do.
No matter how good you are, if you have some backround voices on your records or adlibs at the SAME time as your main voice, it is just not possible to say two words at the same time. You need a hypeman for that and it does not mean that you are not talented.