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Some shower thoughts:
It's a common thing in hip-hop to use spoken-word samples that naturally fit the tempo of the track (for example). That works surprisingly often because (apparently) the syllable-tempo of spoken English falls more or less into the "danceable" range.
But there's languages with very different syllable-tempos; Spanish tends to run much faster, for example. But is it exactly twice as fast? Do hip-hop artists in Spanish-speaking countries have to stretch their speech samples to fit the music, or do they make the music faster to match? Or maybe it all winds up in some obscure timing signature like 7/4 so that everything fits?
It's a common thing in hip-hop to use spoken-word samples that naturally fit the tempo of the track (for example). That works surprisingly often because (apparently) the syllable-tempo of spoken English falls more or less into the "danceable" range.
But there's languages with very different syllable-tempos; Spanish tends to run much faster, for example. But is it exactly twice as fast? Do hip-hop artists in Spanish-speaking countries have to stretch their speech samples to fit the music, or do they make the music faster to match? Or maybe it all winds up in some obscure timing signature like 7/4 so that everything fits?
Hmmm... I wonder.