Style Wars over Stockhausen

The experimental hip-hop pioneer and enigmatic rap mystic Sensational

When most hip-hop artists were still sampling James Brown drumbreaks, Sensational was freestyling over Karlheinz Stockhausen records.

For three decades, the raspy-voiced MC has been dropping his trademark stream-of-consciousness bars over electronic-leaning, off-kilter beats.

His abstract style made trad hip-hop listeners feel like bebop aficionados migh…