j. cole stops in on that hot 9-7 (yesterday) to sit down with flex and drop a handful of freestyled verses over different beats of flex’s choosing, including: wu tang’s “…ain’t nothing to fuck with,” capone and noreaga’s “bloody money,” and ll cool j’s “i’ll bomb.”
thanks youtube comments. hit the jump for the other videos – born sinner is out today.
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here’s a freestyle
we’ve been waiting on. sir joseph badass, ladies and gentleman.
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one of the only great things about having an XXL freshman list is this particular feature here. each artists gets a verse-worth of air time to spit a verse, and usually they’re pretty good. check out q’s above.
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joey badass and all of his pro era cohorts hit the BET studios for their own backroom freestyle.
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common is always game for some true freestyling, iddnt he? while on the sway on the morning, the emcees shove him into a session, and he has no problem droppin’ a few gems on everyone.
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while stopping by the flex studios, child of the west coast decides to freestyle over two fantastic east coast instrumentals. up top, he spits something nice over prodigy’s “keep it thoro” and handles (seriously, handles) “nas is like” below the jump.
edit: just added a third clip – “wu tang ain’t nothin’ to fuck with,” and neither is kendrick lamar.
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asap continues his super promotional run for LONGLIVEASAP and hits up the westwood studios to spit a few bars – an actual freestyle at that. for like 7 minutes.
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rozay and his MMG bearded protege stalley released a freestyle over chief keef’s “love sosa” yesterday, and in 24 hours, have put out a music video to go along with it.
oh and speaking of chief keef, he’s jailbound!
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asap rocky enlists a three-pronged DJ attack on letterman during his performance of “wild for the night.” dj clark kent, a-trak and araabmuzik all join forces for a mind melter of a mini dj set, packed into 2 minutes of a “wild for the night” performance. to kick things off, asap sat atop a throne and performed a verse from his new album’s namesake for good measure.
hit the jump to see asap freestyling to “clique,” as well.
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only a matter of time before these start coming out in droves, but since this one is houston affiliated, i’ll give it a nod.
also, this video of lebron james singing this song will be better than all future remixes, freestyles, etc.
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TDE’s resident wacko ab-soul was the latest to stop by BET/106 & park’s ‘the backroom,’ for their freestyle series. ab-soul rhymes over some production by messiaz and does a mighty fine job.
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GOOD wasn’t the only one stopping by the flex studios. k-dot stopped by to drop some fluid bars over biggie’s “who shot ya.” listen below.
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kendrick lamar – who shot ya [freestyle]
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a little late on posting this, my apologies. hash is back at it again, with a brand new freestyle from his catalog. taking on saigon’s track of the same name (produced by the gr8 just blaze), hash shines some light back on his pending release, rap mayor II: landslide. stay tuned in the coming days for the first original single from the release as well.
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i don’t know how many times people gotta vouch for this guy, but he’s kinda good. it’s a real damn shame he released that debut LP.
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sway has lonnie in the studio to discuss the new GOOD album, but not before the veteran emcee takes control of the freestyle session and goes off for plenty of great bars.
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