Honestly don't think there's a better writer/rapper in hip hop right now and dude been steady killing it for how long now? Only gets better. I listen thru most of these every day. And have for the last couple months lol. So fucking good
Illmac has been around since WRC and Rap Olympics when you didn't have 3 months to prepare for a battle and he was the best back then and hes still one of the best today....When is the world gonna acknowledge this fucking man? One of the best writers of all time. Period!
IllMaculate, Chase Moore, Avo...The Dream-Team. Watched this last night on RYD, love the hypnotic video, crazy beat and different flow. Mr. Butterfly bars! Fireeeeee..
Imma BIG BATTLE RAP FAN!!!! I've heard quite a few of them guys rhyme to a beat, they do it aight. You on the other hand kill it everytime. Keep that drive. Your fans really appreciate it.
Bought/downloaded every single one of ill's projects since the Green Tape. These raising the bar's are the perfect way to introduce people who don't already know - the fanbase is growing in London! Nobody want to see it like a Talib twitter rant!!!!! FIRE!!! Keep it up rudeboy
never understood why people think being famous is the definition of success when the truth is most lose themselves on the road to trying to become famous. suppose he's happy and comfortable just where he's at...
No doubt one of the hardest lyricist's in the game but your flow incredible, metaphors n wordplay are off the charts and i like how your also a poet. Your the full package keep it up! Been fuckin wit u since grindtime
Dope as always. Yeah Talib Kweli be on that rant & beef shyt! Him & Diabolic always on it. I be thinkin what must Swave, Pen, & Tech be thinkin! lol Twitter (prolly all social media) got the whole talkin wit a of illusory superiority!
Listened to this last night on stream and thought it was okay, but listening to it again now it's dope af. Guess that's what happens when you're half asleep lol. Good shit as always
This shit is fire as per usual...The fact that people sleep on your pen game, is the reason hip hop is on life support...Mainstream is steadily force feeding garbage into our eardrums, while real rap, like this, is only viewed by real hip hop heads...Shits tragic... Illmac is top 5 today #NotUpForDebate
Just as good as I expected it to be, spectacular as always, you never fail to amaze, Illmac. You and Chase Moore a wild duo foreal, Chase Moore workin' that magic on the beats, and got you destroying them verbally. Got #Ethereal on repeat already, good shit, ill.
Monster I'm Blanka, but you appear shocked butterfly to the face - when Game removed the tear drop I'm an alien, what im doin here? - watch I'm passing thru the Earth and the booth's my souvenir shop ..........................................................damn
When this came out I sent it to my girl and told her to play it in her car outside of work. Everyone asked who it was and left bumping the track. Illmac is just fire.
illmacTV bro i told my girl to play this at work when she got off and bump it...EVERYONE asked who it was so she told them. They all liked it. Shit goes hard bruh.
Man..Sadly, you're an excellent example of being slept on. 10k subs. Fuckin shame. You deserve millions over these shitty fuckin Mumble Rappers. Respect man. I'm spreading the word about you, though. You been putting in work for years, you deserve more recognition.
i know you prob don't know about me or this SickHop shit me and my girl do, but I'm just gonna go out on a limb right now and say that i promise you one day you will know us both, and that one day we will be working together even if just for a feature or single collab. We are gaining a buzz and have been moving up slow n steady. Personally (me dub) i find your words to be the most inspirational in the game. I often will put on a TMP cypher or one of this series while I'm trying to write for whatever track we are on that day. I appreciate your style and while complex and quiet deep, i feel like i hear what your saying with every bar. I aspire to develop why style into something that can be compared with yours as it relates to quality and power to make others think. Cant thank you enough for the inspiration. Nothing like listening to the best when your trying to beat the best. Give us till halloween 17 and i promise you will start to hear about our shit. group name is SoloCult me and my girl Xel Xel, we make #SIckHop music in Nor-Cali bay area. Peace love and continued success to you and yours. Drop a line if you in the 707 415 we got a legit lab.
Honestly don't think there's a better writer/rapper in hip hop right now and dude been steady killing it for how long now? Only gets better. I listen thru most of these every day. And have for the last couple months lol. So fucking good
This the kinda shit all hip hop should sound like. Wont say its dead. Just gotta find artists like this. Props to all the pure ones
This guys wordplay is so fucking dope, please keep making these. Mad props illmac
+Jason Garcia thank you homie! 🙏 We just getting started!
Illmac has been around since WRC and Rap Olympics when you didn't have 3 months to prepare for a battle and he was the best back then and hes still one of the best today....When is the world gonna acknowledge this fucking man? One of the best writers of all time. Period!
This man is the definition of perfecting your craft and he still mad slept on. Keep doing your thing Illmac, persistence pays off bro. Salute!
+cosovic14 they can ignore stagnant dope shit but not consistent 🙏
damn i think i listened to this about 6 times on repeat and still blown away
+Felix Trejo ayyyy good looks tho!
I love every “Raising The Bar” you've done man, from 1-7, great work !
🙏
love the laid back style on this beat. making it look easy
+Adam Orr🙏🙏🙏
"I make it look easy cause it is... put that on me" -song from Ethereal lol
Never disappoints. illmac is a monster!!! As soon as the series goes up for sell I am definitely buying.
That's whats up ANdre!
IllMaculate, Chase Moore, Avo...The Dream-Team. Watched this last night on RYD, love the hypnotic video, crazy beat and different flow. Mr. Butterfly bars! Fireeeeee..
Zachary Madden foreal, I almost couldn't look away, but by the flow, Illmac's lyrics and how he smashed the beat.
+Zachary Madden hahaha 🐛🦋
Honestly each vid is living up to the name of the series. Straight BARS in this one.
Imma BIG BATTLE RAP FAN!!!! I've heard quite a few of them guys rhyme to a beat, they do it aight. You on the other hand kill it everytime. Keep that drive. Your fans really appreciate it.
Bought/downloaded every single one of ill's projects since the Green Tape.
These raising the bar's are the perfect way to introduce people who don't already know - the fanbase is growing in London!
Nobody want to see it like a Talib twitter rant!!!!! FIRE!!!
Keep it up rudeboy
+thekidd7 appreciate u rudebwoi!
+thekidd7 I appreciate you homie! We just hitting a stride!
Been a fan of Mac since Spin The Mic and he has never dissapointed once since than.
YO this comes across crazy like a Border Hopper. ...shout out IllMac!
ill Mac is like no other. one of his own kind that's why he is ill Mac
everything Illmac does it fucking awesome.....but this seriously raised the bar.....unreal and so fucking badass! Much RESPECT!
Good looks homie
illmac is a machine with the rhymes, hella sophisticated
Only rapper that battles, who I’m subbed to right now and I fuck with battle rap tough.
I'd buy every single one of these. So fucking good. Well done man.
THank you David! Going to keep htem youtube exclusive til I get a few more out then put em out remastered
Damn man I swear you are one of the dopest rappers today, you need to be famous.
Ilmac stay awesome bro cant wait for the next one :)
What if he doesn't want to be 'famous' ? some people hate that term just a thought.
Wisco Mad no I just meant his skills need to be more recognized
never understood why people think being famous is the definition of success when the truth is most lose themselves on the road to trying to become famous. suppose he's happy and comfortable just where he's at...
Appreciate you. Definitely just trying to work harder and spread the message as wide as it can go 🙏
I dont want to be famous, it's all an illusion. -illmac
Ill flows so sick and the beat is off the hook 🔥💯👍
+chinren707 Chase Moore is a monster!
illmacTV couldn't agree with you more Fam. . His beats are of the hook, you look at em and would never think that. But dude had smad skills
Hands down, you murdered another beat! Come to Belgium!
Butter. Digging the juxtaposition of the X type beat w/ the clipping sub against the more relaxed vocals
Let the beat do the work and give it that extra!
You've done it again. You never cease to amaze me with your writing. Wow that was crazy. #2 is still my fav, but this one came pretty close.
This is dope. Let's hear #6!
I get the hype every time a new raising the bar comes out!
It's incredibly lyrical thank God for illmac it's a MC's miracle .
No doubt one of the hardest lyricist's in the game but your flow incredible, metaphors n wordplay are off the charts and i like how your also a poet. Your the full package keep it up! Been fuckin wit u since grindtime
Love watching this shit last night live. Dope playa.
Thanks for tuning in. Will try and go live at LEAST once a month on youtube. If not once a week.
Raising the Bar... everytime. I see you Ill.
Got to, no going backwards lol
Jesus christ this whole series is crazy. Love the Kweli bar lol
Dope as always.
Yeah Talib Kweli be on that rant & beef shyt! Him & Diabolic always on it. I be thinkin what must Swave, Pen, & Tech be thinkin! lol
Twitter (prolly all social media) got the whole talkin wit a of illusory superiority!
Listened to this last night on stream and thought it was okay, but listening to it again now it's dope af. Guess that's what happens when you're half asleep lol. Good shit as always
+Chronic Riot appreciate u
You stay gettin better and better bro. 💯 Keep slayin it. Excited every time another one pops up in my notifications. ✊👌
u already know homie, much appreciated!
wow! this beat hella hard! Treacherous! Keep em droppin' - NDN(luv)! Rockhead
+Rock Head another one dropping asap. Stay tuned!
mos def fam! I b like f**ka formula too lol! luv RTB5!
🔥🔥🔥oooh! God cut cha from a different cloth no doubt 🔥🔥🔥
This shit is fire as per usual...The fact that people sleep on your pen game, is the reason hip hop is on life support...Mainstream is steadily force feeding garbage into our eardrums, while real rap, like this, is only viewed by real hip hop heads...Shits tragic... Illmac is top 5 today #NotUpForDebate
Just as good as I expected it to be, spectacular as always, you never fail to amaze, Illmac. You and Chase Moore a wild duo foreal, Chase Moore workin' that magic on the beats, and got you destroying them verbally.
Got #Ethereal on repeat already, good shit, ill.
THanks for tuning in and copping ETHEREAL homie!
One of the best rappers in the game... 🔥🔥🔥
This makes me want to start writing again... salute ill.... You should do an episode explaining your writing process... shit is amazing
My favourite is this one out of all
Another bodybag homie. Good shit
Been waitin' for this, thanks Illmac!
Already know before it's even been thought, finna be here for Raisin' The Bar ∞ 😎
Im over here trying to get that college work done and illmacs over heating my shit again. Oh and I havent even hit play yet.
Damn illmac each one is better than the last one keep em comin bro I take it u won the caddy royal since #5 dropped so fast I got u with the w
Dennis Gunter naw they gave Frank Stacks the dub though EK and Illmac roasted, everyone else was good, Stacks was cool.
🔥🔥🔥. always so good. thank you
Much respect to you for being able to raise the bar even though you're only 5 feet tall👊
Everytime I play it I end up replaying 3-4 times
+Brandon Hamman ayyy, doin smn right, that's what's up 🙏
Prolly my favorite on so far
more rhymes in this verse than all off Too Shorts albums combined Dopeness
These are so good. Felt like a slightly different style of flow on this one. Sick. Keep it up man
We need to start a 'Raising the Bar Challenge'.
What we gotta do to get cats to RAP fam?
i live for the these bars
Beat and bars is fiyah my dude #RTB
8k views wtf for real. This shit needs. To go viral.. his flows like Cali its star8 on 🔥🔥🔥
+chinren707 🙏🙏🙏
Monster I'm Blanka, but you appear shocked
butterfly to the face - when Game removed the tear drop
I'm an alien, what im doin here? - watch
I'm passing thru the Earth and the booth's my souvenir shop ..........................................................damn
+Casa blanca 🙏
Waiting for raising the bar #6 !!
Good lord! That was fiery get it illmaculate
Salute Mark!
When I hear bars & metaphors that are clever n whitty, It makes me laugh. This had me crackin' up.
sheeesh! fire my G! why not puttin all the episodes out as a project....? DO IT!
+manu matic around #10 I will
thats whats up!
Yeee beats dope & you slayed it 👽
The Talib Kweli line was cold but I don't know how to feel about Illmac just dissin a legend like that.
god damn this is the hardest one yet.."come across crazy like a border hopper"..only battler who makes music worth a fuck
Make us wait for that bro? Come one!
I actually put it out before I said I was going to... sooooo? lol
Talib kweli really does do twitter rants often
Watched this last night. This shit slaps🔥🔥
Thanks for tuning in to the live stream! Think I'm going to try to do that once a week.
Damn illmac. 🔥
this is straight fire!!!!°°
That game shit was no joke!
Keeping the essence.
It's the Goat
Just trying to do the work!
daaaaaayum 🔥
Beats hella fire
Fuego
"Beef like Suni and Shi'a" Nice, this shit is iLL yo. 💯💯💯💯
Good looks!
Keep by the toolies, in Street fights we beef like the Shiites an sunnis - only BESIDES
Only Kills that shit!
Glad you caught that easter egg!
When this came out I sent it to my girl and told her to play it in her car outside of work. Everyone asked who it was and left bumping the track. Illmac is just fire.
you a real one
fire!
Will these be available to buy and download? A mixtape or something? Seriously, I want all of these!
UA-cam exclusive until probably #10, thenm we'll do an exclusive project or something to make it special!
illmacTV bro i told my girl to play this at work when she got off and bump it...EVERYONE asked who it was so she told them. They all liked it. Shit goes hard bruh.
Where the FAK have I been?????
A lyracisssssttt. Okay let me calm down.
Yo bro. you got a new sub tho
Gawd Damn!!!!!!!
Fuckin 🐐! That beat slaps too!
This is fucking nasty. I just seen guardians of the galaxy 2 earlier so that ego Bar was brazy af
+Victor cachu feelmeh? Lol
Illmac on that interdimensional extraterrestrials reverse bipolar theory shit
+barry bombor nailed it 😂
illmacTV if you can add that into the next raising the bar you know you won at life period!! 👍
Y’all need to just stop. This is unfair to other lyricists and beat makers. Chasemac for president
🔥
Illmac you fucking destroyed this beat
A colab with Astray would be INSANE
When we finna see between the bars #3-5?
+skootermcirish filmed and dropping ASAP
Fire my nigga 🔥 THIS SHIT GO HARRRRRD MY G 💪👍🤝🍻
Your a fucking genius! The shit you come up with blows my fucking mind, much respect!
Do it again
we only on #5 my guy! lol
Drop 6,7 and 10
Still need that Aesop Rock collab tbh
You need a track with Royce 5'9.
+Burn 7fold was suppose to happen at one point... would be crazy
Moms popped me upside my head for trynna set the house on fire when i turned this on smh.
+Chumad lol! Salute u n moms!
illmacTV 💯 keep doing ya thang it aint for nothin.
Hard🤘
It took me like 50 listens to realise he's rapping like Geechi Gotti at multiple times.
Man..Sadly, you're an excellent example of being slept on. 10k subs. Fuckin shame. You deserve millions over these shitty fuckin Mumble Rappers. Respect man. I'm spreading the word about you, though. You been putting in work for years, you deserve more recognition.
+Fuh Que the beauty is we just starting to build. Thank you!
i know you prob don't know about me or this SickHop shit me and my girl do, but I'm just gonna go out on a limb right now and say that i promise you one day you will know us both, and that one day we will be working together even if just for a feature or single collab. We are gaining a buzz and have been moving up slow n steady. Personally (me dub) i find your words to be the most inspirational in the game. I often will put on a TMP cypher or one of this series while I'm trying to write for whatever track we are on that day. I appreciate your style and while complex and quiet deep, i feel like i hear what your saying with every bar. I aspire to develop why style into something that can be compared with yours as it relates to quality and power to make others think. Cant thank you enough for the inspiration. Nothing like listening to the best when your trying to beat the best. Give us till halloween 17 and i promise you will start to hear about our shit. group name is SoloCult me and my girl Xel Xel, we make #SIckHop music in Nor-Cali bay area. Peace love and continued success to you and yours. Drop a line if you in the 707 415 we got a legit lab.
+SickHop Studios appreciate you reaching out. Look forward to seeing y'all shit, keep growing!
Kweli twitter rant ahhh