No. That was rhyming about the crack, hoes and hustle era. Ll was lyrical from the 80s. When u had to be intellectual and whitty with party and street hits. Only hits stood out because althem 80s guys were rapping black power intellectual street music.
The composure, the delivery and the bars.... being so clear on the mic it sounds like a recorded track... hands down the best Freestyle in my own opinion.
This is why I loved him. His lyrics are off the chart and so clear and not just humming and saying ridiculous war is don't make sense, but Crisp and clear for the entire world to hear 😊
You'll know a freestyle when you hear it.. He knew he'd be rapping on sway.. This was written, amended.. For probably months.. In the lead up to whatever's he's promoting.
Overlooked 😂😂😂😂 how can he be overlooked when he’s the one that put the rhythm in Rap His first release of My Radio changed the way rappers use to rap, and caused all of them to do it with style and beats … I don’t know how old you are but you can’t say he’s overlooked, underrated or not relevant… 😂😂😂😂 He’s the one that started the whole battle rap Era
If you truely missed and loved it, you'd know it never left. There are so many great artists out there but you people stuck in the past can't evolve with the times so you make comments like this. Sad man.
@@alec57 SCAR FACE, ICE CUBE, BIGGIE, PAC, RAKIM, LL, BIG DADDY KANE, NIPPSEY, YG, THE GAME, MM, . GIVE ME A COUPLE OF RAPPER THAT U THINK ARE GOOD. PLEASE DON'T SAY J COLE OR KENDRICK THEY BOTH GARBAGE. GIVE ME A FEW PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO. NO MUMBLE OR DRILL RAP.
Lmao. Clearly never heard artists like Lupe huh? Goofballs in these comments everywhere. Not to mention this was one of the shortest freestyles ever and he could barely stay on beat.
L has been doing this since he was 16 years old and he just DESTROYED a whole generation with a freestyle!!!pay attention mumble auto tune rappers!!!!this is true hip hop this is what you HAD to do to get respect in the game no Instagram no Facebook just raw skills keep it going mr Smith ❤❤
@@alec57seen you a lot on the comments being a hater 😂 LL don't need your respect and has earned theirs. Don't let your own insecurity guide you to tear others down, but instead motivate yourself to do better
You sure? Put some money on that? Let's not forget the title track to Deep Blue... Made me lose a lot of respect for him for a very long time. My boys and I still make jokes about, 'my hat is like a shark's fin, deepest bluest' cuz it's so trash. This is the LL I grew up knowing as the goat.
The previous generation of rappers just had an exceptional vocabulary and grasp of the english language. LL came from the "pre-mumble" generation that spawned the birth of RAP which stood for "Rhythm And Poetry". All you non lyrical, mumble rappers out there, just replay this video and take notes!
All you people need to stop living with your head in the sand and do some research. If you actually love and respect the genre, you'd know there's tons of great lyrical artists out. But you'd rather remain ignorant out of stuborness
For real. But please EVERYONE!!! Educate me.. why do they call all these freestyles "freestyles"?? As if these aren't written prepared earlier? For real love LL, Love what so many have done. But this ain't off the dome. So tell me how can critics or fans claim this to be freestyle. As if LL or Black Thought didn't see this as an opportunity to kill it. Ppl really think they walk and sit in that chair with nothing worked on.. pffft no f way!
@@Takari916 cool, ok, so that means by your own admission - and by extension, that you consider "freestyle" not actually "FREE STYLE". So there is an 'unsaid' understanding that freestyle isn't "in the moment rapping and having no preparation prior to delivery". My point remains - how do people in general now define what freestyle is? It used to mean, impromptu in the moment rapping over a beat box or music or vs an opponent. People been writing their bars for 20 years. Just look back at grindtime and different battle leagues when it was genuine fire!! But, from extremely talented writers!! They had to remember their BARS. Everyone has lost the definition or meaning of "freestyle".. or it's changed over the last 30-40 years.
@@Adrok23 LL got down spur of the moment on camera without studdering or fumbling; Its also worth noting he did it in one take without having to “punch in” every line like most rappers do these days. LL Cool J definitely didn’t come in with a verse pre-written to that beat just for SWAY & any real rapper should have at least 100 songs that they’ve written in their archives that they may never even use for anything. Some rappers can’t even remember anything that they write so have shown up to freestyle interviews with their phone out or even a notepad. Everybody can’t come “off the dome” and some have hurt their brands trying to do it live on camera; this is why you see most artist spittin long well thought out verses where the bars were constructed over time. Artists like Twista & Busta Rhymes who can rap very fast are more likely to come off the dome because they have a gift which allows them to process thoughts and put them into words very quickly. Artists like LL Cool J & Nipsey who have that slower delivery are they ones who better display their talents by giving you a well thought out verse they took their time writing.
@@Takari916 yeah man I hear you on this one. Dude I'm in Australia and love my old school hip hop I'm struggling with modern times and I'm kinda out the loop n terms of who's fire and who's blowing up and who are people sleeping on. Don't get me wrong I love these legends on Sway. Also love learning from these legends on Drink Champs. Hearing stories. If one man can just shut up and let the interviewer talk and finish their stories and attributes. But that's another thing.
I was born in the 70's...I am so grateful to experience the era of real hip hop. For all you mumble rapping yougstas, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! SHOUT OUT TO REAL HIP HOP!!
🤡 go back to bed gramps. Ray Vaughns freestyles shits all over this and he's a new age rapper. You guys sound like a bunch of over the hill and uneducated goofballs when it comes to Hip-Hop.
It’s crazy how he was the 1st cat at 17 to get signed to a hip hop label (Def Jam) and this mane been bumping since 1984 (40 yrs) and he’s still BUMPIN’
Not going to lie... for a moment, I thought this was an A.I. generated deep fake of LL because there was no way he spit that much fire off the dome. I had to go back and listen to this at 0.75x just to fully appreciate the storytelling and the word play and the lyrical genius that we just witnessed. 🤯
🔥 This is Mr. Smith’s battle/freestyle side… VICIOUS 💥 I appreciate that he can simplify lyrics to give us music to bounce to also. That’s how you become the G.O.A.T. 🎙️
@@CueVueTVrespectfully your wrong. If you think rappers are intelligent enough to freestyle without saying they shoot kill steal or flash things and without using the same end rhyme more than once, or rap off beat it’s because you don’t pay attention to new music
I heard this the third day after it was released, but I did not comment, because I could not believe that this dude hasn’t been brought up in any new age lyricist conversation. The only thing to do at this point is to bow, throw up the peace, sign, Drop the Mic and exit stage, right. LL is the truth.
LL is 56 years old. He is a master. He’s Been rapping and hitting billboard charts since he was a teenager. Imagine that many years of practice and thousand of shows touring.
This generation doesn't read enough books to follow and appreciate what just happened
4real
“What just happened” 😂
Preach bro ! I argue with my son about this I come from a era of hip hop with true lyricists..
Facts!!!!! 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Fuck this generation, as far as rap. And some other shit too.
Is it me or is LL still that mfn dude 🔥💯💪🏽
He is STILL THAT DUDE!!!!
No doubt
Damn!
The voice, the flow. Still that dude. A real rapper.
That shiet was fire asf
LL COOL J's freestyle is proof that time has stood still for his rap game. Still as fresh and legendary as ever! 🔥🕰️❤
Not a true freestyle.
"Angels injected him with lyrical dope; The same drug they gave Hemmingway and Edgar Allen Poe" FIRE!!!!!
LL been spittin like that since 1985…
Spitten yes! But not like this. This was some Rakim type sh!t
This is written
He asked for a verse @@PrimeTonysElbows
Longevity of a legend
I-I-I-I need a beat, I need a beat, I need a beat...
90's the only part of the game that cared about being intelligent
80s Also
He’s a 80s rapper though 😂😂
L from the 80s
L's biggest fame came from his 90s hits.
No. That was rhyming about the crack, hoes and hustle era. Ll was lyrical from the 80s. When u had to be intellectual and whitty with party and street hits. Only hits stood out because althem 80s guys were rapping black power intellectual street music.
Why can't rappers still spit like this 😭
It's simply a lack of education...
Many can but the powers that be will not let it go mainstream
There's no pressure to be lyrical anymore 🤕🤕
LL Cool J is hard as hell
No Diddy
Battle anybody I don’t care who you tell! 🔥
"Angels injected him with lyrical dope" 🔥🔥🔥 I have never heard that in my life!
He knows God and the Angels are black and that we are the gods of this earth. Yeah LL knows
No cap that was fire.
The composure, the delivery and the bars.... being so clear on the mic it sounds like a recorded track... hands down the best Freestyle in my own opinion.
Maybe it’s a recorded track
🤯🔥
@@dystantmind7254naw the way he moved his mouth before he was getting ready to spit.
These are the kind of tracks that sells millions cause of originals and pure they sound. No rehearsal. Raw material.
This is why I loved him. His lyrics are off the chart and so clear and not just humming and saying ridiculous war is don't make sense, but Crisp and clear for the entire world to hear 😊
LL lyricism gotten more crisp over years
Even IF that wasn't a freestyle and memorized, it was amazing.
You'll know a freestyle when you hear it.. He knew he'd be rapping on sway.. This was written, amended.. For probably months.. In the lead up to whatever's he's promoting.
This is ridiculous. This man doing it still 40 plus years later. Crazy. I miss the 80-90s. Real music. Not rappers humming the same beat
At 57years old STILL 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That's a Fact
Black thought entered the chat.
its not hard, you just dont know how to do it. Stop being a fanboi
@@moto-bruhlet’s hear it playa. You must be a computer thug working at Target lol
"The Doc saw the horns and said omg its a goat" Crazy!
😂
Devil reference. Don’t be deceived.
You only fear the devil if you haven’t brought your demons into the light.
Or was it actual an acronym G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time)...the doctors realized his greatness at birth....now that's dope!
For all you Mumble Rappers out there in this generation……. THIS IS WHAT HIP HOP IS SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨
LL still fuckin got it, mf legend.
That ladies and gentlemen is what a lyrical master sounds like!!! LL COOL J!!!! GOAT
😂😂😂
Overlooked in the conversation of the greatest lyricist. MAN!!!!
Facts! One of the pioneers of this thing we call hip hop!
Overlooked 😂😂😂😂 how can he be overlooked when he’s the one that put the rhythm in Rap His first release of My Radio changed the way rappers use to rap, and caused all of them to do it with style and beats … I don’t know how old you are but you can’t say he’s overlooked, underrated or not relevant… 😂😂😂😂 He’s the one that started the whole battle rap Era
@@bernardcole4911 nobody has in the conversation brother
Overlooked by who 😂😂😂
@@bplayerr1 Nobody? All the goats have him in the conversation. It's new gen that don't. He's in my top 10. Since day 1.
LL is one of the GOATS that don't get mentioned...
Not true! I’ve heard Em and a few more of the GOATS mention him as their influence and calling him one of the best rappers!
40 years in and LL STILL A BEAST!
If you've been at something for 40 years, and not a beast. Something's wrong.
THIS DUDE!!! Once he started he couldn't stop!!! TRUE ICON OF RAP!!!
Legendary man, LL is relevant in any ERA.
#FactsonFacts
#ANYERA #HANDSDOWN #WESAIDWHATWESAID 🔥🔥🔥💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
LL Cool J is a musical legend. Put his face on rap's Mount Rushmore. His lyrics are "HOT FIRE!" 🎶💥🔥🔥🔥💯
That just made my Mother’s Day, 2024, 😮😮😮❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥at 50 years of age, morning.
This is why this man is a legend, and don't forget it.
This is why my generation say the 90’s is the best era, this type of hip hop was the norm for us. 🤷🏿♂️
Facts
No Cap
All day
Real shit….
FACTS
LL Cool J is aging like a top shelf whiskey. Ol skool finest flavour.
I MISS REAL RAP
If you truely missed and loved it, you'd know it never left. There are so many great artists out there but you people stuck in the past can't evolve with the times so you make comments like this. Sad man.
@@alec57 SCAR FACE, ICE CUBE, BIGGIE, PAC, RAKIM, LL, BIG DADDY KANE, NIPPSEY, YG, THE GAME, MM, . GIVE ME A COUPLE OF RAPPER THAT U THINK ARE GOOD. PLEASE DON'T SAY J COLE OR KENDRICK THEY BOTH GARBAGE. GIVE ME A FEW PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO. NO MUMBLE OR DRILL RAP.
@@blackamerica5974 - Joyner Lucas.
Lyrics that most of the young bucks are spitting today cannot compare to this.
Lmao. Clearly never heard artists like Lupe huh? Goofballs in these comments everywhere. Not to mention this was one of the shortest freestyles ever and he could barely stay on beat.
Haha good u showed up doc. I'm afraid LL flow so sick he gonna need an operation
Respectfully, you're wrong. If you think young cats ain't spittin' like this, it's because you aren't looking em up.
Get off the radio og and get w the culture
Most rappers today can't even pronounce 1/2 the words LL said.
Still one of the best lyricist to ever touch a Mic.
Honestly. Amazing.
words young kids dont know what it is... LL COOL J !
🔥🔥 No disrespect to women, that’s why LL COOL J DA GOAT 🐐
Been hearing LL rap since 1984. Him still being able to rap his ass off 40 years later is amazing.
Absolutely...... 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
It's like riding a bike once you know how to do what you always do
Cadene, Lyrics,Flow, Storytelling..Da King from Queens
Dude started turning it up as the bars kept flowing
Mr. Smith is always in my top 5. You can't be relevant since 'I Need Love' and not be. Pure FACTS!!
He made the whole radio group feel like kids again listening to their favorite rapper 😁
That was effing ridiculous. He made it look so effortless. That was SUPREME 🔥
L has been doing this since he was 16 years old and he just DESTROYED a whole generation with a freestyle!!!pay attention mumble auto tune rappers!!!!this is true hip hop this is what you HAD to do to get respect in the game no Instagram no Facebook just raw skills keep it going mr Smith ❤❤
Yesss sir 🔥🔥🔥🔥 LL real bars, and not one time he Mentioned drugs, alcohol. Or Degrading a woman
Yes he did! He said " Angels gifted him with lyrical dope! " Or sumtin to that effect!
@@troymcrae6111 that definitely doesn't qualify as mentioning drugs 😂 unless you know a syringe filled with lyrical dope somewhere 🤔
@@troymcrae6111 dope.....Not drugs. As in, "Yo, that freestyle was dope!"
@mickeywaynegeorge its a double entendre lol. It means both things at the same time
Deal her ron wit the camouflage gear on
Word play was tremendous🤯
LL Cool J one of my favorite MC’S since I was a kid back in the late 90’s. He gave birth to my style
And that my friend is Hip Hop!!
💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Seen it a million times. Nothing new.
@@alec57seen you a lot on the comments being a hater 😂 LL don't need your respect and has earned theirs. Don't let your own insecurity guide you to tear others down, but instead motivate yourself to do better
Cool James ain’t never been lukewarm warm, he stay 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You sure? Put some money on that?
Let's not forget the title track to Deep Blue... Made me lose a lot of respect for him for a very long time.
My boys and I still make jokes about, 'my hat is like a shark's fin, deepest bluest' cuz it's so trash.
This is the LL I grew up knowing as the goat.
He calls himself the G.O.A.T and no one can argue.
The previous generation of rappers just had an exceptional vocabulary and grasp of the english language. LL came from the "pre-mumble" generation that spawned the birth of RAP which stood for "Rhythm And Poetry". All you non lyrical, mumble rappers out there, just replay this video and take notes!
OMG!!! This man has intellectual bars. Now that’s what you call real Hip Hop hands down. Miss when rapper use to rap smh. Great bars hands down.
All you people need to stop living with your head in the sand and do some research. If you actually love and respect the genre, you'd know there's tons of great lyrical artists out. But you'd rather remain ignorant out of stuborness
Big LL with the extended vocabulary!🔥🔥🔥🔥
For real. But please EVERYONE!!! Educate me.. why do they call all these freestyles "freestyles"?? As if these aren't written prepared earlier? For real love LL, Love what so many have done. But this ain't off the dome. So tell me how can critics or fans claim this to be freestyle. As if LL or Black Thought didn't see this as an opportunity to kill it. Ppl really think they walk and sit in that chair with nothing worked on.. pffft no f way!
@@Adrok23 By your own admission “this ain’t off the dome” right? Now ask yourself: Did Sway ask for “off the dome” or a “Freestyle” ?😉
@@Takari916 cool, ok, so that means by your own admission - and by extension, that you consider "freestyle" not actually "FREE STYLE". So there is an 'unsaid' understanding that freestyle isn't "in the moment rapping and having no preparation prior to delivery". My point remains - how do people in general now define what freestyle is? It used to mean, impromptu in the moment rapping over a beat box or music or vs an opponent. People been writing their bars for 20 years. Just look back at grindtime and different battle leagues when it was genuine fire!! But, from extremely talented writers!! They had to remember their BARS. Everyone has lost the definition or meaning of "freestyle".. or it's changed over the last 30-40 years.
@@Adrok23 LL got down spur of the moment on camera without studdering or fumbling; Its also worth noting he did it in one take without having to “punch in” every line like most rappers do these days. LL Cool J definitely didn’t come in with a verse pre-written to that beat just for SWAY & any real rapper should have at least 100 songs that they’ve written in their archives that they may never even use for anything. Some rappers can’t even remember anything that they write so have shown up to freestyle interviews with their phone out or even a notepad. Everybody can’t come “off the dome” and some have hurt their brands trying to do it live on camera; this is why you see most artist spittin long well thought out verses where the bars were constructed over time. Artists like Twista & Busta Rhymes who can rap very fast are more likely to come off the dome because they have a gift which allows them to process thoughts and put them into words very quickly. Artists like LL Cool J & Nipsey who have that slower delivery are they ones who better display their talents by giving you a well thought out verse they took their time writing.
@@Takari916 yeah man I hear you on this one. Dude I'm in Australia and love my old school hip hop I'm struggling with modern times and I'm kinda out the loop n terms of who's fire and who's blowing up and who are people sleeping on. Don't get me wrong I love these legends on Sway. Also love learning from these legends on Drink Champs. Hearing stories. If one man can just shut up and let the interviewer talk and finish their stories and attributes. But that's another thing.
Omg my mans came out swinging!! "There was some when her water broke. Doc saw the horns omg issa goat" 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
The True Hyena right there. I didn't know what to expect. This is more than muscle memory, it's a gift, it's in him
Last line:
"Back to elevate the culture, thats my only motive"
Straight Heat. 🔥🔥🔥
🐐
Can you guys please beat the damn Chiefs! I'm sick of them and Swift.
Real talk after that freestyle it's hard to listen to anything else that not on the same level or higher
@michaeljames2084 man I'm sicc of them too fam...I said I wasn't gonna hype us UP until I we actually get over the hump lol
He's not going to drop an album 😂 Dude pokes his head out every 10 years and goes back into hiding
@@alec57 he doesn't need to. That's for young peeps
"True story right before your eyes" 80's babies stand up!!🙏🙏🤙
Still one of the greatest to ever do it. LL so bad
LL is too good wow he told a story.
Miss this….words..not the beat making a song. True poetry!
I was born in the 70's...I am so grateful to experience the era of real hip hop. For all you mumble rapping yougstas, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! SHOUT OUT TO REAL HIP HOP!!
🤡 go back to bed gramps. Ray Vaughns freestyles shits all over this and he's a new age rapper. You guys sound like a bunch of over the hill and uneducated goofballs when it comes to Hip-Hop.
It’s crazy how he was the 1st cat at 17 to get signed to a hip hop label (Def Jam) and this mane been bumping since 1984 (40 yrs) and he’s still BUMPIN’
Crazy cause he's one of the goats. They needed this to confirm hes definitely top 5 all time.
Is that a joke? Not even top 25 lol. There are people with actual classic albums out there
I forgot how lyrical that man was, he's definitely a beast and should be in the conversation every time
LL Still A Beast Lyrically Insane
Crazy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒 LL COOL J STILL GOT IT!!!!
Still got it LL COOL J 😎 👊🏾
The first couple of bars make me rewind about 10 times 🔥🔥🔥
Not going to lie... for a moment, I thought this was an A.I. generated deep fake of LL because there was no way he spit that much fire off the dome. I had to go back and listen to this at 0.75x just to fully appreciate the storytelling and the word play and the lyrical genius that we just witnessed. 🤯
Ll always been lyrical. But yeah that shit was phenomenal. 😅
Good idea. Gotta slow mo this shit
This isn't off the dome. Its a pre written freestyle.
@@alec57evidence?
LL always been about that business on the mic. I miss the LL and Kool Moe D battles.
🔥 This is Mr. Smith’s battle/freestyle side… VICIOUS 💥 I appreciate that he can simplify lyrics to give us music to bounce to also. That’s how you become the G.O.A.T. 🎙️
The new rap generation has no clue.back in days you really had to know how to rap..legendary
Lmao he couldnt even stay on beat. And clearly you have trash taste if you think there arent artists right now that spit wayyyy harder than this.
Respectfully, you're wrong. If you think young cats ain't spittin' like this, it's because you aren't looking em up.
@@CueVueTVrespectfully your wrong. If you think rappers are intelligent enough to freestyle without saying they shoot kill steal or flash things and without using the same end rhyme more than once, or rap off beat it’s because you don’t pay attention to new music
There’s a reason why LL Cool J is the greatest of all time.
ONE OF THEM FOR SURE!! OG!
He’s the first 🐐
Easy fella he ain’t the best
He is up there, but he ain’t the greatest
@@federicovellere9871 he is the greatest of all time. LL is a lyricist’s lyricist. Your favorite rappers’ favorite rapper is LL Cool J.
Top 5 AT imo. Freestyles aren't easy he murdered that quickly.
One of the hardest verses I’ve ever heard!
That IS HIPHOP!!!!!! LL is King🔥
NO WORDS NEEDED TO DESCRIBE THIS FREESTYLE!!!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I heard this the third day after it was released, but I did not comment, because I could not believe that this dude hasn’t been brought up in any new age lyricist conversation. The only thing to do at this point is to bow, throw up the peace, sign, Drop the Mic and exit stage, right. LL is the truth.
The day I herd him say “you want a hit, give me a hour plus a pen and a pad” I knew he was the GOAT! 🔥
I miss this era 😢
If this was off the dome, my goodness. One of the best verses ever!
LL is 56 years old. He is a master. He’s Been rapping and hitting billboard charts since he was a teenager. Imagine that many years of practice and thousand of shows touring.
They always said llcoolj was the hottest rapper. That was fire and real hip hop at its best.
As a member of the Old Head Delegation, I just want to say. THIS is what g.o.a.t. sounds like. I am not worthy💪🏾
LL flowed so tough, I think he shocked himself lol when dappin' up everyone
LL is LEGENDARY
LL is dangerous!!!!
He never fell off
If u don't know about Jack the Ripper...Now U Know!!! The G.O.A.T.!!!!!
He said slow it down and killed that beat
LL comes through with 40 years of experience...still outshines the majority of youngsters any time, any day....truly a G O A T
Still one of the best there ever was and ever will. Greatness in the flesh Ladies and Gentlemen
Impressive, dude is in his 50's
You don't get dumber as you age.
That was a warm up lol.
LL had to remind em real quick 🔥🔥🔥
Chills! This why I still bump Mr Smith to this daaaay!!
The absolute G.O.A.T. Rock tha bells LL.
LL Cool J came and brought them 90s high power Barz🎧🎙🎵🎶🎼🎹 back too the booth on Sway in the Morning ya👂heard me💯
Show over. Shut it down LL is in the building. Let’s get it. 🎤🎤🎤
Get it L...has nothing to prove and does it anyway.
❤ it!
Sounds better anything out right now. That's a classic
They can't f*ck with LL ! Originator of the flow!!!!
LL Is still the man! Respect 🫡 💪🏿💪🏿
Still dope after decades in the game
A real MC will always be an MC. Legend 💪🏼
Tell them young boys this is how its done