Saw the Roots in 1999. They played for 2 hours. At midnight, they announced that they had finished their setlist and were gonna freestyle for a while. They then freestyled 45 minutes without stopping. When I saw this a few years ago, I was like "yeah, that adds up". 90's Roots were legendary. You don't become a legend without doing the work.
Bruh. He says the simplest things in the weirdest most profound ways... instead of simply saying I’ll kill you, he says “I’ll have you and the living a category apart” that’s just mastery.
@@tomayousif108 my advice, do what X did as a young kid, he may be a more goofy "mumble rap" freestyler, but he's definitely worthy of being a *freestyler* , he studied artists like these (mainly Biggie) , and he freestyled to beats that they used to freestyle to, do that and freestyling will become more and more natural for u, its fun man.
@@HempBraum who said they “alike?” they aint the same! they their own people and that’s why its a combining analogy…dont be mad cuz u slow, just work on being quicker 😂
@@nebulanesian369 the insinuation was clear for people with enough brain grasp to understand the concept of reading between the lines. maybe when you frontal lobe will fully develop someday, lil bro
rapping for 10 minutes straight is one thing, but doing it with this intensity and complexity is literally the most impressive thing I've seen a rapper do in my 29 years of living.
No stumbles. His breath control is perfect. The content is impeccable. The lyricism is on 100. Black Thought is a living LEGEND. Give this man his roses
@@BakersDozenOfficial nah, you can hear him breathing every few words. I think K.A.A.N circular breathes when he raps, his flow is almost nonstop, the listeners RARELY him him breathe, and it doesn’t seem like he punches in because the flow is so fluid
That's what I said..... this one session shits on some so called lyricists and "deep thinkers" entire project! I actually typed this comment at 4:44 am lol
@Chris Paul I know right. I was introduced to him through this like a year ago and heard some features and his two albums last year and all were amazing. Does he rap on all the roots songs? Because if so then i gotta listen to some roots
@Stephen atr&ruk 2019 well the comment u deleted sure seemed like a trolling comment. I dont even remember what you originally commented so its whatever man water under the bridge
The look of complete SHOCK and HORRIFIED AMAZEMENT on Funk Flex's face immediately at 5:29 summed up this historical, LEGENDARY HEAT that was recorded!!! I'm STILL speechless and blown away every time I listen to this!
My mother was a working class very loving woman, who struggled every dinner, could’ve been our last summer I come home, chasing good for nothing half cousins, and then walk into the crib to the smell of crack cookin! She was introduced to the substance abuse, on some of the strongest drugs that the government produced, look, I even got excused by the principal, my story is out of a dub dub interview
Flex should've broke that mic.....and gave it to homie to put in his house in a glass case. No one should be able to use that MIC again...it was officially destroyed....for 10 minutes. Cmon man....wow.
The nigga said O.G.s an Young Lions equally proud to listen His 'Secrets' amalgomism's a algorithm The most intelligent bar left on any hypnotic streaming search platform in 2019. Wtf
It doesn't get more elite than the level of breathe control and precision exhibited by the man. It was pure artistry. Hip-Hop skill at its supreme finest.
The bars, the flow, the delivery, the breath control, the content, the vocabulary, the professionalism. He displayed the art flawlessly in this freestyle. THIS IS HOW YOU RAP!!
This is one of those freestyles that every time you listen to it, you find a new bar or a new punchline. I come back to this freestyle every so often and every time I'm baffled. One of the goats.
"I am a walking affirmation, that imagination and focus and patience, gets you closer to your aspirations" - this one bar is worth more then lots of rappers whole careers
The man must be doing road work. Enough to take him 12 rounds. That is one of the most impressive things about it. That he was actually able to carry that load and make it look easy.
I swear this will stand the test of time as the greatest 1 take freestyle. What a masterclass. I've listened countless times and every time I'm blown away.
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This isn't your last time listening to this.
Fact
Factss
Factss
More like 420th time just this week.
Got me I think it’s the 20th
This isn’t a good freestyle, this is an “adjust your goat list” freestyle
Literally adjusted my list after hearing this lol
I couldn't be arsed arguing over the order and just put him in at number zero.
Yes this is telling you rethink about your every action of writing
lmao yup, I know who my new favorite freestyle rapper is
Facts!
Don't mind me, I'm just back here January 1 2020 paying my yearly homage.
Yup! Yup! My Daily Dose of Lyrical Excellence... Where Talent & Love meets > Focus & Raw Dedication = #NoLimts 👌🎯👏👍🙌❤️💯👊💥💎💣🌪️🎙️🎤🔞☢️🌋🔥🔥👀👀👑
Only yearly? Im back at this jawn at least twice a month
Mee 3 💥💥☺️☺️
Jan 7 still FIYAH
Just a thought 👍 yep
I don't think people understand how great a freestyle has to be for Flex to finally shut the hell up and sit back.
Griselda has entered the chat
j.i.d entered the chat
For real!!! 😂
Every time he pauses and points at his head, he’s actually just downloading more bars.
Lol
Lmaoooo this literally got me loling
Lol.
Now I see it all the time and think that lol
lol
LISTEN TO THIS ONCE A MONTH. LIKE A VITAMIN.
Like Eminem said invite'em in(vitamin) like one a day....🔥🔥🔥
Lol well I think I have a problem it's been just about every day for about 4 months lmaoo ..u literally catch something different everytime u listen
I've showed so many people this freestyle, I swear they're speechless when they hear this. Thought it redicoulois with hi bars.💯💪💪
yesssir its needed
You listen to vitamins?
That bit between 0:00 and 10:54 was awesome
Fact
It checks out.
i checked to see if you meant the whole thing POLICING THE COMMENTS HATING lmaooo this was posted 6 years ago we still enforcing
Yea i caught that too
yup, that part was good.... i agree it was the best part
Saw the Roots in 1999. They played for 2 hours. At midnight, they announced that they had finished their setlist and were gonna freestyle for a while. They then freestyled 45 minutes without stopping. When I saw this a few years ago, I was like "yeah, that adds up". 90's Roots were legendary. You don't become a legend without doing the work.
Saw them 3 times around 99-2002. Unbelievable. Was my fave group for years.
This freestyle is greater than most artists entire discography.
FACTS
True story bro!
More than an entire discography*
😂😂😂😂
This freestyle is a legendary moment in Hip Hop that never will be forgotten. Black Thought left Earth on that beat!
This freestyle deserves a Grammy and a Guinness world record
True
How would we get that done ?
FACTS
This dude can go! I never heard a free style laid down like that before..
Jesus Christ 😮
Bruh. He says the simplest things in the weirdest most profound ways... instead of simply saying I’ll kill you, he says “I’ll have you and the living a category apart” that’s just mastery.
I want to learn to casually talk like that. He does it with such finesse that makes it look like it's his everyday thing.
Wow facts, well said
good ear
@@tomayousif108 my advice, do what X did as a young kid, he may be a more goofy "mumble rap" freestyler, but he's definitely worthy of being a *freestyler* , he studied artists like these (mainly Biggie) , and he freestyled to beats that they used to freestyle to, do that and freestyling will become more and more natural for u, its fun man.
I didn't even catch that... good one 👍
The 'I'm kdot Lamar meets Tupac Shakur" hits different after the beef. 🔥
of course as I read this, he says it. that nigga kendrick spiritually powerful man hahah.
kendrick is nothing like 2pac. yall so tired.
This gotta be the whitest comment I've seen on this video
@@HempBraum who said they “alike?” they aint the same! they their own people and that’s why its a combining analogy…dont be mad cuz u slow, just work on being quicker 😂
@@nebulanesian369 the insinuation was clear for people with enough brain grasp to understand the concept of reading between the lines. maybe when you frontal lobe will fully develop someday, lil bro
rapping for 10 minutes straight is one thing, but doing it with this intensity and complexity is literally the most impressive thing I've seen a rapper do in my 29 years of living.
Adam Johnson . I agree. 100%.
Wordsmith
royce Da 5'9 raps for 11 mins straight on funk flex also and he was just as nice you should check it out
Cody McDowell will do
Royce definitely snapped too, but it wasn't 11 minutes straight. It was a lot of breaks. He still spazzed though
No stumbles. His breath control is perfect. The content is impeccable. The lyricism is on 100. Black Thought is a living LEGEND. Give this man his roses
"MC"s make it to the top and get complacent. Black Thought been there for years and never stopped perfecting his craft.
Big facts
Erin Smith lol please,That was no exaggeration,this freestyle is easily one of the greatest ever in history
Erin Smith “Minds” well, huh. 🤣😂🤣
It's the most impressive freestyle I've ever heard. So fucking good!
This is literally one of the most historic displays of lyricism......
Indeed
Facts
Gon a have to violently agree with you there, boss.
LITERALLY
@S D
That's a fact 😂😂
This masterpiece should be enshrined in the Library of Congress as the Constitution of Hip Hop
Who’s still jams this on the regular 2 yrs later😁, I know I do🖐🏽
Yessir!
Joe Traxx weekly
i play this joint at least once a day when i need that detox 😂
Every day homie
Joe Traxx YUP
2024 and we still here.
Never leaving.
Word!!!
2044
WORD
Have too unless it's a diss track smh
at this point ...I come back and listen to this like an actual song
facts!!!
lost count of how many times I've replayed now
Me too!
I gotta pace myself cause I can't get anything done when I listen I just pause and head nod then 10 mins go bye
lol me too
yo Who’s still watching in 2025????
Best freestyle all time
One of the best of all time
Few secs ago
Me 😀❤😅
We here bruh. Can’t not be
Who else listening to fire freestyles during lockdown 😂🔥
Me I'm bored outta my mind😂😂
Hell yeah
Yessir
Hahahaha all day brotha all day!
🥺😬
Flex: How many bars you got?
Black Thought: All of them.
Мирослав Стефанов Flex: How many bars you got?
Black thought: yes
Luqman Shabazz i was hoping someone said this😂
YES
Why did I read that in the voice of Thanos? 😂
😂😂😂😂
Bro did 10 minutes straight without falling off and it all made sense #legendary
And he also started rappin less then 10sec once the best came on it’s was like 3 seconds
Bananas
Where that dude that be writing out the lyrics in the comments at? I think that dude finally bowed out on this one.
Best freestyle I ever heard but wtf is malganism??
He said "amalgamism". It means to put things together or combine something.
Ummm this is all written and remembered. This is freestyle.
October 22nd 2024 and I’m back again for this fire. 🔥
This freestyle has officially been banned in California, they can't afford any more fires
Ric Smith i like that 🔥🔥🔥🔥
lol
W
Best comment on the internet 😂
Ric Smith that’s hilarious
Black Thought was subsequently awarded his PHD in lyricism
More like his Nobel prize
Lololo
Check out his Freestyle at Harvard
Rap on a doctrine level.
He wrote his thesis years ago, this was just an acceptance speech.
Anyone notice how his breathing is ridiculously skilled. I got winded for him.
Skills.
Circular breathing, I think Quest said it’s a similar technique that trumpet players use
Facts. That alone makes this amazing. The lyricism just takes it to another level
"The mic I spray resemblin' the sickle of death
It ain't strenuous to come from a continuous breath"
@@BakersDozenOfficial nah, you can hear him breathing every few words. I think K.A.A.N circular breathes when he raps, his flow is almost nonstop, the listeners RARELY him him breathe, and it doesn’t seem like he punches in because the flow is so fluid
This s__t is impossible. He must have an extra lung.
This is what ACTUAL genius looks like, in action.
This man really just put out an entire EP worth of rhymes in one freestyle
In under 11minutes
That's what I said..... this one session shits on some so called lyricists and "deep thinkers" entire project! I actually typed this comment at 4:44 am lol
@Chris Paul I know right. I was introduced to him through this like a year ago and heard some features and his two albums last year and all were amazing. Does he rap on all the roots songs? Because if so then i gotta listen to some roots
@Chris Paul start b4 then...from....do you want more????? Like '93
@@mkmmkm9103 start b4 that with organix. Been down with roots crew since 94. The illest irregardless.
timeless
You know it ✌🏼still blows my fkn mind !
He silenced flex For once 😂
clique just be popping up on random videos
BIG 🐐 🐐🐐🐐🐐
man of culture
@@zcoleman4187 Dudes a fucking thug that's why, his internal SSD is registering that fucking HEAT
His breath control is on elite status. Philly go hard 🔥
It seems almost impossible... His Flow just shredds and still he‘s breathing. He has to have like 6 lungs
Taylor Chausky
It’s rare that someone notices the breath control. Very well said. 🙌
@Stephen atr&ruk 2019 go troll somewhere else
@Stephen atr&ruk 2019 well the comment u deleted sure seemed like a trolling comment. I dont even remember what you originally commented so its whatever man water under the bridge
It aint strenuous to come from a continuous breath!!!
The look of complete SHOCK and HORRIFIED AMAZEMENT on Funk Flex's face immediately at 5:29 summed up this historical, LEGENDARY HEAT that was recorded!!! I'm STILL speechless and blown away every time I listen to this!
Came out 4 years ago today and still the single greatest display of emceeing in hip hop history.
spot fucking on. this should be studied in schools
100% AGREED
Facts💯
You aren't wrong
Canibus is.
I come back frequently to remind myself what a Lyricist is
Facts...🔥💯
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10M likes
@@Chefpenne let's change this to infinitive likes ✊🏿😆✊🏿
Yes. Yes.
He sweats when he raps, his lyrics actually increase the temperature in the room.
Real Heat!!!
That mic had to have melted
Excellent analogy!!!
Hahaha classic!
officially the best freestyle in rap history
How old are you kid? Check out the Big L freestyle on Scratch and Bobbito
Facts
@@hugh-jasolenah bro. That was great but this was another level
Definitely
Facts
Damn almost forgot to watch this today
fire
This made me laugh because it's too true!!
Master Splinter love the username bro
I start my morning with this
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If you’re watching this for the first time; I’m jealous of you. For everyone else; welcome back. 🙌
First timer
Haha. Welcome back bruh 🤣
back every few weeks...
Also Im also in Brighton haha
STG I hate to but it's like a hip hop transfusion
lmao if I have over 4 beers I always come back this 😂
A ten-minute freestyle that gets even stronger in the second half…crazy
Indeed🫡.🔥🔥🔥
My mother was a working class very loving woman, who struggled every dinner, could’ve been our last summer
I come home, chasing good for nothing half cousins, and then walk into the crib to the smell of crack cookin! She was introduced to the substance abuse, on some of the strongest drugs that the government produced, look, I even got excused by the principal, my story is out of a dub dub interview
@@joeyperry3931 Art thou verrückt in the Gehirn mein Bruder?
@alidre2335 lol it's bars from the freestyle at 6:40
My kids will listen to this when they’re older. A real poet. Black Thought is your favourite rappers’s favourite rapper.
I've watch this so much, that I've memorized Funk Flex's parts
At all. At all!
@@marcusdarden1535 cringe every time but i get why hes excited lol
am on route!!
😭😭😭
At allllll
"I am a walking affirmation, that imagination and focus and patience gets you closer to your aspiration"
the way he pronounces that bar is so insane, you can tell that hes' spitting his life.
colmdiniho u did that bro.....
My ears stood up on that verse too. Nice way posting that gem to highlight that genius!
7:20
Cold blooded.....
I can’t imagine tuning into the radio thinking “wow this guys good”. Switching stations, then coming back 10 minutes later and he’s still going
I can't imagine even switching stations after hearing that!
I can't imagine switching stations
I KNOW THATsRIGHT!!!!!
why changing stations in the first place when you hear this lolll
I get your point though.
Nah, will never stop listening to this, this is dopest of all time
This is the final level of hip hop
EXACTLY!!
😂 😂 😂
Hopefully not the final level but the standard for new rappers to live up to
@@McR_ART Interesting comment
@@McR_ART ideally but that’s wishful thinking.
Flex should've broke that mic.....and gave it to homie to put in his house in a glass case. No one should be able to use that MIC again...it was officially destroyed....for 10 minutes. Cmon man....wow.
Will Patterson FACTS ...NO LIKE HE REALLY SHOULD OF
Will Patterson facts yuongbol lol
Lmfao hard facts
Its time to frame that mic
u damn right
Rap on a doctorate level!
So F Scott Fitzgerald
Jones Curtis classic 📢
Nah...Post Doc...
As a headline, that lyric stands alone.
#facts
6yrs, 3.9 million views, and im still here listening to this for thousandth time. Black Thought is INCREDIBLE!
He just spit perfection for over 10 mins. 🔥🔥🔥
Tsunami JMG 🤣🤣😂😂 facts tho
And topped it off with a couple bars off the top, just because.
spitting perfection ever since
The Roots - What they do
A PHD degree level Rapper. This freestyle should be considered as UNESCO World Heritage.
Word
The nigga said O.G.s an Young Lions equally proud to listen
His 'Secrets' amalgomism's a algorithm
The most intelligent bar left on any hypnotic streaming search platform in 2019. Wtf
@@rhyno8644 its many that didn't catch that and those that caught it didnt reallly catch it.
UNESCO ......DYIN LAUGHIN YO
yes indeed
The holy grail of hip hop who is here this December listening to poetry?
Here. Back for my monthly motivation of reaching my exceptional best. The full achievements of human kind realised in 10 mins.
Tehn Davey see u brother ❤️❤️❤️
✊
I revisit it every few weeks just because he's the greatest..and because this is the best freestyle of all time
Ill be her nov 2074
i always come back here to recalibrate and remember what greatness sounds like.... cadence is hypnotic.. lyrics are space bound... god mc.. salute
Most these wack ass zoomers still dont appreciate BT , lil bro
His breathing, and his pacing was impeccable. Over 10 mins, and he emphasized every word. That’s elite level.
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It doesn't get more elite than the level of breathe control and precision exhibited by the man. It was pure artistry. Hip-Hop skill at its supreme finest.
Legendary!
He said it aint strenuous to come a countious breath!
James Hagley 100% agree. His cadence was sick. Non stop for over 10 minutes
This dude really fit more content into a 10 minute freestyle than 99% of artists do in entire albums. Mad respect.
Entire catalogues
you mean their entire lives.
Entire discographies man
For real ...🔥 🔥 microphone done
You mean fit more content in 1 minute
I was a fan but after listening to this, am now an air conditioner
Kevin Ochieng 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I see what you did there!🧐
Dog...you crazy for that line
Kevin Ochieng thats dope. Lol good one
Word!!!!💯😂💀
2025 anyone?
🙏🏼
I just came back after hearing that new King Los freestyle with Justin Credible. This is still the gold standard but Los trying to go platinum! 🔥
Yessir
@@reesewingfield3716me rn 😂
First listen
This one verse is better than a lot of other rappers entire career
Miguel Jacobo Truth! 🙏🏼
Miguel Jacobo huge facts
Miguel Jacobo damn it’s crazy cause it’s not even a joke
Hell yeah!
lol thats so true
This is more than a freestyle. This is a masters degree in Hip Hop with honors
he literally says it is "Rap on a doctorate level" :P
georgy fontaine say NO more 👊🏾
"You mean 5 PHD's in Rap" 😂
From Harvard.
Jarrod Beatty Oxford
The bars, the flow, the delivery, the breath control, the content, the vocabulary, the professionalism. He displayed the art flawlessly in this freestyle. THIS IS HOW YOU RAP!!
No... This is how HE raps! This is how other people act like doesn't exist so they don't have 2 try 2 live up 2 it🤣🤣
@@shaunreed9727stop crying
The breath control is insane
Period!!
I remember when every rapper rapped like this.
This was voted for and named the number one freestyle of 2017, I argue this is the best of the 21th century so far.
Soon as he was done they should've unplugged that mic, and encased it like a museum artifact never to be touched again
I'm still confused how it wasn't melted down like Chernobyl...
💯
I concur
Salute
Donate that mic to the Museum of African-American History in DC, stat!
I watch this freestyle every week to remind myself what the top looks like
📠
Yup
Yuh
me with pretty much every harry mack video though
No 🧢
Everybody's Top 5 lyricists of all time changed after this.
in my top 3
Feel like this is where he’s at his best. 👊
Facts. For me in no particular order:
1. Biggie
2. Pac
3. Busta
4. Black Thought
5. Jay
Is now im my top 3
Everybodys!!!!!
This is one of those freestyles that every time you listen to it, you find a new bar or a new punchline. I come back to this freestyle every so often and every time I'm baffled. One of the goats.
He took me thru 4 years of college in 10 minutes
❤
💯💪
and a doctorate
knowledge.....
😂😂🔥🔥
Everytime he put his finger to his head he loads more bars into his brain 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was thinking the same!
jay hank ME TOO!!!😂😂😂
RIGHT😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
Ahhhhhh hahahahahahahaha
Stephen ssr&rtv2020 hell yeah lol
He has the 7th infinity stone, HIP Hop
Bruuuuuh
222 likes been seeing that number everywhere
@@SaynTrades google meaning
BrothaDarkness Jimmy yeah G ik what it mean and all that but seeing it one more time did it for me! Gotta decode this message
Facts! Sorry daylyt black thought took the last 3 stones 😢
"I'm not one of y'all peers, I'm the sum of all fears" after 8 and a half minutes. Brutal.
Somebody stronger than me? Who dat I’m all ears like Obama. I wish he had 4 more years 🙈
"I am a walking affirmation that imagination and patience get you closer to your aspiration"
Wow!!!
Potent
So dope
Yeah that line caught me as well :D Like so many other lines. Boss!
It was "imagination, and focus and patience" though.
Soon as he said it I read this comment.
"I am a walking affirmation, that imagination and focus and patience, gets you closer to your aspirations" - this one bar is worth more then lots of rappers whole careers
A bruh his level of thought Is way beyond!!! I been rocking wit my dog for a long time. Lyrical genius!!!
I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?!
Frat house not trap house. This is for people that read.
This whole Freestyle is more worth than some career's
This is exactly the part that stood out to me as well. This particular bar added fuel to my soul.
Keep it 100... *you are listening* for more than the 10th time...
Let's be real I've listen to this over 100
Korby Waters I bump this regularly lol
I've memorized this whole thing. Infinite playback value
I saw this live at the Fillmore in Silver Springs. Mind blowing.
yep!
Nov 2024. And this is me, listening while starting my work day. Perfect.
This is incredible. Black Thought is outstanding.
“I am a walking affirmation that imagination and focus and patience get you closer to your aspiration.” - Black Thought
🔥
7:10
Fuckin insane bruh
Just randomly came past this comment while he was spitting it. Cosmic
STRONGEST DOSE OF WORD PLAY I'VE EVER SEEN
you need to listen to more hip hop then
octagonocologist haha fr this was mostly straigh bars dude trippin
Almost forgot to listen this today
nice job on starting the great war.
Resonate so much
Hahahahaha nice try,.....no you didn’t!!!
hahaha I also built this freestyle into my daily routine
🤣🤣🤣
This is a legendary freestyle on so many levels 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Who still studying and learning new things from this freestyle 2 years later.. lost count how many times Ive played this..
Facts!!!!
Rap on a doctorate level
Man now your talking studying what words me
Studying and learning from rap..?🤣. Read some books bro
This is the greatest freestyle of all time, timeless bro. Archived for future generations.
“ i am walking affirmation that imagination, and focus and patience will get you closer to your aspirations “
Too many jewels in this written thesis
FIRE FIRE FIRE
7:20
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Okay
I bumped this freestyle 3 times and now my beard and mustache finally connect ✊🏿
Lml
😂😂
Bruh u legit busted out laughing reading that comment 😂🤣😂
Well if it worked for you.. Here goes nothin..
Lmao lmao!!! Ya too much!
2025 and this is still the best freestyle I’ve ever heard
I'm saving money on my heating bill this winter by keeping this on repeat.
malayaleeking lmao.. extremely creative...u win the internet.. wish I came up with that.. God bless
😂😂
malayaleeking 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
TRUTH!
😂😂😂
The only thing underneath black thought’s fedora is more bars
Mokdad Mokdad 😂😂😂
Mokdad Mokdad moooooooorrrreeee barzzzzzzzz beeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
Love it!
Mokdad Mokdad 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 BIG FACTS
That brain matter contains too much data
That verse belongs on the walls in the pyramids...💯🔥🙏👑
James Black FACT !!
He already made the reference lol
Hell yeah!
Lol. LOL
That verse so long, its gonna take all the pyramids to post it up...
This has to be the coldest freestyle on Flex in our time! Period! 💯
Black Thought just gave a dissertation, lecture and death sentence at the same time!! Student/Teacher/Killer of the game
GOAT
This is an inferno .
He didn't kill the game ya see G because I'm still out here.
your line clever and on the same level
This deserves a place in rap history. It's also a feat of athleticism. Black Thought is the most underrated MC of all time
Facts
For real, dudes in the booth doing cardio lol can't even blame him for sweating
The man must be doing road work. Enough to take him 12 rounds. That is one of the most impressive things about it. That he was actually able to carry that load and make it look easy.
Same
Lyrical exercise!! I’m almost ashamed to admit that I discovered this a few months ago, but I’m also loving this experience so much. Absolute genius.
My third eye opened while listening to this.
Dough Boy Boy, I'm three optics far from your binoculars #bars
Dough Boy welcome to the world
Lmaooo
Black Thought is so underrated and underappreciated. Even in my own thoughts sometimes
I truly believe this is one of if not the greatest freestyle of all time.
It is
Dizzy on felle fel tho
It is
What freestyle is better? Don’t worry... I’ll wait...
Check out Arsonal
“I am a walking affirmation that imagination and focus and patience get you closer to your aspiration” I got chills during this line
Me too! I stood with both hands on my head, shouting... Lord!
obiwanjermobi 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Yes!
lmao
Same here! Had to play that part back a few times
The amount of times I've listened to this... This deserves to be in the rap hall of fame
I listen to this every single day, sometimes twice a day. it never grows old
Way better than Pac & Big's freestyles
You haven't listened more times than me 🙂. Feel you 1000%
Wow !
This that new York nigga
I swear this will stand the test of time as the greatest 1 take freestyle. What a masterclass. I've listened countless times and every time I'm blown away.
Black Thought has aged like a Kung Fu Master
Notice how at the 5:53 mark Flex is actually physically disgusted with how wretched Thought is flowing. That's some Kung Fu right there.
It’s not the Wu Tang style it’s your Wu Tang Master
On a cold night when the wind blows if you listen closely......you can hear Black Thought still freestylin
My man
I couldn't say it no better...
Haha
😂😂😂😂😂
I will borrow that line forever. You have just contributed to Hip-Hop in a major way!
Rest in Peace to that Microphone .
I come back to this once a year and it seems to just keep getting better and better each time.
This freestyle had more bars than some dudes got in their whole album!
Ivan Jasper YES
Straight facts. That's why he said "I'm an apex predator..."
Ivan Jasper that’s ones most the most accurate statement I’ve read. He is the BAR
Not many albums have this many bars honestly not to mention very few have even one bar at this level of quality
More bars than niggas whole career
Black Thought didnt freestyle..he gave a PHD Dissertation.
😂😂😂💀 I’m surprised that 🎤 is fully functional to be honest #he’sABEAST
This man spoke an entire thesis
EXACTLY !!!! I was saying he str8t took mfs to school with history lessons to do homework on , but YES you put in better terms fr
Facts 😂
not even PhDs can do this
"I am a walking affirmation that imagination, focus and patience will get you closer to your aspiration" 🔥🔥🔥
Bryan Crosbie that one I felt l in my bones...
That bar was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Bryan Crosbie one of the deepest bars in this freestyle.
#Bars
My favorite line, besides the Henrietta Lacks bars.
Found this 10 years ago, still yet to see anyone outdo this show of raw talent, skill, mastery of the craft, even the breath work alone is masterful