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Griot is an African village story teller selected to pass down the stories of history from generation to generation. Plus he makes you want to peacock your arm (raise your hand in the air like the feathers of a male peacock). Great reaction man!
Bryan Simpson thanks bro 🙏🏻 this was absolutely ridiculous. And thanks for that Griot definition haha that “Gre-at” comment was a stretch than haha
@@iKaanic it's not a stretch.. He was also saying "great"
“Peacock your arm” =flash your gun
@Braxton Ayaan What does that have to do with Black Thought.
@@andrewrisper8423 peacock your arm is also 70s term for wearing a fly watch...I know because my uncle(rip) was a pimp
A Griot, before history was written down, these were the class of men and women who were tasked with keep oral history in their minds and passing it down to generations..
Kaffa is where coffee, both the berry and the word, come from. It's in Ethiopia
“OGs and young lions equally proud to listen”. Older fans and younger fans love his music. They’re proud to listen... but a pack of lions is a pride... such a slick bar it flies over most ppls head
He says it at the end: I tell a story like fingerprints and blood splatter. You have to be a police forensic researcher to uncover all the meanings of his bars :D
Bars like a fingerprint, one of a kind
And it ties it back to the beginning. "There's a body dead in the trunk n it's probably one of yours".
@@jaydubbxperiod exactly
"When I step inside the booth, I'm a bull inside a china shop." My favorite.
Many people think its written, because they can't understand the level of skill that he and many others had in those days.
Ya man im starting to think black thought is from a different planet
It is written though...but still impressive...I'm a lyricist and can tell when something is written...Truth is, it is pretty much impossible to come up with complicated bars off the top like that...iKaanic was right...that takes research etc. A lot of lyricists(including myself) research certain things to see how we can cleverly write or improve a bar or so...
There is so much celebrated mediocrity nowadays that most people cannot fathom the genuine skill set of these old school lyricists.
This was definitely written but still impressive..no way anyone could come up with sophisticated bars straight off the dome like this
@@LIG87 You need to go to more rap battles. This can be done. Maybe not as eloquently or as frequently but when I was coming up, this skill is what separated you from other wannabe rappers. I'm not saying you're wrong though. From what I understand, all MCs have prewritten bars but to be able to throw them into a cipher intelligently takes talent.
"Where the slightest inflammatory remark
Will have you and the living a category apart" - category 1 is "living" and category 2 is "death"
" I got that detox for y'all, the microphone doctor, black 'Deepika Chopra, (Deepika Chopra is a 'holistic healer)I think he is from India. 💯💯
Deepak*
Those freestyle proves Egypt was Black in the beginning
This is actually one-take, off the top. He confirmed it in an interview with Jimmy Fallon. Blew my mind...
Impossible dude. Cmon
@@Mansplainer452 he may have had points he wanted to make or general concepts, maybe 4 bars or so here and there of pre-written, but he wouldn't be able to know where they would fit into the flow until he was in the moment.
It's not off the top. He confirmed he wrote it the night before. Regardless incredible!
it's not.
Things fall apart is the title of a novel by Nigerian Chinua Achebe which comes from the Willaim Butler Yeats poem Slouching toward Bethlehem. things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. BThought knows his lit.
It's also one of their greatest albums.
Kaffa is in Ethiopia & that is also the place where coffee originally comes from, which is also the reason that the english word is slightly similar & in many other languages even more (german Kaffee, french, spanish Cafe, italian Caffè...)
Thanks I didn't know that
The best freestyle ever on funkflex the talented mr trotter
I just watched an interview on Hot97 about this freestyle. He did do a lot of research and had a plan and idea of specific topics he wanted to cover. The actual 10 minutes was not written and rehearsed. Black Thought did say that he has committed all his raps to memory. He’s just freakishly talent.
Thats insane for real. Its one of the best verse every
Im a Freeman like Moorgan was a scheme he punctuate with"I ain't one of your peers,Im the sum of all fears" Morgan Freeman and Ben Affleck movie.
Morgan and Ben is in Hollywood but they're not peers. Yes I'm a rapper but I'm not these rap dudes peers. Layers to Black Thought rhymes. AMAZING is an understatement.
A gentleman and ladies Black Thought freestyle was not written. It was confirmed on Jimmy Kimmel it was all freestyle. I've been listening to the roots he has freestyles that he's done his entire career a lot of them. He had a freestyle with Q-Tip about 8 years ago for about 12 or so minutes and Q-Tip didn't want to follow him! This man is just a genius he's an alien!
@Mr Workowt On Sway, Meth realized he was about to freestyle with Thought and pulled out his phone to access his pre-written bars while acknowledging that he could not afford to get caught slipping. That's the greatest endorsement I've ever seen for an MC's greatness. A fellow great MC was nervous to PRECEDE, much less follow, him. When people ask me for my Top Five, I don't bother to mention Thought. It's not fair to put him in the listing. It's like grading on the curve...
Black thought said 80% of the top but going in he kinda knew topics and stuff he wanted to talk about
Griot is an African storyteller; many West African and sub-Saharan nations had oral history traditions.
"Where archeologists found my image in parchment rolled into a scroll. Holding a message for you. It said, 'The only thing for sure is taxes, death and trouble.'" -Over centries things are still the same or never change.
"As Babies we went from Similac and Enfamil, to the internet and fentanyl, when all consent was still against the will."......giving your consent against your will = addiction---- Wow. Griot is a poet.
Damn that consent against your will bar is insaneeee.
Comment before seeing your reaction view: I've seen this and heard this over 500 times easily, and am still pulling lodes and gems of riches out of this mine of freestyling...
Infinite Content man i know i gotta run it back several more times. Its absurd what hes able to do in this one
"Spoil rappers rotten like my only offspring" is the bar I think
ya i missed that man nasty bar
Amalgamism: The action or process of uniting or merging two or more things.
Algorithm: A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
Chase Infinite is rapper out of LA. Double entendres for sure.
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tigris and euphrates are rivers
I know haha did i not mention that at all?
iKaanic you said they were gods I thought lol
Rangersking669 i did but i thought thats why those rivers were given those names
Rangersking669 if i didnt then ppl are gonna think im ignorant af lmaooo
These were the first named rivers of the first real civilization Mesopotamia, which was founded between those two rivers (modern day Iraq)
Dope reaction! finally more of this freestyle. I recommend reacting to K.A.A.N., insane spitter, you might want to read them lyrics along the way. Rap God Remix is a good song to show off his skills. Also, here's some facts on this freestyle;
Black Thought himself mention that this freestyle was a mix of written, improvisation and off the dome. Let's not forget that Thought also did tons of off the top freestyle back in the days, trying to make it sound as written as possible, after 20+ years, he might be on another level, beyond the fillers.
Here's a bars that goes over so many heads (pasted from genius lyrics btw): "Ayo, My new name is eighty-five X's, Coz i'm the rap game certified specialist."
-Reference to founder of the Five-Percent Nation (also known as the Nation of Gods and Earths), Clarence 13 X, as well as invoking one of the key aspects of Five Percenter thought.
The Five-Percent Nation sees the world’s population compose of three groups: 1) 85%, which is made up of those dumb, deaf, and blind to God and knowledge of themselves, 2) 10% who have knowledge, but use that knowledge for personal gain (including governments, the media, and religious leaders affiliated with those in power) and 3) 5%, the Poor Righteous Teachers, who have knowledge of self, work for the betterment of their fellows, and don’t follow the teachings of the 10%.
Black Thought, whose parents were both members of the Nation of Islam, converted to the Five-Percent Nation after the death of the his mother. His familiarity with the worldview of Five Percenters is seen in an article on the 25th anniversary of Paid in Full:
Roots rapper Black Thought can still remember the impact of Paid in Full and how “The R” changed things in hip-hop, particularly by introducing the teachings of the Five-Percent Nation to rap. Five Percenters, as the Nation’s followers are called, brought a heightened sense of spirituality to the music with their ideologies based on many Islamic principles.
In taking on the name of “eighty five X’s,” Black Thought is identifying himself as the force to X out the 85% of those deaf, dumb, and blind rappers.
Jici Dubé “beyond the filler” is a freestylers enlightment haha. I have no doubts hes nasty comin off top too haha.
Appreciate the genius quote too man 🙏🏻
Infinite just like chase is....he is referring to the LA rapper named Chace Infinite from the group Self Scientific. Personally my favorite hip hop group from LA.
"I spoil rappers like my only offspring " I think is what he said
The hardest bar is about Henrietta Lacks. Double meaning "like Henry Lacks up in the cells" meaning jail cell and Henrietta Lacks cells a black women who's cell are still used today in cancer research. Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 - October 4, 1951)[1] was an African-American woman[4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line[A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.[6]
This was one of the best break downs I’ve ever seen. Brilliant.
Ay really appreciate that my man 🙌🏻
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the invasion by Europeans during the late 19th century plus, the name of a Roots LP. "Rome wasn't built in a day" is the phrase that he is referring to. The beast from the East (PHILA.) and I glide like Clyde Drexler (Clyde "The Glide" Drexler) that played in the Western Conference.
Black Thought did say, in a tweet I think, that this freestyle was a mix of off the dome, written and improvisation. So I assumed that he thought theses bars but never wrote them down
Most of these freestyles are written. It's always very, very clear when it's truly off the dome, however good the dude spits
BOOOM Black thought is fire!
Extremely fire
The number ONE missed bar in this freestyle is at 18:03. Not ONE viewer from reaction videos ever get that one and it’s the most INSANE line I ever heard in my life. Look up Henrietta Lacks and you’ll get the cells reference.
It was heavy
Off da top sir ..Philly stand up 🔥 🔥 🔥
Web is an old The Roots song
you need to look up Black thoughts quote on freestyle and it's evolution. it'll help you bridge the true meaning with what he displayed here. It's a hybrid freestyle with written parts.
He really meant to say Mandela deja Vu, meaning the Mandela Effect of time travel and glitches in our matrix. It's just a slight trip-up of the tongue. He had a couple slip-ups in this freestyle, but that shows you, this is a real freestyle.
This was not off the top. He said most of it was written down. BUT, he says the order of the bars came during the freestyle. It wasn't one continuous written rap. "Web" as in world wide web and/or web of trouble. Also, "We like Henrietta Lacks up in the cells" Henrietta died of cancer, but the government used her "cells" for cancer research (still do). "up in the cells" also references the continual state of incarceration of the black community. "Panther mind. I'm made of elements you can't define" (Vibranium). This is the best freestyle of all time. He had a couple of missteps in here, but who can go 10mins straight with this much control, poise, flow and substance. I say NO ONE!!! One of his last line "this sh*t for Combat" was a shout out to Combat Jack who died only a couple of days after this freestyle. Great review!
Craig Peters bro loved this comment man great review yourself.
This is a masterpiece of a verse dont matter offtop or written haha. So much control the whole time.
@@iKaanic I've seen it easily 200 times. I better have picked up on some of the things he's said😄
Double meaning for the web is the trap! The trap is the hustle and the trap is also being stuck on computers instead of reading and having access to real knowledge-also know as the web!
amalgamism is different elements in a algorithm...or mathematical equation. Though is next level.
He said that he SPOILS rappers like his only offspring. The concept of the only child being spoiled, a child that wants nor needs for anything.
BTW, people do freestyle like this off the dome. People who can do this are geniuses, I don't care what anyone says.
Bro been rapping like this since the 90's he could've kept going if he wanted.
Just incredible
steve crook insane
@24:04 Black Thought said: "Infinite just like Chace is". (Chace Infinite is A$AP Rocky's Manager. He was giving him a shoutout.)
I was the 💯 liked. 🤙🏾
appreicate you
Absolutely written. It's bars after bars.... Perfect 👌🏾
Blackthought will force you to think yet in a very captivating manner. A real legendary emcee
That was written Black Thought has been freestyling his entire career on most of their albums! He had a freestyle with Q-Tip about 8 years ago for about 12 straight minutes that was not written.
He made a play with iris to the ladies and isis there with the rivers tigress and euphrates.
Yo, I'm not saying Canibus could touch Thought, but the 2 of them have that CRAZy vocabulary in their flow...make you have to look shit ! 😆
We're always writing. We always have something in the chamber. Very few freestyles are improvisational.
you right, i gotta re-do this reaction without the whole written/off-top convo.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Definitely written but still the hottest verse ever spit. Length, content, metaphors, political, etc, delivery just insane. We need to get rid of the word freestyle bcuz no one really freestyles anymore
I mean that last sentence isnt true but everything before that i agree homie 😄
That was not written I've been listening to the roots since they've been making records he has freestyles for a 6 7 8 minutes on their albums. I have heard him say that was all freestyle I will not doubt this man!
There’s a roots song called Web
This is a freestyle everyone who knows him Eminem Talib and every other MC that work with him co sign this is a freestyle. Even Diddy said this the best.
He spoils them rotten like his only offspring as in he spoils them. But he spoils his children but in different ways
Look up a freestyle he did at Harvard University.
WEB is a trap as in "tangled web"
Besides reacting to Locksmith, you should really check out Loaded Lux's freestyle on Funk Flex. Would be interesting seeing you trying to catch all bars and breaking them down, cause it's filled to the brim with them.
I got that won in the catalogue my man hope you enjoy 🙏🏻
@@iKaanic Oh, awesome! My bad. Should've checked first
you did one of the better reactions. respect.
"I spoil rapper rotten like my offspring"
"headed for the web before computers" a web tattoo on your elbow means you've been to prison (used to anyway).
Oh for sure apprciate you clearin that up 🙏🏻
pressure bust pipes or make diamonds. Hood=pressure.
@iKaanic Did it ever occurred to you that he just been that gifted that he never had to say uh or even have a break because of us impeccable cadence and rhythmic schemes?
Ya its just a harder truth to believe but i think I mighta gotten there
Nice insight
Keith Wilcox thanks bro 🙏🏻
Check out his other freestyle’s (harvard univ) to see how he spits
why everybody miss the CB4 bar?
Check out the two different funk flex freestyles from Mysonne. He spits facts!
Bryan Simpson will do bro 2nd person to request mysonne
iKaanic Thank you!!
"we're like Henrietta Lacks up in the cell" ..bar....bar...bar....Just look up who she is....man...!! ( " Walk on egg shells...sleep on a bed of nails".......LOL...watch how you move in Philly....) It's what I call a free flow...Some may be written, some may be free "flowed" (previously written or thought of), some may be free-styled...but all pieced together on the spot, to fit a specific flow/rhyme scheme....to a random beat....(still difficult...especially to pull it off this smooth).... I still bounce around reviews of this just to hear it...lol Keep Pushing!!
Ya this isnt a “catch all bars the forst listen” typa verse haha. Appreciate you comin through 🙏🏻
@@iKaanic Oh definitely not....lol...It took me a few takes because there is so much...but it's like you said, this isn't ordinary, it's going to require the average listener, to do research...especially if you're just listening for punch lines...because it won't be your run of the mill punch line...there's a lot of between the lines in there...even at the start, he actually is referencing one of the Roots' albums, " THINGS FALL APART" When the center's to weak to hold yall, Im just collecting what yall owe to my old jawn." Written or not, he is a rare machine!!
griot=west African storyteller or historian.
Breath control is crazy. 10 minutes of straight bars and couldn't find a mistake.
That crazy man didnt even comment on the breath control but 100%. Al of it was so effortless
He had a few minor and I do mean minor slips.
You need to do “Mack is like” reaction
I love concrete C4l haha you right man im slack on that
def wish not death wish he fulfilled to other rappers
You never will play something better than black thought
Black Thought one of the greats
Best reaction to this man I am impressed... fml.. please react to Canibus please... if you appreciate lyrics he is arguably the #1 lyricist of all times.
Canibus feat Common - one of them
Canibus - Master Thesis
Canibus - Poet Laureate 2
Canibus feat Rakim
etc
Yooo thats a tru compliment homie appreciate that 🙌🏻 and ya Cannibus nasty i gotta get him on the channel
Griot is a African shaman for lack of a better word
Chase Bank Infinite Card. It's like a select card like American Express Black Card
Web = spiderweb ie the trap.
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spoil artist like its my only offspring=only kid
If you’re unfamiliar with Black Thought, and to question his freestyle, is such an abomination. He’s a rarity in emcees. He’s one of the few that doesn’t write anything down.
Hes a beast bro i wasnt tryna disrespect at all, the complexity just makes you ask the wuestion just cuz of how dense it was top to bottom
@@iKaanic no worries, just sayin. If you wanna see another example of freakishly good freestyles, check out Locksmith’s freestyles.
He definitely writes and acknowledges it all the time in his rhymes.
For your information...if it's not freestyle he doesn't get involved..
Written or not play something better than that
Idk if i can
Spoil rappers rotten like my only offspring aka as spoiled like an only child