"There are two types of freestyle. There’s an old-school freestyle that’s basically rhymes that you’ve written that may not have anything to do with any subject or that goes all over the place. Then there’s freestyle where you come off the top of the head" -Kool Moe Dee
You can't read. Big Daddy Kane says, “in the ’80s when we said we wrote a freestyle rap, that meant that it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style… it’s basically a rhyme just bragging about yourself.” In old school hip-hop, Kool Moe Dee says that improvisational rapping was instead called “coming off the top of the head”, and Big Daddy Kane says, "off-the-top-of-the-head [rapping], we just called that "off the dome" - when you don’t write it and [you] say whatever comes to mind”
Doesn't mean anything every MC has a couple radio verses they can spit off the top meant for showing off and making a name for themselves this just happens to be one of his best
The original definition of a freestyle of a rhyme written "free of style" so with no specific one subject matter, making rhymes up on the spot is known as "off the dome", people just have a different idea of what a freestyle is nowadays, Big Daddy Kane has a video covering it on TH-cam.
The only person I know to do a true off the top on Westwood was Lupe Fiasco...he touched on some written too but the bulk was just dude spitting. That being said, Pharaoh is a beast.
@ox4poluter thing is have u heard one of his albums? dude was rapping harder than this in the early 90s along nas n all those emcees. or is this the first time uve heaerd of him?
@slymmfish yo, peace & blessings to you slymm, i really appreciated this convo! good to know some dudes still usin the brain God gave out, and aint just here hollerin reckless all day. keep it hip hop, keep it one hunned. peace.
@moballardful That beat is "NY State of Mind," which is one of the best songs of all time and Nas' best. Unless you are saying its a shitty beat to specifically freestyle to.
Freestyle is a style of rap, accepella or with instrumental beats, in which rap lyrics are improvised, i.e. performed with no previously composed lyrics, or "off the top of the head" That's the Wikipedia definition and hes right he used the same flow on shade 45 VIRDICT NOT A FREESTYLE
@Decariusmm Maybe he is more lyrical in freestyles, but Em can be ridiculously lyrical when he actually wants to be, he just prefers to have fun and make funny raps
@slymmfish yo slymm, u made some very tight points and you sound like you might know ya shit. that being the case, you should understand that i aint knockin em or newer rappers for that matter, but you cant have a roof without a foundation, and i do have much respect for our musical roots. we are constantly encouraged to forget about our past, our foundation, our roots like it dont matter. yet the saying is that if you dont know ya history ya doomed to repeat it. and you know what we had to come
@kaoss0515 out of! so when I say one came from another understand that i'm talkin influences and i know that the better artists make their own styles from the blueprints. my problem is with ppl who automatically call out whos best without really knowin the background of hip hop. would there b a hip hop without kool herc, or a kool herc without james brown? i always hear that we have to forget all that and move on, and THATS the problem! those are our roots being pulled up and tossed away, like
@MRGENERATIONADD No your wrong what your describing is rhyming off the top of the head freestyling is spitting a rhyme which has no particular topic matter or
@Jmlad91 Posting while late night browsing is not the key.... And yeah the count has already trebled since my comment. Awaiting more responses to my hour of madness. Funny thing is I can't even remember what else I posted lol. Anyways good to see the likes of Pharoahe up on Westwood...
@steven90ify I respect that comment wholeheartedly. Thats my take on Eminem. His wordplay is absolutely mind boggling and complex...just amazing...but he choose to rap about Drugs, His mom, abusing women, etc... That's not cool. @90mv Eminem doesn't really have many legit freestyles...Pharoahe either. Most of the freestyles I have by eminem on a custom mixtape I made were pre-writtens and recycles. Eminem is raw nevertheless but I pick Pharoahe in a beef/battle.
@slymmfish look slymm, i dont just vaguely listen to hip hop, i STUDY hip hop and have done so for a long time, since the late 80's to be exact. if you really listened to hip hop u would know what i'm sayin. i give em credit for being lyrically nasty and recreatin himself but at the same time i know off the top who influenced his style or who his earlier styles sounded like. nas is a chip off of rakim, big pun from kool g rap, run dmc from double trouble, public enemy from kool keith, etc.
@delirious44 mmm, again i disagree man, theres a reason why they use to call'em freestyle battles, because two emcee's would battle lyrically fresh on the spot, then the crowd would judge the originality, freestyle battles would and could happen anywhere anytime so emcee's had to be ready to throw down dopeness off the top of their dome on the spot, otherwise they would eat shit everytime or people would start to start to talk about the cat thats doing the same rhymes everytime,word would spread
everything has a style even if there is more than one style with in it or a brand new style...even if you claim it has no style that in and of itself is still a style...thus 'free' = not pre thought or writen.
@slymmfish peace, slymm. ya right about 2pac but still dead wrong about eminem. many of his vocal inflections and lyrical acrobatics mirror masta ace & pharoah monch. listen to them all and you'll see what i mean. i'm not takin away from em cuz he does his thing. but i dont get caught up when people talk about who the best is because they learned from a blueprint before them! by the way i speak what i know cuz i've been listenin to & study hip hop for a long time. dont get mad, get knowledge!
@kaoss0515 dont take my word for it, check it out for yourself. thats the mistake many so called hip hop fans make: they don't take the time to do the history of hip hop. then they believe that every new jack that comes along is the best without knowing that they copied or followed someone else, example: nikki minaj-lil kim. i'm not sayin em copied, i'm sayin he was influenced or sounded similar earlier in his career. once again, check it out for yaself, and then tell me what u think. peace...
Its a verse from the album that was upcoming W.A.R track called Haile Selassie Karate. People have been doing that as "freestyle" on promo tours for decades
for ALL you jacks that are hollerin eminem and dont know, eminem is actually a cross between pharoah and masta ace! do ya homework before ya talk about someone being the nicest on the mic!
"There are two types of freestyle. There’s an old-school freestyle that’s basically rhymes that you’ve written that may not have anything to do with any subject or that goes all over the place. Then there’s freestyle where you come off the top of the head"
-Kool Moe Dee
This is not a freestyle
One of the best Lyricists
You can't read.
Big Daddy Kane says, “in the ’80s when we said we wrote a freestyle rap, that meant that it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style… it’s basically a rhyme just bragging about yourself.”
In old school hip-hop, Kool Moe Dee says that improvisational rapping was instead called “coming off the top of the head”, and Big Daddy Kane says, "off-the-top-of-the-head [rapping], we just called that "off the dome" - when you don’t write it and [you] say whatever comes to mind”
robinhorulz56 that's exactly whut a freestyle is
One of the HIP-HOP word play KINGS! 🔥
white chick in the background is an A.i computing ayeeeverything
Monch is one of the best!
WHATTT!!!
gotta love it.
"the Apocalypse back by popular demand"
That white girl in the back has no idea it's just a job to her. WOW!!!! HE KILLED IT PERIOD
Yea she was lost, she even his behind monch shoulder
Watch her eyes she gets it
pharoahe is dope, but i've heard him spit this berse a lot....
jamekididdleshmiddle I have
Doesn't mean anything every MC has a couple radio verses they can spit off the top meant for showing off and making a name for themselves this just happens to be one of his best
Holy shit! I love Pharaohe man!
Just untouchable.
UNDERRATED damn. pharoahe monch goes too hard
That Joffery line was fire.
When ever I listen to and older Royce 5'9 or Eminem freestyle I always hear the influence that Monch had on them.
Living legend. Pharoahe monch.
A yo...are u serious...Pharoahe is a beast..Queens lets get it!!!!!!!
The original definition of a freestyle of a rhyme written "free of style" so with no specific one subject matter, making rhymes up on the spot is known as "off the dome", people just have a different idea of what a freestyle is nowadays, Big Daddy Kane has a video covering it on TH-cam.
Pure fire pm is the thruth 👊👊👊
and ill go with those like myself who grew up in the golden era of hip hop
mad underrated man
too lyrical...luv it
He rapped this on Tony Touch!
Its a verse from his album
I thought it was improvised too :/
He used this rap already but still sounds dope
Didn't know who U were @ the BRE in New Orleans to one of my Favz! Respect due for always raising the bar & pushing the envelope.
The only person I know to do a true off the top on Westwood was Lupe Fiasco...he touched on some written too but the bulk was just dude spitting. That being said, Pharaoh is a beast.
Pharoahe da BEAST!!!!
bro all of you look up the founders of the context of freestyling by the freestyle fellowship this is great shit
does anybody know that first beat that was playing please help
@nemississ does that mean u wanted it to be longer or u just weren't feeling it
@darthzion you talkin about the white chic in the background? Thats NOT Jean Grey!
wowww he killed this. he need to hit us up for beats! lol
lolll he says check me out and she checks him out!!!!!!!!!!!! ahaahaa his fukn dope best underground thats ontop no doudt!!!! KINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
@ox4poluter thing is have u heard one of his albums? dude was rapping harder than this in the early 90s along nas n all those emcees. or is this the first time uve heaerd of him?
wow, that was nice!
fire
What's that beat that started playing at 2:04??
NY state of mind part 2 Nas
@slymmfish yo, peace & blessings to you slymm, i really appreciated this convo! good to know some dudes still usin the brain God gave out, and aint just here hollerin reckless all day. keep it hip hop, keep it one hunned. peace.
@nicyomo its New York State of Mind by Nasir.
the chic in the back looks CONFUSED! LOL!
@YouKnowThatYouDont yeah got a frown on my face soon as i heard he was reciting
yes it does hence the 'free' part...sad thing is that riff raff is the only one i heard really do it on sway in the morning...
the white girl like " wats dis nigga taking bout!" lool
what's the beat at 2:05???
what beat is this?
off to top of the fucking dome son!!!!!!!!!!!!
@moballardful That beat is "NY State of Mind," which is one of the best songs of all time and Nas' best. Unless you are saying its a shitty beat to specifically freestyle to.
him and bizzy bone are the 2 best MCs in my opinion
bizzy bone? he got that fire? are u sure? Pharoah and Bizzy are 2 totally different artist.
bizzy got style for days
yes 2 totally different artists but bizzy is up there
@fastslicked
How so?
Her brain is about to explode
the ol' dear in the backgrounds well impressed
Respek!
Does Anyone Remember...
GET THE FXCK UP!!!!!!!!!
SIMON SAYS GET THE FXCK UP!!!!!
wats the nas instrumental
@90mv rah jean grae is there as well didn't clock she's a female rapper for those who don't know most def one of the hardest
Freestyle is a style of rap, accepella or with instrumental beats, in which rap lyrics are improvised, i.e. performed with no previously composed lyrics, or "off the top of the head"
That's the Wikipedia definition and hes right he used the same flow on shade 45 VIRDICT NOT A FREESTYLE
marquis ealy yes yes
ANYONE NO THE BEAT AT 2:05 PLEASE??!!!
@8989tom8989 your a fuckin legend, its New York state of mind part 2 cheers mate
You dare to speak on the god Monch!!!
shit westwood had monch up in there
how old are you?
@MRGENERATIONADD you know how many times i've tried to explain that to others??
I was thinking the SAME thing.
nuttin original
NY State of Mind :3
the 2:05 beat?
uncle guy!!!!!! waddap!
can't tell me monch ain't ill
@Decariusmm Well said
@Decariusmm Maybe he is more lyrical in freestyles, but Em can be ridiculously lyrical when he actually wants to be, he just prefers to have fun and make funny raps
dam westwood basically said "whats the worst beat i can put on to have this dude freestyle to"
You're tripping have u never heard the first song on illmatic
@slymmfish yo slymm, u made some very tight points and you sound like you might know ya shit. that being the case, you should understand that i aint knockin em or newer rappers for that matter, but you cant have a roof without a foundation, and i do have much respect for our musical roots. we are constantly encouraged to forget about our past, our foundation, our roots like it dont matter. yet the saying is that if you dont know ya history ya doomed to repeat it. and you know what we had to come
@adaluz23 No not at all... I listened very closely to every metaphor... Listen and you will hear
@kaoss0515 out of! so when I say one came from another understand that i'm talkin influences and i know that the better artists make their own styles from the blueprints. my problem is with ppl who automatically call out whos best without really knowin the background of hip hop. would there b a hip hop without kool herc, or a kool herc without james brown? i always hear that we have to forget all that and move on, and THATS the problem! those are our roots being pulled up and tossed away, like
10 Micz my G
@MRGENERATIONADD No your wrong what your describing is rhyming off the top of the head freestyling is spitting a rhyme which has no particular topic matter or
@theolist Throw your hands in the sky.... BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP
said the exact same shit on Toca Tuesdays freestyle
Old enough to know that you're too young to know what a real freestyle is.
@Jmlad91 Posting while late night browsing is not the key.... And yeah the count has already trebled since my comment. Awaiting more responses to my hour of madness. Funny thing is I can't even remember what else I posted lol. Anyways good to see the likes of Pharoahe up on Westwood...
How this only got 842 views? Hip Hop really is dead...
She likeda mechandise
@nicyomo NY State of mind
the beat is hard *
@jesse5615 id say its a tie between Supernat and Juice. i feel like Juice is superior, but thats my opinion.
i gotta hear jean grae and invincible freestyle on here so people know females can rip it too
@RemofRenaissance
Umm its only been out for a day dude...why dont you give it some more time before you leave that kinda comment? lol
@steven90ify I respect that comment wholeheartedly. Thats my take on Eminem. His wordplay is absolutely mind boggling and complex...just amazing...but he choose to rap about Drugs, His mom, abusing women, etc... That's not cool.
@90mv Eminem doesn't really have many legit freestyles...Pharoahe either. Most of the freestyles I have by eminem on a custom mixtape I made were pre-writtens and recycles. Eminem is raw nevertheless but I pick Pharoahe in a beef/battle.
@1291Anonymous Moron this guy is one of the best rappers today
This guy sounds like Obie Trice.
@slymmfish look slymm, i dont just vaguely listen to hip hop, i STUDY hip hop and have done so for a long time, since the late 80's to be exact. if you really listened to hip hop u would know what i'm sayin. i give em credit for being lyrically nasty and recreatin himself but at the same time i know off the top who influenced his style or who his earlier styles sounded like. nas is a chip off of rakim, big pun from kool g rap, run dmc from double trouble, public enemy from kool keith, etc.
@delirious44 mmm, again i disagree man, theres a reason why they use to call'em freestyle battles, because two emcee's would battle lyrically fresh on the spot, then the crowd would judge the originality, freestyle battles would and could happen anywhere anytime so emcee's had to be ready to throw down dopeness off the top of their dome on the spot, otherwise they would eat shit everytime or people would start to start to talk about the cat thats doing the same rhymes everytime,word would spread
@IReITaN course i have a clue...off the top battle yes but in a written battle Pharoahe would eat him up
everything has a style even if there is more than one style with in it or a brand new style...even if you claim it has no style that in and of itself is still a style...thus 'free' = not pre thought or writen.
the bored looking girl in the backround says " just sounds like noise, can we play some Elton please"
@slymmfish peace, slymm. ya right about 2pac but still dead wrong about eminem. many of his vocal inflections and lyrical acrobatics mirror masta ace & pharoah monch. listen to them all and you'll see what i mean. i'm not takin away from em cuz he does his thing. but i dont get caught up when people talk about who the best is because they learned from a blueprint before them! by the way i speak what i know cuz i've been listenin to & study hip hop for a long time. dont get mad, get knowledge!
i wouldnt say it's really a freestyle, he did the same thing on Shade 45
Blanca in the back ain’t feelin it
@kaoss0515 dont take my word for it, check it out for yourself. thats the mistake many so called hip hop fans make: they don't take the time to do the history of hip hop. then they believe that every new jack that comes along is the best without knowing that they copied or followed someone else, example: nikki minaj-lil kim. i'm not sayin em copied, i'm sayin he was influenced or sounded similar earlier in his career. once again, check it out for yaself, and then tell me what u think. peace...
Same “freestyle” he did on Tony Toca. Still a legend though.
Its a verse from the album that was upcoming W.A.R track called Haile Selassie Karate. People have been doing that as "freestyle" on promo tours for decades
@@silewis9396 Gracias! I'm gonna go find that right now.
for ALL you jacks that are hollerin eminem and dont know, eminem is actually a cross between pharoah and masta ace! do ya homework before ya talk about someone being the nicest on the mic!