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.
Pause. Google search historical reference. Play. Pause. Google search geographical reference. Play. Pause. Google search literary reference. Play. Pause. Scratch my head. Google Historical Geopolitical Revolutionary reference. Play. Pause. Google slang term. Play. Pause. Marvel. Lets start from the beginning. Play. Repeat.
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
Most would hear this and say it was just ok because they simply didn't comprehend the majority of the words that came out of his mouth. This man didn't just freestyle, he shared actual, factual, knowledge.
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.
@@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
This is a musical piece of history, a milestone for hip hop, a testament to the element of the raw art of the freestyle. The truest way to test the skill of any rapper is the ability to freestyle and Black Thought just raised the bar.
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
RIGHT BRO … every time I listen I just shut every thing off and vibe out to this shi and mind is blown every time … it’s like I was in outer space listening to these concepts
"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 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!
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.
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
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!!
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 feel like crying, I am crying, that was so beautiful, I keep saying, Hip Hop is an art form, this was the dang Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, a Picasso, a newly discovered Jean-Michel Basquiat!
RUTH they've been sleeping on our people! this guys been doing dirty since the 90's, genuine Shakespearean level of language, he's just throwing in words that literally shouldn't rhyme yet hes commanding them to rhyme! he even threw "Kafkaesque" in there so casually it's like the dialogue of a film. Listen to his inhales!
Barry Celtic HH, but if kids want to party to them I don't really see the issue. People act like there's a problem with people liking that kind of music but it's all honestly opinion. I don't think anyone can beat the stamina or lyricism of black thought, but I don't see why people constantly act like trap rappers and lyrical rappers can't coexist when Kendrick Lamar is both.
Danny Buchanan Agree, Migos and Cardi B took it and made something that was easy to dance and party to, Kendrick Lamar is committed to the actual hip hop craft. But this is the genre at its highest form. It’s like Coltrane and Kenny G both playing jazz, but...
@@jojotwice8918 yeah but still, he ain’t even feel the beat out or nun fr. He just went straight at it. It’s still impressive to perform at that high level nonstop even if it is pre written
We need stretch and bobbito back flex is wack af and they play shitty beats on hot97 a real hip hop legend like black thought deserves real hip hop beats not this bullshit
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.
you ever hear a freestyle so good, that you think some of their residual talent attached to you giving you the ability to rap on the same level ...then you try cause you so hype and quickly get reminded that there's a reason why you're not them
wunas96 I know haha ...my comment wasn't meant to be taken too seriously , but major props to him for practicing to perfect his craft ...dude is beyond talented
Great art inspires people in various ways. There is video here on youtube with the gza and neil degrasse tyson the astrophysicist and they talk about how physicists now were inspired by Wu Tang lyrics while studying in school.
That's how everybody who started living they emcee fantasies started by emulating some of the best to find themselves an develope they own style... except for ODB no father to his style Lol!
i love that even when flex was talking over him, he didn't stumble once. so focused, four bars ahead in his mind, but his flow didn't break for a second. fucking insane
Do you think he came up with this on the spot? He isnt 4 bars ahead in his mind, thats not even how freestyling works, but even then this was pre written obviously. It’s simply not possible to simultaneously have such a condensed rhyme scheme alongside such deep concepts while freestyling off top
@kevinreynolds3594 I may be wrong but I think it's a mix. He's performed this other times, but I can't find any other recordings this long. I think he's doing a lot of improvisation over a framework he already has. Kinda how jazz musicians always have a melody to fall back on, but they spend most of their time improvising.
@@Jackson... regardless of how he flows over the beat, these lyrics are written, there is no question about that. If you don’t understand that (which I assume you do), it’s simply not possible to have this level of conceptual depth alongside such a condensed rhyme scheme in one freestyle, it’s simply not humanly possible.
@kevinreynolds3594 yeah that was my point, a lot if not all of this was written. That doesn't really make it much less impressive, but it is important to clarify. It still takes a master to deliver these obscenely complex lines in such an effortlessly impressive way. He's just dancing around the beat, and he knows just how to build up and release rhythmic tension. Black Thought has always been a GOAT in my eyes, seeing this just solidifies it.
Black Thought is Gifted he makes me feel lifted with his lyrics. Damn men you still got it skill give me chills. He is a blessed man. Long live Black thought!!!🤩😍😄 Forever a fan😆😃
"I never thought you'd give me a reason to do this, Kane and Abel, Jesus And Judas, Caesar And Brutus..." All betrayed by someone that claimed they loved them, that's crazy, phenomenal freestyle.
@@Hardluckchuck Even if they didn't know, part of reading and comprehension is looking for context and meaning. If you hear Kane and Abel and Jesus and Judas and then a third pair whom you don't know you can safely assume the context is betrayal and the last pair are 2 people with a betrayal history because the context of the other 2 pairs. When I was in school as a child, one of the biggest things I saw was that folks struggled with reading comprehension and debate topics, mostly because they didn't really care about them. Comprehension is understanding what you are reading and why it makes sense but debate topics are a range of topics in comprehension and understanding where you have to pull information out of passages to then provide an answer to a question OR make a point based on the information you pulled from to make your own point/stance. I can tell on Social media, a lot of folks ignored this as children simply because of comments like yours. The bar was self explanatory, so what was the point of your comment? you didn't understand it was self explanatory. And why didn't you know that Chuck?
Nobody can understand what he’s saying, he’s speaking truth and the pure fire of the true essence of an MC and flippin it with some dope ism on the mob deep learn the burn remix track, pure respect to Black Thought, while people paying for meds and Therapists, I bump these tracks and allow it to take my pain away. Who ever is reading this, take a look back and thank life for being able to watch this video on whatever your viewing on this. Life is too beautiful to throw away! Cheers to my Bruvs and Hip Hop Heads!
First listen = phat beat and this guy can rhyme words for ten minutes! Second listen = ten minutes? One take? Woah...he ain't just flexin throughout. This makes sense. Third listen = Jeez there are some salient points here about history and things to be learned for the future. Fourth listen = I'm gonna have to Google some of these references and imagery. Fifth listen = someone put a glass case around that mic. Relocate the radio station. This is now a hip hop museum.
@@epicon6 Freestyle is flexing a rappers ability to flow it much closer to a song for the station. No one flows off the dome anymore, unless in private. Still does not take away from the fact this guy is talking spirituality, politics, and drugs. In a one take radio recording.
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!
2024 and we still here.
Never leaving.
Word!!!
2044
WORD
Have too unless it's a diss track smh
yo Who’s still watching in 2024?
Best freestyle all time
One of the best of all time
Few secs ago
Me 😀❤😅
We here bruh. Can’t not be
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?
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
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.
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
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 SHITS on 99% of rappers' entire discographies
This freestyle could make up for the entire history of the genre of mumble rap 😂😂😂
100%**
Shits? Nah, it treats them like a sewage plant
Listen to more rappers
@@BigDogg-1someone has not listened to Kendrick Lamar
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 👍
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.
Pause. Google search historical reference. Play. Pause. Google search geographical reference. Play. Pause. Google search literary reference. Play. Pause. Scratch my head. Google Historical Geopolitical Revolutionary reference. Play. Pause. Google slang term. Play. Pause. Marvel. Lets start from the beginning. Play. Repeat.
The influence hip hop is supposed to have! 👏🏽🔥
@@Los150EXACTLY!!
factssss lmaooo
You already know!
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
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
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 😂😂
October 22nd 2024 and I’m back again for this fire. 🔥
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.
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!!!!💯😂💀
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 😮
The 'I'm kdot Lamar meets Tupac Shakur" hits different after the beef. 🔥
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
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 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
Most would hear this and say it was just ok because they simply didn't comprehend the majority of the words that came out of his mouth. This man didn't just freestyle, he shared actual, factual, knowledge.
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
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!!!!!
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
This masterpiece should be enshrined in the Library of Congress as the Constitution of Hip Hop
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.
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!
"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.....
This isn’t your last time listening to this legend! 2024 still listening
Who else listening to fire freestyles during lockdown 😂🔥
Me I'm bored outta my mind😂😂
Hell yeah
Yessir
Hahahaha all day brotha all day!
🥺😬
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.
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.
officially the best freestyle in rap history
How old are you kid? Check out the Big L freestyle on Scratch and Bobbito
Facts
"I am a walking affirmation, that imagination and focus and patience gets you closer, to your aspirations"
That part right there💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
I can't even read that out loud as well as he spits it... all hail the king
jesus christ
That line alone is better than drakes entire career
@@daboss3116 ong my nigga 😅
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
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!!!
This is a musical piece of history, a milestone for hip hop, a testament to the element of the raw art of the freestyle. The truest way to test the skill of any rapper is the ability to freestyle and Black Thought just raised the bar.
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
This is the final level of hip hop
EXACTLY!!
😂 😂 😂
Hopefully not the final level but the standard for new rappers to live up to
@@eggshell4683 Interesting comment
@@eggshell4683 ideally but that’s wishful thinking.
This is literally the rap equivalent of the Thanos snap
Wow u are so right bro
When Cap grabbed Mjolnir
Yup
I’m glad to be the 500th like on this comment
Yep 🤣😂
When you let yourself go and listen, it's really overwhelming. That's how you know it's art
RIGHT BRO … every time I listen I just shut every thing off and vibe out to this shi and mind is blown every time … it’s like I was in outer space listening to these concepts
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
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 😂
"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.
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!
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
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.
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 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
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 😢
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.
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
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.
"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.
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
Nov 2024. And this is me, listening while starting my work day. Perfect.
This is incredible. Black Thought is outstanding.
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
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...
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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
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Yup
Yuh
me with pretty much every harry mack video though
No 🧢
still listening to this in 2034 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
I feel like crying, I am crying, that was so beautiful, I keep saying, Hip Hop is an art form, this was the dang Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, a Picasso, a newly discovered Jean-Michel Basquiat!
RUTH they've been sleeping on our people! this guys been doing dirty since the 90's, genuine Shakespearean level of language, he's just throwing in words that literally shouldn't rhyme yet hes commanding them to rhyme! he even threw "Kafkaesque" in there so casually it's like the dialogue of a film. Listen to his inhales!
This was Black Art at its highest form. Illest freestyle ever!
Barry Celtic that's your opinion
Barry Celtic HH, but if kids want to party to them I don't really see the issue. People act like there's a problem with people liking that kind of music but it's all honestly opinion. I don't think anyone can beat the stamina or lyricism of black thought, but I don't see why people constantly act like trap rappers and lyrical rappers can't coexist when Kendrick Lamar is both.
Danny Buchanan Agree, Migos and Cardi B took it and made something that was easy to dance and party to, Kendrick Lamar is committed to the actual hip hop craft. But this is the genre at its highest form. It’s like Coltrane and Kenny G both playing jazz, but...
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
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
This never gets old. I come back every month. This and the one with Meth on Sway….gold.
What’s crazy to me is the fact he started as soon as the beat came in, and just didn’t stop. He felt it instantly
cuz this ain't off the dome, probably a bunch of rhymes he's been working on
We know… its still one of the illest feats ever. Quit hating.
@@jojotwice8918 yeah but still, he ain’t even feel the beat out or nun fr. He just went straight at it. It’s still impressive to perform at that high level nonstop even if it is pre written
We need stretch and bobbito back flex is wack af and they play shitty beats on hot97 a real hip hop legend like black thought deserves real hip hop beats not this bullshit
Eh says a bunch without saying anything. No thanks
You've heard 16s, 32s, and 64s...But this man dropped 238 bars...no stumble...off the top...first take..........He is immortal
Revengeance 1000 bars EkoFresh ?
There's been rappers who've dropped more than that, like Game, but Black Thought did it live, with no flaws, and with so much goddamn lyricism.
Nigga dropped more bars than some rappers have in their entire career.
Revengeance this was a written freestyle, not off the top. Be reasonable now come on
freestyle doesn´t mean it has to be off the top. it´s obviously not. Too fire and complex bars. But definitely one of the best freestyles in history.
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 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.
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
“I am a walking affirmation that imagination and focus and patience get you closer to your aspiration.” - Black Thought
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7:10
Fuckin insane bruh
Just randomly came past this comment while he was spitting it. Cosmic
you ever hear a freestyle so good, that you think some of their residual talent attached to you giving you the ability to rap on the same level ...then you try cause you so hype and quickly get reminded that there's a reason why you're not them
You know he practised to become this good, right? If you want to be good at anything, you practise. Simple. You work hard.
wunas96 I know haha ...my comment wasn't meant to be taken too seriously , but major props to him for practicing to perfect his craft ...dude is beyond talented
Great art inspires people in various ways. There is video here on youtube with the gza and neil degrasse tyson the astrophysicist and they talk about how physicists now were inspired by Wu Tang lyrics while studying in school.
Enrique Suazo Definitely have to check that out
That's how everybody who started living they emcee fantasies started by emulating some of the best to find themselves an develope they own style... except for ODB no father to his style Lol!
My yearly homage, I'm here again to respect this masterpiece from Kenya 🇰🇪
Fire bars🔥
Kenya 🇰🇪 👍🏾
i love that even when flex was talking over him, he didn't stumble once. so focused, four bars ahead in his mind, but his flow didn't break for a second. fucking insane
Do you think he came up with this on the spot? He isnt 4 bars ahead in his mind, thats not even how freestyling works, but even then this was pre written obviously. It’s simply not possible to simultaneously have such a condensed rhyme scheme alongside such deep concepts while freestyling off top
@kevinreynolds3594 I may be wrong but I think it's a mix. He's performed this other times, but I can't find any other recordings this long. I think he's doing a lot of improvisation over a framework he already has. Kinda how jazz musicians always have a melody to fall back on, but they spend most of their time improvising.
@@Jackson... regardless of how he flows over the beat, these lyrics are written, there is no question about that. If you don’t understand that (which I assume you do), it’s simply not possible to have this level of conceptual depth alongside such a condensed rhyme scheme in one freestyle, it’s simply not humanly possible.
@kevinreynolds3594 yeah that was my point, a lot if not all of this was written. That doesn't really make it much less impressive, but it is important to clarify. It still takes a master to deliver these obscenely complex lines in such an effortlessly impressive way. He's just dancing around the beat, and he knows just how to build up and release rhythmic tension. Black Thought has always been a GOAT in my eyes, seeing this just solidifies it.
@@kevinreynolds3594it’s humanly impossible for this to be off dome. Whether it’s completely written or a combination I’m not sure.
“With the slightest inflammatory remark, I’ll have you and the living a category apart.” Might be the best bar I’ve ever heard in my life.
Fire
The pun flew over my head 🚀
That's the most poetic death threat I've ever heard.
@@ariefraiser140 🤣🤣
yo i didnt catch that. explain?
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
Black Thought is Gifted he makes me feel lifted with his lyrics. Damn men you still got it skill give me chills. He is a blessed man.
Long live Black thought!!!🤩😍😄
Forever a fan😆😃
I’m convinced He took that limitless drug
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hE ON SOMETHING!!!! and shyyyyyyyyyyyyyyttttt...... I got 5 on it!!!!!!!!!
Yuuupp
Made it look simple and easy transitioning from scheme to scheme. Truly incredible.
What u mean bro tell me
#Facts 😂😂😂
"I never thought you'd give me a reason to do this, Kane and Abel, Jesus And Judas, Caesar And Brutus..." All betrayed by someone that claimed they loved them, that's crazy, phenomenal freestyle.
Not everyone knows who Caesar and Brutus is.
@@Hardluckchuck ok ? 😭
@@Hardluckchuck I'm not sure if you're speaking as to everyone or yourself not knowing who they are?
@@Hardluckchuck we know you have no idea what he was talking about no need to embarrass yourself
@@Hardluckchuck Even if they didn't know, part of reading and comprehension is looking for context and meaning. If you hear Kane and Abel and Jesus and Judas and then a third pair whom you don't know you can safely assume the context is betrayal and the last pair are 2 people with a betrayal history because the context of the other 2 pairs. When I was in school as a child, one of the biggest things I saw was that folks struggled with reading comprehension and debate topics, mostly because they didn't really care about them.
Comprehension is understanding what you are reading and why it makes sense but debate topics are a range of topics in comprehension and understanding where you have to pull information out of passages to then provide an answer to a question OR make a point based on the information you pulled from to make your own point/stance. I can tell on Social media, a lot of folks ignored this as children simply because of comments like yours. The bar was self explanatory, so what was the point of your comment? you didn't understand it was self explanatory. And why didn't you know that Chuck?
“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
6yrs, 3.9 million views, and im still here listening to this for thousandth time. Black Thought is INCREDIBLE!
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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You can write an entire essay on this freestyle regarding all the references that were dropped in this freestyle alone. Black thought is not human
I dare say a Thesis.
Haha I did in senior year for my hip hop English class
@@stewymicrobe9255 damn, please send the link here if its online somewhere. :)
@@stewymicrobe9255 yoooo can I please read that??
@@stewymicrobe9255 drop the link to that thesis!!!
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!
Nobody can understand what he’s saying, he’s speaking truth and the pure fire of the true essence of an MC and flippin it with some dope ism on the mob deep learn the burn remix track, pure respect to Black Thought, while people paying for meds and Therapists, I bump these tracks and allow it to take my pain away.
Who ever is reading this, take a look back and thank life for being able to watch this video on whatever your viewing on this. Life is too beautiful to throw away!
Cheers to my Bruvs and Hip Hop Heads!
First listen = phat beat and this guy can rhyme words for ten minutes!
Second listen = ten minutes? One take? Woah...he ain't just flexin throughout. This makes sense.
Third listen = Jeez there are some salient points here about history and things to be learned for the future.
Fourth listen = I'm gonna have to Google some of these references and imagery.
Fifth listen = someone put a glass case around that mic. Relocate the radio station. This is now a hip hop museum.
THAT IS CALLED HIP HOP. IT ENLIGHTENS.
Major W
😂😂😂
Bruh I had too look up "War and peace"
He took me thru 4 years of college in 10 minutes
❤
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and a doctorate
knowledge.....
😂😂🔥🔥
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 come back to this once a year and it seems to just keep getting better and better each time.
This freestyle needs to be studied and taught in universities
All great freestyles are memorized but whatever.
@@epicon6 Freestyle is flexing a rappers ability to flow it much closer to a song for the station. No one flows off the dome anymore, unless in private.
Still does not take away from the fact this guy is talking spirituality, politics, and drugs. In a one take radio recording.
For real brv
Titan Mellor harry mack bro harry mack. Greatest freestyler of all time. No cal
@@blizzaad Harry Mack is not that impressive.
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
Rest in Peace to that Microphone .
I think I can actually say this is the best freestyle of all time