BEST FREESTYLE EVER?! | BLACK THOUGHT FREESTYLES ON FLEX (REACTION) 

My favorite bar, “mutha fukers hated on how sophisticated my taste is, (slight pause) then I pulled up in a mutha fuking space ship.” 🔥🔥🔥

"you ain't got more soul, unless you Korean" is one of the most slept on bars ong

Every line was a bar. He never had a filler word. Anybody that seriously wants to rap should pay attention to the way he constructed this entire 15-minutes of absolute hip hop perfection. Black Thought is the definition of dope.

Literal greatest freestyle of all time.

This is just like straight up art. You could legitimately analyze this for an English class.

Peep how he came full circle at the end. In the beginning "I'm sorry for loss it's a body dead in the morgue it's probably one of y'als" to ,"I tell a story like fingerprints and blood spatter" he was the murderer the fingerprints and blood spatter I told that story... Crazy

This is the Greatest Freestyle ever! This is God level Rap! Everyone can’t get to this level FORREAL!

My favorite bar in this whole freestyle was “makin’ heads or tails we like Henrietta Lacks up in the cells”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. HOTTEST bar I’ve heard in my life.

PHILLY REPRESENT!!! I love what Questlove said about this on People's Party w/ Talib Kweli: "Tariq is too good for his own good - and, that rule in 'The 48 Laws of Power' which, you're not supposed to... you can't outshine the teacher, that sort of thing.. " Quest describes his flow as "like trying to use a fly swatter on a fly that you can't kill", and recalls a conversation he had with Jay-Z about why Black Thought isn't asked to do more features... Jay basically said that in the current climate, "no rapper can really afford to look bad in front of him". F*cking FACTS!!! #MomentOfClarity

This has been in my regular rotation since Thought dropped it. It's a Masterpiece, full stop. One of the GOATs.

Hands down the best freestyle of all time! I pulled this up and listen to it every couple months

Black Thought started dropping bars out the gate with the first line

Thought been in my top 5 for a long, long time. Seeing/hearing him do this last year, and then breaking it down again and again and again since then put him at the top spot. For me, anyway. Plus I don't think that a lot of cats fully comprehend the difficulty of doing that live and in one take. This what it looks like when a legit master is in his bag.

The first man to catch the "D.O.C. pre- accident" line. Everyone gets caught up on the 'pre-Kardashian Kanye' and then miss..."...my rhyme play immaculate, same cadence as D.O.C. pre-accident, maybe my acumen's on par with Kool G Rap and them..." Black thought is on another level.

Straight Heat 💥🔥 There ain’t many who can get away with saying they’re K Dot meets Pac..

Scru I have to say this is easily one of the best freestyles of ALL TIME! Elevated, in the clouds, pristine! Thank you for this video!

The answer to your question is yes, lol. My favorite bars from this change every time I hear it, but I return to these right here over and over again: "I am a walking affirmation, that imagination And focus and patience gets you closer to your aspiration." So many more, obv. But that one just hits transcendently.

Broooooooo😳 What the hell did I just listen too???😂😂😂 omg... smh. Best freestyle of all-time! It had everything!

IN MY TOP 5 FREESTYLES OF ALL TIME. I DONT EVEN LIKE CALLING IT A FREESTYLE ANYMORE. Its a MASTERPIECE !!!!!!!

we need some King Los reactions Scru!! the bars are wild

The crazy thing is that this is such an excellent display of skills that I don’t know if he would comeback to make another freestyle; this was an absolute masterpiece. I will forever be grateful for this display of exquisite intricate bars; this was also a so historically informative. I never tire of hearing this… I never knew he was this nice all these years.

One of the emperors of hip hop

Iconic freestyle...most definitely in the top 10 of all time. Still catch new beers every time and I've heard it more than 20 times

I don't know what just happened. I'm just a 46 year old Karen on my elliptical at the gym watching my SFJ and this schizophrenic word salad is killing me. This man is spewing 4,000 years of historical, musical, heroic, pop culture, westerns, books, of just straight gorgeousnes. In college I took 4 semesters of world history, art history, musical theory, theater, film ,poetry, English, creative writing, philosophy, economics and psychology and this man summed it up in 15 minutes. Dafuq???

Damn it's about time you got to this one ! Easily one of the top if not THE top freestyles on any radio shows ever. Black Thought is literally the goat lyrically. Full stop.

This is one of if not the best performances of all time. long live 💭.

Coming back to this 2 years later... what lines need to be highlighted, my man? This is a masterclass on how to spit lyrics! This is a paradigm-shifting example of the difference of who you think I am, and with whom you are truly fucking with!!!

Listening to black thought as a kid made me feel like how amazing is it that the greatest of all time in a genre made by black Americans is named black thought… cause rap at its best is always just that, take no substitutes. He’s such a great rapper it feels like rap was made FOR him!!!! No one earns braggadocious bars like Thought

What I loved best about this is this whole verse sounds and feels like an actual off the dome freestyle Or I should say a verse done in one sitting How can you tell? He gets deeper and deeper into subjective thoughts as he goes on Like when you freestyle or you in the midst of writing As you keep going, it feels like you getting better and better. Cuz you going deeper and deeper into the shit you REALLY wanna rap about The things you wanna say something about. Those come out in later thought when you’re writing But HOW he embodied that for an entire verse without a single wasted word is……….. Something unthinkable. Black Thought in his own realm JUST for that. And that’s not even counting the actual content and bars and message Just the thought process behind it all and then actually pulling it off

This was insane, dude is combining so many references, punchlines, schemes, and storytelling basically on a Nas level all simultaneously. Didn't waste a second. Vocabulary is wild as well. And it's a freestyle? Sheeeeeeesh.

They know nothing about that black thought baby! Oh he is phenomenal!

When he mentioned “The Roots” my heart dropped

Yes Scru, it is the greatest freestyle of all time, I'm genuinely surprised how you discovered it this late! Either way I'm happy for you showing it love cauz both Black Thought and this freestyle are mad underappreciated, this the greatest by far and then u got the King Los and Locksmith joints.

Bout 10 seconds into the free, and scru already gettin the pillow ready 😂😂😂 black thought is a underrated GOAT fr

Scru a real one for this 🔥🔥🔥 a lot of reactors don’t put on true lyricists of the game. RESPECT ✊🏾

This might be my favorite freestyle ever now thanks to you. That shit went HARD! Every fucking bar, I love watching you break down this slick talk. You be catching all the jones. He talking to us niceeee!

Bro he killed that shit !!!! That shit was insane!! 🔥🔥🔥

How does he do this. Every line is fire and he never runs out of breathe. Best free style ever for real

Mans fit every word into the bans 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💧💧💧💧💧🌊⚡❄

The goat. Greatest freestyle of all time, he's Top 5 dead or alive

Black Thought is GOAT Forever

Black Thought has always been a beast 🎯

🔥🔥🔥🔥 C'mon!!! Loaded Lux Funk Flex freestyle has to be next!!!!

"Goes from khemetic science, to technines and burners" 🤣🤣🤣 a true balanced king

🎉🎉🎉🎉 My man from Philly doing work!

When you left after that innocent bystander line I died lmaoo. Love your channel dude

Tariq/Black Thought, one of the best MCs ever to bless the mic. Nothing but fire from him on this free! Scru with the hype reaction and proper break down! Like button smashed!

I thought the pillow was gonna get shredded on this one. I had my RIP Pillow Speech ready man...

Man, you murderin' that pillow, son!

Bro you should be on every radio station breaking down every rap song, I'm 52 and have always been a fan of Black, the verse where he says my passport pages is like War and Peace, got by me until you broke it down, love your enthusiasm keep it up young bruh you killin it

Loved the reaction, more importantly the fact that you caught every jewel in there. nice work, grabbed a subscriber.

The best freestyle ive never heard!!! I grew up in the golden era of hip hop as well......Black Thought spittin

SFC great reactions Ray Vaughn and Black Thought who has never ever disappoint HIP HOP EVER.

This freestyle never EVER gets old... I've been binge watching reactions...lmao... This is one of my favs rxn vids tho... real talk.

Greatest hip hop performance ever. Goat.

Favorite bar “they know I’m better as an apex predator” as a apex player that is a bar

This is the type of reactions we need scru let's go bro

“How much more CB4 can we afford? It’s like Sharia law on Mon Cherie Amour.” There’s like 5 levels to that one line.

Line for line easily one of the best verses EVER. The fact that he's from around tha way is a bonus. South Philly all day...

Been waiting on this, thanks for doing this one SCRU.

this man was in heaven rappen this

You the goat for doing this reaction!

Thought transformed into Dr. Manhattan on this one and went to Mars on cats!

I understand!! Phenomenal intelligence pronunciation realism on extra terrestrial bars 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This freestyle touched a wide spectrum of us in our soul. Some who finished highschool, attended post-secondary, read books, listened to world news, study art, history, religion, literature and pop culture felt this as a package. I come back to this iconic freestyle and close my eyes for this narration and a video plays in my head of his picturesque lines and phrases.

Every line was a punch ✊

Can you imagine someone walking into this only knowing thought as that band guy from Jimmy Fallon, lmao ~_~

Haha. The part when you're telling Flex to shush. 😂😂 me too

Bro so many of those bars went over so many heads

Black Thought is your favorite rapper's favorite rapper!!🐐

Love these man!! All way from New Zealand 🇳🇿 you should react to mysonne on funk flex it’s fire

Stronger than the coffee out in Kafa muhfkas! This dudes been fire since 95. Let ‘em know Reeq!!!

This is the best reactions to this I love it. Yesssss Black thought is too deep for em. Yup he the coldest.

This is my favorite freestyle of all time. There are a lot of great freestyles out there but this sits at the top!!!! Pure 🔥🔥🔥!!! Thx for reacting to it!

"Somebody stronger than me, I'm all ears...like Obama" is a slept on bar.

Been waiting for this for so long 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

YESSSS i been asking for this one! Thank you Scru! 😄🔥🔥🔥

For the Dax fans, this is the perfect example of what an actually good 10-mute freestyle looks like

The ending just makes u go.... Daaaaaamn

What's crazy is that I emailed you about this a long time ago. Big props for that keep doing your thing !

Yesssssss my guy!!! Thanks for reacting to this cuz everyone who has years ago must say was trash 😂😂

This freestlyle one of the greatest

This should be played and analyzed in a high school english classes. So much would be learned and i think it would be very engaging

I consider this the greatest verse in hip hop history. The rhyme patterns are outrageous and the content is cool, smart and fresh. But I can't believe how many people in comments sections want to claim this was all off the top. I mean, come on! Do you hear how organized and polished these bars are? There is absolutely ZERO chance this was off the top.

watched it about 20 times but that face at 8.07 gets me everytime... :)))

BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This freestyle,Harry Mack,and coast contra gotta be my favorite 3 flex freestyles

hitting them with that knowledge and fire

For some reason Scru telling Funk to "shut up!" at 8:33 is hilarious 😅

Love the way you closed that out! he broke us ALL that day.

SCRU, love you for this, there is one more joint I'm beggin you for! Three Wise Men: The Last Cypher I know its long, but I know you would do it justice while others cant

No one has ever made a hip hop song this good no one.

Scru!!! this is FIRE!! Fire!! blazzin!! come on lets do a throwback reaction.. lets go Big Pun!! Twinz!! lets gooo!!

That intro was perfectly cut.

The best ending reaction of all time!! "It's broken!"

LEGENDARY

my G excited and why not...thats the OG man

The best freestyle ever on funkflex by the talented mr trotter

Masterclass freestyle

We want some uk reactions . He never did a uk freestyle reactions . I mean chip is a beast he should react to his freestyles (old or new)