Method Man & Black Thought Cypher on Sway in The Morning | Sway's Universe 

Facts.

How many did he win? 14 million.....

That is the most accurate description. This was a masterclass for sure.

Black Thought vs Everybody

Lol...Dr Thought

Lol exactly how i pictured it in my mind yo! 😁😎

Juice 🥤world 🌏 needs them babies

I actually just laughed loud as shit sitting at my cubicle 😂😂😂

😂

That's for reals. Full on trance!...

king tech and sway brought so many and man ppl give it big back

damn was this 5 years ago already I keep banging this like it's a fresh freestyle at least once a year lol

It’s been that long?

Well said G!

*food for Black Thought :)

He had to go to the sd card🤦‍♂️

Method man is absolutely not even in the top 50 bro

​@@biggestpacfanalive7521 you smoked out method is a legend and deserves it . He's top 10 in my books he has always been underrated. If he ain't in your top 50 . Then you just don't listen to real hip-hop

Timothy H. Exactly! When there is a time you hear Meth get slaughtered like that by a fellow Mc with that kind or relaxation.... We are blessed

😰😂😂😂

Taj Stanley 😭😭😭👏👏👏💯

He wrote it for the sure

Timothy H. 😂😂😂👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

That shit was HOT!!

@@shadowgod7523 To start off the fucking verse too!

He always says some shit to make you stop and think real hard about ya life ! 🤣

This makes so much sense

Came out the gate swinging didn't he bro👀👀👀👀👀🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂😂

I see what you did there

He's been well known and respected on the streets for 30+ years. Just no on media

My dude that is literally the greatest description I ever read about Black Thought, I SALUTE YOU!!!!!!!

HARD FACTS

Lightweight embarrassed for Tical but he even knew Tariq was untouchable. Suuuu.

@Random Hajile bruh. No

He's like the Bowser, and the castle is hip hop. LMAO

word

Its between him and Elzhi for most technical rappers

At this point its between Black Thought and Lupe fiasco for being the best most technically proficient MCs

Locksmith has to be on that list.

Tech N9ne has to be on that list

haha yup method had to make sure he performs when black thought is around . he knows the level required

He's def master splinter

Black Thought came straight from the top. Highest praise possible in the rap game.

Divine rhymes

Cameron Requintina exactly and meth burned this down!!!

Can I get one of them wooders? That’s that Philly area accent.

True that🤞🏾

100%

FACTS!!!!!

😄😄😄😄😄I've never heard a plural for water?

Done!

hard bar

Likewise

No matter who said that first, I'm sure Black thought said it better...

BARZ

Allen Blackwell ... On some ill shit

😂💯

AND EEEEEASY!

Allen Blackwell highkey killled meth....but its all love

Black thought is too much

Notice he laughed before Method Man got it out. He wrote the rest of that bar in his head on the fly and beat the MC to it.

hello what. this beat????

@@djsylock JID - Never , it’s the beat change halfway through the song

He's worked with Meth on DiCaprio 2. Both legends. Old and new.

Real recognise Real.

He didn't only recognize it. He gave it the utmost respect by pulling out some written verses for that fire. Never know, those could have been verses he was planning on putting on a track, but realized this was there true resting place

That line has lived in my head rent free for years now

5 years later that’s still the hardest line I’ve heard

​@@joshuagoodwin4352how

Eish haunts me till today lol black thoughts an alien

03:40

When he just casually comes out with "Thought and Meth, the legendary Roots Crew Tang" I lost my fucking mind

I’m from Philly and I recognize black thought as a lyrical monster and this freestyle is incredible, but to say no one can match what he wrote is a little too much for me. There are many verses I can think of that blew that one out of the water, but that doesn’t take away from what he did, and I give a lot of props and love to him. Eminem is superior, technically to him.

@@ShadzVibez I get what you’re saying and it’s all very subjective. Eminem raps faster. But the intelligence, content, tone, style, creative rhyme schemes and cadence put Black Thought in a whole different league for me.

@@mastadon7771 I think we’re people are divided on Eminem is the content of what he is saying, because the things that Black Thought speaks about are more relatable to me but if you break it down to the technical aspect of rap, Eminem takes it hands-down. Even on songs where it sounds like he’s just rapping fast and not seeing anything, he puts things together that my ears have never heard. I love black thought, and I am from Philly, but when people leave a comment and say that it is impossible to write anything better than he wrote, and there is nothing that can match this verse I have to disagree. Go listen to mural by Lupe Fiasco. This verse was good, but there are a lot of other great verses and this isn’t even black thoughts best verse

EVER.

Not probably

one of? THE GOAT

He has the number 2 head band

⚰️⚰️⚰️💀💀💀

lol!

😭😭😭😭

That is brilliant mate! Well said 😂👊🏻

😆😆

nah ... BT is humble. Just a HIP-HOP (conscious) love of the music. He's BEEN that way since the beginning. Y'all act like you never heard him decades ago.

He really looks at rappers like a court jester. Entertain me if you can.

@@who26 yea man

Yea mam

@@angelioforosaletheia8855 Sorry but I am from Philly and know about BT from the days of "Black Lily" with Jill Scott and many others, can't claim to be a friend but I remember his actual Free Style skills from decades ago..others are just experiencing it. Plus ask any rapper alive presently if they will rap next to him with no notice.....most will say yes.....then say he is in the other room and watch their ears bleed.

Fuckin facts bro..!! Ghost would murder this shit!!

What's the best called

@@elijahtaylor8261 NEVER, by JID. It’s the beat that plays in the second half of the song.

this man lucky meech spits fye

more big rappers used to be focused on rap skills ,but that doesn't mean every popular rapper was crazy skilled. People make it seem like anyone who rapped over a boom bap beat in the 90s was a great rapper when some of them were just saying bullshit

It was never like that

that aint never changed

soundcloud.com/onlyprinceofnc/bag

That flew over my head thanks that shit flame

thought or meth?

thought said it

That shit real. Right off rip that line gave me chills.

His flow , delivery and bars are so fire

@@JohnDoe-lj8yy str8 facts

Mad Willionaire lol this mans brain is one some other shit it really is unreal when you compare it to most rappers their bars. Truly blessed mc

Stop using the term goat its nothing more than satanic influance in hiphop goat is a reference to the baphomet thst they worship ...

@@thesaviorofALL go home

Cdy rgy rny ..your a goof

You right ✅

Too funny

Fasho🔥

Honestly, there's at least a dozen lyricists I LOVE, but Black Thought is on another level entirely. There's nobody even CLOSE, and that's a huge compliment to those who are.

Krs -one don't sleep on Teacher

Lol

hahahaa i felt the same man both GOATs though

i thought it was just me that peeped that lol :D

🤣

Black Thought is an Alien 👽

Dee Phunk the Legendary Roots Crutang threw me off for a nice surprise too.

Bruh.

That line was HARD BODY

Bryan Williams ... That was so dope. 🔥🔥🔥

Dee Phunk fukn 🔥

FACTS!!!

Lmao facts

Checks his interview with king crooked and you will learn how he debuted in this game

DOOM, Black Thought, Em,Gface Killah, Biggie,Andre 3000, Joey Bad$$, Big L some of the Greatest lyricists of all time

$omething different

Fax. Good to know legends pay attention to the new baby GOATs

@@adamm7922 lol at baby goats :)

I watched this freestyle so many times before I even knew who JID was, I ignored meth saying his name. I assumed he was just a producer or something. I was missing out for so long.....man I really should've googled that damn name back then lol he one of my favorite current artists now

what beat is this??? @@masterk5066

It's the second beat on 'NEVER' by J.I.D. There is a beat flip exactly 2 minutes into the song into this beat.

Link Pellow....Did you hear the joint he did with David Banner on the God Box album?????!!!!!!....It's one his Top 5 verses of all time!!!...#HANDS #DOWN

Link Pellow Also the greatest of all time

Link Pellow The Most!

Chuuuuuuuuuch, Preach, Tabernacle!!!!!!!

#fact

Snoop Dog, for example... B-Real... Noize MC...

I tried to bite his style and i got a nose bleed

That Loki thor hammer can't touch this shit was nuts. Fuck. He killed it too!

Yuriy TheOne nah man and snoop is trash

@@yuriytheone snoop is trash foshizzle

Iqiniso lelo

Damn right. Black thought is a beast

Black thought vs Sticky Fingaz Bar for fuck- Ing Bar for bar for barrrrrrr

Canibus vs B.T

@@onyxtytanium964 mos def

Like it’s understood with no respect loss, method man is a boss but thought makes bosses want to bring their best and anyone who knows or cares totally gets it with no love loss

They used to carry a notebook back in the day whatever came to mind. Using the phone was the same thing.

@@ChrisSullins and then you have a beast like thought.. There are less then a hand full that can spit on that level. Meth handled it as good as 99.98% of mc's can handle being in a freestyle with black thought.

@@ChrisSullins Notebook or phone... yes, doesn't matter where you write your lines. But being a professional also means learning those bars before you spit them... reading from your phone or notebook is kinda lazy... it's not like they wrote those bars minutes before the show starts.

@@VincentFree Right, some cats just got them rhymes in they mind and can call to at any time.

DEAD ASS

young royal lol

I know some hard body Mc' s that really was "back stage talkin to management like change the order/there's no way that we could rock after them" and that's not just a thought bar, that's a fact I heard it with my own ears.

LOL....Meth pulled out his writtens....cause he know Black drops real bars- no phone needed

I thought that was Beas....

Absolute. Unmitigated. Genius.

Genius

🔥👍🏿

That line was deadly!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thought is not human..🔥🔥🔥🔥

That's not freestyle his reading written lyrics lmao

didnt say anything about a free style

evo meekz True indeed!

Jafe Jo what do you mean with "washed"?

Jafe Jo If by washed you mean thought got him on this cipher, then yes, but overall they both killed quit hatin on meth...

Kenneth Martin Ok thanks, but me hatin' Meth??? He's the best rapper ever to me, don't judge.

Zoë Jansen are you jafe joe? I wasn't talking to you unless y'all are the same person. So chill and I'll judge whatever the fuck I want

Nope😂

@@PenguiinMan yep

I just don’t respect pulling a phone out. I can freestyle off the top of my head and I’m just a normal dude who occasionally raps/writes music.

@@dennisbarros8818 respect that. Lots of guys don't really freestyle. I listen to a lot of Wayne and he repeats things from mixtapes and Al during live freestyle sessions. Not saying Blk thought didn't freestyle, but that was just too great to be off the dome like that. That shi was a masterpiece

had my dying lol

I KNEW I wasn't trippin!

😂

Starts around 5:04 or so lmao

Shit that is Elijah Wood

broooo you know real heat seeker are here

Still bumpin

Apart from thoughts 10mn freestyle this is no2. 👌

This shit is fire

Well DAMN !!!!THOUUGHT CRAAAAZY DOOOOPE !!!!!!

Thats all i heard

A beast always recognizes another beast.

Black Thought ripped that shit all over the place... "Money is time and The Reaper know the budget." .... "I'mma leave these ni**as leakin like I'm Julian Assange." ... "The Hood fella with the Hermes edge. Number 1 storyteller, what the survey says." "Y'all all the way turned up, but I'm amplified." "Somethin nasty skirted off the lot. It's darker than the kettle, I am darker than the pot. I am all day composing classics like Vivaldi. Graffiti on the walls of the hallowed hallways." Dead.

@@wideopen5578 i thought he said Juulie in the sun, like a Juul, the vape, because some bad vapes leak and I thought heat had something to do with that lmfao

Donald Beasley Lol!

Ha

D Les the one them underachievers had underestimated

Not on this evidence. Method took it with relative ease except for Thought's first one.

@@s.salazar6364No need to argue opinions, but listen, bro...there's no bigger Method Man fan than myself and he's one of my favorites, but just hear me out. I've always been aware of the Roots music and would listen from time to time, then I started checking out Thought's solo projects and I truly believe the dude is absolutely top 5 greatest of all time, and just above my man Meth. Thought's rhyme schemes are extremely complex, his ability to string together layers of compound syllables and double entendres is incredible and unlike most of I've ever heard. Dude is sadly underrated and deserves much more credit....just my two cents.

@@s.salazar6364 u buggin

Yo, I had the same reaction. Meth did nothing wrong, but this was one of the most clearest examples of great versus alien ever displayed.

@@onie4024 I totally agree with you. Blackthought is a genius. I believe intellects favor him. He's my number one of all time. You can earn a bachelor's degree from his catalogue of songs. You learn so much from what he says. Who knows who Vivaldi is? I mean I had to Google that. When I was 16 and heard his line "student of life that's on the rugged exterior mode" I was transformed. I got 'Student of Life" tatted on me that summer. And then "My shackle of thought tackle you while I'm educating". No comparison bro...

ToroidalVortexLove correction " money is time"

eaz8888 me 2 Damn lord knows we had It Good and very well Blessed Back then with this Hip Hop and RnB shit son SMH

He is witnessing actual lyrical wizards battle :)

I was really wondering if its him. Hes feeling himself so much.

Elija wood living the dream!

The shit was beautiful

Vince Young yes.. He inspired many artists.. Wale.. Childish Gambino.. N many more.. I love it when black & doom collab

😎cool in the game😎

Verce Arcane Deep lines bruh Sheesh

Same. Meth knows he's out classed. And I love that Meth's ego betrays him.

@@mr.nihilz3283 absolutely. Dude had to read some raps he wrote previous while Big Thought came straight off the dome. I can not think of one artist on Thoughts level.

@@Th3Watch3r Though is #1 on my goat list. Followed by a 2nd tier of Mos 3000 Monch & Aesop.

@@mr.nihilz3283 I can't really disagree at all. Those are all absolutely Top Tier Artists. Appreciate the back and forth my friend. Don't see much of this on RU-vid 😂

@@Th3Watch3r no worries. I used to love Meth when I was young. But if you're lucky enough to out grow your ego as you age. You can allow yourself to break the Biigie Tupac Em Jay-z traps. Em & Jay could change the world if they really wanted to.

I felt like Meth felt some type of way about it wen he said that😂

@@aaronorange6732 he was looking, stopped bobbin' lmao

@@cockheadprod5051 Yup and knowing Meths character he take that hip hop shyt serious lol

Black Thought killed this...the fact he does it off the cuff like that is just straight filthy

@@ianwarren4276 It absolutely is NOT off the cuff man hahaha. Massive fan of BT of course, but yeah I can guarantee you with complete certainty it is not off the dome

Wurd!!!!

Ha!!!

Facts! 1% #friexa 🤣😂

His final form was the Flex Freestyle lol

Haha he didn't even go super saiyan 1 here but we all know he has about four levels of God mode left

LITERALLY OMG 😭

this is what Hip-Hop USED TO BE!

Absolutely, you can see it in the body language. This is hip-hop.

Completely agree, but, they were TOTALLY competing!!! Made it that much better!!! Hip hop!!!

Eso eso eso ya medio cosa 😂😂

Who #2

The message there is. Always listen and keep learning. Don't stop honing your craft!

Apocalypse Meth been a beast since

+72vince27 Word Five Joints that proves Meth is a King of Wordplay are "All N Together Now" Only Mef Verses "Simon Sayz" Remix "Shadowboxing" With GZA "Do What You Feel" With Redman "Extortion" with Mobb Deep oh and "Trillmatic" with ASAP Nast is I'll too...