In terms of rapping, improv or off the top is the TRUE meaning of freestyling. When rap first started, none of the MCs had writtem verses. They would just say what came to them. It progressed to written verses, but freestyling is the essence of MCing.
@LiarsNightmare "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." - big daddy kane
Soul Khan is one of the few battlers that can rock a beat. He has cadence, flow and style. Hollow was very light, his delivery was off. He had a couple of lines though
wow @ that beat soul khan was rapping over at the beginning. I was looking 4ward to hearing Hollow over that beat but of course it switched over into some dip set hahaha
"you know something under that seat...LIKE THE OPRAH SHOW"!!! Sick!! his schemes are a lot like cam'ron but hollow actually has talent. KHAN went in!!!
@tatertots00 Sure, that's common use, but originally it didn't mean off the top. And yeah, I could change it to that, but it probably wouldn't get as many views. Plus this is the original title they used when this video was recorded and edited, so I didn't even make it up
@ItsGwame Yes it does.... freestyle means improvised. MC Supernatural is the best freestyler not because he writes his bars but because he can rhyme about anything at anytime and make it sound legit.
@MRBOCHIEDA2ND It's not my definition, it's hip-hop's definition. This is coming from rappers like Big Daddy Kane who were around since the early days of hip-hop. There's nothing to argue about.
@AndyTtrigger Somewhat true... A freestyle is when someone spits a verse on the spot. No booth, no recording session, written or not, its not a song. It's just one of those pages in your rhyme book where you were just spittin crazy. It wasn't something you were going to put on an album or anything, but there was heat on the page so you spit it to impress. Of the top of the head is also freestyling, but it's because of the same reasons. FYI, ITS HELLA RARE FOR ANY RAPPER TO GO OFF THE DOME
@paydn202 MINNEAPOLIS BABY! eyedea and slug's talent is very rare though..there off the top skills are fucking insane and unheard of. Noone can compare to them.
There's three different kinds of freestyling. Off the dome, which most people consider freestyling in it's purest form, is completely made up on the spot. Then there's battle frees which are typically a collection of rehearsed punchlines with off the dome insults to fill out the verse (unless you're talking Grindtime/KoTD style which are almost entirely written). And then there's freestyling as having written verses that you can spit over any random beat that haven't been recorded as tracks.
Y'all don't know y'alls hip-hop history. Freestyling ORIGINALLY started off as improv rhyming. Usually, the MC would say something about what just happened or mention something that he sees to prove he's freestyling. It started taking on a written persona when people started doing "freestyles" on mix tapes. The masses couldn't tell if they were freestyling or spittin writtens, so they ran with it. Any true MC worth his weight in lyrics knows that freestyling means off the top. Jersey.
look it up. it did not originally start as improv rhyming. that came later. now it can mean either. even kool moe dee said that back in the 80s freestyles were pre-written verses used to show skill, but not quite song verses
Thankyou man. It used to piss me the fuck off when ppl use to even debate with me on a topic that was so plain to see.Freestyling. Myself and a few buddies would freestyle(I call it the lost art). But I would alway be suspicious of some of my homies if they were really going off the top at times. What mofos are confusing now days is something called a FREE VERSE.In actual poetry a Free verse is a loose topic written on paper.The game is all fuckd up now. Your better off finding.
@bigatrock Hollow is normally pretty fire. He is a battler, he has some good battles out there. If this is what you are judging him on, i would check him out a lil more. and Soul Kahn was laughing at his lines and giving props, they battle in the same leagues and fuck with each other
@bigatrock 1. If you think that freestyle originally meant "off the top rhyme created on the spot", you probably learned everything you know about hip-hop on youtube and jumped on the bandwagon. That's the definition NOW but ORIGINALLY freestyle meant a random written verse used to show skill
Wrong again. I'm from the Bronx (Webster Ave. for those in the know) and came up during the conseption of Hip-Hop. We used to freestyle before even most of the rest of New York even knew what rapping was. Kool Moe Dee talks about back in the 80s. I'm talkin bout the 70s. Moe is from Harlem, by the way, not the Bronx.
@LiarsNightmare nowadays that's what it commonly refers to, meaning THAT is an interpretation (a false one) of the word originally meant. i know what freestyling means these days, all i'm saying is that the title of this video isn't wrong because it conforms to what freestyle meant in the first place
