Do Rappers Really Freeestyle

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Many hip hop enthusiasts watch rappers on TV or during a radio interview and want to know Do Rappers Actually Freestyle? Freestyle as in improvise their words right on the spot and not reciting lyrics they wrote down. This article is a follow up to Rappers Who Freestyle Their Songs Below we will dissect the whole dynamic of rappers and free-styling and get to which rapper can actually authentically freestyle.

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Related: Do Rappers Write Lyrics Before Getting A Beat?

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What Is Freestyle Rap

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A rap freestyle is a style of improvisation with or without instrumental beats, in which lyrics are improvised, i.e. performed with no previously composed lyrics, and “off the top of the head”. Rappers do this to exercise their rhyming skills and prove their superiority over other rappers who can’t do it. Now-a-days a lot of rappers have lost the art of free-styling and mainly depend on written rhymes to get them through free-style sessions on tv or radio interviews.

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Do Rappers Really Freestyle

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As mentioned above most rappers have truly lost the art of free-styling. And to their credit a lot of major media outlets such as radio and tv don’t demand it from them any more. There use to be a period in time when rappers who went up to a radio station were obligated to freestyle off the top; no written rhymes. Now the radio stations either give the rap artists a pass on spittin’ a flow on the spot or allow them to do a freestyle that has already been pre-written. That is a move that forces artist to not try the real method of free-styling.

So the answer is not many rappers freestyle anymore. But I will say the one’s that do are pretty good at it. Later on in this article you can view some videos on rappers who can freestyle well.

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Freestyle Rapping Lines

To be able to freestyle well it’s going to take practice. You indeed have to have an extensive vocabulary to come up with words on the spot. As you flow your brain is literally picking out words for you to say and if your vocabulary is limited it will be tougher for you to improvise on the spot. Below I have quoted some of the amazing freestyle rapping lines from artists.

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And if you think I can’t fuck with whoever, put your money up, Put your jewels up, no fuck it put your honey up
Put your raggedy house up nigga, or shut your mouth up
before I buck lead, and make a lot of blood shed
Turn your tux red, I’m far from broke, got enough bread
And mad hoes, ask Beavis I get nuttin Butt-head – Big L

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I think fast, switch fast, quick fast, quick as
Immigrants say, ‘No habla ingles’, at border-patrol fences
Messing with Canibus is senseless
Divide my senses by six and you’ll end up with triple sixes
And triple the digits mean triple the spirits
My light body to the third power will triple my lyrics
I’m triple the threat, I’m triple my physical flesh
I’m telling you, put your money on me then triple your bet
‘Cause I won’t be satisfied till I’m set
Till I got a triplex out in Tribeca with the skyline effect” – Canibus

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Me and Westwood blastin’ off, jackin’ off
In a pair of acid washed bumpin’ Asher Roth
Cruisin Gratiot til I damn near crash the car
Tryna smash ’em off in the dash, hit the overpass, went off
Over the bridge into on-coming traffic
Caused a massive forty-two car pile-up, not a scratch at all
Hopped up holding an axe and saw
Jason mask is off when my face is plastered in tabasco sauce
Spitting flames, kickin’ fire out your ass you little bastard
You can pass it on, I’m battery acid dog
You don’t wanna get my ass ticked off
I’m harder than playing basketball
when I’m going through crack withdrawal – Eminem

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The boy trap money like bear hunters
Dear Summer, I know y’all gonna miss me
Couldn’t go together like Nike Air’s and Swiss T’s
S. Dot’s and Polo Fleece’s, purple label shit with the logo secret
Gimme a couple of years shh I might just sneak in
A couple of words and like Peaches & Herb
We’ll be reunited and it feel so hood
Got the whole world sayin “how he still so good?”
Or I do this in my slumbers Summer
I ain’t none of these halfass new comers, you know how I do Summer
I drop heat when you bring the sun up
The combo make niggas act up I pick the gun up
Niggas back up they know I ain’t no fronter
I don’t talk shit I just flip and “Un” ya – Jay-Z

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Also Read: What it Takes To Be A Rapper

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Rappers Who Can’t Freestyle

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Just like there are rappers who can freestyle there are a lot more who can’t freestyle. That’s why I mentioned that free-styling is a skill set developed through training and much practice. And again, you have to have an extensive vocabulary because if your lexicon of words are short, you’re not going to freestyle well.

Below I’ve posted embarrassing videos of rappers who can’t freestyle including Drake! Yes, Drake can’t really freestyle. We all saw when he used his black berry and no other time has he freestyled since then. he’s a good song writer though. We all have to give him that much. Or well, him and his team are good writers.

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Omelly Freestyles on Sway In The Morning

A$AP Rocky Freestyles OFF THE TOP on Sway in the Morning

Drake freestyle – Westwood

DRAKE’s Worst FREESTYLE at HOT97

Those videos were pretty funny. As you can see the videos show rappers who can’t freestyle, or need to use written rhymes as freestyle. That’ doesn’t take much skills at all. But I think with hard work they can all become good freestylers. Below I have listed the top rap freestylers.

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Top Freestyle Rappers

  • Notorious B.I.G.
  • Canibus
  • Snoop Dogg
  • Jay-Z
  • Common
  • Fabolous
  • Lupe Fiasco
  • Cassidy
  • Joe Budden
  • Cooked I
  • Eminem
  • LL Cool J
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In conclusion there are some rappers who can freestyle and many more who simply can’t. Free-styling is still a part of the hip-hop culture but over time has not been taken seriously by these new rappers. If you are an up and coming rapper practice on your free-styling skills. It will definitely ass to your artist arsenal when you can do something other rapper’s can’t do.

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