Mos Def-NY Knicks '99 Freestyle

What with the playoffs and all happening, figured I'd throw this joint up. Would have been more appropriate a week or two back when the Knicks were still playing the Celtics, but alas I just done been copped this track Brings back good memories, Marcus Camby, Chris Childs, Latrell Sprewell. That was the squad! For what it's worth, now that the most gracious losers in the league got swept, there ain't no stopping J Noah & D Rose. Oh, and Kyle Korver!





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Big L-139 Freestyle

Not to hate on L at all, but a lot of these "unreleased freestyles" are just verses that L probably already wrote for collabs or for Lifestylez ov Da Poor & Dangerous. Not like I know that this track is a definite freestyle, but I like how dukes stumbles a bit in places, I like how his flow sounds a tiny bit awkward, that's how you can tell the shit is authentic.





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The Diplomats-DJ Enuff Freestyle

That birthday shit!





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Immortal Technique-Underground Railroad Freestyle

Somewhat laughable to hear Immortal Tech try to timeline the existence of Al-Qaeda over the buffoonery of his 'clique'.





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Mikkey Halsted-Success

For how dope of a rhymer Mikkey Halsted is, dukes has very few quality jawns. And usually it's because the production is very weak. That's what makes tracks like Success and Dear Summer so worthwhile, because Mikkey sounds infinitely better minus weak hooks and c-grade instrumentals. Maybe it's just me though...


04 Success



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Cam'ron & Bloodshed-Fare One Pt. 1

You can find this one on the Collector's Edition of the Children Of The Corn album. And if you even halfway fucks with any members of the DITC crew, then that tape should be a must-cop. Countless Cam goodies, and also an alarmingly high number of jawns by Bloodshed. Don't forget early Mase either, dukes could really spit back in the day.
Anyway, this is a two part freestyle Cam and Bloodshed recorded, and hopefully I'll be able to get part 2 up soon enough.





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Crooked I-Thank God For That White

You already know the beat, and you've probably already heard the original Don Cartagena version (which gets more flak than it probably deserves). Still, despite Crook's mixtape antics, his version shits on Joey Crack's. Crooked I still delivers a fair amount of his predictable lyrics and nihilistic threats, but beneath all that is a genuinely dope verse. Check it.





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Ya Boy-100 Bars Of Crack

I won't deny that Ya Boy has definitely fell off lately, doing mixtapes with DJ Rockstar and DJ Ill Will, and especially that faux-hawk residing on top a' dude's head.
Still, when he was just coming up, making tapes with DJ Skee and workin' with the boys from Black Wall Street Records, dukes proved he could spit. Like when he exhumes 100 Bars Of Crack over a famous G-Funk pioneer's original composition.





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Raekwon & Carlton Fisk freestyle

Got this one off some Doo Wop tape that spotlights rare freestyles and the like. Rae freestyles are always something to behold, although they usually fare better without a random Wu weed carrier (in this case it's a drug dilla that inherited his name from one of the best Sox catcher's evar).
That's not to say Carlton Fisk does poorly, in fact he almost matches 'Kwon even though he has 1/4th the mic time that Rae does. Solemn instrumental too.





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Lupe Fiasco- Ignorant Shit Freestyle

I copped this off the Mick Boogie/Lupe tape called It Was Written. A few Nas tribute jawns, and then this raw Jigga ovation. Personally, I thought Lupe murked any and everyone else who spit over this crazy Isley Brothers sample, but I'm a stan for Lupe freestyles.
The material he can come up with off the top is superior to most people's written lyrics, hence It Was Written.





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Mikkey Halsted- Dear Summer

After hearing so much hype about Mikkey Halsted, I finally checked out his Uncrowned King tape. I will admit that dude is nice, and he has a vocabulary normally unfit for a rapper, but his major problem is production. On Uncrowned King, he has minimal original production, which kind of masks Mikkey's weak ear for beats.
Still, when he gets on the mic, he commands your attention. His peak comes over a Just Blaze opus Dear Summer. And although I highly doubt he came up with any of this off the top, we'll still call it a freestyle for 'clerical' purposes.





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Big L- '98 Stretch & Bobbito Freestyle

I've seen a few versions of this freestyle floating around the internets. The majority of people have heard half of this freestyle on the posthumous The Big Picture, but in '03 a litany of L freestyles were exposed to the masses in Harlem's Finest: A Freestyle History, which is directly where this is coming from. I was moderately surprised that L fucked with Kay Slay back in the day, but even moreso surprised how many freestyles he recorded with Stretch and Bobbito.
This joint isn't anything amazing, but if you're missing this one from your collection or you're unsatisfied with The Big Picture version, it's all you...





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Lupe Fiasco- Dead Presidents Freestyle

Back when Lupe was spitting instead of piecing together average concept albums and singing for a Japanese rock band.
Now feel me, a freestyle isn't when you write some material and then spit it off of memory over someone else's instrumental. We call that a remix. A freestyle is when you dome something completely off the top of the head, word to Mook.
That being said, this is a freestyle over Jigga/Ski's DP II instrumental. And Lupe spits fiyah in a manner that would make his overlord/boss proud.





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