Im Not Sure You Understand…

The meaning of freestyle as pertaining to rap.

This topic came to my attention after everybody jumped on Lil Wayne’s A Milli beat which really wasn’t that great to begin with. There are literally over 50 A Milli “Freestyles” by known artists, even Will Smith jumped on this beat.

Rnb artists like T-Pain, Neyo, and Chris Brown even had ones. Neyo made a damn official video for his.

These songs being called “freestyles” confuse me, a freestyle isn’t when you steal a beat from someone else and write a song to it. A freestyle is off the top of the dome and takes tremendous skill.

Freestyling is raw and expressive. When you are just rhyming without prior lyrics what you really think comes out because there is no time to analyze and filter your thoughts. If you do the flow is ruined and thats the number one thing you don’t want to do in a freestyle.

Here Is An Example Of A Great Freestyle-

And on a side note another thing I think of you are misunderstanding is the meaning of “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” by Ice Cube. Sometimes we get lost in the thumping beat and catchy chorus but the message that Cube is trying to get across is important. 

He is sarcastically saying that gangsta rap is being wrongly blamed for the world’s problems. If you didn’t get that message the first time run the track back with that in your mind.

T Dub