Freestyle Friday: Raekwon vs. Joell Ortiz

by Kevin on January 1, 2010

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With all the year end lists going on, I almost forgot about Freestyle Friday! Why don’t we put up the two top emcees of 2009, according to Justin & Thomas: Raekwon vs. Joell Ortiz!

The idea behind Freestyle Fridays is to battle one another with your favorite verse from either of the two competitors. You’re essentially battling other commenters in this thread by using the words of Raekwon or Joell Ortiz. Hit the jump for a few rules and then jump in on the comments!

Before we start, let’s see if we can keep the thread in order today, by following a couple simple rules:

1. Please don’t drop the lyrics to a whole song. No more than one verse!

2. Please stay in order…. Raekwon, then Joell Ortiz, then Raekwon, etc. If you want to drop a Joell verse, wait until someone has dropped a Raekwon one. The idea is to go back and forth. It’s possible that more than one person may be trying to drop a verse at one time… we’ll just keep moving on.

I’ll start this thread off with a verse from Joell Ortiz:

“I got a raw flow, and I stay hungry more so
Guess that’s why I’m the torso
I pour sweat when I perform shows
What I record goes down as the best, but the vets won’t let that torch go
Y’all could keep it, they got flashlights now
And flamethrowers, and I got one on my back right now
Remain focused, that’s what I tell myself now and then
Don’t want to go back to that block like when Varejão defends
Uh-oh, my stomach growls again, I ain’t none of you cowards friends
Every human out of my sight before I count to ten
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
I’m hungry like I never ate
Set a table up with knives, forks and spoons, I’m ’bout to get a plate
All these sweet dummies looking me like a pepper steak
Means we never seperate, we ain’t married
Jab it everytime I touch a pen, I sort of set a date
I’ll devestate your career, look I’ma demonstrate
Let me get a good breath take before I regulate
Okay, bye bye you guys, don’t try to rhyme
Cuz line for line
What I design is mine and mine
My joint’s divine, meaning right behind
And thank God it shines all the light in mine
So my eyes can find a nice dime to grind
Come here girl, toma, toma , take that, take that ”

- Joell Ortiz, “Sound Off” (from Slaughterhouse)

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  • http://myspace.com/razorsharpeny razorSHARPE

    Ay yo, movin’ on these niggas like they old soul, bro
    You know how we go, we go shift ‘em out like paleco
    Fine, proteges off top connectin’ like a buildin’
    Four dollar whylin’ niggas buildin’, savin’ the children
    Come on now, check out the view like a oceanfront
    Slow motion in cunt, takin’ what we want
    You know a kid asiatic, holdin’ power like a craftmatic
    You like your fish fried or battered, that day he ratted
    Check out the movies from guyana, just eatin’ in atlanta
    Makin’ some pirate moves out of savannah
    Yeah, rock them niggas like jewelry
    Arabics movin’ blow like aerobics
    That’s when his nose itch, yeah
    That means it’s all in effect
    I’m hittin’ you, I’m hittin’ buddha
    Island bermuda, send that twenty-shot ruger
    Continue to slam and mend you like a venue
    Get all up in you, oh yeah your friend too, respect wu
    Yeah, keep the faggot niggas watery
    Rhyme for rich niggas who supported me, shorty pussy extorted me
    So it’s a science now, rza, cuttin’ they pockets like scissors
    Cindafella found him a wally slipper
    Splashin’ ends in the glass benz in nevada
    Flashin’ gems, eight-and-a-half tim state robber
    All my life been on some foul shit besides kidnap a child shit
    Get on some foul and proud shit
    Cheatin’ many koreans bein’ all that I can be an’
    Put down on thirty keys an’ get to fleein’
    Light up a tree an’
    Don’t be breezin’ like a blowdryer
    Yo, you’s a liar like jeremiah gamin’ on the flyer
    Yo, but buryin’ niggas is carryin’
    Thug drug marryin’, hittin’ marion off at the clarion
    All my spanish niggas love us
    We movin’ like rush ya, bone crush ya
    At the flick, stick to usher
    Broke niggas, spot ‘em like cascade
    In the street masquerade
    Faster blade

    - Raekwon, Faster Blade

  • http://www.roadsart202.com Roads-Art

    Ain’t nothing changed except the chains
    That restraining our physical frame
    Mentally we still living the same
    Its lock down
    They knock down the Towers to raise tax
    Anything they burn we pay back
    I live in the hood; you’ll never bump into Pat Seajack
    But we spin the wheel every time we chill
    Cuz cops hate blacks, and Hispanics they draw gats
    And just slam it before the ask where your hand is
    I don’t see how a wallet can be mistaken for a cannon
    ~So please don’t let em play us no more
    In everyway I’m ready, willing, and able to war
    Like any day I could pop I’d be in the front
    Like, please let the force be with me in this pump
    Housing want me to work cuz I’m still on my mom’s lease
    Threatening to raise the rent if I don’t pick up them park leaves
    Ain’t nothing in this world for free
    But somehow they got us fooled that this world is free

    (Joell Ortiz:) Modern Day Slave

  • http://www.kiimediagroup.com Jamie V.

    AK’s black bust back like seventy Macs
    I’m all that, street niggaz knowin my steez black
    Ron G, you know he coincide with me see
    Marvelous, Menace fo’ Society
    But anyway, let’s toast, champagne thoughts with Ghost
    I max the most shotguns through the nose
    Phonograph hip-hop put me on top
    ‘Lo wears, and Tommy Hil fly shit with a knot
    The witty unpredictable live shit, drive by shit
    Do or die shit, I’ll take your lie and shit
    And then you know, I’m runnin through the penal, foul
    Four-toothed child was wild
    The old lady snitched, but fuck it, you know it, one love kid
    No I’m not doin a bid
    Too much to get for what cause six niggaz got
    stuck, and the nigga chain was truck
    Yo fuck that, Criminology rap
    Speakers stay jet black floatin in the flyest Ac’
    Nigga… bring it!

    - Raekwon’s Verse, “Crimonology”

  • http://2facescumoftheslumdotcom 2face

    Yaaaaah-Waaaaah!

    ~ Joell Ortiz.

  • http://Waymorefresh.blogspot.com Lucky Lefty

    ell Ortiz (Slaughterhouse) – D.O.A. (Death Of Autotunes) Freestyle

    Mic Check! One thing that I can do is spit.
    I’ll Hammer you MC’s quick, ya’ll ain’t too legit.
    You interfere with my guap, you’re medullas split.
    Ya’ll wildin’, my stomachs growlin’ like the rudest pit.
    The beat so smart I stay on some stupid shit
    But if dummys make a smart comment, I’m dumpin’ Ruger clips! And I keep it true with 5th’s.
    I give your eye a cookie, then punch the cookie just to see how black and blue it gets.
    (Yawwaaa)
    I’m in tune with what the gutter loves
    I hop on beat and son niggas like a mother does
    They hear me; they like “Ayo, that brothas bugged”
    They hear you; they like “Oh no, not another thug”
    You chase the bitches who don’t wanna scrub
    I done fucked project bitches on my roof with a rubber glove
    We two different dudes
    I get praised, you be gettin’ booed; I feed niggas, you just niggas food!
    All you do is get chewed like wack grits; every time I get chewed, it’s a bad bitch.
    Oh I’m frontin’, sometimes I choose them average
    But that’s six jacks and coke in the spot and she the last bitch!
    And I just couldn’t bag shit, and she just stuck around cuz she on my fat ass dick
    Ha, Ha (Joe Budden: “Pause” LOL)
    I’m just fuckin’ around Green, but it feels good basically Jay-Z on the underground scene, listen.
    I’m in the zone on my own, my condolences…to any one or any group that’s opposing this.
    This ain’t a sm.. This a movement, we controllin’ this
    You can’t beat us; we don’t want you to join us so move over BITCH!
    It’s our time the tides done came in.
    Please exit the water; you’ll die if you can’t swim
    This music’s a novel; you’re still on page 10
    I read it, re-wrote it and published it; called it Amen!
    See Ortiz is the lords’ gift to this 4 – 5th bullshit that ya’ll worship
    I’m a lyrical WARSHIP!
    And god forbid I should fall from up off this boat
    I land in the water and come up and finish you with a swordfish
    This hip-hop is my office, believe I go to work
    And when I’m promoted the c’s? So it’s over jerk
    I sit there and write through a track till my shoulders hurt
    And when both arms is done, I put my toes to work
    You gotta here what I gotta say, I’m just like that
    And from what I’m hearing this day and age, I don’t like rap
    I was a fan, I used to love this shit! But ya’ll getting’ away with murder like the glove don’t fit
    Ya’ll either flossin’ or talkin’ like savages
    I don’t mention a coffin and doggie I’m not havin’ it
    You niggas rappin’ is fractions below average
    I don’t care what the fuck you can do with a little half a brick
    I did some things I ain’t proud if to support mine
    I left that on the street, on beat ain’t where you talk crime
    Plus you lyin, whenever you on the court line
    It’s for paying a ticket for parking your whip on the wrong side
    Thugs is somewhere doing what it is that thugs do
    Rappers is rappin and ya’ll ain’t doin that…what the fuck is you?
    You’re bluffin’, you’re nothin’, you’re stuffing on Thanksgiving
    My tummy is hungry; I’ll put you on a plate, listen
    I’m makin’ it hard like a blow job with great rhythm
    I know Joey gon’ pause me but I ain’t even trying to play with him
    I’m fiendin’, this money they handin’ out will change livin’
    Projects is ugly; I daily, barely escaped prison
    I was starting to feel pinned down like a rape victim
    Wishin’ for a deal, tryin’ to deal with the fact I hate wishin’
    My name’s bizzin’, I mean buzzin’, ya’ll get the drift
    I will finish niggas careers with three finger tips
    Three finger tips…Thumbs, index and middle joint
    One that support the pen that’s fin to begin a renaissance
    It’s safe to say I’m a One man restaurant
    The chef, the waiter, the guest that’s getting’ his menu on
    I cook it, I serve it, I eat it, understand
    If it don’t taste good, how can I feed it to my fans
    These niggas is cheatin’, feeding you from a can
    Without a seasoned beat, they weak, the meat’ll be bland
    The reason I am what I am cuz my work ethic
    Similar to Hellen Keller you can tell by my verse methods.
    First I hear a track…
    Try to see where I’m going then once I see where I’m goin’, that’s when I listen back
    And when I feel it’s intact, I give the engineer dap
    Walk in that booth and lay that one tape crack
    If rap was jail, you’d be the one they smack,
    On the island, like you wildin’, this is a one way JACK!
    And you don’t rock on slot; I had the block on lock
    You’ll be arguing all loud so the fuckin cops can stop it
    Before it pops but stop it if its gon’ happen to Will
    You shouldn’t have copped in the car if you couldn’t handle the wheel
    I whip crazy with this gift baby
    I could get lazy, go to sleep and get where I gotta get safely
    Mr. Ortiz may be the best thing to happen to hip-hop since out in the park in the mid 80’s
    Every time I pick up a mike, all the lights dim
    Ladies that don’t know me, leave my show like “I like him”
    Fellas that ain’t know me, leave my show like “That kid is tough”
    They just said I’m great but it’s hard to relate to different stuff
    I can’t blame them tho, they hear what they hear daily
    I come once a blue moon; I’m what they hear rarely
    Lot of my peers fear me
    Change ain’t easy to adapt to, actually, I honestly think I scare family
    So, Dear Granny, there’s nothing wrong with your grandson
    Look at me all grown, intelligent and handsome
    But it’s a must I hold this music shit for ransom
    They owe me everything I demand and then some
    Been on my grind since early 99; or was it late 98? Fuck it, either way it’s my time
    People say I defined the true meaning of My Goodness
    I like that…That means nothin’ I write is bullshit!
    Not that I’d ever second guess my pen
    Just need to hear that sometimes to remind me that I am him
    The Hulk Hogan of flowin’, the prayers and the vitamins
    24 inch pythons that’ll damage an iron chin
    No I’m not brolic but the powers that lie within
    My pen and paper, enable me to change the environment
    My pain will make it rain, triumph will make the sunshine
    Tornados when I’m angry and Hurricanes when its crunch time
    Blizzards when niggas thinkin’ they hot
    And the hail that symbolizes the impact of an album when it drops
    And when this all stops and you can feel a light breeze
    That means I’m at ease, you can sneak in your DVD’s
    And you’re little mixtapes and your promos for the DJ’s
    But until then, everything’s slow-mo like a replay
    This is my first relay race. I’m the decathlon, Dapper Don; I will lap you in a marathon
    I’m a walking jewel, 24 karat arms
    A platinum heart and a diamond mind full of marijuan
    And my kidneys probably house the most precious stones
    That’s my fault; that liquor was never left alone
    So till rest in a throne
    The games in a time machine; The Dallas sector, Rome’s ancient TerraDome
    I’m Maximus of this rappin shit
    The mic is my sword, I take on an army of soldiers, horses and carriages
    And when they laying there too injured to move
    Give me the thumbs down and I swear I’ll finish these dudes
    How can I have mercy? When first of all they ain’t that worthy
    The position they holdin, I roast em’…Give me that jersey
    Imma guarantee a championship
    It’s goin’ down like a methadone and ambient mix
    If rap was product on the street you probably barely a six
    Smoke my shit, you’ll prob sell me your family and shit
    Like yo, here’s my sister I’ll pick her up on the 1st
    Matter of fact, take my niece too, I just need another verse
    You got the best shit I had in a long minute
    Matter fact; take my Grandma, her cook game’s exquisite
    I’m just jokin but artist should get they wrist broken
    For sellin’ that garbage and tellin the fans “Shits Smokin”
    I know your sick, hopin I quick but I never will
    And even when you break-out, I be the Benadryl
    Just to insure that your return is short
    Make sure fans ain’t affected with your allergic thoughts, nigga!
    My word is bond and my pride is a motherfucka
    House on a hill is what I promised my Mother, fuckers (and she gon get that!)

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