Freestyle Friday

Freestyle Friday: Reef the Lost Cauze vs. Vinnie Paz

by Kevin June 25, 2010 Freestyle Friday

Two of the hottest underground hip hop albums dropped this month: Reef the Lost Cauze‘s Fight Music and Vinnie Paz‘s Season of the Assassin. Both members of the Army of Pharoahs, it was only right to put these two underground heavyweights up against one another for today’s Freestyle Friday. The idea behind Freestyle Friday is to [...]

Freestyle Friday: Black Thought vs. Eminem

by Kevin June 18, 2010 Freestyle Friday

With this Tuesday’s releases of The Roots’ How I Got Over and Eminem’s Recovery, I decided to put these two emcees up for the challenge of our Freestyle Friday. Both have been victims in this series before, but never against each other. Could be interesting… The idea behind Freestyle Friday is to battle one another with [...]

Freestyle Friday: Slick Rick vs. Big Daddy Kane

by Kevin May 28, 2010 Freestyle Friday

For today’s Freestyle Friday I wanted to take it back to the old school and highlight two of my favorite emcees from back in my day: Slick Rick and Big Daddy Kane. The idea behind Freestyle Friday is to battle one another with your favorite verse from either of the two competitors. You’re essentially battling other [...]

Freestyle Friday: Nas vs. Talib Kweli

by Kevin May 14, 2010 Freestyle Friday

Two of arguably the dopest emcees in the game are set to drop new albums this coming Tuesday: Nas – Distant Relatives (with Damian Marley) and Talib Kweli – Revolutions Per Minute (with Hi-Tek as Reflection Eternal). Let’s see how these two stack up against each other in today’s Freestyle Friday. The idea behind Freestyle Friday [...]

Freestyle Friday: Phonte vs. Rapper Big Pooh

by Kevin April 30, 2010 Freestyle Friday

Little Brother just released their final album last week, so I thought it’d be fun to put the two emcees up against one another for Freestyle Friday. The idea behind Freestyle Friday 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 [...]

Freestyle Friday: Guru vs. The Gang Starr Foundation

by Kevin April 23, 2010 Freestyle Friday

It’s only right that we pay our respects to Guru on this Freestyle Friday, but who do we put him up against? How about the whole Gang Starr Foundation! That’s right, battle Guru with your favorite verse from your favorite Gang Starr Foundation emcee (Afu-Ra, Freddie Foxxx, Jeru the Damaja, Krumbsnatcha, Group Home, Big Shug, [...]

Freestyle Friday: Too Short vs. Murs

by Kevin April 16, 2010 Freestyle Friday

Two of West Coast’s finest emcees have released new albums this month. First there was Oakland’s Too Short with his album Still Blowin’ and more recently was the new album from Murs & 9th Wonder, Fornever. It’s been a hot minutes since we’ve featured a Freestyle Friday, so let’s battle it out! The idea behind Freestyle [...]

Freestyle Friday: Biggie vs. Biggie

by Kevin March 12, 2010 Freestyle Friday

This past Tuesday was the anniversary of the death of the Notorious B.I.G. For most, this is one of hip hop’s biggest memorial days. If you were on Twitter, you would have seen tons of people tweeting some of Biggie’s best one liners. This sparked an idea for this week’s Freestyle Friday… and when Jigsaw [...]

Freestyle Friday: Ludacris vs. T.I.

by Kevin March 5, 2010 Freestyle Friday

Ludacris‘ new album, Battle of the Sexes, drops this Tuesday and now that T.I. is out of jail it’s time to see who really is the King of the South. The idea behind Freestyle Friday is to battle one another with your favorite verse from either of the two competitors. You’re essentially battling other commenters in [...]

Freestyle Friday: Buckshot vs. Sean Price

by Kevin February 26, 2010 Freestyle Friday

For Freestyle Friday today, I felt like puttin you all onto some Boot Camp Clik. I thought about which members to put up and then it became clear… Buck and Ruck! Buckshot, the emcee best known as a member of Black Moon and his collaborations with 9th Wonder goes head to head with Sean Price, [...]

Freestyle Friday: Freeway vs. Chaundon

by Kevin February 19, 2010 Freestyle Friday

This week for Freestyle Friday, we’re putting Philadelphia Freeway and the Justus League’s Chaundon up head to head. Both artists dropped new albums this past week (The Stimulus Package & Baby Makin Music) and both spit fire darts, so let’s see how they match up! The idea behind Freestyle Friday is to battle one another with [...]

Freestyle Friday: J Dilla vs. Madlib

by Kevin February 12, 2010 Freestyle Friday

To wrap up our week long Dilla Week, we wanted to throw Dilla in the mix for Freestyle Friday. For those that didn’t know, yes Dilla rapped too. We thought, what better person to put him up against was his Jaylib producer/emcee partner Madlib. This should be fun! The idea behind Freestyle Friday is to battle [...]

Freestyle Friday: Brand Nubian vs. Souls of Mischief

by Kevin February 5, 2010 Freestyle Friday

I know we haven’t been consistent with Freestyle Fridays, but hopefully this week will get some people hot. Props to Jigsaw for recommending this match up yesterday! The idea behind Freestyle Friday 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 [...]

Freestyle Friday: Guru vs. LL Cool J

by Kevin January 22, 2010 Freestyle Friday

We’ve missed Freestyle Friday the past couple of weeks and I really have no excuse. The homie Jigsaw sent over a bunch of ideas a couple of months ago and one of those was Guru vs. ANYBODY! So I decided to put him up against the subject of our latest remix contest, Uncle L. The [...]

Freestyle Friday: Raekwon vs. Joell Ortiz

by Kevin January 1, 2010 Freestyle Friday

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 [...]

Freestyle Friday: De La Soul vs. Wu-Tang Clan

by Kevin December 18, 2009 Freestyle Friday

Last week’s Freestyle Friday was our biggest yet… I’m hoping this one will be bigger by teaming up two of hip hop’s favorite groups: De La Soul vs. Wu-Tang Clan. I know there are a ton of Wu heads here on the site, but since I’m a backpacker I’m gonna have to side with De [...]

Freestyle Friday: 80s vs. 90s

by Kevin December 11, 2009 Freestyle Friday

There has been much debate concerning the actual timeline of the Golden Age of Hip Hop. For some, the golden age was from 1986 to 1989, while other will say 1992 to 1996. Different sources actually list different years, but it’s pretty evident that hip hop heads 35 and older consider the 80s to be [...]

Freestyle Friday: Common vs. Big Boi

by Kevin December 4, 2009 Freestyle Friday

For today’s Freestyle Friday, we decided to put two of the most consistent emcees in the game up against each other: Common and Outkast’s Big Boi. Props to Jigsaw for the idea (and a bunch of others that he sent over). The idea behind Freestyle Fridays is to battle one another with your favorite verse from either of [...]

Freestyle Friday: A.G. vs. O.C.

by Kevin November 27, 2009 Freestyle Friday

You knew it was coming. Veteran emcees O.C. and A.G. teamed up to release the album Oasis this past Tuesday. Now we’re gonna put the two rappers head to head. Before we get started with this week’s Freestyle Friday, I wanna give a big shout out to my homie Jigsaw, who originally came to me [...]

Freestyle Friday: 50 Cent vs. Rakim

by Kevin November 20, 2009 Freestyle Friday

Yeah, I know some of you are saying, “is this a joke?” I know, no competition, right? Well, let’s just see about that. Who would have ever thought to have these two emcees battle each other, but since they both released new albums this week, I figured why not… Let’s have some fun with this! [...]

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