[FRESH] Drake - Scorpion - HipHop

After constantly hearing it for over a year, I can say without a doubt that this was one of my favorite albums of the past few years, arguably my favorite. What about you guys?

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[FRESH] A$AP FERG - NOT THE BOY

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:59 PM PDT

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[FRESH] MF DOOM - Death Wish (ft. Freddie Gibbs)

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:05 PM PDT

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Kanye pours his heart into this Runaway performance (2011 Flow Festival, Finland)

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 12:48 PM PDT

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[FRESH] Drake - Emotionless

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 10:14 PM PDT

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[FRESH] A$AP FERG - VERIFIED

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:59 PM PDT

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[Discussion] Freestyling is all about adapting your flow to a random beat and not the lyrics

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 12:08 PM PDT

Now I know this is likely common knowledge/ obvious for, but I've seen many people get the idea of freestyling wrong for so many years, both on the internet and real life.

I often see it get mistaken for coming up with new lyrics on the spot, usually in the form of the complaint that the freestyle "was obviously pre-written." The ability to come up with random lyrics is usually called 'off the dome' and looks something like this or this

Actual freestyling deals with adjusting the flow of a verse to match a random beat. One example is Sway's Five Fingers of Death, where the whole point is to match your flow to a beat and then adjust it as the beat changes every thirty seconds or so. It's totally fine for the freestyle to be prewritten and part of the challenge of the Five Fingers of Death is to choose which verse/ couple of bars would match best with the different beats.

I do think that most freestyles should be new lyrics and not rehashed, its lame to just do a verse from one of your songs but it's excusable if you're changing up the flow. Sorry Lil Pump, holding a wad of cash to your ear doesn't change the fact that your freestyle which was just a verse from Eskeddit was horrible and unintelligible, if you're going to copy yourself you should at least do it well.

Also, The Game is a bitch for using the same few bars and trying to hide it as a free style without even changing his flow. It's the worst of both worlds.

Edit: I probably chose a terrible title for this post lyrics obviously matter

Edit: I did a terrible job with this post lmao. Like I said with Sway's Five Fingers, a huge aspect of freestyling is combining bars and rhymes and making them transition well without practicing it. The whole freestyle usually isn't written out but rather pieced together so in some aspects it's still on the spot. The difference is that some people think freestyling is literally coming up with the whole thing right then and there, whereas usually its piecing together a bunch of lines that they already have and making it match well with the beat.

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[THROWBACK THURSDAY] Soulja Boy dissing the entire U.S Army

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 04:53 PM PDT

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'Tha Carter III' Turns 10: Lil Wayne's Collaborators Remember The Album That Changed Hip-Hop

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:30 AM PDT

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DJ Paul talks about producing Drake and Jay Z’s ‘Talk Up’

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:45 PM PDT

https://www.vibe.com/2018/06/dj-paul-drake-jay-z-talk-up-interview-exclusive/

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[FRESH] Drake - Jaded