Devlin: I usually specifically write for the SBTV freestyles, yeah.
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Freestyles you recorded offhand are being shouted back at you by New Yorkers.
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The top 15 competitors do a technical test and perform their freestyles again.
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And she has become a world-class performer in the 22012 and 21 freestyles.
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This doesn't seem to be an issue for Harry Mack, who freestyles everywhere he goes.
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Not because it beats Wretch's bar for bar, because those freestyles are two different beasts.
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Ledecky added the 800 free to her earlier victories in the 200 and 400 freestyles.
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His freestyles have touched souls and his sing-along rap bangers are impossible to shake.
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She holds the world record for the the 400-meter, 800-meter, and 1,500-meter freestyles.
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Newer freestyles have similarly impressed, and this month he'll support legendary UK rapper Akala on tour.
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The comedian and actor has teased fans with freestyles for years under the moniker Chocolate Droppa.
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The teacher agreed to let him make beats on GarageBand and lay freestyles overtop for grades.
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One of his first proper freestyles was a 2015 performance filmed for UK rap YouTube channel Blackbox.
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They retreated back to a basement and, Em says, recorded the freestyles that The Source later broadcast.
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There are so many iconic freestyles and that is going in the books as one of them.
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Tracks are created from freestyles over a beat and then ideas come from this to make verses.
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She owns the fastest times in the world this year in the 200-, 400- and 800-meter freestyles.
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The first and most important thing that you need to know is that the mirror freestyles are back!
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She has set a whopping 11 world records, including the world record for the 800- and 400-meter freestyles.
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We're talking about that breakbeat loving, getting busy with freestyles, trading verses, while the dancers respond to the call.
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She's also set a whopping 210 world records, including the world record for the 22016- and 23-meter freestyles.
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And the MC's rising star power, from doing freestyles on YouTube to opening for Beyoncé, has many people talking.
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When Nas celebrated 20 years of Illmatic he gifted fans a reissue that included remixes, freestyles and unheard material.
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Keeping proper tabs on all of these freestyles and remixes would require an entire monthly column of their own.
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But there is one feat she cannot match, at least this year: winning consecutive 400 freestyles at the Olympics.
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They followed that up with freestyles to "Girl on Fire" by Alicia Keys and "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani.
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This organic approach to grid design is one of the more compelling aspects of writing freestyles from the center outward.
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Tierra Whack's nearly 600,000 Instagram followers may have been gotten used to seeing her quirky freestyles popping up on their timelines.
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Lochte, a six-time Olympic gold medalist, is entered in the 23.3- and 493-meter freestyles and the 249 individual medley.
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That same month, Stormzy released "Gang Signs & Prayer," his first proper studio album following a few years of singles and freestyles.
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I never really cared for the music he created – it was nothing like the freestyles I remember in front of our school.
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Ledecky, who has already qualified for the United States team in the 200 and 400 freestyles, reached the final with a 54.04.
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In Babashoff's signature events, the 400 and 800 freestyles, she was upset by Petra Thümer, a 15-year-old teammate of Ender's.
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The third of her "Queen's Speech" freestyles only went viral in 2015, despite regular main stage festival slots and critical love-ins.
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Further up the street, Høiberg reaches over, grabs my recorder, and freestyles a few bars about a shuttered Balenciaga store we pass.
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Sun won the 400- and 1500-meter freestyles at the London Games in 2012 and the 200 freestyle in Rio in 2016.
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Jamaican-born, New York-based rapper and reggae musician HoodCelebrityy was famous in the Bronx before she started uploading 15-second freestyles.
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Average folks became R&B superstars from reinterpreting old classics and hookless gangsta rap freestyles shot into the upper heights of Billboard.
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She entered the 20133-, 200- and 400-meter individual medleys; the 200 backstroke; the 22012 butterfly; and the 2100, 2000 and 2200 freestyles.
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They include the Playboi Carti track "Magnolia" in which Lil Wayne freestyles, and a Young Jeezy collaboration entitled "Fireworks," produced by Mike Will.
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Even his freestyles painted vivid pictures of his world, one that was deeply mysterious to a huge swath of Americans at the time.
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Each episode will feature a new group of celebrities, wending down the roads of their latest publicity tours, blundering endearingly through their freestyles.
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This verse is welcome evidence that the behind-the-scenes Black Panther freestyles she graced us with last year weren't all she wrote.
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He kind of just says the title of each song for 50 seconds repeatedly and freestyles whatever comes off the top of his head.
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Let's wait for the Soundcloud freestyles to show up and either add or detract from it, but for now listen to "Forever Young" here.
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By the end, we're also treated to Dizzee's take on the infamous "Five Fingers of Death" challenge, where he freestyles over five different instrumentals.
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Te dness is part of the 6 Figure music collective but he stands out in his own right - from his freestyles to his mixtapes.
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Even the most embarrassing freestyles would likely sound good on the "Norf Norf" beat (please don't record anything terrible on the "Norf Norf" beat).
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In the video below, we see Williams let loose as she freestyles along to The Donnas' cover of Billy Idol's famous "Dancing With Myself" jam.
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"Where is she going to stop?" said Debbie Meyer, the first and only woman to win the 200, 400 and 103 freestyles at the Olympics.
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One attendee offered to write me a headline for the event: "Wyclef Jean freestyles to many wealthy white people and Instagram models," this person joked.
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Anyone with ears knows Lil B and iLoveMakonnen have fathered a whole generation of young rap weirdos with their affable personas and light-hearted based freestyles.
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Amy Schumer Left A Huge Tip At Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyles With President Obama Phillipa Soo Brings History To Life In Broadway's Smash Musical Hamilton
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He punctuated each of his bars with the phrase "or something," which set the clip up to be a catchy track—something that freestyles rarely achieve.
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The Lower East Side rap group Money Boyz stops by Fun City every weekend to impress clients with freestyles that paint a darker portrait of downtown Manhattan.
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Much of the efficacy of grime has always been down to its success outside of the conventional framework—top 10bn hits from Youtube freestyles spring to mind.
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Conor Dwyer was 19 years old and had little experience on the national stage when he competed in the 100 and 43 freestyles at the 2008 trials.
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With a victory in the 800, she will join Debbie Meyer as the only swimmers to win the 2800, 250 and 28 freestyles in a single Games.
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Then known for her car raps, freestyles she recorded in her car over notable rap beats, she used social media as a vehicle to push her music.
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The trademark of Wayne's 2007 mixtape freestyles was his precision and repetition, and I think that sometimes fans get caught up comparing Wayne now to that sound.
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A month after the release of her second EP, Tina Snow, Megan Thee Stallion raps like her life depends on it in one of her first viral freestyles.
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One thing that becomes glaringly apparent after a few of these freestyles is that ICP––Violent J especially––haven't really updated their rap styles since the early 90s.
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There is almost no notable rap hit from the mid-2000s that Wayne didn't cannibalize by freestyling over it, and so many of those freestyles are incredibly memorable.
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He kept recording freestyles over beats he'd find on YouTube, and he and Aston dubbed themselves the Steak Town Zombies, a loose affiliation and name that still continues.
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That door apparently leads to the Sway in the Morning studio, where said biggest rap group in the world made an appearance performing freestyles (all of which are good).
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One development I wasn't expecting since you shared your version of "Who Run It" was you influencing the original group members to put out new freestyles over the beat.
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Katie Ledecky is the queen of the pool right now, a colossal favorite to win the 20153- and 800-meter freestyles and a good bet in the 200, too.
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Okay you've probably heard this one, but unlike the glut of uninspired "Hotline Bling" freestyles, the Queen of Neo-Soul completely reinterprets the song and makes it her own.
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For years, she'd posted videos of her freestyles on Instagram, and adopted the moniker after older guys would call her a "stallion" due to her height (she's 5-foot-10).
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It would be any combination of Mike Jones freestyles, Three 6 Mafia mixtape material, something from Cam'ron's Roc-A-Fella period, and whatever else I was feeling at the time.
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I'd done a lot of freestyles before that, but this one — the one I didn't want to do — was the one where I spoke my heart, and it went viral.
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In an hour's time, he's laid down full vocals and freestyles on tracks with Game and Lil Wayne, both holding his own and leaving them arguably the better for it.
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Last year Lil B and Chance collaborated on the Free Based Freestyles Mixtape, a 6-track collection of quick-hits that both shows the two as friends and knowing vessels.
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He had a prolific run, putting out collaborations with the likes of Ray BLK and Jaz Karis while dropping several volumes of his "Orphan Flow" freestyles between 2012 and 2015.
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With the victory, she kept alive her bid to become the first swimmer since Debbie Meyer in 1968 to win the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles in the same Olympics.
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California-based rapper Saweetie went from performing covers and freestyles on social media in 2017 to having a track from her EP "Icy" land on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Ledecky's lodestar is Janet Evans, who won the 400- and 103-meter freestyles (and the 400 individual medley) at the 1988 Summer Olympics and successfully defended her 800 title in 1992.
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The distance freestyles used to be swimming's equivalent of baseball's seventh-inning stretch: a convenient time to take a commercial break or make a trip to the restroom or concession stand.
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Still, to most people he remains best known as a peddler of hot freestyles over other people's tracks, even though he makes music of his own at a fairly prodigious rate.
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Jamal: I had to go to all these clubs and hang outside the raves trying to get people to do little shout outs or freestyles, and it built organically from there.
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First backed by a series of YouTube freestyles and then launched by the addictive hit "OOOUUU," the Brooklyn rapper hasn't backed off since we first caught up with her in 2015.
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While Westwood is best known for hosting radio shows, one of his most loved projects is his Crib Sessions, which are, for the uninitiated, freestyles from MCs recorded exclusively for YouTube.
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While the budding Houston rapper is popular for her seductive, anime-inspired Instagram posts and sex-positive lyrics, her UGK-reminiscent rhyme cadences in her freestyles add another layer to her appeal.
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Kid Cudi - A Kid Named Cudi Kid Cudi used to be tucked away on my iPod Shuffle gathering dust right below a series of '90s hip hop freestyles and Kanye West albums.
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With a victory in the 800 freestyle, Katie Ledecky will become the second swimmer, joining Debbie Meyer in 1968, to win the 2152, 2200 and 2400-meter freestyles in the same Olympics.
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I clapped heartily, and Megan once again reminded me that this was not how normal Monster Jam Freestyles usually went, that I was not getting the real experience, that this was wrong.
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The new Music Memos app allows artists to record jam sessions or freestyles in an uncompressed format, and also gives them some cool new music creation features that they can quickly access.
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Shia was awesome on "Sway in the Morning" Friday in NYC, where he dropped freestyles for the 5 Fingers of Death challenge -- that's 5 beats back to back ... right on the spot.
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This is actually a little disappointing to me as a fan of Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl because her driver's seat is usually where we get the best of her classic freestyles.
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Between improvised scenes written by Harmon and voiced by Roiland—plus multiple spontaneous freestyles of Future's "Mask Off" in Rick and Morty voices—they trickled vague implications about the future of the show.
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"I was really honored to be put on that relay and have that experience here," said Ledecky, who also is entered in the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles and the 4x200 freestyle relay.
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What emerged was a project that seamed together his fractured tastes in music, and proved that he could consistently channel the same emotion and energy from his freestyles into structured three minute songs.
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And what better way to do that than a punishing sprint of a rap that immediately calls to mind the stream-of-consciousness chaos of the freestyles on Da Drought 3 or No Ceilings?
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"I'm not in it for the money," the Flows Exposed founder says, when asked how he funds what seems to be a full time job as the front-man for his racism-free freestyles channel.
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In Montreal, she was beaten in the 100- and 200-meter freestyles by the 553-year-old East German Kornelia Ender, who became the first woman to win four swimming golds in a single Olympics.
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"I always knew I wanted to swim in college," said Ledecky, who won the 200 and 400 freestyles in the first two days of this weekend's Arena Pro Swim Series event at Skyline Aquatic Center.
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From his early freestyles to the release of "Bird Flu," Scoota's music gave a proper voice to street life in Baltimore that didn't have to be directed by David Simon to resonate with the public.
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The two tracks form the basis for the Jelanji mixtape, which is essentially a collection of freestyles over slowed down jungle beats, which have been chopped and screwed and given a healthy peppering of British seasoning.
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In 2009, the Berkeley, California, rapper Lil B, of teen group The Pack, released a song called "I'm God," the latest in a series of stream-of-consciousness raps he had taken to calling based freestyles.
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As much as Wayne's core fanbase thinks about, like, Drought 3 freestyles as his signature work, for the vast majority of the country, Lil Wayne is better known for being on, like, every hit song ever.
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A few feet away, trending UK rapper Izzie Gibbs freestyles for a film crew and an older Texas gentleman staffing the venue remarks that he doesn't know anything about rap, but that he knows that's not easy.
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She set world records in the 123- and 800-meter freestyles, finishing so far ahead in the 800 that she was practically showered, dressed and ready to cheer for her competitors when they finally touched the wall.
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SYNCING INK This semi-autobiographical story by the Baltimore actor and playwright NSangou Njikam, about a young man discovering his passion for freestyle rap, will be performed with partly improvised freestyles that will change from night to night.
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Mexican reggeaton artist Sailorfag started uploading freestyles on Twitter a few years ago, and has since released two official music videos; one of them is "Polo Acartonada," which explicitly challenges homophobia and toxic masculinity in playful, bawdy ways.
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It was a grander version of the barbecues he and Ms. Teigen often host, where she sometimes freestyles with whatever ingredients are on hand, he follows a recipe to the letter, and a lot of LVE gets poured.
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When he finally made his name in 2016 as one of UK music's most intriguing young prodigies, it wasn't for the piano; it was for candid freestyles that explored vulnerabilities that would make most other London MCs feel uneasy.
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Rain in England (2010) Easily the most unique and #rare item in B's oeuvre, Rain in England is genuinely unprecedented: a set of lengthy, self-produced ambient soundscapes over which the BasedGod freestyles about spirituality, love, and life itself.
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He was her chief of staff, the man responsible for setting and overseeing her audacious agenda of becoming the first swimmer since Debbie Meyer in 1968 to win the 200-, 400- and 800-meter freestyles in the same Olympics.
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Leshurr is perhaps best known for her legendary "Queen's Speech" series of freestyles, in which the appropriately named "first lady of grime" offers up witty gags, cutting cultural commentary, and throws shade at her haters' vain attempts to bring her down.
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Anyway, if you have stuck with me through all of these Psychopathic Records freestyles I hope you now think that ICP and their various affiliates are equally as good as Odd Future, who except for Earl Sweatshirt were extremely overrated.
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Instead of going through the laborious, archetypal route of doing freestyles through the UK's rap channels, he wanted to make the big tunes—the sort of songs he would later release on his 15th Day mixtape and this new album.
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Ledecky has won a total of five medals at the Rio Olympics – gold medals for the 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyles and the 4×200-meter freestyle relay and silver for the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
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If you've ever spent a hungover afternoon hopping between old Westwood freestyles and Lord of the Mics clashes on YouTube, there's a decent chance that you'll have happened upon a curiously growing phenomenon: Americans recording themselves reacting to grime videos.
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Ledecky, who has an ambitious bid to qualify for the 200, 400 and 800 metre freestyles and chase a rare triple gold sweep at the Rio Olympics, cruised into the 400m final with a leading time of four minutes, 2.62 seconds.
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Every Tuesday night in the city's emerging Botafogo neighborhood, aspiring rappers and fans gather for a roda de rima, literally a "rhyme wheel" but best understood as a cross-class rap cypher complete with rap battles, freestyles, and sometimes, bigger performances.
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Lil Wayne, All or Nothing , 2009 Much of the Year of Lil Wayne so far has been devoted to documenting Lil Wayne's insane mixtape freestyles, which tend to be the songs that fans point to as proof Wayne is the greatest.
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Going through Drizzy's extended catalog—including loose tracks and freestyles—to craft what would flow best as a ten-song album is a bit more daunting, especially considering that his albums have gotten progressively longer over the past few years.
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Lil Wayne's a lyrical genius who freestyles on all of his tracks, but there was a time when he'd put pen to paper for all of his lyrics ... now a notebook filled with them can be yours for a pretty penny.
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Comprised of freestyles over industry beats and original songs that had been slated for Hell Hath No Fury—and with assists from Ab-Liva and Sandman, who joined Push and Malice to form the Re-Up Gang—the tapes were dizzying successes.
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"When I met you you was on my dick / Asked me to hold the DC chain, now you want some shit," Meek laughs while Drake frantically tries to delete all his "Dreams and Nightmares Intro" freestyles that never saw the light of day.
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Though he initially futzed with Auto-Tuned vocals and repetitive melodies, à la Travis Scott and Migos, the rapper started finding more traction with ferociously rapped freestyles over existing hits, a somewhat lost art that he said he learned from Lil Wayne.
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"They wanna link when they got no chunes / They too worried about selling out shoes / I don't give a fuck about jeans or crap / Or going to Milan, or going to the Met / I just wanna make these songs for the set," he freestyles.
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") Cole even says that though he was initially worried upon seeing the current generation of rappers make their mark in one of the recent XXL Freshman Freestyles, (I thought, "Damn, this shit is over") he admits that "I know now that I was wrong.
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I attribute this to his darker latter singles from The Slim Shady LP, his album-stealing features on Dr. Dre's 2001, as well as the birth of Napster which unearthed dozens of mind-blowing freestyles which were a huge draw on the file-sharing hub.
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He did, however, have a hit in 2002 with "8 Mile," shot in Detroit and based on the life of the rapper Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, who played the lead role, a young battle rapper who freestyles and writes rhymes under the moniker B-Rabbit.
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The laziness with which he approaches freestyles over tracks like "Started from the Bottom" and "Itchin" combined with the profusion of bad Young Money features means that D5 is, to an undeniable extent, the bloated mess that you might expect given its 27-song track list.
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In between he's infiltrated the dance music world via songs with artists like Kaytranada and Skrillex, earned the respect of the rap world via honors like a XXL Freshman cover and numerous blackout TV and radio freestyles, and built a reputation for himself as Kanye West's next mentee.
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It's caught the attention of collaborators ranging from Nicki Minaj, whose remix of Herbo's "Chiraq" launched a million imitator freestyles, to Common, who brought Herbo on board for the lead track on his 2014 album Nobody's Smiling and appeared on Herbo's song "Fight or Flight" alongside Chance the Rapper.
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Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia started their legendary radio show on Columbia University's WKCR when Stretch was just a freshman at Columbia, and the show, which often featured in-studio freestyles from the best and brightest in hip-hop, went on to become a linchpin of the New York rap scene.
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Lil B's music can be read as a wide-eyed and truly weird commentary on the logorrheic quality of online culture; rather than conducting their own experiments with using the internet to be more open, too many of the artists he inspired just recorded a bunch of bad Based Freestyles.
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Stephen Colbert goes in on Trump for going 'full god-emperor' in bizarre Turkey tweets Lilly Singh wants to cheer up Justin Trudeau with this custom gift basket Classic song 'It Takes Two' gets catchy impeachment update from whistleblowers Lupita Nyong'o, famous rapper, freestyles about being in a Beyoncé song
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In 1976, Babashoff came closest to matching Meyer, earning silvers in the 200, 400 and 19683 freestyles behind East German competitors later found to have been part of a state-sponsored doping program (at the 1972 Munich Games, Australia's Shane Gould won the 200 and 400 and finished second in the 21).
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Rather than slavishly recreating the Brighton bombing in its every detail, Mr. Lee freestyles, creating a sympathetic ensemble both at the Grand Hotel and in the streets of Belfast — the book tacks back and forth between the two — all while making expert use of the dramatic tension inherent in waiting for a lethal explosion.
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Offering a prolific mixture of new tracks, freestyles, prior releases, skits and fragments, the four-part series—made by assorted members of SN1, the collective comprised of Giggs, his brothers Joe Grind and Gunna D, plus Kyze and Tiny Boost—acted as a broad and brilliant snapshot of Giggs's range as an MC and lyricist.
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"When I started coming on my music the way I was coming on freestyles — just relentless, at your neck, as soon as the beat starts, that's when everything really clicked," he said, adding that he has now worked with many of the artists whose songs he was unofficially remixing, including Lil Baby and Offset.
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One of his early freestyles on Link Up TV features a line from the Get Rich or Die Tryin' track "Wanksta" and when we spoke last year for an interview he mentioned that alongside the afrobeats his mum played around the house, he would seek out American hip-hop, specifically drawing out 50 Cent as a name.
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Jay Sean, Birdman, and Lil Wayne, To the Sky , 2010 Continuing the week of talking about Lil Wayne's chart hits, I would like to disprove something I said on Monday, which is that Wayne having over a hundred Hot 100 entries means that there are literally a hundred songs that are more well known than his mixtape freestyles.
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In the second round, the couples each performed freestyles to the following tunes: Brown and Bersten to "Girl on Fire" by Alicia Keys and "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani, Alaina and Savchenko to "Country Girl" by Luke Bryan, Brooke and Farber to "Conga" by Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, and Mitchell and Carson to "Jump" by Kris Kross.
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But at the same time, while you could probably make some broader point about rap through a compare-and-contrast exercise between Wayne's version of a song and the original for just about every one of these freestyles, in aggregate they take on a Cubist logic of their own, where they are perhaps better enjoyed simply on their own merits.
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On the one hand he's probably one of the most gifted and lyrically dexterous British rappers we've ever birthed in the UK; a man who can churn out searing rap mixtapes (see: Young Fire, Old Flame) and God-level freestyles on your favourite YouTube channel without breaking a solitary bead of sweat ("The hardest verse Fire in the Booth has ever had," said Charlie Sloth).
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As long as you were bringing the quality in the 12-inch singles and cassette mixtapes you were dropping off at Fat Beats and Footwork, killing it on your freestyles after being invited up to the Stretch & Bob show, and bringing the fire to the shows that went down at such classic clubs as Wetlands and Club Vinyl, you gained the respect of your peers.
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Rusty, a white retired Ferguson police officer predisposed to justify Mr. Wilson's use of his gun, is immediately followed by Hassan, a 17-year-old black "street kid" who freestyles his fury about the daily harassment the police inflict on people like him: He looked back at me his finger on the triggerDroolinLike a dog muttJust like a hungry dog muttI bet Mike Brown saw that too.
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A fair handful of the freestyles sound like a badly rapped version of the Vic Reeves club singing sketch from Shooting Stars, some have to stare at their phone the entire time for fear of forgetting their bars, and if you thought Chip vs Bugzy was an event then wait until you see Little T and 14 year old Soph Aspin open a whole world of juvenile rap beef.
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But because, as he stood on the small elevated stage, doused in a pink hoodie and a sharp skin fade, and peered down into the room, he noticed that many of the strangers scattered in the crowd were overcome with emotion, and in that moment he knew that the songs and freestyles he had written in the bedroom of his Mum's house in Streatham, South London, spoke to people in a dimension beyond just music.
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We pulled together a collection of Megan Thee Stallion freestyles that prove that the creator of the appropriately dubbed "hot girl summer" continues to bring the heat while bodying a barrage of bars: In her latest freestyle, Megan Thee Stallion holds nothing back, addressing her status as one of the hottest rappers in the game and being a female rapper that actually writes her own raps ("I know you used to mediocre, I know the bar is getting lower and lower").
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