Hip Hop veteran Tech N9ne joined in the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher with Machine Gun Kelly, Big K.R.I.T., B.o.B and Kendrick Lamar.
The quintet each took turns spitting rhymes off the dome, with K.R.I.T. taking first verse duties on the freestyle. Tech Nino, clad in a tie and collared buttondown, came next, while Machine Gun Kelly, Kendrick Lamar and B.o.B closed out the cypher.
Watch the freestyle below.
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I live my life in the dungeon
came out a dragon I prolly could touch the sun with
My bare hands, What are your plans?
To win a grammy?
Sweet taste of victory, like Oprah’s punany?
No Words.
Throwed and witty
Big krit , kendrick lamar and b.o.b was fire ,Techn9ne and Machine gun kelly could have been better they were ok
This was the best one IMO. Bob, Krit, and Kendrick were dope.
Cyphers and freestyles are two different things, but it’s hiphopdx so what else should I expect.
The original meaning of freestyle is just a loose verse, not something that you come up with as you rhyme, doesn’t matter if it’s written or not.
@ Ayy – no, a freestyle is a verse that you make up off the top of your head. That’s why it’s called FREESTYLE. It’s not supposed to be something that has already been written or rehearsed. You make it up as you go. The problem is the new rappers don’t know how to do that. That’s how you get garbage FREESTYLES when they do radio interviews.
Shuttup dogg, if they were actually freestyling nobody would wanna hear it, shit would be 10 times wacker than what it is now.. enjoy the verses and stop bitching over a definition, you on some lil elementary school shit..
Nah, i’m on my editor get your writing game up.
@Anonymous – Ayy is right. A freestyle started originally as a verse that could jump from topic to topic with no particular rhyme scheme. Many rappers today still use freestyle in this way.
Everybody was really good but Tech’s delivery is nuts
This looks like something I’d see at my fucking highschool!! This is 2011 RAP?? sooo sad
Big K.R.I.T—not good 2/10
Tech Nine—lame 4/10
MGK——-this dud suxxx!! talken 666 u are garbage!!! 1/10
Kendrick—-huh— get outta here 3/10
BOB— saved this whole experience but still wasnt good 6/10
i can back u up on this bro
real talk
Big Krit 2/10? Dude u not smart enough seriously. Big Krit went real on this. U need to go back and LISTEN CLOSELY
tech, krit, lamar, the rest boo boo!
OH my god machine gun kelly looks like such a bad ass lol. If he wasnt dreesed like such a fag then maybe id give him a chance but he sucks. Even his rap name his horible
Tech N9ne and K.Dot
Wow Kelly looked like a cross between a confused teenager and a male prostitute. Dudes garbage too. BoB was the only decent one IMO.
Machine Gun Kelly sounds like Yelawolf. B.o.b. Saved the whole cypher. Tech nine scares the shit outta me. Kendrick Lamar looked like he aint even wanna be there. KRIT come on, the dude is dope but could and has done better.
Kendrick’s verse was one of the best out of the whole night.
This was the best one, hands down.
Are you f*cking kidding me? Did you not see the Shady cypher? That was the best one of the night. All 6 of them killed it.
TECH, KENDRICK AND KRIT >>>>>>>>>>>>>
yo kendrick was the funniest nastiest flow on tht cypher hands dwn
Really guys? -_- This cypher was hands down the 2nd best. Kendrick and B.o.B’s was the best.
kendrick lamar and b.o.b and big K.r.i.t everybody else was lame tech was ok
they put Tech next to these guys? come the fuck on, Lamar will be mayor success soon but Tech is better than all of them combined, he should be with Busta Rhymes and Ludacris
man they all killed that shit im mean even kelly killed that shit give props damn
Machine Gun Kelly had the craziest verse
are you joking?
MGK
tech9 was weird..
If by weird, you mean murdered, then yes, Tech murdered.
I’ve heard the hype bout MGK, but his last line was the only thing that really struck me as dope. Everything else was just repetative.
B.O.B. was on point too
No I mean weird…like SATANIC, EVIL, MIND CONTROLLED LUCIFARIAN!
Get the fuck outta here with that “devil” shit. Its music
Cypher was dope, but #FAIL alert goes to HipHopDX. One of my hip-hop pet peeves is seeing “writers” use phrases like “off the dome” when these were CLEARLY written, prepared verses. I know the term “freestyle” has taken on a new meaning these days, but off the dome freestyles are literally thought of on the spot.
Steven Horowitz, are you REALLY HIP-HOP, or is this just a job for you? U gotta know this culture to write about it…
I agree a freestyle is on the spot.
i was gonna say the same thing mane
mashinegun kelly would have won the corniest white rapper award.that dude makes mac miller sound like Guru
BoB given a dope TIP shout out
MGK was bad seriously
Kendrick Lamar Bob and Maybe tech n9ne were the good ones
HipHopDX your video players fuckin SUCK!
so true
MGK == a dumber less talented Yelawolf
well thought this was the best one. then i watched 2.0 Boys, disgusting! however this was a close second, everyone went in and MGK, well “Tell everybody a white boy just bodied Black Entertainment Television”
B.O.B.
Tech N9ne
Kendrick Lamar
Krit
MGK can fucking go home though. Seriously, that dude is fuck bad.
hmmmm, k i guess they had to level out the cyphers with random people but like, this could’ve been legendary without fucking ‘MGK’ and P.O.P., or i guess B.O.B., like fuck put luda and busta on this one, or even k mccall… smh
tech n9ne, b.o.b., and kendrick lamar killed it.
Kendrick, Tech N9ne & Budden were the best in the cypher.
I love Kendrick Lamars! I wish he went longer… B.O.B went hard too. Tech9 was original and creative. those 3 plus Joe budden murdered it.
Tech N9ne, Kendrick Lamar, B.o.B., K.R.I.T., MGK. Wish they all would have went a little longer excepting that MGK dude. Shady cypher still the best though. Will check out MMG next but there’s no hope they’ll be better.
Shady 2.0 did the best all 6 of them killed it
Kendrick Lamar killed that shit like it was no ones business. Then Tech, BoB, Kells and KRIT.
Kendrick Lamar is waaayy too over hyped, I watched this with an open mind but come on son. This was a weak Cypher imo.
Did you even listen to what he was saying?
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10582695
Kendrick, B.o.B, Big Krit>>the rest
mgk u aint cobain never will be couldnt even stand next to his shadow u sucks tech killed this