J. Cole made waves throughout the Hip Hop culture with his return to the freestyle booth. Cole popped up on The LA Leakers on Wednesday (May 12) and like many fans, even Jermaine Dupri was impressed with his fellow North Carolina native’s lyrical precision.
“Hardest shit out the South since slavery, n-gga,” Cole raps to close out the first verse over the silky “93 ‘Til Infinity” instrumental before switching over to Mike Jones’ “Still Tippin.”
“N-gga say the hardest thing out the south since slavery,” JD said in disbelief shortly after the freestyle dropped.
The So So Def CEO has been supportive of J. Cole’s career for some time now. He’s previously reposted some of Cole’s work such as his “Middle Child” video and the 4 Your Eyez Only Tour that took place in 2017.
J. Cole has been flooding the marketplace with content ahead of making his long-awaited return with The Off-Season on Friday (May 14). Cole dropped off “i n t e r l u d e” last week and even found time to pursue his professional basketball career.
J. Cole Welcomed By Pro Rwandan Basketball Teammates Ahead Of 1st Game
The 36-year-old signed a contract with Rwanda’s Patriots B.B.C. team in the Basketball Africa League. Cole is in the process of clearing quarantine ahead of making his debut against team Nigeria on Sunday (May 16).
Watch the freestyle below.
This is not a freestyle
Why even call it a freestyle? These are lyrics that have been prepared and memorized. It’s entertaining to listen to, but don’t call it a freestyle
Just call it great. Most of your “freestyle” artist use writtens. Hell, most of the battle rappers have 2/3 of thier versus written and then freestlyle the last 24 bars or the first 24 bars to make it fit what the other rapper just rapped about.
Very true. Even Skillz, who’s noted as one of the best “freestylers”, admitted to using prepped bars and filling in the rest with shit that’s made up on the spot during his Drink Champs interview. He said lots of so-called “freestylers” do the same.
“filling in the rest with shit that’s made up on the spot” – are you being serious? That’s called freestyle rap. You start off with a bunch of bars and set pieces “what up y’all cuz I’m on the ball keep standing tall we gon get over the wall etc” then you make up rhymes based on things you may see around you, the crowd, other MCs. current events. Has nothing to do with spitting a written verse and calling it a freestyle
tired of hearing “most of this and most of that” when it comes to these things. just say it most these dudes fake. Freestyle is off top period nothing else. Ghostwriting is when YOU say YOU wrote something YOU ACTUALLY PAID SOMEONE ELSE TO WRITE. It’s not collaboration it’s nothing but fake bs corporate bs take it back where you got it some people actually are great and don’t need to be fake anything full stop
I think the term “freestyle” has changed over the years.
Now I think it’s applicable to artists adapting freely to a beat thrown to them randomly, and they need to off the top spit bars on something either off the top or a combination of lyrics that may or may not have been written but not spit previously.
They would get in trouble if they actually spit off the top of the dome, as lots they are not supposed to speak of would slip out without that executive order.