Freestyles

After bringing us sessions from Pro Era, Action Bronson, Angel Haze, Saigon and more, BET 106 & Park’s freestyle series, The Backroom, was graced by the presence of the always impressive Big K.R.I.T, who dropped in to drop some solid bars. Press play and enjoy below… Watch: Big K.R.I.T freestyles for BET 106 & Park’s [...]

Mac Miller is on his A-game right about now. Having just dropped the buzzworthy “S.D.S.”, his latest mixtape S.H.O.W.Time (download here) has garnered quite a bit of attention, and with new album Watching Movies With The Sound Off on its way there’s absolutely no stopping the Pittsburg emcee’s hustle. Stepping in to the Hot 97 [...]

Following Rounds one and two, next up in the XXL Magazine Freshmen Cypher video series is Dizzy Wright, Logic, and Angel Haze. Spitting over the Jahlil Beats produced instrumental (spun by DJ Drama), Dizzy explains his humble beginnings – “Started out with verbalising poetry/ Murder-lising any instrumental anybody tried to throw at me/ And that’s [...]

Following the individual freestyle releases and the first round of the 2013 XXL Freshmen Cyphers featuring Ab-Soul, Action Bronson, Joey Bada$$ and Travi$ Scott, today we get to wrap our eyes and ears around part 2. [...]

Following the individual freestyle releases, XXL now brings us the first round of the 2013 XXL Freshmen Cyphers. [...]

Joell Ortiz is back in his beat jacking state of mind today as he gets his hand’s on the instrumental for Drake’s street smash “5AM In Toronto” and rips the beat to shreds with some heavy duty bars and re-titles it “5AM In Brooklyn”. Listen to the Brooklyn hailing lyrical bully’s take on the Canadian [...]

Another day and another installment in XXL Freshmen list freestyles. After bringing us Trinidad James, Joey Bada$$, Ab-Soul, Travis Scott and more, today we are gifted with a solid a cappella freestyle from the Flushing, Queens repping rapper Action Bronson. Press play below… Watch: Action Bronson – XXL Freshmen Freestyle [Video] I’m consistent because I’m [...]

Keeping things moving with their XXL Magazine Freshmen list freestyles, next up is Def Jam rapper Trinidad James. Complete with golds in his mouth and a gold chain around his neck – “These gold chains got you bitter/ These gold chains got me bitches” – Trinidad spits the shortest of the XXL Freshmen freestyles to [...]

With XXL Magazine churning freestyles out daily in collaboration with their Freshmen list, today sees the turn of Joey Bada$$. [...]

“Roll mo’ dro ’til you comatose/ My eggs are fried, that’s probably why I like omelettes the most.” Just one of the lines featured in Ab Soul‘s XXL Freshmen freestyle, the TDE rapper slows things down this time around so that listeners can catch what he’s saying and truly pay attention. [...]