(light beat)
- [Torae] Thirty MCs came to destroy the mic,
but only one can take the crown for NYC.
Freestyle Friday is back,
and we're give you a recap on one of the illest
battles to hit BET.
This is Freestyle Friday.
(light beat)
- What's up everybody,
I'm Torae and this is Freestyle Friday.
That's right.
BET has resurrected one of the most
beloved rap battle grounds of our time.
We're doing it right here at the Youtube
Studios in NYC.
We're traveling to four major cities
around the world in order to
hear the dopest freestyles,
but of course,
we had to set it off in my backyard,
the birthplace of hip hop,
New York City!
(crowd cheers)
- For the next thirty minutes,
I'm giving you the official blow by blow
of what went down during our
Freestyle Friday livestream.
Thirty MCs from NYC
and allover the East Coast
took the mic for a chance to perform
live at the BET Experience.
I got the highlights, the rooky mistakes,
and the surprises.
I'm giving you the rundown.
- We in here, Freestyle Friday takeover,
y'all know what time it is.
- It's syllable work, man,
it's syllable work.
- Don't mumble your way out of this one.
Everything gotta be clear.
- No bubblegum raps,
no gimmicks, no nothin',
just straight bars for y'all.
- Wait, I'm supposed to say somethin'?
- We all know that to prove your
skills as an MC,
you have to be able to rhyme over
almost any beat,
but we like to make sure
it's a good hip hop beat.
For the livestream,
we enlisted the talented tour rap
premier beat makers.
You know them as Buda and Grandz,
produce for everybody,
from Meek Mill to the Game.
Before we can discuss any of the MC action
that went down at NY,
lets meat our beat makers
and get a feel for the fire that they
cooked up for the New York cipher.
Let's give it up for my guys,
Buda and Granz!
(crowd cheers)
- We're goin' on y'all as America's
favorite Duo, Buda the Future...
- Grandz Music.
We met in school actually, over ten years ago,
yeah it was at--
- IAR--
- IAR--
- Institute of Audio Research.
I sat next to the smartest guy in class.
First artist we worked with was 50 Cent
while we was in school.
It was surreal.
- Yeah.
- [Buda] To actually experience that
while we was in school was definitely like
a dream come true.
- And that was like our first placement ever.
- Yeah.
Right then and there, we new we was supposed to be a duo.
Some of my favorite memories from Freestyle
Friday just growing up are
leaving school and just running home
to catch some of these classic battles
from like Jin to Posta Boy, O.M.P.,
Fred, I mean I feel like the BET Freestyle Friday
brand has so many dope artists.
- A lot of the hot rappers that are out now,
the first time we ever seen them was on Freestyle Friday.
- It was like a mini pay per view
for broadcast television every Friday.
We picked the beats for East City I feel
like it was more of like a vibe
in how we would capture if we was
in that actual city creating.
- The music that's coming out of the town--
- Right, out of the region,
ever city got it's own spice,
so like depending on what city we
was producing for, we would definitely
try to add that element that we
was inspired by,
and all that, you and these cities
that BET picked was a lot
of talent, so each beat has to be
completely different.
- What was it about the New York cipher?
What was it about these beats that you felt
like these are the ones for the New York artists,
talk to me?
- Man, well based on the region,
you know, we had to make sure to provide
that essence and like that gritty sound--
- Absolutely--
- Especially coming from New York,
you know you definitely gotta have that
bottom to it so that was the whole vibe with it.
- Definitely went aggressive on the beats, so.
- Went aggressive?
- Yeah.
- That was a look at our Freestyle Friday
resident producers, Buda and Grandz
who laced us with three tracks
for our New York MCs to spit on
throughout the competition.
A lot of artists that we know and love
started out as battle rappers,
Meek Mill, Eminem and Jay-Z just to name a few.
Now let's check out some of my favorite MCs
who showed up and showed out at the New York
City addition of Freestyle Friday.
♪ If I was on 106, I would put 'em all to shame ♪
♪ Freestyle Friday, I need my spot ♪
♪ In the hall of fame ♪
- First thing that I thought
when I heard Freestyle Friday
was coming back was when is my
phone gonna ring so I could come
up here and coach these little
whipper snappers and tell 'em
what they need to do so they could
have a prosperous career.
- Throughout today's livestream,
30 MCs are going to step up to the mic
to deliver their hottest freestyles.
Plus, immediately following today's
livestream event, DJs across the nation
will select one person who will make it
to the final battle live at the BET Experience.
Now, whoever wins will be selected to attend
and compete for global bragging rights
as the Freestyle Friday worldwide champ.
(crowd cheers)
- How y'all doin', how y'all feelin'?
(crowd cheers)
- Yeah, this a big opportunity for y'all,
y'all know that, right?
(crowd agrees)
- Believe that, I feel the hunger.
I feel a little nervousness.
I feel it, am I vibin' over y'all right?
How many people nervous?
- I mean I'm always nervous,
but I think I remind myself,
if you're not nervous, you're
not really livin'.
- I feel just excited to be able
to play on this level and on this platform.
- Am I nervous?
Uh, no, I'm the ultimate MC.
What the, nervous..
- Gotta have fun.
If you look like you're taking it
too serious, it comes across like that.
It looks pre-rehearsed.
It feels contrived or forced.
There's something unique
about your personality,
about your look, and about your style,
that got you here.
(crowd cheers)
- What's goin' on y'all?
You got some important people back there man,
some scouters man.
So perform, man.
Show up, you know you my dog.
Make sure you show up, go in there,
put your heart in it,
and don't let these (bleep) count you out,
you know what I'm sayin'?
My dudes would be killed, just killed,
everything, I mean like, kill a guy
givin' you the mic,
kill every body.
As soon as you step in that vicinity,
don'ts would be mess up.
Don't mess up because no matter how good you is,
if you mess up, you get like discredited.
♪ My grind is evident ♪
♪ What a time to be a young guy killin' it ♪
♪ Smack told me it's just a matter of time ♪
♪ For you the talk of the town ♪
♪ When it claimed it was not feelin' it ♪
♪ It's almost pitiful how my syllables ♪
♪ Kill and leave you in need of ♪
♪ A medical mirror, maybe a miracle. ♪
- We're just getting started.
Now it's time for us to take over Toronto,
London, and Los Angeles to see who got the heat.
If you want a chance to get on the mic,
make sure you go to BET.com for official
dates and rules on how to submit.
We have more on the way for our Freestyle Friday Recap,
but first let's take a look at this moment
from our livestream.
Let the viewers know where they've seen
or rocked with you before.
- You might of seen my 2010 I was the
Grand Champion Seven Sounds, undefeated,
undisputed, did that BET cipher.
I did the back room, I did performances, man,
I mean I was livin' off Freestyle Friday, man--
- You was livin' on BET--
- That was my block, man, yeah yeah yeah--
- Absolutely, absolutely, how do you
feel about this reboot of Freestyle Friday?
- It's a beautiful thing, man,
I think it's dope that they givin' new
contestants an opportunity to showcase they
talent, man, and you know, just take
advantage of it man.
- Absolutely, now speaking of showcasing talent,
we 'aint just gonna come up here and do this
interview thing, I know you got some bars.
- Y'all want me to talk?
- You got some bars for the people?
- Of course, man, c'mon.
- Alright, I'm a step off, let you
do what you do.
Are you going to pick a beat
or are we just going to drop with it--
- I think they got something for me already, man--
- They got something for you?
- It's not going to really matter let's go--
- Perfect, let's go, man, Bones is here.
- Let's go.
♪ Yo, listen ♪
♪ Yo, yo, listen ♪
♪ Started out with a Section Eight salary ♪
♪ And Freestyle Friday turned my ♪
♪ Dreams to reality ♪
♪ Talent of mine ♪
♪ Could turn a tenant to a rap star ♪
♪ I'm tryna turn my seven day metra ♪
♪ To a black car ♪
♪ I switch it up because ♪
♪ I don't think yall hear me ♪
♪ I'm tryna turn seven grams ♪
♪ Into a seven series ♪
♪ Grand champ, my flow's crazy still ♪
♪ Y'all the ROTC and I'm a Navy Seal ♪
♪ I rip this mic like it's a stainless steel ♪
♪ I'm surgical with this ♪
♪ And I'm trained to kill ♪
♪ I mean, you cold literally die ♪
♪ From these bars like riding ♪
♪ Shotgun with Blind Fury drivin' the car ♪
♪ So come and roll with the star, ma ♪
♪ My life is so exciting she wanted to go to DR ♪
♪ I took her to Dykeman, ma, ♪
♪ It's not a brightening ♪
♪ What I got on cost a small fortune ♪
♪ It's called flossin' ♪
♪ Got more flare than four horseman ♪
♪ Thousand dollar dinner dates, ♪
♪ That's a small thing ♪
♪ Word to the jeans I had an ♪
♪ We had a ball man ♪
♪ I had to ask in me ♪
♪ Do you practice safe sex ♪
♪ Cuz the gray sweats got her ♪
♪ Reachin' for the latex ♪
♪ Me I'm a winner ♪
♪ You just 'aint got in ya ♪
♪ Your top three MCs to me ♪
♪ Is breakfast, lunch and dinner ♪
♪ Think you the real deal ♪
♪ No you not ♪
♪ Boy, you fake it in some Photoshop ♪
♪ I'm from a block where we go through a lot ♪
♪ So this the chance of a lifetime ♪
♪ For y'all, for me it's just a photo-op ♪
♪ Yo, I'm in the stunts blunts to cheap thrills ♪
♪ Philly, I aint from there ♪
♪ Free to homey Meek Mills. ♪
- Crazy, crazy, crazy.
- My experience in the booth was crazy.
My adrenaline was pumpin'.
My brain was scrambled.
- I was real nervous.
Ugh, I felt bloated.
I felt real heavy and sweaty.
- That minute was gone like that,
so you really try to be mindful
of what you're doing because it's
gonna be over before you know it.
- It was fast, fast,
kind of like a out of body experience,
like I remember walkin' up there
and then I just remember walkin' off.
- I was just in my head like
please don't choke.
- It was crazy because I literally didn't see nothin'.
All I seen was the mic.
I have four cameras that had me
lookin' good in each angle,
so it was just time to do my thing,
and that's what I did.
- Welcome back to Freestyle Friday.
Now as a guy who loves the art of MCin',
I'm always checkin' for flow,
technique, and word play.
I mentioned the guys who have skills earlier,
but sometimes the folks with the best rhymes
mess up under pressure.
A lot of rooky MCs wanna incorporate too
much into their performance
instead of focusing on the punchlines.
They don't make eye contact.
They holdin' they head down.
Let's check out some of the folks
who left a bad impression on the mic.
♪ You don't want it though ♪
♪ I'm on the block ♪
♪ We really get it though ♪
♪ Yeah, my Swaggers Jones don't test me ♪
♪ My boys on the block be gettin' ♪
♪ It crunched like Nestle, uh ♪
♪ Yeah, I'm from the double R ♪
♪ I aint talkin' Rolls-Royce ♪
♪ I'm talkin' double R, Roof Riley ♪
♪ Yeah, yo, yo, yo ♪
- [Torae] That's all you feelin'
- Yeah...
- [Torae] You need me?
- It's all good.
♪ Cuz I really rap ♪
♪ And I stay in my music ♪
♪ And even when its 9 to 5 ♪
♪ He still couldn't do this ♪
♪ Nah, I'm really with it, ♪
♪ I'm really the next one ♪
♪ Come and get, from the Bronx, ♪
♪ It's so with it ♪
♪ Okay, I'm the real Queen ♪
♪ Drop the Latifah ♪
♪ I'm going so hard ♪
♪ These MCs tryna teeth her ♪
♪ Really got these bars like I'm eatin' the meat up ♪
- Oh gosh, Jesus, yeah so that's
how I'm givin' it up, alright.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Ended on the, ya know what I mean,
eatin' the meat up.
How you feel you did, you feel
like you put on for the Bronx?
- Of course.
♪ Had it all, whoa, ♪
♪ Man I had the folks on the brim ♪
♪ I had the ♪
♪ Had to do it with me pen ♪
♪ Had to, had to suck it up and grin ♪
♪ I had to focus on the win ♪
♪ I had to ♪
♪ Had to do it with me pen ♪
♪ Had to focus on the win ♪
♪ Had to suck it up and grin ♪
- I gave 2econd at least four second chances,
man, like I gave 2econd so many opportunities.
He was in there, felt like he was doing a hook,
he kept trying to get his jump start started,
and it just wasn't working, man,
the battery, I mean, he had the plugs for the battery.
He didn't go in.
♪ I had to focus on the win ♪
♪ I had to suck it up and grin ♪
♪ I had to time for different friends ♪
♪ I had to ♪
- I can't get past it
♪ I had to do it with my pen ♪
♪ I had to focus on the grin ♪
♪ I had to suck it up and win ♪
♪ I had to ♪
- My experience in the booth was,
it was intense.
It was something that I really
never felt before,
so it was kind of like
it was a shock value.
I was dealing with like a shock value,
so I'm less than impressed with my performance.
♪ Remember when they tried to count me out ♪
♪ Bought a Benz just to back it out ♪
♪ Giuseppe pumps when I'm steppin' out ♪
- When I first walked in there,
I was like, "Okay, you got this."
♪ I'm trying to get to the blue face ♪
♪ And I am too cocky, I don't do basic ♪
- Jesse, where you going, Jesse.
What happened?
- I stumbled.
- You stumbled?
- Yeah.
- It's alright, love, I want to
invite you back up here,
but you already stumbled,
so you might as well just, you know what I mean.
Thank you for making your way out here
to New York to rock with Freestyle Friday.
- I had about 20 seconds left.
I did get a little caught up,
but at least I was able to get half of
my freestyle out.
- If you do mess up,
you gotta be able to just work on the fly,
and steppin' off the stage while the beat
is still goin' and before your host comes back up
there, you can't do it like that.
Even if you mess up your line,
you stand there, you spit a freestyle,
you try to come with another verse,
or you just, know what I mean, just pose on 'em
or do something,
but don't like just walk off, man,
because that's a bad look,
and it's just going to get you out here lookin'
like you didn't cut it.
♪ Yo, I been waitin' all my life ♪
♪ For a time like this. ♪
♪ Flow golden, stuntin' like the time on wrist ♪
♪ Swear the booth is like a, when I ♪
- Ah, shit, aw.
♪ Yeah, the way I drop knowledge ♪
♪ Don't you feel like you a college kid ♪
♪ Doin' it for free ♪
♪ Don't you feel like you on scholarships ♪
♪ Labels ready to sign me ♪
♪ Like it's a lotto pick ♪
♪ Words like equivalent to some hollow tips ♪
♪ Yeah, and I aint never gonna slow up ♪
♪ And I aint talkin' bout no cobras ♪
♪ Snakes in the grass ♪
♪ And I aint talkin' bout no cobras ♪
♪ It's over ♪
♪ I don't pump fake ♪
♪ And I don't travel ♪
♪ I let these dude tattle tales ♪
♪ Never lose a tattle ♪
♪ That's why I stick with my shadow ♪
♪ The Cuban liquor just dazzle ♪
♪ I'm a hustler, ♪
♪ I could sell a brick to some gravel ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
- That's it, ugh,
messed it up, I messed it up.
I take that L.
- How you feelin', man,
how you feelin', tell me really quick,
how you feelin'?
- That was an L, I messed it up.
- That was an L.
Alright, man, no doubt, no doubt,
well thank you for comin' through man and rockin'.
When you get an opportunity like this,
you definitely got to seize the moment, alright?
- My experience was good.
I didn't do too good, but, ah, hold on.
My experience in the booth today
was good but I didn't really do too good
with my freestyle,
but the whole experience as a whole was good.
What would I change if I could go back
was sayin' a different rhyme that I had.
I tried to say like a fresh one
that I wrote yesterday,
and then I ended up forgetting it,
so I should have said the one that
I originally had to say.
♪ You already know how this game go ♪
♪ They snatch you out ♪
♪ Steal from the hood where it's thorough ♪
♪ Right my mom borough ♪
♪ Yeah (bleep) know to seize ♪
♪ You get your hard borough ♪
♪ I keep it hot. ♪
♪ Yeah, (bleep), it was off nights ♪
♪ Get that white ♪
♪ Yeah, (bleep) it was off-white ♪
- Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn,
how are you man?
How you feelin', man?
- I 'aint like that, but--
- You 'aint like that.
Now, I just did get word.
Not only didn't you like it,
but you did use that N-word.
Man, you know that N-word is an automatic
disqualification my G.
(buzzer noise)
- Thank you for comin' out,
you know what I mean,
I think you still good in best eye.
You just not good on Freestyle Friday today, alright?
That was a look at some of the MCs who
still need to work on their flow
form my New York City Freestyle livestream.
As our 30 MCs stepped to the mic,
we had special surprises throughout the day.
Now you know we couldn't have them come through
without blessin' us with a surprise celeb
freestyle takeover.
Let's take a look.
We got my man Serius Jones steppin' up, man,
I know I gotta raise the mic for the homey.
What up my guy?
How you feel about BET bringing back
Freestyle Friday?
- It's beautiful, man,
uh, I just love to see the evolution
of the culture.
We at a time now when it's necessary
to bring it back to the forefront
because, you know, we got other people
that's, you know, having shows
and everything based on battle.
That's kind of expanding the culture
and letting other genres
know where it came from.
So, it's only right to come back
to the foundation--
- It's only right to come back home, right.
- Right, facts.
- No doubt, no doubt.
Do you got something for the people?
- Always, always let's do it--
- Always, always.
I'm thinking about the way I'm a let you do
what you do, my Gosh, Serius Jones here--
- My dude, yes sir, let's get it--
- Freestyle Friday, this is crazy.
- Let's get it.
♪ Uh, okay, what I say, ♪
♪ I'm go right in with it, um, ♪
♪ Y'all know how I do, check, ♪
♪ I said, okay, okay, okay, ♪
♪ Well I'm still starvin' but I'm so full ♪
♪ Eyes red, man, I started with Reggie, ♪
♪ No bull, takin' seeds out ♪
♪ What they gon' do when I see 'em ♪
♪ I'm with the vowel movements ♪
♪ I make run on your BM ♪
♪ Feedin' my daughter ♪
♪ Stingin' out the joint ♪
♪ It's come first ♪
♪ When the bowel will move free ♪
♪ That's joint just come first, ♪
♪ Just point, one burst ♪
♪ That's the mind state ♪
♪ Smokin' on probation ♪
♪ Can't wait to violate it ♪
♪ What's on my plate ♪
♪ A whole lotta unsurity ♪
♪ I pump quarterly ♪
♪ Real dudes not a minority ♪
♪ The street fighter ♪
♪ Douse 'em ♪
♪ I reach awkwardly ♪
♪ Don't wanna get heha-ed and act accordingly ♪
♪ I've been with the bull since ♪
♪ Scottie Pippen play ♪
♪ Gettin' in office since the Bill Clinton days ♪
♪ Barber shop talk, yeah I've been nice with the blaze ♪
♪ Put the jab, sit 'em down, spin 'em round ♪
♪ I'm givin' fades, my bad y'all ♪
♪ I know I had y'all like W-T-F ♪
♪ Went from the yeah he's next to quiet ♪
♪ But y'all had enough of these rejects ♪
♪ Hit with the hammer, kick up, ♪
♪ Hustle's a reflex, hello world ♪
- My first love was a chrome pearl.
She was so proud to stash it.
Shout to me old girl,
did everything pimpin' except grow curls,
in love with big heads.
I feel Martin's pain,
but you go girl!
- Come on, come on, come on, come on--
- Ah, come on, baby--
- What's the name of the new mixtape?
- New mixtape: "Serius Business 3"
Um the hallways on the way, man,
you know what I'm sayin'.
That's available now.
Anybody that's in tune with this, man,
in tune with the culture,
get in tune with me, man,
I'm back and I'm better than ever.
- Man, Serius Jones came in there and killed it,
you know what I mean,
we haven't seen him in a minute,
but he still feel like he 'aint lose a beat,
he 'aint miss a step, you know what I mean,
just baritone, the flow, the voice,
always been a fan of Serius Jones.
It was just good to see him back in his element
of spittin' bars, man, so definitely
big shout out to Serius Jone.
- Do I have any advice for rappers today?
Yeah, learn how to rap.
- Now keep it right where you go it.
For more of our Freestyle Friday Recap.
- In order to be an elite freestyle rapper
the necessary elements are aggression,
gotta be very aggressive,
animated as possible,
facial expression is everything,
when you
(growls)
- And you get in all like
(growls)
- And you see, they, the audience feel it,
you know, so self confidence is everything,
and you can read when somebody is not ready,
and they're not prepared,
and they're not, you know,
as confident as what they sayin' as their,
you know what I'm sayin',
you can tell, so you just gotta self-confidence
and just no laid back.
You cannot do that,
not when you freestylin'.
- Let's go, you 'aint tell me we was wearin'
all the chains today, I woulda.
- Yeah, we got all the chains.
- I woulda wore all the chains, man--
- We icy today.
- How you feelin', my G.
- Feelin' great, man, I feel awesome, man.
- Did you ever do Freestyle Friday, Beef--
- I never did Freestyle Friday--
- You never did it, right, you never
got a chance to do that,
so this is a perfect opportunity and platform.
Real quick, what do you think it means
to bring back Freestyle Friday for these MCs,
and speak to the mic, my guy.
- Aw man, yeah it's awesome, man,
like I'm a dude that, you know what I'm sayin',
dog, I make records, man, I love the battle rap.
I love the Freestyle Friday.
I just love that competitive sport, man,
that so I love it, man, I love it's back,
man, you feel me, so I wanted to be part of it--
- No doubt--
- I grew up watching BET crazy--
- Heavy, heavy.
We still just watchin' BET--
- Yeah, that's a fact.
♪ Oh, drop it, check ♪
♪ Get a little dance move before I jump ♪
♪ I tell 'em, check, ♪
♪ Hennessy down, mention my name so I'm upset ♪
♪ How could I blame 'em when New York ♪
♪ Don't know I'm up next ♪
♪ Butter crawley, workin' all these (bleep) like ♪
♪ Rough sex, rap game mop it, ♪
♪ But she 'aint lick my, yeah, ♪
♪ (Bleep) givin' blow jobs just to make it, ♪
♪ Oh that's success ♪
♪ Where you're (bleep) balls at ♪
♪ (Bleep) that's a cup check ♪
♪ Dad, I 'aint sayin' no homo, ♪
♪ I 'aint no (bleep) homo, ♪
♪ No homophobic, do what you do, ♪
♪ I can't control it ♪
♪ Should I keep goin' ♪
♪ Like the energizer bunny ♪
♪ (Bleep) could pay me ♪
♪ Cuz I'm energized by money ♪
♪ The more money you make ♪
♪ The more money they take ♪
♪ Government do anything to try to minimize money ♪
♪ That's going in your pocket ♪
♪ What's a plug without a socket ♪
♪ I'm just tryin' to put my foot in the game ♪
♪ Before they lock it, got your in my pocket ♪
♪ I can probably pocket ♪
♪ What's beef to a hamburger, Johnny Rocket ♪
♪ And I got piece, who think I'm not a beast ♪
♪ Man say or the late great Socrates ♪
♪ Crushin' all you non-believers ♪
♪ And non-achievers ♪
♪ I've been a man since Don Brunner signed Jita ♪
♪ I'm neither leader of the new school ♪
♪ Leader of the old school ♪
♪ Or could pro too ♪
♪ I'm that (bleep) you could come to or go to ♪
♪ If you need that one two or six-C ♪
♪ Either way I kick and punch lies, king fu ♪
♪ I am Jet Li and Bruce Lee all in one ♪
♪ I'm your daddy, who you callin' son ♪
♪ I be ballin' like the Spalding one ♪
♪ So bro, fresh and new, it's like ♪
♪ Vegetables at a festival ♪
♪ Cuz I'm feastin' like a (bleep) your daddy ♪
♪ And eatin' days ♪
♪ Know grace the stage of the VMAs ♪
♪ Winnin' in my DNA ♪
♪ So I can't lose to a bunch of whacks like candles ♪
♪ Long list of cans, no can't-do's ♪
♪ I'm in your head like shampoo ♪
♪ But you can't wash it out ♪
♪ So I recommend you (bleep) watch your mouth ♪
♪ I am top notch, ♪
♪ Don't be stupid like playin' dice ♪
♪ On a block while the cops watch ♪
♪ (bleep) you should go to jail twice, ♪
♪ (bleep) you can't even spell "nice", ♪
♪ let alone be that shit, we that shit, ♪
♪ did you watch that, see that click, ♪
♪ gang whatever you want to call it, ♪
♪ just know that we don't frolic and ♪
- Whoa, whoa, come on, come on,
wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on--
- Met me a figure so I could bought another ring,
perfectin' my aim.
- Oh my God, pressure, come on--
- Tryin' to be a body-builder, performer, baller,
artist, a better good scholar, but spit
like I'm retarted on that,
don't do French, (bleep) all that French,
Barbie and Ken shit, go get your pension--
- Come on, get this guy out of here.
My man, Phresher, and thank you for rockin'.
You can't do the whole album up here, Phresher.
I'm so happy that we brought back Freestyle Friday
because there's so much undiscovered talent out there.
Chill, we have folks rhymin' on social media,
but there's nothin' like a good freestyle
or battle to show cats what you're made of.
And we showcased 30 MCs from New York,
but only one could be crowned the winner.
Let's take a look at how everything went down
during our Freestyle Friday livestream.
(hip hop music)
- Yo, what up, my name Berran Lee,
I'm from Radcliff, KY.
What I always took about Freestyle Friday
is to come ready because you will
get exposed if you are left open.
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ KY to NY ♪
♪ I know you see me ♪
♪ In the booth, I'm Drizzy Drake, ♪
♪ I get in my zone ♪
♪ That don't mean I Jekyll and Hyde ♪
♪ In the Serius Jones ♪
♪ I'm possessed to be the best ♪
♪ No you can't cure me ♪
♪ I don't see the competition ♪
♪ My vision is blind fury ♪
♪ The new Mister 106 ♪
♪ Bow don't be upset ♪
♪ I had to take the crown ♪
♪ When you fronted the private jet ♪
♪ Resurrection, oh yes, ♪
♪ The boy is back ♪
♪ 2014, I put Kentucky on the map, ♪
♪ Wait, wait, wait ♪
♪ I am the best of the best ♪
♪ Contest with the rest ♪
♪ My zone is no flex ♪
♪ Runnin' and gunnin' ♪
♪ With that bulletproof vest ♪
♪ This rap game is my whole crew ♪
♪ Who got next all night ♪
♪ Lookin' like a zombie with insomnia ♪
♪ So how you gonna stop me, huh, ♪
♪ I'm hardly done, I'm sorry, but ♪
♪ To beat me you gon need an army just to ♪
♪ Harm me, son ♪
♪ And my flow so fatal, ♪
♪ Hot disable, ♪
♪ 'Aint no secret who the best on the label, ♪
♪ It is the man when the DJ not able ♪
♪ To spin they record with a dude with a dreidel ♪
♪ So unstable, I'm a make this painful ♪
♪ Deepy and gut like a gun to the navals ♪
♪ Been on my name, why they always ungrateful ♪
♪ One piece of me, I give you a plateful ♪
- Okay, okay, okay.
- You already know what it is,
it's your boy Bam Bito,
Bam Vito, 5-k, that's B-A-M V-I-T-O,
from Brooklyn, New York.
I feel great about what I just did
as far as the 16 and freestyle.
It's nothin' new really to me,
so I feel groovy, I'm happy with what I did, you know.
♪ Yo, flat bush ♪
♪ Brooklyn, I 'aint come here to play neither ♪
♪ Look, yeah, uh, look ♪
♪ Oh, we don't play with it ♪
♪ We stack and we stay with it ♪
♪ They rappin' fake lyrics ♪
♪ You okay with it, how ♪
♪ That haters even made me litty ♪
♪ Don't know who to thank ♪
♪ They tellin' jokes ♪
♪ My tooth missin' but my shooters 'aint ♪
♪ I'm dead-shot, it's head shots, ♪
♪ We 'aint shootin' blanks ♪
♪ When I was little they said I would be big, it was fate ♪
♪ It was destined with no effort ♪
♪ Mama said be great ♪
♪ These dudes do it for the stripes ♪
♪ Me I want the cake ♪
♪ Used to do Gucci with the stripes ♪
♪ Now it's with the snakes ♪
♪ Had to hustle all my life ♪
♪ In and out of state ♪
♪ And I know how to skate ♪
♪ I'm from outer space ♪
♪ We cannot relate, I'm just different ♪
♪ You guys are same ♪
♪ And I multi-task, ball and I coach the game ♪
♪ I was built to last ♪
♪ Don't compare me to the lames ♪
♪ Your friends be with you when you up ♪
♪ But when you down and out ♪
♪ Be hard to find ♪
♪ People be slime ♪
♪ I'm findin' out ♪
♪ And we don't internet beef ♪
♪ We pop up at your house ♪
♪ Where ratchets poppin' out ♪
♪ Ask my ops, they avouch ♪
♪ I know them haters want me best ♪
♪ I wish the best for 'em ♪
♪ Let my lady count 'em ♪
♪ She won't finish 'til the next mornin' ♪
- Oo!
- Hey, what's up, my name is Piff Marti,
and I'm from Harlem, you know.
Four years ago I was actually on
106 & Park Freestyle Friday,
and I lost and I was like,
"Wow, this is the time to redeem myself."
This was the time to get back to the get back.
I'm better and this is a dope opportunity.
♪ Apply pressure while they side-steppin' ♪
♪ Man I be dying if I mess with my blessing ♪
♪ It get deeper than a trifecta by Stephan ♪
♪ And I deliver, word to iMessage ♪
♪ Five foot five but in my mind I'm a giant ♪
♪ A prime legend ♪
♪ Head in the clouds, I can eye heaven ♪
♪ And to be honest, the game could spare change ♪
♪ Like I'm beggin' ♪
♪ I know that my word is my weapon ♪
♪ And for the Mickey Mouse in that white house ♪
♪ That got us stuck, that think he Walt Disney, ♪
♪ No ugly, you Donald Trump ♪
♪ You a chump ♪
♪ I hope somebody swing on the Goofey ♪
♪ And you too, if you helpin' that Donald Duck ♪
♪ Let's be honest, huh, name's Piff ♪
♪ So I'ma be blunt ♪
♪ I think I got it bro ♪
♪ Everybody else time is up ♪
♪ I mean we made it this far ♪
♪ So trust me I'm proud of us ♪
♪ But everybody else under me sleepin' like bottom bunks ♪
♪ A hater gonna be hatin' where you be at ♪
♪ Woo, word to Nashville I tend to see that ♪
♪ Woo, y'all in hot water like a tea bag ♪
♪ I spit the heat, got the beat sleepin' with the C-bag ♪
♪ That's bars on bars with no filler ♪
♪ Pimp Marty-Mar, who you know more realer ♪
♪ Man, my idols growin' up was Cam'ron ♪
♪ And Steve Austin ♪
♪ I'm a stone cold killer, Piff ♪
- My name Sheluvbank from Charlotte, North Carolina.
When I got in there, I got the beat
that I wanted the least,
but as an MC, you supposed to adapt
so I kind of, it threw me off, I stumbled,
caught myself, got myself back on track,
it was pretty cool.
♪ I'm just here to get my city litty ♪
♪ Let 'em no my state great ♪
♪ Charlotte, North Carolina ♪
♪ I'm up to make my plate ♪
♪ Before we break this bread ♪
♪ I bow my head and say my grace ♪
♪ Ay ♪
♪ Said I'm just here to get my city litty ♪
♪ Let 'em know my state great, ♪
♪ Charlotte, North Carolina ♪
♪ I'm up to make my plate ♪
♪ Before we break this bread ♪
♪ I bow my head and say my grace ♪
♪ When you 'aint been livin' right ♪
♪ Any nights you might get erased ♪
♪ Never a dull moment ♪
♪ We'll be sparkin' the cannon ♪
♪ Champion still undisputed because ♪
♪ I'm sharper than Shannon, ♪
♪ The man in the building ♪
♪ Is stealin' just like Peyton arrived ♪
♪ You hear the love come from they lips ♪
♪ I see the hate in the eyes ♪
♪ Never friendly, I see more envy ♪
♪ Than Angela Yee ♪
♪ Like Pamela, tell my shorty to bring the camera to me ♪
♪ I manage to take advantage of the hand I was dealt ♪
♪ Contenders turn into dinner ♪
♪ This how Hannibal felt ♪
♪ When I kill 'em for the camera ♪
♪ I guess that I am a director ♪
♪ No Spike Lee, the bite me like non-vectors ♪
♪ Me and my sector 'aint ♪
♪ Sweet so try nectar ♪
- [Torae] Woo!
- Yo, this is Ish Vitale straight out of Savanna, Georgia.
I was just like, you know, "I have to do it.
I have to go for the opportunity."
The first time I ever came to New York,
I went to BET 106 & Park, first time I ever came here
and to try and rap for someone.
I was 17,
and to see it come full circle
and actually be a part, it's a blessing,
you know, for sure.
(hip hop music)
♪ Delicate sexin', cheese, lettuce ♪
♪ Pick your preference ♪
♪ I feed off blessings ♪
♪ No games, hunger recognized ♪
♪ From Jennifer Lawrence ♪
♪ The win in your poorest community housing ♪
♪ Need immunity vouchers so listen ♪
♪ I suggest you follow protocol ♪
♪ Know its fraud takin' shocks like open bars ♪
♪ To kill me off ♪
♪ Arrive with your glass half-full ♪
♪ I spill it off ♪
♪ Beware my skills cause ♪
♪ Frustration plus waitin' for proper career development ♪
♪ Spittin' facts like calamine to the max ♪
♪ Lines wait above your head ♪
♪ Word to Stephen A., this the player club ♪
♪ You actin' like you LisaRaye ♪
♪ Shinin' like a diamond ♪
♪ Whatever rhymin' I'm better ♪
♪ Competition never been a factor ♪
♪ More bars than Central Booking ♪
♪ I leave chapters ♪
♪ Make you read about it and watch the effects ♪
♪ Like I shot a scene with Childish ♪
♪ Grow up, see maturity's lackin' ♪
♪ How you wackin' ♪
♪ What kind of rappin' is this, ♪
♪ When it's action I'm blackin' ♪
♪ Like every day's February ♪
♪ I bet I milked the game first, ♪
♪ You played secondary ♪
♪ Me, I'm like an only child, ♪
♪ More gifted, more fitted, ♪
♪ Than New York shoppin' at Lids, no cap ♪
♪ It's in your jeans to waste talent ♪
♪ Me, I'm no slack, very different ♪
♪ I knock you down ♪
♪ You'll never come back, Keri Hilson ♪
- Congratulations to our winning MC
who is advancing to the live battle at the BET Experience.
Now this is just the first of many Freestyle Fridays.
Our next stop is in Toronto,
so if you want to get on the mic,
hit BET's Youtube page
and upload you rappin' an original song
with #FreestyleFridayBET in the title.
The video must use original, unlicensed audio and lyrics.
You don't want to miss this moment to be
a part of BET history.
- I just graduated college.
I went to school out here, St. John's,
so I just graduated last year,
so, you know, I'm just livin' out here.
I moved from Savanna to New York going to school.
People who inspire me are, you know, Nas
and AZ, I love the era, like that mid-90's era.
I know it might sound cliche,
but it just, listening to these guys
and how they use their lyrics, you know,
and their techniques and their breathing patterns,
that always really inspired me to,
you know, want to be able to convey my messages
like that through my music.
- Alright, y'all, it's been a pleasure hanging out
and giving you exclusive highlights from Freestyle Friday.
We have more on the way in the upcoming month
leading to our finale competition at the BET Experience.
So until we meet again, good night.
(light music)
- You, this is Ish Vitale from Savanna, Georgia,
and you're watching Freestyle Friday on BET.
(hip hop music)
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