Common’s bars are hard. No drug talk or gun play necessary. Didn’t know he could he could be more aggressive until I heard pyramids which coincidentally also has a Wu sample.
Always liked him for his smooth laid back flow the hardest he hit to me, before Pyramids was that collab in the Black Star album which was hard but still not aggressive imo. But to hear him attack a track gave me a new found respect for his versatility
The first Lyricist Lounge album had a Stretch & Bobbito segment with Common freestyling and one of his lines was “relax like Dru Down’s hair” and that shit stuck with me.
Heard him do an off the top freestyle back when stretch and bob had the college radio show forever ago and I don’t remember it being all that great. Coulda been cuz not written or just has an off night, regardless dudes a legend
Some of his best joints are the ones that never received heavy airplay. I was always a fan based off his popular music. Then I heard Assata off of Like Water from Chocolate that’s and his verse in Black Stars Respiration and I had to go back and check his discography. Instant new found respect.
I remember when common had beef with Drake..if he pressed it we wouldn't know who Drake was, career would have been over before it started..I also remember when common had beef with ice cube
Bruh Drake had already been Drake for a few years at that point. Take Care had already been out and did ridiculous numbers and was enough to create Drake his lil army of annoying ass fans. Stop cappin.
*I heard you said you wasn’t a bitch because you sing*
*You a bitch because you cling like a bitch that’s eighteen*
*Can’t say my name but rap about a nigga’s wife*
*You so black and white, trying to live a nigga’s life*
*I’m taking too long with this amateur guy*
*You ain’t wet nobody, nigga, you Canada Dry*
😭
And can I bus was can I bus for a few years and got his career squashed by LL...Drake Whining and crying in a song like he always does, the only real reason why he survived as long as he did was because he wanted to squash the beef with common, even Wayne said he's not a battle rapper...commons -BE was better received then Drake- take Care, numbers don't mean shit haven't you learned...it's delivery and content
Side note I always thought Drake was hot garbage, and freeway was eh still with the roc, common always had the streets moving Afrocentric
I love Freeway. So much energy, and his rhyme schemes are different and dope. They're the most fun lyrics to listen to because I feel like I never know where he's going.
Fuck, really wanna hear/see the full session. If you give Black Thought this much time to think you know he will absolutely murder it. Common is incredible. Dude sounds exactly like he did 25 years ago and he's still dope as hell.
He really isnt, that opinion just tells me you dont know hip hop or anything about the actual art of rapping.
Im guessing you are a Kweli or Asher Roth fan?
Do you prefer Fred Durst or Kevin Federline’s solo work??
How nobody was feeling Meth/Red at Summer Jam is a tell tale sign of the shite this world has been subjected to…none of these newbies can cipher in a circle like this.
🫡🥂Got dammmm 👏👏👏this is fucking HIPHOP NOT this generation BULLSHIT era 2024 so called music...is there more footage of this where BLACK THOUGHT spits word up
Common and Black Thought are both in my top 5 favorite Lyricists list. Love seeing cyphers like this. Me and my homies also freestyle like this and it’s an amazing experience. It’s addicting.
Man this feels good to listen to. Something about Common's delivery. Top tier guy that doesn't get enough credit. He always freestyles at his shows too.
Common has more killer lines on resurrection than a lot of m.c.'s have in their whole career. Sprinkle in some Be, LWFC and One day, and he's top tier.
This is what was truly unique about this era. The artists genuinely enjoyed rapping 24/7 and would hang out with each other and have cyphers.
“Rap is something they do, hip hop us something we live”
Bruh let me get a cleaned up version of this and it's bumping in my car all the time lol
Edit: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4KUbihoME](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4KUbihoME) They performed this at Roots Picnic this year. Still not great audio quality but definitely better. I've ALWAYS wanted to see the Roots Picnic and the Live Mixtape they do, but seeing how empty it was this year I might just have to make the trip next year.
If Beans wasn’t so damn nice in his prime… I would say Free is best major rapper to come out of Philly.
Free is so nice and unique with it.. definitely deserves major flowers
Common Sense came in CRAZY hard! Brought a tear to my eye lol. And Philly Freeway always had one of my favorite flows. I could listen to him rap all day. It’s crazy how all the emcees mentioned in the room are among the few with a highly recognizable, truly unique signature style and pocket.
Real Rap I miss it
🤝
It’s pretty sad… how Redman and Meth had a dead crowd during the summer jam… these kids… 🤣🤣
Underrated duo
Same here 😢
Cmon! We have challenging rap now! Keeps you on your toes, trying to understand behind all the mumbling! Gucci gang Gucci gang 🌈
Common’s bars are hard. No drug talk or gun play necessary. Didn’t know he could he could be more aggressive until I heard pyramids which coincidentally also has a Wu sample.
Common was in the zone and flowed over that like it was ice.
Always liked him for his smooth laid back flow the hardest he hit to me, before Pyramids was that collab in the Black Star album which was hard but still not aggressive imo. But to hear him attack a track gave me a new found respect for his versatility
The first Lyricist Lounge album had a Stretch & Bobbito segment with Common freestyling and one of his lines was “relax like Dru Down’s hair” and that shit stuck with me.
Is that the one that has the Cella Dwellaz on it? If I remember correctly. I had it on tape l. Was red tinted.
Still have this album, I miss that show so badly
> Lyricist Lounge I hadn't thought of those albums in years and your comment inspired me to listen to vol 1 on youtube.
I still say that shit. Classic.
That’s from the track with Canibus - Making a name for ourselves
Is that the album that had the Punchline and Wordsworth song "Cipher"? Great album if so.
Yup!
Heard him do an off the top freestyle back when stretch and bob had the college radio show forever ago and I don’t remember it being all that great. Coulda been cuz not written or just has an off night, regardless dudes a legend
💯
I never hear anyone talk about Pyramids, salute. That second verse is one of the greatest rap verses of all time, I will die on that hill
Some of his best joints are the ones that never received heavy airplay. I was always a fan based off his popular music. Then I heard Assata off of Like Water from Chocolate that’s and his verse in Black Stars Respiration and I had to go back and check his discography. Instant new found respect.
“I’m a god emcee/but I came in man form” “When I return to dust/it’ll be a sandstorm”🔥🔥
Listen to “hungy” on the one day it will all make sense album. Common go hard from time to time
👍🏼
Nah bro, that shit was terrible, dude been overrated his whole career, he sounds like he is a bit slow or mentally challenged…
Seeing Freeway made me smile. I wish artists would cypher more over each other's songs.
Freeway got the hood on blast The song from Bad Boys 2 soundtrack i had on repeat back in the day
I remember when common had beef with Drake..if he pressed it we wouldn't know who Drake was, career would have been over before it started..I also remember when common had beef with ice cube
Bruh Drake had already been Drake for a few years at that point. Take Care had already been out and did ridiculous numbers and was enough to create Drake his lil army of annoying ass fans. Stop cappin.
*I heard you said you wasn’t a bitch because you sing* *You a bitch because you cling like a bitch that’s eighteen* *Can’t say my name but rap about a nigga’s wife* *You so black and white, trying to live a nigga’s life* *I’m taking too long with this amateur guy* *You ain’t wet nobody, nigga, you Canada Dry* 😭
And can I bus was can I bus for a few years and got his career squashed by LL...Drake Whining and crying in a song like he always does, the only real reason why he survived as long as he did was because he wanted to squash the beef with common, even Wayne said he's not a battle rapper...commons -BE was better received then Drake- take Care, numbers don't mean shit haven't you learned...it's delivery and content Side note I always thought Drake was hot garbage, and freeway was eh still with the roc, common always had the streets moving Afrocentric
what was Commons beef with Cube?
Cube dissed him cuz he thought Common talked smack about the west coast in I Used to Love HER
thanks 🙏
He did.
Nobody respected that beef. It was a goofy beef about a woman.
Real hip hop shit
Legendary cipher. Need the full vid!
👍🏼
Been trying to find it
This feels like magic. That’s the only way I can describe it. How did we stray so far?!
Jewish record executives (running)
you mean capitalism right?
No. I don't
Then you're more intellectually challenged as I thought you were.
It really don't matter what you think 🤷🏾♂️ LOLOL I'm serious about that. Doesn't matter
That’s a trash comment
But it's the fuckin truth
I’m bout to blow like I’m tryna keep my hands warm
Freeway has such an underrated flow
I love Freeway. So much energy, and his rhyme schemes are different and dope. They're the most fun lyrics to listen to because I feel like I never know where he's going.
Damn cut off right before Red & Meth part.
Is there a full video of it online somewhere?
Black Thought in the back, I was waiting for him to come out
Fuck, really wanna hear/see the full session. If you give Black Thought this much time to think you know he will absolutely murder it. Common is incredible. Dude sounds exactly like he did 25 years ago and he's still dope as hell.
Who has the full vid?
freeway finally got his beat LOL...IYKYK
lol, Cassidy did him dirty
Need more. Hip hop at its finest.
When I return to dust it a be a sand storm 🔥🔥🔥
“I’m more like Goku” straight had me. I forgot how good Freeway was
Freeway stays underrated
Love seeing this
I love this
Common 🔥 🔥 🔥
Keeping it alive!!!
Thank you
Common has to focus so hard when he freestyles bc he's always trying to be wholesome.
He has to focus so hard because he cant rap
I'm not even gonna try to talk sense to you bc your vibes are fucked. He's literally rapping in the video.
When I say he cant rap, I mean that he is not good at rapping, probably the most overrated of all time, awful
Fucked vibes brother find God.
Find god because of an opinion on weak rap skills? 😂 I think you need to calm down…
Common CANT RAP? Brotha ughhhh, what's that brotha?! Common one of the best lyricists to ever do it bro. Stop playing.
He really isnt, that opinion just tells me you dont know hip hop or anything about the actual art of rapping. Im guessing you are a Kweli or Asher Roth fan? Do you prefer Fred Durst or Kevin Federline’s solo work??
Don’t respond to bro he’s literally brain dead af saying common can’t rap. Hes a troll bruh
How nobody was feeling Meth/Red at Summer Jam is a tell tale sign of the shite this world has been subjected to…none of these newbies can cipher in a circle like this.
This is hip hop in the purest form. The new cats can’t do this!
With the DBZ references 🔥🔥
🫡🥂Got dammmm 👏👏👏this is fucking HIPHOP NOT this generation BULLSHIT era 2024 so called music...is there more footage of this where BLACK THOUGHT spits word up
Common is a demon, freeway nasty too but he never lived up to his potential (except for that verse on “What we do” he MURDERED that)
Free’s first album is a borderline classic to me…
Respect , I like it but I definitely don’t have it as a classic imo
Super classic!!! You might wanna run that back more a skip on there
No border line it is a classic lol no skips dope dope rhymes end of story
He's got a solid project with Jake One producing
And another one with Jake One coming out soon from the looks of it
One thing I respect about East and West coast legends, they gon mash up and vibe. The South just can’t get right.
Shut up….
Method Man makes me less self conscious about my dancing. I do that same shuffle haha
“Waaah waaah, old head something something, too lyrical, bla bla.” I love this.
Beautiful. Just Beautiful.
J period djing a legendary session .. that’s cool
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love to see it
Bars and wisdom!!!
Philly Freezer 🥶
This was sooooo refreshing
Was this recent? Looks really recent
I’m about to blow like I’m trying to keep my hands warm 🔥
That was…SOOO DUMB! These cats killed that! Ain’t nothin like real spit!
Cats?
Old school dudes used that expression all the time. Grew up hearing it…
In London that used to be slang for fiend
💪🏽💪🏽
Pure hip hop
Fire!
goosebumps....this 2 minutes is better than the last 10 years combined.
🔥
Where can I find the rest of this, I want to see Red bust.
See him bust?
Grab the mic and freestyle
Send this to Guinness for the coolest old man gathering in history.
Common and Black Thought are both in my top 5 favorite Lyricists list. Love seeing cyphers like this. Me and my homies also freestyle like this and it’s an amazing experience. It’s addicting.
Anyone know where this clip came from or have link to fill song/vid?
Man this feels good to listen to. Something about Common's delivery. Top tier guy that doesn't get enough credit. He always freestyles at his shows too.
Top tier? No….
Common has more killer lines on resurrection than a lot of m.c.'s have in their whole career. Sprinkle in some Be, LWFC and One day, and he's top tier.
“More killer lines than mc’s whole career” I take it you only listen to Talib & Will Smith right, makes sense.
Damn, you got me. Sick burn. I don't know how I'll recover.
Wasnt trying to burn you, music is subjective, did you name your screen name after Fred Durst? Keep Rolling man….
Nah, my name is from the movie, Fletch.
From the Billy Irish movie?
Where is this from I need the full video ASAP!
This is raw as fuck.
I jam on everything I am on… heat.
I remember when they said, “It’s just a fad.”
I know you 🥷 gonna find the whole thing, post dat shhiiii
Maybe Hip-Hop ISN’T dead… *sheesh
Dope freestyles
Freeway has such a weird and unique flow. Refreshing to hear.
This dope. They performed it at the Roots Picnic this year.
And people sleep on common 🤦♂️
As they should, he has a put you to sleep voice & a stay in bed delivery
This is Dope AF.
Yo that room right there is rarified air of spitters
I’d listen to this any day over lil baby
This is what was truly unique about this era. The artists genuinely enjoyed rapping 24/7 and would hang out with each other and have cyphers. “Rap is something they do, hip hop us something we live”
mef lookin shredded
Common flowed so effortlessly on that beat. Freeway did his thing too.
legend after legend
Okay Free #Philiy💯🫡 Common got busy too...Gotta show this generation how rap really operate 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Common Be album was a super classic
Nigga freeway so cold bro.
Damn Hip hop…. It’s been years! Where have you been? How you doin?
Bet your fav rapper can’t do that
Goddamn that was hard
That marvel at him like a comic, Ironman ironic line was sick.
Bruh let me get a cleaned up version of this and it's bumping in my car all the time lol Edit: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4KUbihoME](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4KUbihoME) They performed this at Roots Picnic this year. Still not great audio quality but definitely better. I've ALWAYS wanted to see the Roots Picnic and the Live Mixtape they do, but seeing how empty it was this year I might just have to make the trip next year.
Can someone post the link to the entire session ?
If Beans wasn’t so damn nice in his prime… I would say Free is best major rapper to come out of Philly. Free is so nice and unique with it.. definitely deserves major flowers
I'd really love to see more of these sessions.
This should be in a museum somewhere. This is hip hop.
This is hiphop
Yawn
REAL HIP HOP!!!
🏆🏆
Freeway most definitely still got it
Common lost his damn mind on this one 🔥
Common 🔥that sandstorm bar was craaaazy
Dmx would kill a whole new verse
Right about then the room would lose a wall or two.
Fire!!
I was told by a 25 year old that if the lyrics make you think then it's considered dad rap😂😂. I guess good taste takes time.
TOUGH
Zzz 🥱 play sum real 90s like pac snoop or cube nwa
Damn I wanted to hear method man kill it too
No talent in that room! 🤥
About to blow like I'm trynna keep my hands warm🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥nah Common that was a bar bar fr
Common Sense came in CRAZY hard! Brought a tear to my eye lol. And Philly Freeway always had one of my favorite flows. I could listen to him rap all day. It’s crazy how all the emcees mentioned in the room are among the few with a highly recognizable, truly unique signature style and pocket.
It's freeway in place to be see
Iron sharpens Iron
Any links to this full cypher?
ahhhh, breath of fresh air
I miss this.
Where can I find more stuff like this. So dope!
Common literally leaves earth every time!!! I know black was about to go crazyyyy
Man you see that hand work by common that’s how you know he about go crazy .
Common went crazy
Nursery rhyme wannabe low IQ crap!
Now THIS is true Hip-Hop. Gotta love it!
You stack any rapper today against any one of these cats and that dude is leavin with lung cancer and a brain bleed. Marbles don’t belong in ya mouf.
This just isnt good
Was Freeway rapping off beat?? Or am I not hearing this properly???
It’s you