Action Bronson – The Tim Westwood Freestyle (Video)
Action Bronson was recently in London and stopped by the Tim Westwood Show to drop a verse. Check out the video. Related: Action Bronson & Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers (Mixtape)... Read more
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Action Bronson – The Backroom Freestyle (Video)
Action Bronson steps into The Backroom on 106 & Park and drops a verse. Check out the video. Related: Action Bronson & Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers (Mixtape)... Read more
Raekwon – Who Shot Ya Freestyle
The Chef gets busy on the Who Shot Ya track. Check it out. Related: Raekwon – 86′ ft Altrina Renee... Read more
Jay Rock – The Backroom Freestyle (Video)
Jay Rock is the latest to drop a verse in The Backroom on 106 & Park. Check out the video. Related: Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock perform Money Trees (Video)... Read more
Styles P – The Backroom Freestyle (Video)
Styles P is the latest to bless The Backroom on 106 & Park with an ill verse. Check out the video. Related: Styles P – Hoody Season (Video)... Read more
Kendrick Lamar freestyles on the Ricky Smiley Morning Show (Video)
K. Dot goes off the top on the Ricky Smiley Morning Show in Atlanta. Check out the video. Related: Kendrick Lamar talks about the impact of hip-hop (Video)... Read more
Ab-Soul drops a verse in The Backroom on 106 & Park (Video)
Ab-Soul is the latest to grace The Backroom on 106 & Park. Check out his verse below. Related: Joey Bada$$ – Enter the Void ft Ab-Soul (Audio)... Read more
Raekwon – Don’t Look Any Further Freestyle
Raekwon drops a verse over a classic soul break. Check out Don't Look Any Further. Related: Raekwon, Ghostface Killah & Kool G. Rap – Rivers of Blood (Audio)... Read more
Redman – Hurricane Sandy Relief Freestyle
Redman drops a verse to raise awareness for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Check it out below. Related: A (mostly) video playlist of Redman joints to take you on a journey through his 20-year career (Video Playlist)... Read more
King Mez is the latest to step into The Backroom on 106 & Park (Video)
Related: Big Sant – Rap Ni**a ft King Mez, Tito Lopez & Phonte (Audio)... Read more
Kendrick Lamar Hallooween Freestyle (Video)
It's well-established that Kendrick Lamar's skills with the pen are on a different level but you have to peep money's freestyle game too. Check out this video where K. Dot's rhymes off the top using words written on flash cards. He weaves in cues ranging from Mitt Romney to Kim... Read more
Will Smith & Doug E. Fresh perform in Miami (Video)
Let's take it back to the old school. Let's take it to Union Sq...or maybe Miami. Here's a dope video of Will Smith returning to Fresh Prince mode and dropping an ill verse with Doug E. Fresh on the beat box. Big Tigger's reaction says it all. Check it out... Read more
Freeway rhymes in The Backroom on 106 & Park (Video)
Freeway came with a hook and a killer verse for The Backroom on 106 & Park. It took him a bit to get into it but when he did, he went IN. Check out the video. Related: Freeway – Freedom of Speech (Mixtape)... Read more
Torae rhymes on the Sway in the Morning show (Video)
Need some of that raw rap? Torae's got plenty. Check out these 6 minutes of verses he spits on Sway in the Morning. The first part is him showcasing his off the dome skills (Sway drops a word, Torae drops a rhyme). The 2nd part is him dropping a fire... Read more
Kendrick Lamar – m.A.A.d. Monday: interviews and performances (Video)
It's been a m.A.A.d. Monday, indeed, and with good reason. Kendrick Lamar has dropped one of the most important albums in hip-hop in a long, long time. A lot of videos documenting Kendrick's journey have premiered today, including our own. Here's a playlist of some of the better ones, including... Read more
Rapsody rhymes in The Backroom (Video)
Rapsody is the first woman to bless The Backroom on 106 & Park with a dope verse. While she is the first lady to rock the blue mic, don't call her a femcee or a female mc--just an ill lyricist. Check out the video below. Rapsody's The Idea of Beautiful,... Read more
RZA drops a verse on the Sway in the Morning Show (Video)
The legendary RZArector spits a verse and slices up a beat Shaolin style on the Sway in the Morning Show. Check out the video. Related: Ghostface Killah, M.O.P. & Pharoahe Monch – Black Out (Audio)... Read more
Fashawn, Murs & Chris Webby rhyme on the Sway in the Morning Show (Video)
Fashawn, Murs and Chris Webby stopped by the Sway in the Morning Show and dropped a few verses over some live beats from Ski Beatz. Check out the video. Related: Murs & Fashawn – This Generation (Video)... Read more
Macklemore – The Backroom Freestyle (Video)
Macklemore is the latest to hit up The Backroom on 106 & Park, and the first to wear a Hungarian tiger fur coat while blazing the blue mic. Check out the rhyme he drops. Related: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Same Love ft Mary Lambert (Audio)... Read more
Kendrick Lamar Interviews & Freestyles (Video)
Here are 2 interviews of Kendrick Lamar and he drops a verse at the end of each. In the first interview, he discusses the album, cover art, a song called Black Boy Fly which addresses the cover and more, then flows over the Mobb Deep Eye for an Eye beat.... Read more
Kendrick Lamar freestyles on the Funkmaster Flex Show (Video)
Kendrick Lamar stopped by Hot 97 in NYC to drop a verse for Funkmaster Flex. Flex laced him with the Who Shot Ya beat and Kendrick laid down what might be one of his most blistering rhymes EVER (think Rigamortus with a grudge). Wow. Check out the video. Related: Kendrick... Read more
G.O.O.D. Music (Common, Pusha T, Big Sean & Cyhi The Prynce) freestyle on the Funkmaster Flex Show (Video)
Part of the G.O.O.D. Music crew (Common, Pusha T, Big Sean & Cyhi The Prynce) hit the Funkmaster Flex show yesterday and laid down 9 minutes of hot verses. Everybody rhymed except Pusha T. Check it out. Related: Big Sean, Jay-Z & Kanye West – Clique (Audio)... Read more
Crooked I and Joell Ortiz freestyle in Paris (Video)
Crooked I and Joell Ortiz dropped 2 hot a capella verses in Paris recently in front of the Eiffel Tower (skipping the obvious Watch the Throne reference...kinda). Check out the video. Related: Pusha T, Joell Ortiz & Raekwon – Tick Tock (from The Man with the Iron Fists soundtrack) (Audio)... Read more
Slaughterhouse – Interview + Crooked I Freestyle (Video)
Here's a double dose of Slaughterhouse. First up is an interview of Royce Da 5'9" and Crooked I where they give props to Black Hippy and next is a 7-minute a capella lyrical assault from Crooked I. Check out the videos below. Related: Slaughterhouse - On the House (Mixtape)... Read more
Jon Connor – The Backroom Freestyle on 106 & Park (Video)
Jon Connor just tore down The Backroom with the verse he spit. He attacked the mic like he was fighting for his life. Be clear. Dude is FOR REAL. Check out the video. Related: Jon Connor – While You Were Sleeping (Mixtape)... Read more
Ryan Leslise does 5 Fingers of Death on the Sway in the Morning Show (Video)
Ryan Leslie doing Sway's 5 Fingers of Death? He just might surprise you. Check out the video. Related: Schoolboy Q & Ab-Soul – 5 Fingers of Death (Video)... Read more
Jon Connor – Showoff Radio Freestyle (Video)
Jon Connor is a lyrical monster. Here's a video of him doing a freestyle on Showoff Radio where he did just that: mashed the mic off the dome. Related: Jon Connor - Never Left (Video)... Read more
Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era Cypher (Video)
Here's a good old-fashioned cypher from Joey Bada$$ and his Pro Era crew. Make no mistake, Joey is not the only one with skills in the crew. The cypher kicks in at about the 2:20 mark. Check out the video. Related: Joey Bada$$ - 1999 (Mixtape)... Read more
Redman – Bridging the Gap
Here's a new verse that's a special delivery from Redman. Check out Bridging the Gap. Related: A playlist celebrating the career of Redman (Audio)... Read more
Common freestyles on the Sway in the Morning show (Part 2) (Video)
Common was really feeling the flow when he hit the Sway in the Morning show last week. Here is yet another dope true freestyle he kicked. Check out the video. Related: Common discusses working with Kanye West (Video)... Read more
Common freestyles on the Sway in the Morning Show (Video)
Uh oh. You thought Common's freestyle game in concert was crack? Check out what he did on the Sway in the Morning Show. Sway threw out words (not ish like "box" but things like "left ventricle") and Common rhymed them off the top never to be stopped. Super ill. Related:... Read more
Sir Michael Rocks – Toca Tuesday Freestyle (Video)
Sir Michael Rocks is the latest to drop some bars for Tony Touch on Toca Tuesday Freestyles. Check out the video. Related: Sir Michael Rocks - Now You Do (Video)... Read more
Asher Roth freestyles on NYC’s Hot 97 (Video)
Asher Roth seamlessly flips from a written to a true off the top freestyle on NYC's Hot 97. Check out the video. Related: Nardwaur vs Asher Roth (Video)... Read more
Common freestyles in Chicago over Otis (Video)
The mighty Common kicked a true off the top freestyle over the Otis beat (chopped up nicely) in his hometown Chicago. Check out the video below. Related: Common - Celebrate (Video)... Read more
Slaughterhouse are the latest to bless The Back Room on 106 & Park and they did what they do: wreck shop. Check out the verses all 4 members dropped in the video below (Video)
Related: Slaughterhouse spit some bars on the LA Leakers Show (Audio)... Read more
Joell Ortiz performs in Brooklyn (Video)
Joell Ortiz dropped a 3-minute a capella rhyme in Brooklyn. Check out the video below. Related: Joell Ortiz - Iron On You (Video)... Read more
A$AP Rocky – Cosmic Kev Show Freestyle (Video)
A$AP Rocky dropped verses during his latest visit to the Cosmic Kev Show and he had the guts to spit some bars off the top and have fun with it. Check out the video below. Related: A$AP Rocky - Ridin' featuring Lana Del Ray... Read more
Apollo the Great spits some verses on PhillyHeat TV (Video)
Need lyrics? Apollo the Great has got plenty. Check out the fire he breathes during this radio appearance. Related: The 50 Best Radio Freestyles of All-Time (Audio)... Read more
Ab-Soul – Beats TV Verse (Video)
Ab-Soul drops an a capella slow flow verse for Beats TV. Check it out below. Related: Ab-Soul headlines his first show in NYC (Video)... Read more
Childish Gambino – 5 Fingers of Death Freestyle (Video)
Childish Gambino's latest 5 Fingers of Death is one of the best so far. He went in on all 5 beats that were thrown at him (ranging from DJ Premier to Nirvana) and all were of the dome. Afterward, Sway gives him props for what he is doing for hip-hop.... Read more
Schoolboy Q – Sway in the Morning Freestyle and Hot 97 Interview (Video)
Schoolboy Q did the local radio circuit during his stop in NYC. Check out the verses he kicked (one written and one off the dome) on Sway in the Morning over Beanie Siegel's The Truth (TOUGH) and Biggie's Dead Wrong tracks as well as an interview with Peter Rosenberg below.... Read more
Kendrick Lamar – Tim Westwood Show Freestyle (Video)
Kendrick Lamar has verses for days. Here's a video of him dropping some flames on the Tim Westwood Show during his UK visit. Check it out below. Kendrick's album Good Kid Mad City drops on 10/2. Get ready. Related: Kendrick Lamar performs his first show in the UK (Video)... Read more
Schoolboy Q – The Back Room Freestyle (Video)
Schoolboy Q had his first ever appearance on 106 & Park today and dropped an ill verse in The Back Room. Check out the video below. Related: Schoolboy Q & Ab-Soul interview (Video)... Read more
Kendrick Lamar – Cosmic Kev Freestyle (Video)
Need lyrics? Kendrick Lamar's got you covered. Check out the flames he spit on the Cosmic Kev Show. You can watch the video below. Related: Kendrick Lamar & Ab-Soul rap on DJ Green Lantern's Invasion Radio Show (Video)... Read more
Wreckonize (from ¡Mayday!) – Five Fingers of Death on the Sway in the Morning show (Video)
Tech N9ne's Strange Music family visited the Sway in the Morning show yesterday. Wreckonize from ¡Mayday! had the honors of taking on 5 Fingers of Death where Sway has folks rhyme over 5 random beats and he SMASHED IT with a true freestyle off the dome. Check out the video... Read more
Supernatural freestyles on Hot 97 with Peter Rosenberg (Video)
Supernatural is one of the greatest freestylers to do it. Period. Dude kicks substantive lyrics using clever similes straight off the top of the dome. The word freestyle is now often associated with any written verse no one has heard before. Check this 8 minute video of Supernatural doing what... Read more
Redman – Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap Freestyle (Video)
Redman spits the latest a capella as a lead up to the premiere of Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, Ice-T's hip-hop documentary which hits theaters on Friday. Check out the video of Reggie Noble doing what he does best below. Related: Redman talks about the first time he... Read more
Lord Finesse – Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap freestyle (Video)
Here's another dope a capella verse from Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap. This one is courtesy of Lord Finesse. It's gettin' kinda hectic. Check out the video. Related: Nas - Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap freestyle (Video)... Read more
Kendrick Lamar and Ab-Soul Rap on DJ Green Lantern’s Invasion Radio Show (Video)
Kendrick Lamar and Ab-Soul crush the mic on DJ Green Lantern's radio show. They go in on the beat for Nas' Daughters no less. Check out the video of their verses and an interview of them where they discuss Slaughterhouse, West Coast MCs and more below. Related: Ab-Soul - Black... Read more
Childish Gambino in The Back Room on 106 & Park (Video)
Childish Gambino kinda smashed The Back Room on 106 & Park. Check out the video of him going in on the mic below. Related: Kendrick Lamar - The Back Room (Video)... Read more