How I loathe the "[descriptor] noun is [same descriptor]" construction. I wish someone would euthanize the shit out of it and staple it to the wall as an example to other commentariat cliches. Or at least let the Rangers guy piss on it.

I'll take your word for it but would also say, that were I an emcee, that would be my claim, too.

Yep. But one thing I love about Thought is that he never claims to be freestyling. Doing it on South Street as a kid, he knows how hard it is. Rather, he takes snippets of things he's working on and combines them in new ways over new beats. Dude can flow for hours.

Totally pre-written. You can watch one of the best ones ever (Mos, Thought and Em) and know that all 3 were pre-written. Mos' was from an earlier piece of his. Black's is a snippet he uses quite a bit when he's working the crowd and Em's well — you just have to google a lot of Em's "freestyles" to know that he's using…

Again, almost NO rappers actually freestyle on shows like this. They spit pre-written shit and pass it off as a freestyle.

Just about nobody freestyles on shows like this anymore. They simply recite some pre-written shit they haven't released yet. Lupe is one of the few who actually does freestyle on request.

Yes. Most radio-friendly rappers suck fat dingleberries.

Sounds good. Let's move on.

Makes me want to dig up that old review of one of his albums where the reviewer said we should just call blatant mimicry and derivative music, "Kravitzing."

So... should I do a GIF response here or... ?

*nods slowly*

Funny because this comment thread is pretty much what annoys the shit out of me about Deadspin. I'm surprised I haven't gotten to one of those fake conversation scripts yet... oh wait—- there's one above about the reporter who needs a scoop.

Gutty.

I know many people who continue to evolve personality traits into their golden years. So...um...yeah.

If his left foot is his pivot foot, I don't think that's a travel. So shut your snack hole, announcer man.

Yep. That's garbage. Should have been blown dead.

yes on #2

Hey Gronk:

I would snap his neck in front of a bunch of rabbits, skin him alive, grind him up and say, "this is where the fertilizer that grows your fucking weeds comes from, assholes..." Then someone would kill me and the cycle would go on and on and on like a beautiful ecological merry-go-round.

Yes, Lark Dord. Yes.