And thank God! Rap wasn't dead, but it's on life support. Thank you for bringing the essence of Hip Hop back. I mean, there are others (not mainstream), but I appreciate you guys. Hell...can I help you guys in any way to hype everything? Seriously, I'm a 44-year old Marine Corps veteran with a Mass Communication (broadcasting/journalism) degree, minor in PR. I'm an artist. You name it. Let me be a part of the rebirth!!!!
Peace, ya’ll! Thank you for the love!! Peace to my big homie Gift of Gab!! A true honor... Love ya, R! 2022 edit: Fly high, Gab!! It was an honor rocking with you on this joint big bro!! Always wanted to work with you, and I'm more than happy that it came true. I know you're up there tearing down stages in the sky with Sean P and DOOM, and many other late greats. Much love, Gab. - young FRO
Had the honor of filming and editing this video! Working with these legends of REAL hip hop was a great honor! Shout out to Gab, RA, and Afro for keeping it real. -Aithen (The Jokerr)
Gift of Gab will and always be my favorite musical artist ever. He came through my town on my birthday this passed year, but I was violently ill and couldn't go to the show. I was sad for a loooong time after that haha.
I've come back to this every week for the last 5 years. Sometimes thrice, bitches. That's how good it is. Their flow is insane, man. Hitting rhythms most drummers can't.
agentblank122 what is so complex & mind blowing about these lyrics? They talk about sex, money & drugs & talking shit in this very song just over boom beats & at a faster pace. Y'all can't accept that other people are just not into this & it's boring to them, get over it
agentblank122 bro I clearly don't care about this like you do but if you really think that read RAs lyrics he says some basic degenerate lyrics about all that & in a lot of other songs, again just at a faster pace. Even Afro mentions drinking & fucking girls amongst him just bragging about how good he is at rapping lol the point is it's all relatively the same across the board with mainstream & underground. But underground fans have this holier then thou complex
still, exists? lol you say that like it wasn't around or something... real hip-hop has always been around... only growing stronger day by day. you just gotta know where to look. which is honestly my favorite thing about it... keeps the fakes and fake followers away.. ironically it sorts itself out .damn underground hip-hop is just fkn.. awesome lol
@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis Its not accurate comparing modern trap to homosexual and transgender individuals. I dislike modern trap and mumble rap as well, but the two are nowhere near related. It honestly just comes off as you wanting to shoehorn your bigoted idealogies into something completely unrelated to them.
@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis I have seen his videos, and I see nothing about them that makes them homosexual. Like I said I really dislike trap but each and every person is allowed to like it. Hell, you are proving my point. Also, who are you to dictate who is a hiphop head or not? I have listened to hiphop my entire life, but a homophobic/transphobic jackoff in the RUclips comments of a music video is telling me I'm not? Okay.
Irwin Munoz He doesn't need info to state that you don't need to be a rapper to criticize, which is true; we all can judge the music. What are you gaining from asking what bars he has though lol, what bars do you have?
I have to admit this comment was hilarious to me. But I don't like the putting down other rappers or their style or whatever. To me people just like what they like. Not because they're stupid or anything. But, yeah. Thanks for the laugh
because the masses like dumbed watered down bullshit. they don't like thinking too hard they want music they can just hear not music you have to actually listen too. thats why people like RA are underground. It's the nature of the beast.
Those rappers who use all those props and still can't turn out good music (69 and Lil pump lookin at you), look at what these guys did with a drone, some sheets, cardboard, a sharpie, some google eyes, a cameraman, and a mic. This is quality music.
@@d0rkbug in an attempt to be civilized, what don't you like about this song? I quite enjoyed the flow, and I felt it flowed better than people like 6ix9ine or Migos.
@@AnomAnomMTG its just a bit boring (imo most fast rap is) theres not rly any punchline or anything in the lyrics its just like they all got a rhyming dictionary and made a song w it
@@d0rkbug fair enough, I will admit the lyrics are a bit lackluster, I do still like the flow of the song and the very simple design. In the space of fast rap, which, I agree with you, is not the best, I think they did better than some, keeping a cool theme throughout the video and having a better flow imo.
Fuck that it needs to be everywhere... I wanna turn on the news and hear that shit playin... I wanna turn on some looney toons and hear that shit playin... I wanna turn on my fuckin coffee pot and hear that shit playin... but ya it definitely needs to be on Spotify though
I'm pretty sure half of this video's 10 million views came from me. Just incomparable flow, lyricism, and pure style. Can't believe that you're gone, G. Rest in power, sir. You were truly one of the greats.. and your legacy to the game shall never be forgotten.
Here goes the lyrics : Ladies and gentlemen, yeah Alright, let's bring to the stage (gift of gab) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah [Verse 1: Gift of Gab] Enter my imminent energy element I am an entity walking ahead of the pack I really am out of my head and it's evident That I will never be able to ever quit Melanin fellow with helluva relevance What isn't elegant, metaphors ready to set it off Dead on your pettier levels I'm ready and able to murder and tear emcees All into pieces and murking embarrassees Honoring easily crumbs Chill it easily comes like breathing From deep in the seat of your lungs I creep to the beat of a drum That's unique to me As I keep it a hundred Leaping through regions and leading the dumb And feeble emcees sinking deep in the mud (the mud) While some of them keeping it thug Like there is a leak in their mug We better start reaching above We headed for economic Decay what you thinking of bro I'm creeping beneath [?] The surface will purpose I'm healing delinquents of What emceeing should be It's no interest of me if their mission is weak And they're keeping it dumb Keep sleeping, I'm tweaking the frequency of Emceeing and being a piece of the puzzle Rhythm we seeking the freedom and what It means to be free and be equal as one The nation is bobbing and weaving Afraid of the awful and evil Don't make it their power to lead you Away from the power proceeding creation See all of the leaders to take us up Out of the season I hang with the laws of receiving And giving and living If y'all are believing And evident knowledge is breathing And [?] and [?] and topple the greedy (it's indeed a great pleasure to present To you at this particular time-) (word is bond) X 4 [Verse 2: A-F-R-O] One two 'fro Thizzle Free flow unh yo The path of the righteous person Laughing and tired of hurtin' I'm asking erratic emphatic combatative idiot When is it past the millenium Pasture rising to surface Snatching your wifey's purses I'm a little brother like Rakim When I gotta rhyme on the stage for a good amount of time I'm grabbing the mic in an urgent Smashing the dime for certain Splashing the ice with bourbon Fro gon' spit so crazy Hoes wanna give Fro a baby Crashing me driving you're burning I rap, you rewind it The speakers ain't working I flap in the night at your jeep and you swervin' I'm black with the eyes of a serpent Back with a knife of purchase Immaculate rhymes and the heat is conversin' Attackin' the spine on your evil you worship Here with a vengeance of fear appears in the mirror Sentence you be the apprentice Fro on the track with Gab and R Combined with the beat that we murkin' Drama unraveled no commence Lama in the shadows no defense Calm in the battle, hoe's intense Honey dips and them silly broads they got to do me I throw dick for money clips and the melly cars Is not usually fo' shit The ether rider the frequent feeder Feeble freedom fighter with dope steez The heat defier the reason he beast Cause he admire the OGs (and now) (what?) (R.A. The Rugged Man) [Verse 3: R.A. The Rugged Man] Yo, Kubrick ride with us Rivals fighting five of us Bitches slide with us My dick is harder than elephant ivory tusks Baphomet bison bite the dust Slime and crust, life of lust Tyson biting, knife slicing guts Sniffing cyber dust Filling their mind with the hatred and jealousy Fro and the Rugged like Mayweather / Ellerbe Rakim and Eric B, check out my melody Duckin' a felony, nothing they tellin' me Never forget 'em, I send 'em to heaven I went independent position I been in again and again And I'm ruling the throne It will never be ending the message And lesson I'm sending is killing civilians in Yemen The bigger the spending the people pretending The freedom of speech is it hateful offending The weapon possession the second amendment It's me I'm back bitches Gift of Gab, Blackalicious You could watch that Harry Potter Radcliffe rap his shit Like when I gotta drop and it's hip hop And it don't stop with the whole block And the hoes hot Do the windmill, do the wop Do the robot, flow hot, never go pop No shot, soul sock Diggin' the dick in a nun, hun could blow cock At the church pope Benedict flopped The white flame Night Train name James Brown But the bitches be riding my dick like greyhound I ain't playin' with no gimmick When they faking every minute and I take it to the limit And they aching when I'm in it When I'm making an exhibit is it entertaining is it? Hey president race bigot Slow deadbeat James van Bebber reign forever Act like a dick I'll beat a pussy til he change gender Switchin' launchin' the rocket and leakin' their brain on the ceiling Revealing opinion is sinnin' the fish in the sea And the birds in the heavens We living and given dominion And in the beginning the women I've been in The devil is grinning The end of the inning, the evil And tricking the murder Religion the media Spinning this pain that I'm bringing I'm out.
If you know what these words mean... then it gets hard to listen to this. There is no meaning to these lyrics and there is no story just rhyming of complex words and beautiful flow which I will compliment them on.... still better than mainstream however
I gotta say, these dudes are all great by themselves and for what they have done with their music, but all together they are like a perfect trio. Gab as the ultimate legend and wicked flow, R.A. has the funny lines and the overall bravado vibe, and AFRO is the new kid on the block being taught by these two while having his own style and spectacular rhyme scheme. If you think about these guys are kinda alike and can match each other bar for bar but they all bring something a little different to the table. I would love to see them drop a full album together.
noah, the rejoice! album? i disagree, but to each his own, i guess. gog is my fave mc. on another note, carter 5 dropped last night and it's hotter than whatever else dropped these last couple months. just my opinion. go figure!
Kinda like solos in jazz, all of them have their appeal and one can pick and choose which one, but ultimately they all just different instruments and none of them could have had the effect they did in the time they did without the other, and that's what makes this such a fucking banger.
u dunno wad iz reel hip hop.i'm feelin like 17 years ago when i understand why i love hip hop music ;). this flow like the oldschools. so shut the fuck up. peace n have a nice day,blessing from Hungary.
Gift of Gab has just passed away on June 18. So lucky I've listened to his music before he died, thanks to Hip-Hop Universe. R.I.P. Timothy Parker 1971-2021
Gift of Gab: 10/10 Verse A-F-R-O: 10/10 Verse R.A. The Rugged Man: 10/10 Verse Literally one of the best Rap Collaborations ever. top 10 definitely. (Side Note: RA Rugged Man is the only Rapper who can rock a fedora and Not look like an idiot)
RIP Gift of Gab. One of the best to ever touch a microphone. And made all types of good music and great lyrics. He truly loved music, hip hop, and lyricism.
Damn.. whoever did the visuals on this is creative as hell. Didn't need fancy expensive props and bitches to make a dope music video. Some cardboard boxes, couple of sharpie, and some IMAGINATION is all u need. Dope shit.,👍
Been following RA for years now. I had to dig around back in the day when I first discovered his music to find Crustified Dibbs and it still stands up. The tunes fuckin' bounce. I wouldnt even want to hear it remastered or anything. Mad respect for the art. This track is hard AF. Big up.
Not often do I hear a track where every artist puts together a verse so well, everyone had something crazy to spit, and I absolutely love how goofy the video is, making rap fun again, my type of music
because these stupid fucks these days make mumble rap popular, the real spitters get slept on. He needs to do some collaborations with big names and get radio play to get big. Even if he gets on the radio people these days won't like it because it's too fast and not auto-tuned.
[Verse 1: Gift of Gab] Enter my imminent energy element, I am an entity walking Ahead of the pack. I really am out of my head and it's evident that I will never Be able to ever quit. Melanin fellow with helluva relevance, what isn't elegant Metaphors ready to set it off, dead on your pettier levels, I'm ready and able to Murder and tear emcees all into pieces and murking embarrassees, honoring easily Crumbs, chill, it easily comes like breathing from deep in the seat of your lungs I creep to the beat of a drum that's unique to me as I keep it a hundred Leaping through regions and leading the dumb and feeble emcees sinking deep in the mud (the mud) While some of them keeping it thug like there is a leak in their mug, we better start Reaching above, we headed for economic decay, what you thinking of bro? I'm creeping beneath it and dug the surface will purpose I'm healing delinquents of what Emceeing should be, it's no interest of me if their mission is weak and they're keeping it dumb Keep sleeping, I'm tweaking the frequency of emceeing and being a piece of the puzzle Rhythm we seeking the freedom and what it means to be free and be equal as one The nation is bobbing and weaving, afraid of the awful and evil. Don't make it their power to Lead you away from the power proceeding creation, see all of the leaders to take us Up out of the season. I hang with the laws of receiving and giving and living if y'all are Believing and evident knowledge is breathing, inhale and out and topple the greedy [Verse 2: A-F-R-O] The path of the righteous person, laughing and tired of hurtin'/ I'm askin' a frantic emphatic combatative idiot when is it past the millennium Ash arise in the surface/ Snatchin' your wifey's purses/ I'm a little brother like Rakim When I gotta rhyme on the stage for a good amount of time I'm grabbing the mic in an urgent/ Smashin' a dime for certain, splash in the ice with bourbon/, Fro gon' spit so crazy Hoes wanna give Fro a baby Crash when you drive and you burning/ I rap, you rewind it, the speakers ain't working,/ I'm clappin' a nine at your Jeep and you swervin'/ I'm black with the eyes of a serpent, back with a nine for purchase, Immaculate rhymes and the heat is conversin'/ Antagonist mind, I am evil you worship/ Here with a vengeance, your fear appears in a mere sentence, he the apprentice Fro on the track with Gab and R combined with the beat that we murkin'/ Drama unraveled, Fro commence/ Llama in the shadows, no defense, Calm in a battle, most intense/ Honey dips and them silly broads they got to do me, I throw dick/ But them money clips and them milly cars is not usually Fro shit/ The ether writer, the frequent feeder, feeble freedom fighter with dope steez/ The heat and fire, the reason he beast cause he admire the OGs/ [Verse 3: R.A. The Rugged Man] Yo, Kubrick ride with us, rivals fighting five of us Bitches slide with us, my dick is harder than elephant ivory tusk Baphomet bison bite the dust, slime and crust, life of lust Tyson biting, knife slicing guts sniffing cyber dust Filling their mind with the hatred and jealousy, Fro and the Rugged like Mayweather / Ellerbe Rakim and Eric B, check out my melody, duckin' a felony, nothing they tellin' me Never forget 'em, I send 'em to heaven, I went independent, position I been in Again and again and I'm ruling the throne, it'll never be ending the message and lesson I'm sending is killing civilians in Yemen. The bigger the spending the people pretending The freedom of speech, is it hateful, offending? The weapon possession, the second amendment It's me, I'm back bitches, Gift of Gab, Blackalicious You could watch that Harry Potter Radcliffe rap his shit Like when I gotta drop and it's hip-hop and it don't stop with the whole block and the hoes hot Do the windmill, do the wop, do the robot, flow hot, never go pop, no shot, soul sock Diggin' the dick in a nun, hun could blow cock at the church pope Benedict flopped The white flame Night Train name James Brown but the bitches be riding my dick like greyhound I ain't playin' with no gimmick when they faking every minute and I take it to the limit and they aching when I'm in it When I'm making an exhibit, is it entertaining, is it? Hate, president, race, bigot Slow deadbeat James van Bebber reign forever Act like a dick I'll beat a pussy till he change gender, switchin' Launchin' the rocket and leakin' their brain on the ceiling revealing opinion is sinnin' The fish in the sea and the birds in the heavens, we living and given dominion and in the Beginning the women I've been in, the devil is grinning, the end of the inning, the evil and Tricking the murder, religion, the media spinning this pain that I'm bringing, I'm out
Wish I was here 4 years ago but glad I am here now. I almost missed it. I had no idea gab was no longer with us. Thats because his good work has made him immortal.
" The ether rider, the frequent feeder, feeble freedom fighter with dope steeze The heat defier, the reason he beast, cause he admire the OG's " In awe. That verse by Fro was the epitome of the craft.
Rejoice! Rappers Are Rapping Again! out now! onerpm.lnk.to/Rejoice
hell yeah
The Gift of Gab So much fucking talent!!! Keep showin the world what real music is. An thank you
Yes!!!! DEATH TO MUMBLE RAPPERS. 🔥 🔥
And thank God!
Rap wasn't dead, but it's on life support.
Thank you for bringing the essence of Hip Hop back. I mean, there are others (not mainstream), but I appreciate you guys.
Hell...can I help you guys in any way to hype everything? Seriously, I'm a 44-year old Marine Corps veteran with a Mass Communication (broadcasting/journalism) degree, minor in PR.
I'm an artist. You name it.
Let me be a part of the rebirth!!!!
It is! itunes.apple.com/us/album/rejoice-rappers-are-rapping-again-ep/1385241056?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Peace, ya’ll! Thank you for the love!! Peace to my big homie Gift of Gab!! A true honor... Love ya, R!
2022 edit: Fly high, Gab!! It was an honor rocking with you on this joint big bro!! Always wanted to work with you, and I'm more than happy that it came true. I know you're up there tearing down stages in the sky with Sean P and DOOM, and many other late greats. Much love, Gab. - young FRO
Please drop new music
SAVE US FROM THIS EMINEM HYPE
A-F-R-O! Your verse was badass, man. Loved it
you're a beast my man keep it real
nice to hear a new song from you
Props man keep it up!
Had the honor of filming and editing this video! Working with these legends of REAL hip hop was a great honor! Shout out to Gab, RA, and Afro for keeping it real. -Aithen (The Jokerr)
Real nice! Enjoyed the video as much as the music played!
www.1200.nu/2017/09/gift-of-gab-feat-r-a-the-rugged-man-a-f-r-o-freedom-form-flowing/
good work I like the on beat cuts/edits shit bangs
So who had the idea of paper crowns? I like it.
Me. I built all the props. It was mad last min and we only had one day to shoot, but considering I think it came out dope!
Fucking great job dude , the video is sick
RIP GIFT OF GAB. ONE OF THE BEST TO EVER DO IT. THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC.
Easily a Top Ten emcee, massively underrated.
What he died???
Yeah, he was only 50
@@prima808 What ?
@@prima808 Fuck man...😞
Man, RIP Gift of Gab this shit hurts.
Gone way too soon, he was still killin it in sickness.
Wait he's dead?!!
@@creole9596 yes…. It’s terrible
@@creole9596 yeah dude. Gift of Gab is dead
Bro, that just made me sad
N***** stop lying
This is like some meetup of underrated rappers.
i feel like people found this after Mac lethal called Tom Macdonald's girl out for sucking off R.A.
@@veljkov4222 definition of a rap flow is my fav song from him
I have been following these dudes for years! I guess mainstream just can’t handle the skills.
I would say that plus moleman's put ya quarter up ft Aesop rock MF DOOM and slug
nah only 2 underrated. everyone who loves hip hop knows ra tbh
This is what modern rap is supposed to sound like!
Check it out on other platforms as well: ONErpm.lnk.to/FreedomFormFlowing
Swag Waschbär you on some shit
Not at all, this is how good rap is supposed to sound like.
this song is so damn underrated :(
Hell yah
the best use of cardboard I`ve ever seen
Better than Labo my boi
Papo Castro yup
*shows you how to make a silencer from a Downy sheet and a paper towel roll*
Yeah this is really creative this deserves eminem level views
I only had 2 days to prepare for this video... lol I think it came out pretty dope considering!
R.I.P Gift Of Gab, he really was a gift to rap.
Yeah hearing this song knowing he's gone bums me out soon bad. Fuckin dope track though
❤
Big Shouts to Gift of Gab - one of the greatest to ever do it. Much Respect to R.A. & A-F-R-O for burning it down too
I don't think I heard him breathe at all
R.A and Apollo Brown Collab?
more pointless materialism lol terrible garbage rappers now a days. thank god morons keep supporting them
Gift of Gab will and always be my favorite musical artist ever. He came through my town on my birthday this passed year, but I was violently ill and couldn't go to the show. I was sad for a loooong time after that haha.
StillGotShit4Brains Bro. That would be sick. Apollo is such an underrated producer
“Girls tend to stutter when they talk to someone they like”
Girls talking to me:
Ahahahahahahahaha
lmao gold comment
nice
I am in this post and I don't like it.
@@Shadare 😕
Afro : Is 20, looks 12, sounds 40
Dude so true I'm dead 😂
no, is 20, looks 20, sounds 20
He looks 16 to me
He looks 16 is 20 sounds 38
Which = 72
EXPOSED
These three men are hip hip. They know the rythem. RIP GIFT OF GAB
FACTS
RIP Gift of Gab. Gone too soon!
Damn, just now saw this, that's heartbreaking. SO much fucking talent. 50 is a pretty good run at the very least.
GoG and MF DOOM. Waaaaay too fucking soon man.
These 3 have more talent between them than 90% of modern rappers. Unreal.
the 10% are Joyner NF KAAN Logic futuristic
@@wawawiwa___ Future better than afro i mean he is good but afro straight underated
@@wawawiwa___ gifted gab too.
@@wawawiwa___ future is trash
@@goldsage1845 sorry ment to type futuristic my bad
Most underated collaboration of 2017
Julian Munoz FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXX
Rest in paradise Gab
When you walk into a strangers house and immediately felt welcomed. This is that feeling.
Anthony Harvey idk how you culminated the emotion and feelings of this song lol
That is weirdly accurate
AFRO is only 20. He is only 20 years of age people and already rhyming with legends. This kid has a very good career in his future.
He's not 20
He is.
20 isn't considered a kid
If you consider the age of the people he's rapping with and his recent entry to professional rapping industry yes he is a kid!
Yea hes a very close friend of mine i knew b4 he blew up, gas been rapping since he was 14 and signed @ 17
R.A and A-F-R-O's flow is insane
R.A's flow is more insane
Wat about Gift?
@@hotdogice1277 Him too
@@jeffreygardner8783 Did u come here just because of the Talented VS. Untalented rappers?
@@hotdogice1277 Is an elephant fireproof?
I've come back to this every week for the last 5 years. Sometimes thrice, bitches. That's how good it is. Their flow is insane, man. Hitting rhythms most drummers can't.
Mumble rap fans thinks real rap songs have boring instrumentals. I mean instrumentals like this are freaking fuego. And so are the lyrics.
agentblank122 what is so complex & mind blowing about these lyrics? They talk about sex, money & drugs & talking shit in this very song just over boom beats & at a faster pace. Y'all can't accept that other people are just not into this & it's boring to them, get over it
agentblank122 bro I clearly don't care about this like you do but if you really think that read RAs lyrics he says some basic degenerate lyrics about all that & in a lot of other songs, again just at a faster pace. Even Afro mentions drinking & fucking girls amongst him just bragging about how good he is at rapping lol the point is it's all relatively the same across the board with mainstream & underground. But underground fans have this holier then thou complex
Nice to see real hiphop/rap still exists...
Bushdoctorbeats yeah it still does but theres 2 kinds now true rap and crap that idiots who have access to auto tune and no brains call music
still, exists? lol you say that like it wasn't around or something... real hip-hop has always been around... only growing stronger day by day. you just gotta know where to look. which is honestly my favorite thing about it... keeps the fakes and fake followers away.. ironically it sorts itself out .damn underground hip-hop is just fkn.. awesome lol
listen to aesop rock - spirit world field guild... best damn album to date... imo
This is the gold standard of hip hop.
Gold isn't high enough. Diamond status
hi buckingham
@@justsomeguywholikesmangoes1363 hi
RIP Gab
❤
I just love that there is a random dude dancing on the top of the hill
That's glorious
Shooting electricity out of his fingers
Honestly I've seen weirder things like that but it doesn't happen often
This song is not so popular because these guys didn't sell their souls. Good
👌
4 million views without a label is very impressive
@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis kinda homophobic bruh
@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis Its not accurate comparing modern trap to homosexual and transgender individuals.
I dislike modern trap and mumble rap as well, but the two are nowhere near related. It honestly just comes off as you wanting to shoehorn your bigoted idealogies into something completely unrelated to them.
@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis I have seen his videos, and I see nothing about them that makes them homosexual. Like I said I really dislike trap but each and every person is allowed to like it.
Hell, you are proving my point. Also, who are you to dictate who is a hiphop head or not? I have listened to hiphop my entire life, but a homophobic/transphobic jackoff in the RUclips comments of a music video is telling me I'm not? Okay.
It frustrates me how everyone is sleeping on this piece of art.
Amen
People to focused on snitch9
@@spencer6331 yo I love sixnine and his music, but I don’t sleep on this
10 Million views is considered everyone still sleeping? Damn ok
@@dpMosaic Snowman by Sai got 130 million in like one month... and it wasn't even the version with my vocals on it yet!
rest in power
Proof there is a beam of hope in modern day rap
Who are you kidding logic is corny and a sellout while lucid dreams was a terrible song
@Ajahn Coleman 18....he's 18 I think
hell yes my brother! check out K-Rino and Beast 1333 as well!
A-F-R-O the future of rap, they passed you the torch now go and make them proud.
Flávio for sure !! Can't wait to hear what A-F-R-O has in store !
The future? 😂😂😂
what bars you got?
NoNameforNow Come back from that, I dare you
Irwin Munoz He doesn't need info to state that you don't need to be a rapper to criticize, which is true; we all can judge the music. What are you gaining from asking what bars he has though lol, what bars do you have?
A-F-R-O is a great up and coming rapper, can’t wait to see him rise.
Zontacx mehh
up and coming hahaha he already peaked.
Kount Darko sadly in times of mumble rappers he probably going to stay underground.
I want to afro changes lil pump
Another brother lost to the studio in the sky. RIP Gift of Gab
This is another lyrical classic collaboration. I love it when rappers actually rap.
Their lungs are... Bigger than the universe
They take a deep breath and the whole city passes out due to lack of air.
Quinn Meche FAX
No. They are like te universe, they continue expanding infinitely
Circular breathing my guy
These guys are nothing compared to K.A.A.N. Type in Kaancepts and he I’m convinced he doesn’t breathe
I clicked on a weird rapper playlist. This isn't wierd, this is talent
Devilslayer Doom just the video is considered wired1 i guess
it's considered weird, because of today's rap
Because having actual Talent is weird. Anybody can mumble like lil Punk with a dick in the mouth.
Actual talented rappers are foreign and "weird" for some of today's rap audience.
I have to admit this comment was hilarious to me. But I don't like the putting down other rappers or their style or whatever. To me people just like what they like. Not because they're stupid or anything. But, yeah. Thanks for the laugh
Rest in Piece Gift of Gab. One of the greatest to hold a mic. We miss you brotha!
A-F-R-O was the kid that was barely noticed, then became everyone’s best friend
actually, A-F-R-O was a bully when he was younger, so his mom made him read the dictionary, which explains his vocabulary.
@@AnomAnomMTG Im not a bully but Imma start reading a dictionary since I wanna be a rapper
@@jadenwilliams781 that's an awesome way to go about it. Good luck on your endeavor to become a rapper!
@@AnomAnomMTG Big Punisher, Canibus and Keith Murray are also dope lyricists who studied the dictionary
@@deezy81 thanks, Ill have to check them out
That guy dancing is legendary
What have I stumbled into?? THIS IS AMAZING!! 😮
JPL Toy Experience real hiphop
Oh man, I replayed this tons of times!
Welcome to the underground
Haha, same reaction here. Damn, this is good.
Did the same dude. Found this randomly and its just going on repeat.
Insert some stupid joke about fire.
Timeless classic, Hip Hop is not dead is eternal...Rest In Power G
Why can’t these guys blow up instead of people like Tekashi69.
They didn't sell their souls for fame
the fuck you mean Rugged man is a rap veteran who did shit with biggie
because the masses like dumbed watered down bullshit. they don't like thinking too hard they want music they can just hear not music you have to actually listen too. thats why people like RA are underground. It's the nature of the beast.
BC takashi is a pretty young lady
You can listen to the music regardless. It doesn't matter.
Those rappers who use all those props and still can't turn out good music (69 and Lil pump lookin at you), look at what these guys did with a drone, some sheets, cardboard, a sharpie, some google eyes, a cameraman, and a mic. This is quality music.
👏
but this isnt good lol
@@d0rkbug in an attempt to be civilized, what don't you like about this song? I quite enjoyed the flow, and I felt it flowed better than people like 6ix9ine or Migos.
@@AnomAnomMTG its just a bit boring (imo most fast rap is) theres not rly any punchline or anything in the lyrics its just like they all got a rhyming dictionary and made a song w it
@@d0rkbug fair enough, I will admit the lyrics are a bit lackluster, I do still like the flow of the song and the very simple design. In the space of fast rap, which, I agree with you, is not the best, I think they did better than some, keeping a cool theme throughout the video and having a better flow imo.
This needs to be in Spotify asap this is AMAZING!
Fuck that it needs to be everywhere... I wanna turn on the news and hear that shit playin... I wanna turn on some looney toons and hear that shit playin... I wanna turn on my fuckin coffee pot and hear that shit playin... but ya it definitely needs to be on Spotify though
I'm pretty sure half of this video's 10 million views came from me. Just incomparable flow, lyricism, and pure style. Can't believe that you're gone, G. Rest in power, sir. You were truly one of the greats.. and your legacy to the game shall never be forgotten.
I'm feel grateful for still hear this classic Hip Hop vibe in this era. Thanks a lot.
It was like a De La Soul feel with a new twist to it. The shit!! Love the masks too. Lol
All three of them murdered this song! Best collaboration.
Check it out on other platforms as well: ONErpm.lnk.to/FreedomFormFlowing
Here goes the lyrics :
Ladies and gentlemen, yeah
Alright, let's bring to the stage
(gift of gab)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 1: Gift of Gab]
Enter my imminent energy element
I am an entity walking ahead of the pack
I really am out of my head and it's evident
That I will never be able to ever quit
Melanin fellow with helluva relevance
What isn't elegant, metaphors ready to set it off
Dead on your pettier levels
I'm ready and able to murder and tear emcees
All into pieces and murking embarrassees
Honoring easily crumbs
Chill it easily comes like breathing
From deep in the seat of your lungs
I creep to the beat of a drum
That's unique to me
As I keep it a hundred
Leaping through regions and leading the dumb
And feeble emcees sinking deep in the mud (the mud)
While some of them keeping it thug
Like there is a leak in their mug
We better start reaching above
We headed for economic
Decay what you thinking of bro
I'm creeping beneath [?]
The surface will purpose I'm healing delinquents of
What emceeing should be
It's no interest of me if their mission is weak
And they're keeping it dumb
Keep sleeping, I'm tweaking the frequency of
Emceeing and being a piece of the puzzle
Rhythm we seeking the freedom and what
It means to be free and be equal as one
The nation is bobbing and weaving
Afraid of the awful and evil
Don't make it their power to lead you
Away from the power proceeding creation
See all of the leaders to take us up
Out of the season
I hang with the laws of receiving
And giving and living
If y'all are believing
And evident knowledge is breathing
And [?] and [?] and topple the greedy
(it's indeed a great pleasure to present
To you at this particular time-)
(word is bond) X 4
[Verse 2: A-F-R-O]
One two 'fro Thizzle
Free flow unh yo
The path of the righteous person
Laughing and tired of hurtin'
I'm asking erratic emphatic combatative idiot
When is it past the millenium
Pasture rising to surface
Snatching your wifey's purses
I'm a little brother like Rakim
When I gotta rhyme on the stage for a good amount of time
I'm grabbing the mic in an urgent
Smashing the dime for certain
Splashing the ice with bourbon
Fro gon' spit so crazy
Hoes wanna give Fro a baby
Crashing me driving you're burning
I rap, you rewind it
The speakers ain't working
I flap in the night at your jeep and you swervin'
I'm black with the eyes of a serpent
Back with a knife of purchase
Immaculate rhymes and the heat is conversin'
Attackin' the spine on your evil you worship
Here with a vengeance of fear appears in the mirror
Sentence you be the apprentice
Fro on the track with Gab and R
Combined with the beat that we murkin'
Drama unraveled no commence
Lama in the shadows no defense
Calm in the battle, hoe's intense
Honey dips and them silly broads they got to do me
I throw dick for money clips and the melly cars
Is not usually fo' shit
The ether rider the frequent feeder
Feeble freedom fighter with dope steez
The heat defier the reason he beast
Cause he admire the OGs
(and now) (what?)
(R.A. The Rugged Man)
[Verse 3: R.A. The Rugged Man]
Yo, Kubrick ride with us
Rivals fighting five of us
Bitches slide with us
My dick is harder than elephant ivory tusks
Baphomet bison bite the dust
Slime and crust, life of lust
Tyson biting, knife slicing guts
Sniffing cyber dust
Filling their mind with the hatred and jealousy
Fro and the Rugged like Mayweather / Ellerbe
Rakim and Eric B, check out my melody
Duckin' a felony, nothing they tellin' me
Never forget 'em, I send 'em to heaven
I went independent position
I been in again and again
And I'm ruling the throne
It will never be ending the message
And lesson I'm sending is killing civilians in Yemen
The bigger the spending the people pretending
The freedom of speech is it hateful offending
The weapon possession the second amendment
It's me
I'm back bitches
Gift of Gab, Blackalicious
You could watch that Harry Potter Radcliffe rap his shit
Like when I gotta drop and it's hip hop
And it don't stop with the whole block
And the hoes hot
Do the windmill, do the wop
Do the robot, flow hot, never go pop
No shot, soul sock
Diggin' the dick in a nun, hun could blow cock
At the church pope Benedict flopped
The white flame Night Train name James Brown
But the bitches be riding my dick like greyhound
I ain't playin' with no gimmick
When they faking every minute and I take it to the limit
And they aching when I'm in it
When I'm making an exhibit is it entertaining is it?
Hey president race bigot
Slow deadbeat James van Bebber reign forever
Act like a dick I'll beat a pussy til he change gender
Switchin' launchin' the rocket and leakin' their brain on the ceiling
Revealing opinion is sinnin' the fish in the sea
And the birds in the heavens
We living and given dominion
And in the beginning the women I've been in
The devil is grinning
The end of the inning, the evil
And tricking the murder
Religion the media
Spinning this pain that I'm bringing
I'm out.
If you know what these words mean... then it gets hard to listen to this. There is no meaning to these lyrics and there is no story just rhyming of complex words and beautiful flow which I will compliment them on.... still better than mainstream however
MrLuckyMuffin its brag rap showing off how good they are
They didn't name the song "Freedom Form Flowing" for nothing.
There is plenty of meaning in these lyrics ya dunce
thank you so much bro
Returned to the essence, rest in peace Gab, your voice lifted so many. A giant who deserved his flowers.
Listen I'm tired of you talking about like I'm dead weird adderal dead I'm sick of that s*** so I can get out of your goddamn sycophant nature
I gotta say, these dudes are all great by themselves and for what they have done with their music, but all together they are like a perfect trio. Gab as the ultimate legend and wicked flow, R.A. has the funny lines and the overall bravado vibe, and AFRO is the new kid on the block being taught by these two while having his own style and spectacular rhyme scheme. If you think about these guys are kinda alike and can match each other bar for bar but they all bring something a little different to the table. I would love to see them drop a full album together.
amen to this
Tru
A full album with these guys would be great
i agree my friend 👌
A
11/10 GREATNESS!
Why isn't this on Spotify already?
Soon!
not sure when it got on there, but i peeped the ep on spotify today
It’s not that good buddy but I still love the song
noah, the rejoice! album?
i disagree, but to each his own, i guess.
gog is my fave mc.
on another note, carter 5 dropped last night and it's hotter than whatever else dropped these last couple months.
just my opinion. go figure!
TheGr8 Tortuga c
All 3 are dope
And neither smashed the other
They just killed it together :)
Gotta love the optimism... But R.A. = winner 🏆
I personally think A F R O is best
Blackalicious is the classic one though, he's been around for decades.
Kinda like solos in jazz, all of them have their appeal and one can pick and choose which one, but ultimately they all just different instruments and none of them could have had the effect they did in the time they did without the other, and that's what makes this such a fucking banger.
Agreed
This is still my favorite hip hop song. Rip Gab, you definitely had a gift; we're grateful you shared your vision with us
This is what Hip hop should be about NOT like those new clowns ruining the genre
Yea
richard Lai new schoolers need to get educated
There are exactly 11 people who have no taste (see thumbs downs). It's crazy - I feel like there are people who just go around hating everything
u dunno wad iz reel hip hop.i'm feelin like 17 years ago when i understand why i love hip hop music ;). this flow like the oldschools. so shut the fuck up. peace n have a nice day,blessing from Hungary.
Money will always steer the listeners better judgment. It's those who aren't fooled and can't brain washed by the bullshit who keep hip hop alive
How could anyone not like all three of the verses they killed it
These MCs dont need flashy music videos to speak for them because the bars do it all.
Gift of Gab has just passed away on June 18. So lucky I've listened to his music before he died, thanks to Hip-Hop Universe. R.I.P. Timothy Parker 1971-2021
Gift of Gab: 10/10 Verse
A-F-R-O: 10/10 Verse
R.A. The Rugged Man: 10/10 Verse
Literally one of the best Rap Collaborations ever. top 10 definitely.
(Side Note: RA Rugged Man is the only Rapper who can rock a fedora and Not look like an idiot)
The Writer
Biggie Rocked his fedora first
RIP Gift of Gab. One of the best to ever touch a microphone. And made all types of good music and great lyrics. He truly loved music, hip hop, and lyricism.
Damn.. whoever did the visuals on this is creative as hell. Didn't need fancy expensive props and bitches to make a dope music video. Some cardboard boxes, couple of sharpie, and some IMAGINATION is all u need. Dope shit.,👍
And your grandmas blankets
WORD
Jokerr, all around fantastic artist. He puts out fantastic music as well.
This is probably one of the best music video I have seen.
Just keep it real right
This is far better than most music put out in the last 10 years.
This Song Got No Views For Like A Year, And Now Suddenly Everyone Started Listening, I LOVE IT
I got on this cause I've been a QUANTUM PROJECTS fan for like 20 years. RA on Rawkus Records.
ikr
@@funkworthrollin4959 ITS ALWAYS 20 YEARS!!!
What happens to all amazing underground!
Need more views I was here at 10k... DESERVES MORE THAN WHAT IT HAS!
RIP Gab 🫡
I played this song for my dog and now he’s a wolf 🔥
Bobby Knuckles damnnnnnnnnnnn lmfao
I played this song for my goldfish....now he is a shark
I played this song for Kevin Hart, now he's LeBron James.
wolfmatic Kevin Hart is awesome already
@@SagetheMC I actually prefer him to LeBron James. For a moment I thought I was being funny... Should've gone with Cosb... Nevermind.
RIP Sir Gift of Gab. Thanks for the nice rhymes. You were one of a kind and your music will live on.
Been following RA for years now. I had to dig around back in the day when I first discovered his music to find Crustified Dibbs and it still stands up. The tunes fuckin' bounce. I wouldnt even want to hear it remastered or anything. Mad respect for the art. This track is hard AF. Big up.
Marcus Mandible Soundbombing Vol. 1 & 2 made me a fan...
Marcus Mandible crustified dibbs one of my fave albums ever so raww
He was homies with Biggie from way back. He is also a Republican... Interesting dude, that's for sure.
Jesse Sobella BUMRUSH BROS.?..
Everyones going crazy about RA's verse but honestly I feel like Gift of Gab killed this one.
Come on! They all killed!
"Act like a dick, I'll beat a pussy till he change genders".....THAT WAS A COLD COLD COLD, LINE...
Obviously they all ripped but I honestly believe Afro took it on this track
Netjester Nah, RA got it by a good stretch
This was a triple homicide... no need to rank one over the other...
the flow scientists. RA is not human
you know RA ain't from this plane of reality. suffolk county my foot! dude destroys every track he cameos on let alone his own work.
he is too good also
RIP Gift of Gab. June 25, 2021
Absolutely devastated by this.
The verses of A-F-R-O and RA sends chillllssss down my spine
Rip gift of gab. You really brought a lot to the scene and the culture. You'll be missed.
Rip brother iam at a total loss of words right now came here right away thanks for everything you did for hip hop !!!!!
R.I.P. Gift of Gab .Thank you for putting out some great songs like this.
Not often do I hear a track where every artist puts together a verse so well, everyone had something crazy to spit, and I absolutely love how goofy the video is, making rap fun again, my type of music
Matt Marchant Exactly
Matt Marchant yeah
Haha, you're tired of that trap-pop shit? I'm shocked.
Horseshoe gang go harder bruhhh
The legend says that A-F-R-O has infinite breathing capacity.
We just witnessed it
som1's pumpin 'em lungs tho
I dont see afro getting famous mainstream but become famous as an underground rapper like MF doom
because these stupid fucks these days make mumble rap popular, the real spitters get slept on. He needs to do some collaborations with big names and get radio play to get big. Even if he gets on the radio people these days won't like it because it's too fast and not auto-tuned.
He's already won by having R.A.'s approval. I'd rather have that then a billion buttfucking "likes"!!!!
MF doom isn't underground
Jefferson Joseph what do you mean? He was on the jimmy fallons show a year ago and he is only 20 years old. He could still grow
Munchito696 you're a closed minded person
4years later and this still holds good like diamonds. Props to these amazing artists and Jokerr for the camerawork and production.
Forgot the tea kettle was on listening to these cats. ALmost burnt my damn house down. Flames.
Rappers are rapping again, thank the lord !
RIP I had to come back to this song
there needs to be more hip hop like this tbh in 2024
>All the "lil" rappers have left the game
exception lil dicky pls (listen to ruswell westbrook on a farm and make belief or sway in the morning freestyle)
Sunny · Waifu "lil" rappers ain't shit
Except Lil Peep
@The Venom
YES! Of course excluding Lil Peep
@@pikobain4623 yeah he left the game a while ago
"The ether rider, the frequent feeder, feeble freedom fighter" is a surprisingly hard thing to say just by itself
RIP Gift of Gab. His flow was UNCANNY!
3 years later this shit still bangs. Can't believe I never knew what gift of gab meant till today.
RA's verse literally made me stop what I was doing and stare at the video with my jaw dropped
Love this REAL Hip Hop music! The trio knocked this out of the park! Classic right here! R.A. is a beast..keep it going guys!
RIP Gift of Gab. An absolute legend. Eternally grateful for the music he blessed us with before his time came.
I only heard RA breath 3 times during that verse. Possibly the most impressive breath control in rap.
Kaancepts
The REAL holy trinity.
The guy that's dancing and catching lightning bolts makes the video so much better. lol
Holy Trinity is a lil barnacle song
[Verse 1: Gift of Gab]
Enter my imminent energy element, I am an entity walking
Ahead of the pack. I really am out of my head and it's evident that I will never
Be able to ever quit. Melanin fellow with helluva relevance, what isn't elegant
Metaphors ready to set it off, dead on your pettier levels, I'm ready and able to
Murder and tear emcees all into pieces and murking embarrassees, honoring easily
Crumbs, chill, it easily comes like breathing from deep in the seat of your lungs
I creep to the beat of a drum that's unique to me as I keep it a hundred
Leaping through regions and leading the dumb and feeble emcees sinking deep in the mud (the mud)
While some of them keeping it thug like there is a leak in their mug, we better start
Reaching above, we headed for economic decay, what you thinking of bro?
I'm creeping beneath it and dug the surface will purpose I'm healing delinquents of what
Emceeing should be, it's no interest of me if their mission is weak and they're keeping it dumb
Keep sleeping, I'm tweaking the frequency of emceeing and being a piece of the puzzle
Rhythm we seeking the freedom and what it means to be free and be equal as one
The nation is bobbing and weaving, afraid of the awful and evil. Don't make it their power to
Lead you away from the power proceeding creation, see all of the leaders to take us
Up out of the season. I hang with the laws of receiving and giving and living if y'all are
Believing and evident knowledge is breathing, inhale and out and topple the greedy
[Verse 2: A-F-R-O]
The path of the righteous person, laughing and tired of hurtin'/
I'm askin' a frantic emphatic combatative idiot when is it past the millennium
Ash arise in the surface/
Snatchin' your wifey's purses/
I'm a little brother like Rakim
When I gotta rhyme on the stage for a good amount of time
I'm grabbing the mic in an urgent/
Smashin' a dime for certain, splash in the ice with bourbon/,
Fro gon' spit so crazy
Hoes wanna give Fro a baby
Crash when you drive and you burning/
I rap, you rewind it, the speakers ain't working,/
I'm clappin' a nine at your Jeep and you swervin'/
I'm black with the eyes of a serpent, back with a nine for purchase, Immaculate rhymes and the heat is conversin'/
Antagonist mind, I am evil you worship/
Here with a vengeance, your fear appears in a mere sentence, he the apprentice
Fro on the track with Gab and R combined with the beat that we murkin'/
Drama unraveled, Fro commence/
Llama in the shadows, no defense,
Calm in a battle, most intense/
Honey dips and them silly broads they got to do me, I throw dick/
But them money clips and them milly cars is not usually Fro shit/
The ether writer, the frequent feeder, feeble freedom fighter with dope steez/
The heat and fire, the reason he beast cause he admire the OGs/
[Verse 3: R.A. The Rugged Man]
Yo, Kubrick ride with us, rivals fighting five of us
Bitches slide with us, my dick is harder than elephant ivory tusk
Baphomet bison bite the dust, slime and crust, life of lust
Tyson biting, knife slicing guts sniffing cyber dust
Filling their mind with the hatred and jealousy, Fro and the Rugged like Mayweather / Ellerbe
Rakim and Eric B, check out my melody, duckin' a felony, nothing they tellin' me
Never forget 'em, I send 'em to heaven, I went independent, position I been in
Again and again and I'm ruling the throne, it'll never be ending the message and lesson
I'm sending is killing civilians in Yemen. The bigger the spending the people pretending
The freedom of speech, is it hateful, offending? The weapon possession, the second amendment
It's me, I'm back bitches, Gift of Gab, Blackalicious
You could watch that Harry Potter Radcliffe rap his shit
Like when I gotta drop and it's hip-hop and it don't stop with the whole block and the hoes hot
Do the windmill, do the wop, do the robot, flow hot, never go pop, no shot, soul sock
Diggin' the dick in a nun, hun could blow cock at the church pope Benedict flopped
The white flame Night Train name James Brown but the bitches be riding my dick like greyhound
I ain't playin' with no gimmick when they faking every minute and I take it to the limit and they aching when I'm in it
When I'm making an exhibit, is it entertaining, is it? Hate, president, race, bigot
Slow deadbeat James van Bebber reign forever
Act like a dick I'll beat a pussy till he change gender, switchin'
Launchin' the rocket and leakin' their brain on the ceiling revealing opinion is sinnin'
The fish in the sea and the birds in the heavens, we living and given dominion and in the
Beginning the women I've been in, the devil is grinning, the end of the inning, the evil and
Tricking the murder, religion, the media spinning this pain that I'm bringing, I'm out
NICELY DONE
Jeffrey Gardner thank you! If that reply is to my comment hahah
@@Spited Oh I was talking about the lyrics
@@jeffreygardner8783 :DD aight
@@Spited DD? What's that?
Rest In Peace. Kept flows real during some dark, superficial times in HipHop.
Gift of Gab, A-f-r-o, and R.A:
Meanwhile a screaming skittle gets more fame than this masterpiece
hahahahahaha
Im dead💀💀😂
@SQuinGedSUB 6ix9ine
This literally depressed me
Yeah but more fame doesn't mean move love. We got passion for this hip hop thing. Memes come and go but legends never die.
RIP Gift Of Gab. You will be missed.
Gotta leave my respect here, R.I.P gift of gab
Another legend gone too soon
Wish I was here 4 years ago but glad I am here now. I almost missed it. I had no idea gab was no longer with us. Thats because his good work has made him immortal.
How Has This Song Somehow Jumped Back Into Attention, I LOVE IT
AltF4 it’s just that good it can’t die
@@Dudesunperfect true
No, a video from Rapuniverse
Because it deserves it
" The ether rider, the frequent feeder, feeble freedom fighter with dope steeze
The heat defier, the reason he beast, cause he admire the OG's "
In awe. That verse by Fro was the epitome of the craft.
That's an MF DOOM level rhyme scheme.
GIFT OF GAB.......
Rest
Peacefully,
King 👑
Rest in peace to Gift of Gab... Another legend gone. I'll be bumping his music for the rest of my life