Been listening to rap for 30 years. This is one the best freestyle sessions ever, best live radio recording, etc. An absolute gem of the 90s era. We are blessed.
Big L fuckin MUTILATED this shit. These some of the coldest bars ever dished out by any hip hop artist that ever did it, straight up. AND he had Jigga SHOOK to follow up behind him. I know Jay story and allat but the fact that L smoked the beat the way he did…Jay knew he couldn’t top it. He did his thing..L was galaxy’s ahead of not only Jay..The rest of the game at that time for real. Long live the Legendary Big L💯🙏🏾
Thank you L for being this fearless savage, you inspire me to write everyday and your life ended a year before i was born, you left a mark that keeps burning decades after you left, the way you say stuff without filter and fear like on danger zone or devils son, that savagery fuels my confidence to the roof, thank you L!
Fav freestyle ever. Big L really was the best. He had Hov looking like a nobody on here and Jay is the goat to me. That says a lot. 💯 S/O to whoever dropped this video too. It’s much clearer than any other version I’ve found online. 🙌🏾
You can't tell me that this and modern mainstream music are in the same genre That new shit needs it's own name because whatever the hell it is, it ain't hip-hop
This is Hip-Hop, rap, music, MC’ing, rhyming, all of this. What’s in mainstream is just a foul copy that will never reach the heights this reached as of now if it keeps up.
you can see how in the beginning Bobbito didn't really know how Jay-Z can flow, not many people did at that time , but you see the admiration grow as Jay keeps flowing , He definitely got Bobbito's respect after this freestyle - as most other people did too. 🔥🔥
It's mad to think that as a 10 year old kid in the UK, I was introduced to hip-hop with Onyx first album. Two years later, this was gettting dropped and because of no access to ANYTHING, we only heard it decades later.... So much other real shit we missed that's out there.
When I was a kid, this was what got me into 90s rap. Actually life changing, I remember just looking into so much rap and listening to this constantly. Thank you Big L, youre still my favorite with mf doom
Big L Absolutely murdered it and deserves all praise, but Jay spit some serious lines in here that were deep as hell and he never had a style similar to those lines ever again, this jay was hungry af “Beating me will never come: like a nun, or tomorrow” -undoubtedly brilliant
Absolutely classic right here . Thanks for this masterpiece . „Yo , I got slugs for snitches, no love for bitches , puttin thugs in ditches when my trigger finger itches“ 🔥
Deff top five of the rawest hip hop I’ve ever heard…. No one nowadays holds a flow that isn’t ripped from them (from both of them) and the how real it really was. Things are so much catered to …any lucky joe… but this is two human beings who have a true skilll and express themselves the way they love . It’s art … it’s bravery. A very musical human product that stands the test of time.
Used to get so lit to this shit in 2011, Sophomore year in highschool lol Jay’s lyrics deeper but L got those mean punchlines love both verses from both 🔥💯
I forgot how I found this but I have the original radio interview on my old phone. I love it! I hate that with the newer version of phones I can’t transfer the song. 😡😡🙄😒🙈 jay’s second freestyle is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 But August 2024 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 RIP BIG L 💐💜
Technically Big L was the #1 even above Pac or Biggie, Gibbs also thinks so, and did you know Jay Z probably stole a lot of his lyrics from other rappers? check it out, its a shame Big L's songs never hit as hard as Biggie and Pac imo.
Best freestyle ever performed
no cap big L rode the whole beat
Absolutely!
Its a fact. Nothin else, cant argue with this one. Biggie is up at this level tho
Damn straight
These are written freestyles you do know that right?
Holy smokes. Just discovered this and feel like I found the Mona Lisa of freestyle.
I remember this moment when I discovered this, you will be hooked
Just imagine being up late night on the block and this comes on Bobito and Stretch. It gives me chills
Been listening to rap for 30 years. This is one the best freestyle sessions ever, best live radio recording, etc. An absolute gem of the 90s era. We are blessed.
It's so good, always find myself back here when the moments right
I'm jealous at the fact that you're just now hearing this, I wish this could be my first time hearing this again😂
Might be the top 5 greatest moments of Hiphop ever recorded. Big L never gets old #RIPGOAT
True indeed bro
He could been king of NY with him and BIG but also another east and west battle L VS PAC. Can you imagine that.
"Recognize the black cat with the nine lives, get up off me nigga, it's bad luck to cross me" Jay Z. 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
straight up
top 1
Bro dropped the hardest freestyle of all time then said 'I fucked up on one line but its aight'
Big L fuckin MUTILATED this shit. These some of the coldest bars ever dished out by any hip hop artist that ever did it, straight up. AND he had Jigga SHOOK to follow up behind him. I know Jay story and allat but the fact that L smoked the beat the way he did…Jay knew he couldn’t top it. He did his thing..L was galaxy’s ahead of not only Jay..The rest of the game at that time for real. Long live the Legendary Big L💯🙏🏾
I would argue that most rappers NYC were just that good in 90s
Even the most basic rapper in NY at time was snapping
@@BlackKoshinomibig L started that making words rhymes by changing the pronunciation, thats where eminem got his style from
Never get tired of this. Rip Big L
This was the 90s.... what a time to be alive the true peak of rap
Actually the 80's was the finest. Best rappers of all time came from the 80's.
@@BillDavis-bt3oi L started in 1991 and pasted in 1999
Always gotta listen to the full 9 minute version of the “7 minute freestyle”
Big L is hands down the greatest freestyler to ever touch the mic
One of the best* give some respect to prodigy and twista just listen to one of twistas freestyles
that shit was written but yea dude was nice
@@itzmeswervy9375 the best* there’s no competition
this is deff the best freestyle ever recorded ill give you that..best freestyler is a diff topic theres been some good freestylers
Did you not hear Jay???
R.I.P Big L
Stretch and Bobbito really had their hands in some of the most prolific names in Hip-Hop. Don't get talked about enough!
Exactly
Sounds like they only loved jay - z in this one,
Pause
They just some hanger-ons that seized an opportunity
Thank you L for being this fearless savage, you inspire me to write everyday and your life ended a year before i was born, you left a mark that keeps burning decades after you left, the way you say stuff without filter and fear like on danger zone or devils son, that savagery fuels my confidence to the roof, thank you L!
Always come back to this classic
The best freestyle ever from both of them
grammy family might have this beat.
Dr.malachi z York said sum thing similar
Lol jay got killed and embarrassed by L why u think he never mention him
Fav freestyle ever. Big L really was the best. He had Hov looking like a nobody on here and Jay is the goat to me. That says a lot. 💯 S/O to whoever dropped this video too. It’s much clearer than any other version I’ve found online. 🙌🏾
Jay was real young in the rap game he was developing his skill to the goat he turned into
Not a nobody but definitely a student was the feeling because L was the teacher fasho 💯
@@Greenfarmer25 crazy bc Jay is 5 years older.. he def bloomed late..
You can't tell me that this and modern mainstream music are in the same genre
That new shit needs it's own name because whatever the hell it is, it ain't hip-hop
This is Hip-Hop, rap, music, MC’ing, rhyming, all of this. What’s in mainstream is just a foul copy that will never reach the heights this reached as of now if it keeps up.
Because this is/was art. Real hip hop is hardly alive now a days.
@@lethalassassin1754 CAPPPPPPP dummy.
@@Aeternus75 Agreed
@@lethalassassin1754 It's alive. It just takes a lot of work to find. It's rare but sh*t is on life support
I’ve never been to New York. When I do go I plan to walk the streets and listen to this FULL BLAST and just take in all the NY weather & sceneries
I did this in 2016 in Harlem and it was every bit special as you can imagine.
Best freestyle hands down I always come back from time to time when this song randomly comes to my head it’s the best I could never forget this
you can see how in the beginning Bobbito didn't really know how Jay-Z can flow, not many people did at that time , but you see the admiration grow as Jay keeps flowing , He definitely got Bobbito's respect after this freestyle - as most other people did too. 🔥🔥
Jay came from that hectic diddy party
cops came in with shotguns and everything. Then the host casually says "Yeah it was prolly LA Reid" lmaooo
This should be studied at every Ivy League college.
I like to believe this will be read by scholars in the future
@@mop2mop one day Big L parents will find out how far ahead of the curve their son was.
Rap still hasn't caught up to him yet
@@jaylenn.9202 his father was a piece of shit and is the reason no one will ever see the documentary his mother and brother were trying to put out.
@@mop2mop it’s likely that this is already being studied by linguists
Why would they study rapists and murderers poems? Like for a criminology course?
I listen to this at least 27 times a day, EVERYDAY
Big L got yelled at for swearing lol
No.
That was jay z who said it
L was teaching independent sip
N then proceeded to studder tryna rap like L
@@michaelwarner2599 ? It was on purpose, it’s a flow style
FOREVER CLASSIC- RIP BIG L
BIG UP STRETCH ARMSTRONG AND BOBBITO
It's mad to think that as a 10 year old kid in the UK, I was introduced to hip-hop with Onyx first album. Two years later, this was gettting dropped and because of no access to ANYTHING, we only heard it decades later....
So much other real shit we missed that's out there.
Listening to it over and over again
Reminds me of High school rainy day, high as fuck in class listening to this
Lol what a feeling bro
So glad that I found out about Big L
“Pulling R&B bitches, wearing hoodies”
Jay predicted his married” 😂💯💪🏾
After all these years this freestyle is the illest thing I've ever heard!!!!
Big L was just straight NASTY. Have you making the face the entire time 😂 🔥
Bro ts so insane mane🤦🏾♂️🔥🔥🔥🔥
When I was a kid, this was what got me into 90s rap. Actually life changing, I remember just looking into so much rap and listening to this constantly. Thank you Big L, youre still my favorite with mf doom
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this was Voted as the #1 free style on radio of all time. Absolute filth from start to finish. Died way to young.
Always love dis freestyle 🖤 gotta Salute JayZ for Being around da goat n still Being alive to talk about it . Salute da OGz y’all
Jay-z probably killed L cuz he would have always lived in his shadow otherwise
@@miguelanon2357 damn
@@miguelanon2357 woodley killed L
@@miguelanon2357funny that you say that as if jay z hasnt long surpassed big l in popularity by the time L died
Ya figure? I was just a kid at the time so the timeline isn't really clear for me.. you may be right
Can’t believe most people don’t have Big L as the goat. Easily the best lyricist ever
i straight up memorised this when i was 15 from how much i played it on my walks. i downloaded it on my optus x lite lol good times
one of the best quality sounding videos I've been able to find on the internet of this freestyle!!
Imagine Big L was 21 years old at the time of that freestyle
En Paz descanses Big L, eres grande y tú legado siempre perdurará para las generaciones que vienen
one of the best freestyles in history !!!!!!!!!!!!!
After all these years, black thought is the only artist that even came remotely close to this masterpiece. Best freestyle of all time
Remember in college me and my boys was rocking to this crazy…much love out to west chester university…2011-2016….
6:52 You can literally feel the tension in the room after Big L’s second verse.
I listen to this since 2015 and everytime it stuns me that guy casually dropped the hardest freestyle ever and only 300k people know.
29th march and this freestyle will forever be straight flames🔥🔥🔥
L was def ahead of his time with them lyrics
God Flow Big L
He absolutely bodies Jay Z here.
I’m so ahead of my time, my parents haven’t met yet…
Coldest opening
Big L is hella underrated
Dicen que big L se enfrento a mas de 1000 freestyles rappers para tener ese nivel. LEYENDA MVP
BIG L killed that beat
100% Legend R.I.P Big L
"That's when I found I could do it myself"🤔😱🤔
dude.... jay got smoked on here. omfg
Milkbone - Keep It Real
great fucking beat
His song was good also
Legendary
When you think about it BIg L is really the goat man was tapping like this back then, bro was really like that
Big L was a Boss R.I.P
Come back everytime someone say Jay Z be getting out rapped on tracks 😂
Big L
Absolutely murdered it and deserves all praise, but Jay spit some serious lines in here that were deep as hell and he never had a style similar to those lines ever again, this jay was hungry af
“Beating me will never come: like a nun, or tomorrow” -undoubtedly brilliant
2021 sip Big L💞
Greatest freestyle ever
Never heard this freestyle, I was just blessed
Greatest and Timeless freestyle
Big L is the best rapper ever....PERIOD!
Yo. They both snapped
This dudes life needs to made into a movie . If this would happen please get good actors and do it right.
God this guy is great!
Best freestyle to date 2022
Absolutely classic right here .
Thanks for this masterpiece .
„Yo , I got slugs for snitches, no love for bitches , puttin thugs in ditches when my trigger finger itches“
🔥
My man just sounds like hip hop
Milkkbone thank you for the beat 💯
This shit goes hard! 🔥 best freestyle hands down
“Big L try that mic out” he was not enjoying Jay Z 😂
Christ is back and god knows he can rap
Jay had this man killed I’m convinced
then youre a moron
L's second verse so amazingly raw. Idk how to feel.
I wish there was a video for this 😔😔
“You say ‘never you run if ever you come’ it’s ,,never you run so fast in your life to never have won,,” is absolutely crazy
Thank you for keeping this gem alive 🙏
Deff top five of the rawest hip hop I’ve ever heard…. No one nowadays holds a flow that isn’t ripped from them (from both of them) and the how real it really was. Things are so much catered to …any lucky joe… but this is two human beings who have a true skilll and express themselves the way they love . It’s art … it’s bravery. A very musical human product that stands the test of time.
I listened to this year's ago and I came up with KRS ,Rakim and all that. Big L is one of the greatest for such a early death. 💯
Big L my favorite from NY I’m from the boot🔥🦅
the only time L falters is when he promotes his remix at 2:10 lol
Timeless classic
2024 still cold
Used to get so lit to this shit in 2011, Sophomore year in highschool lol Jay’s lyrics deeper but L got those mean punchlines love both verses from both 🔥💯
best rapper to ever live with Tupac in my opinion
true
I agree he is my top three but big pun and biggie jay z top ten but not top 5
And Eminem is not in that five
Pac aint number 1
@@nasa5700 Rapper not MC
And look where Jay’z at today 🔥RESPECT
the more i lissin to this the more i love it ❤
I forgot how I found this but I have the original radio interview on my old phone. I love it! I hate that with the newer version of phones I can’t transfer the song. 😡😡🙄😒🙈 jay’s second freestyle is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
But August 2024 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
RIP BIG L 💐💜
"We have 4 hours no commercial" Dam
G's Up FOR BIG L 👍👍👍👍👍 RIP bro i love i love you Style you now in 2016 deam Bilioner King of USA RAP
Jay Z verse sounds like he gets paid nickels to tap dance💀 wtf is that shit at the end💀💀
It was him actually trying to go off the dome…which I respect
Absolute fire dude
Big L killed even Jay on this freestyle
Technically Big L was the #1 even above Pac or Biggie, Gibbs also thinks so, and did you know Jay Z probably stole a lot of his lyrics from other rappers? check it out, its a shame Big L's songs never hit as hard as Biggie and Pac imo.
@@BakerWild W. Big L is the second greates rapper oat after DOOM
@@lyricist4407 nasir jones tho
@@kai_thegreatt7087 Not better than L
@@lyricist4407 it’s close and if L was alive and made more music he could’ve been better but he didn’t so nas better
Big L got that east coast stilo
Originators..💯💯
Salud to my G BIG L
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