Biggie Smalls Sway Freestyle 1997 March 1st

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  • @Parialated
    @Parialated 2 года назад +3668

    His delivery demands your attention...there is a authentic force behind his vocals that a lot of rappers lack

    • @emilpapis93
      @emilpapis93 2 года назад +111

      Poetry, true stories and metaphors, not just talking cool flashy words and skeets. Hey i like that too, but man Biggie could have owned the early 2000's.

    • @lucaslorenz8580
      @lucaslorenz8580 2 года назад +37

      Like Guru said, it's mostly the voice.

    • @Stickyrolls123
      @Stickyrolls123 2 года назад +55

      His lyrics are great but he's not unique in that even though hes top notch. His voice and flow though. His flow is like an unstoppable force.

    • @patrickreiter3319
      @patrickreiter3319 Год назад +5

      Totally agree

    • @llk3ylifeline489
      @llk3ylifeline489 Год назад +4

      Called the devil

  • @coltercrockett4100
    @coltercrockett4100 3 года назад +4804

    That last bar, "you're nobody till somebody kills you" now he's immortalized. What a G

    • @bradd2k2
      @bradd2k2 2 года назад +195

      It’s ironic that this was his last freestyle as he is died like a day after this interview

    • @JudePhilips
      @JudePhilips 2 года назад +73

      that’s from one of his songs. prewritten

    • @bradd2k2
      @bradd2k2 2 года назад +29

      @@JudePhilips yes long kiss

    • @camcam1414
      @camcam1414 2 года назад +91

      And that’s a flip of frank sinatra you’re nobody till somebody loves you

    • @robw5741
      @robw5741 2 года назад

      @@bradd2k2 wrong... you're nobody til somebody kill you. Same time the album came out after, who's to say the audio from this wasn't used to make the song?

  • @EPN93-k7x
    @EPN93-k7x Год назад +1441

    The fact that you can't tell the difference when he's doing this on the album or on the radio is a testament to how incredible he was. There can't be another like him.

    • @Aerochalklate
      @Aerochalklate Год назад +22

      many soundcloud artists underestimate delivery like you can rap, but can you deliver tho

    • @bizaster20biggzwayne43
      @bizaster20biggzwayne43 Год назад +2

      Likkle Vicious a Jamaican Reggae artist younger than most at the time.That verse of the album Nobody was A 2PAC DISS NO DOUBT

    • @biggiewhite
      @biggiewhite Год назад +2

      @@bizaster20biggzwayne43 i just think diddy did that, i guess this freestyle was made the year biggie got killed, diddy used biggies freestyle to fuel the so called “beef” for album sales!

    • @bizaster20biggzwayne43
      @bizaster20biggzwayne43 Год назад +1

      @@biggiewhite For Albums sales were talking about LEDGENDS selling albums means nothing now they passed I wasn't speaking about no album sales man

    • @biggiewhite
      @biggiewhite Год назад +1

      @@bizaster20biggzwayne43 u don’t undertand a bit what i told u, i said DIDDY took this freestyle and did put it on “Life After Death” album to reach the max sales after biggie died, cuz i don’t think biggie ever thought about dissing pac, in “Notorius Thugs” song he said “so called beef with u know who” it was in the same album, how could he say that type of shit when he was dissing pac in the next songs!! think logically, biggie never hated on pac, pac made it look that way cuz him and suge had a beef with diddy and all that!

  • @MrCRicki
    @MrCRicki Год назад +903

    Pac could rap on any beat but Biggie sounds like a extra instrument on a track just brings it all to life

    • @talkdatalk1002
      @talkdatalk1002 Год назад +31

      great take 👍

    • @marcuslittle9506
      @marcuslittle9506 Год назад +48

      This is one of the best ways to describe the difference between Pac and BIG

    • @rileymilkman
      @rileymilkman Год назад

      pac sucked

    • @guerostaybanned
      @guerostaybanned Год назад +35

      pac was a great artist ong and def was very influential but mane biggie is if you could put poetry in human form that man got me sitting here stunned ian gon lie

    • @unready_amenity
      @unready_amenity 11 месяцев назад +29

      Biggie was better simple never heard no pac freestyle that was fire

  • @deanharris3427
    @deanharris3427 Год назад +1119

    The man covers his eyes and goes to the multiverse on that second verse.. untouchable 🔥

    • @Voo504Doo
      @Voo504Doo Год назад +12

      HAHA the goat my man!

    • @kt420ish
      @kt420ish Год назад +14

      💯 the ready to die album is one of my favorite albums of all time. Every track absolute banger

    • @jaygiant10
      @jaygiant10 Год назад +10

      How he riding the beat like it’s his?

    • @Jason-lv4uu
      @Jason-lv4uu Год назад +5

      People don't notice when he covers his face he's doing illuminati hand gesture while pretending to rub his eyes

    • @Voo504Doo
      @Voo504Doo Год назад

      @@Jason-lv4uu lmaoooo shut yo stupid ass up bruh. you dont notice that youre a dumbass

  • @Justin_Time1985
    @Justin_Time1985 Год назад +952

    Man was a lyrical genius no doubt! When he said "you're nobody till somebody kills you" went straight through me

    • @TheGameChanger
      @TheGameChanger Год назад +17

      coz it was filled with pride and said about a "dead" man whose spot he thought he was taking

    • @veryfine69
      @veryfine69 Год назад

      No way

    • @JoshuaKerwood
      @JoshuaKerwood Год назад

      @@TheGameChangerit’s crazy that as good as a heart he was he was still a street dude and started gravitating towards he won the war and is taking over after pac. Rip 2 both. “My team in the marine cope and the blue”

    • @skater3333ful
      @skater3333ful Год назад

      I felt that

    • @MixtapeMessiah92
      @MixtapeMessiah92 Год назад +14

      8 days before getting killed too...

  • @kt420ish
    @kt420ish Год назад +598

    "Death controls y'all, Big don't fold y'all, I spit lyrics that'll thrill ya. You're nobody til somebody kills ya." That line still sends chills down my spine. ❤

    • @kt420ish
      @kt420ish Год назад +37

      "I hope you creeps got receipts, wrap you in your Polo sheets" hehehehehe. Most unique flow fucking wish he stayed alive.

    • @siyabongatshabalala3613
      @siyabongatshabalala3613 Год назад +6

      That was hard

    • @TheGrimy16th
      @TheGrimy16th Год назад +2

      Facts

    • @jeezlaweez
      @jeezlaweez Год назад +8

      that line is deeper than you can imagine. we live for eternity

    • @kt420ish
      @kt420ish Год назад

      @@jeezlaweez I truly believe that to. That's why I like that line. "Death controls y'all." It's a true statement for most people. Even Christians who believe in an afterlife. It's more like they want an afterlife so bad that they cling to this religion all in hopes. I know we live for eternity. Death shouldn't control anyone.

  • @jmartin8201
    @jmartin8201 Год назад +167

    That last verse with that beat was beautifully haunting.

    • @stillmeme493
      @stillmeme493 8 месяцев назад +2

      No shit...

    • @JMarley24
      @JMarley24 5 месяцев назад +3

      Still hypnotizes till this day

    • @KrackBoySlim
      @KrackBoySlim 5 месяцев назад +2

      I have to hear it every day

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 4 года назад +3925

    Big has a flow that could go for days

    • @youngleeze1735
      @youngleeze1735 3 года назад +10

      Naw he switch up depending on his lyric u have to be like that cause u will be limited if not to what words u can use when u have a certain flow

    • @emiliobruh7485
      @emiliobruh7485 3 года назад +54

      @@youngleeze1735 it is more of a saying that he is really talented

    • @divulgewithchip1099
      @divulgewithchip1099 3 года назад +27

      @@youngleeze1735 bruh what

    • @JesusFlores-tt8eu
      @JesusFlores-tt8eu 2 года назад +1

      *For generations

    • @londonpain45
      @londonpain45 2 года назад +5

      @@youngleeze1735 r u slow that’s not wat he meant 😭

  • @deepg7084
    @deepg7084 2 года назад +980

    I'm starting 2023 off by going down the 90's hip hop rabbit hole. Bringing back so many memories. RIP Big.

  • @marvynatkinson128
    @marvynatkinson128 2 года назад +1020

    “I’m big dangerous, you just a little vicious” absolute fire, absolute lyrical genius

    • @yaoblack3579
      @yaoblack3579 2 года назад +5

      I gotta check and see when little vicious put out "freaks". Most of been 90 or 91 but it was a legit banger.

    • @peteryoung4705
      @peteryoung4705 2 года назад +10

      oh wow i thought he said "Im big dangerous, your just the little fishes" but now can hear both

    • @DannySullivanMusic
      @DannySullivanMusic 2 года назад

      you're 100% spot on.

    • @ariefraiser140
      @ariefraiser140 2 года назад +3

      @@yaoblack3579 lil vicious came out in the early 90s....I remember the entire beat was just Doug E Fresh beatboxing and it became a dancehall classic.

    • @yaoblack3579
      @yaoblack3579 2 года назад

      @@ariefraiser140 honestly it was a crossover banger. Maybe more underground? It got heavy play on VMB and at Brooklyn mixed genre music and reggae parties, Probably the same across the region.

  • @mattbell-hw7qp
    @mattbell-hw7qp Год назад +69

    Still hits hard 25 years later

  • @GamingBaked
    @GamingBaked 2 года назад +2245

    25 years ago today we lost one of the greatest to ever touch the mic.
    RIP Big ..

  • @donovanmalotke4432
    @donovanmalotke4432 2 года назад +1196

    “Climbing the ladder of success, escalator style.” A true legend.

    • @IndigoMassey
      @IndigoMassey 2 года назад +8

      It’s from “You’re Nobody Till Somebody Kills You” , the best song off his album Life After Death album

    • @MILANOKIS
      @MILANOKIS 2 года назад +8

      That was the best verse you got out of that?

    • @rhino5250
      @rhino5250 2 года назад +8

      @@MILANOKIS I’m like 99.999% sure that you didn’t even understand that bar lmao

    • @MILANOKIS
      @MILANOKIS 2 года назад +1

      @rhino5250 I'm 100% your vocabulary is elementary school level

    • @MILANOKIS
      @MILANOKIS 2 года назад

      @@rhino5250 lmao

  • @manojrapelli6459
    @manojrapelli6459 4 года назад +9669

    Biggie's freestyle better than some rappers whole career.😂

    • @tvcjr22
      @tvcjr22 4 года назад +201

      that's an under statement my friend .
      .there would be a hella a lot of rappers on that list today 😂😂

    • @euphoriatime9398
      @euphoriatime9398 4 года назад +92

      @@tvcjr22 who lil uzi vert?😂 that man messed up in 15 seconds

    • @yungbeezgod4787
      @yungbeezgod4787 3 года назад +410

      None of this a freestyle, all written actually. These verses were from songs he didnt release yet at the time, but now theyre released.

    • @marquirasheed
      @marquirasheed 3 года назад +21

      @@yungbeezgod4787 oh shut up nigga

    • @jordanharris6368
      @jordanharris6368 3 года назад +20

      @@yungbeezgod4787 what’s the song if you know???

  • @loupz4047
    @loupz4047 6 месяцев назад +37

    i respect whoever your 90s goat is, i jus aint heard nobody float on a beat so effortlessly. the way he chops every syllable is like percussion his voice alone is a bass and the pictures he paints in your head, the humor, but he look mad casual its magic i cant goat nobody over biggie

    • @shannonspence4725
      @shannonspence4725 4 месяца назад +1

      My goat is pac but big my goodness He was incredible

  • @sleepyboy1017
    @sleepyboy1017 3 года назад +1864

    The tempo in biggies voice is flawless

    • @gmoney8585
      @gmoney8585 3 года назад +58

      Tone as well

    • @KeyBoard-io8nl
      @KeyBoard-io8nl 2 года назад +32

      Fr bro, tightest flow ever

    • @DannySullivanMusic
      @DannySullivanMusic 2 года назад +12

      yes. totally, totally spot on.

    • @ethnicalbert
      @ethnicalbert 2 года назад +24

      you mean the rhythms/flow? tempo means speed in a metric sense which is dictated by the beat.

    • @doitf3525
      @doitf3525 2 года назад +2

      He rhymes good but all he talks about is killing n and pushing dope. Sub human culture

  • @CrimpKeeper
    @CrimpKeeper Год назад +380

    The GOAT. His voice, delivery, are like a fine liquor: timeless. I could listen to Big forever. RIP.

    • @leer3925
      @leer3925 Год назад +2

      Who's on the mic first.?

    • @MrMessyb
      @MrMessyb Год назад +3

      @@leer3925Lil Cease

    • @chriscunha3246
      @chriscunha3246 Год назад

      Eminem the GOAT buddy. Get your head checked...

    • @CrimpKeeper
      @CrimpKeeper Год назад +3

      @@chriscunha3246 ok brah, Eminem has admitted himself, Biggie was a better rapper. Hell, Eminem says Reggie Noble aka Redman is THE GOAT.

    • @desotohybrid2175
      @desotohybrid2175 Год назад

      ​@@chriscunha3246you're white...you're opinion doesn't matter lol

  • @paulc8781
    @paulc8781 Год назад +202

    Hands down the sickest flow in the game. Period.

  • @BruceAlmightyMuzic
    @BruceAlmightyMuzic 6 месяцев назад +40

    BIG’s flow grabs your soul and sends chills through you🙌🏾👑.

    • @knucklegame5050
      @knucklegame5050 5 месяцев назад

      FACTS

    • @RyantheCanuckpirate
      @RyantheCanuckpirate 3 месяца назад +1

      He spits phrases that'll thrill you

    • @BruceAlmightyMuzic
      @BruceAlmightyMuzic 3 месяца назад

      @@RyantheCanuckpirate 🎯Superfact!💯damn now why didn’t I think of that?!🤔

    • @youngsimba9988
      @youngsimba9988 2 месяца назад

      But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.…

  • @MoreNizar
    @MoreNizar Год назад +86

    His flow, voice, and rap is unmatched.
    My god

  • @benjaminjunior7570
    @benjaminjunior7570 2 года назад +261

    One of the GREATEST pieces of Hip Hop history to EVER be recorded.

    • @Personalapocalypse77.
      @Personalapocalypse77. 2 года назад +11

      Meanwhile this was just another day of biggie chillin, casually laying down a freestyle with his Boyz.

    • @sammyfoldem3655
      @sammyfoldem3655 Год назад +2

      Faxs 📠

    • @rinnotstimpy1
      @rinnotstimpy1 Год назад +2

      Thats a fact

    • @zissoudude
      @zissoudude Год назад +1

      Right? And he didn’t even break a sweat. Absolute legend. RIP.

    • @JMarley24
      @JMarley24 5 месяцев назад

      Hurts it ended so soon

  • @chimbimutihaha3322
    @chimbimutihaha3322 Год назад +37

    No rapper ever touched me like BIG. Still listen to BIG like its 1996!

  • @JayyCee22
    @JayyCee22 Год назад +66

    His flow and delivery is insane..wow

  • @tmaclw2420
    @tmaclw2420 2 года назад +339

    The fact he still didn’t curse even after he asked & they gave him the ok. He got comfortable, upped his vocabulary, & blanked out! GOAT!

    • @ed199
      @ed199 2 года назад +9

      I'm high rn (which seems to make me LOVE music, so I was bopping to the whole thing) once that conversation went off and he killed it I realized just how big this whole freestyle was. Keep in mind this the first time actually watching this freestyle. I never had such a omg moment when he finished that last set.

    • @KeyBoard-io8nl
      @KeyBoard-io8nl 2 года назад +3

      yeah this is unbelievably dope, thank you to the uploader because I neva thought i'd see another biggie freestyle ever again, this sent me over the moon! THANK YUOU

    • @clarkbar
      @clarkbar 2 года назад +8

      hahahaah nah man, the rhymes are written so it was easier to blur them out as he spit....jesus yall wana put biggie on the cross with jesus, he wasnt THAT good

    • @tinypoolmodelshipyard
      @tinypoolmodelshipyard 2 года назад +16

      "Long kiss goodnight" verse was dropped a month later. Yall call yourself biggie fans and dont know this verse...

    • @clarkbar
      @clarkbar 2 года назад

      @@KeyBoard-io8nl its not a freestyle

  • @turt7536
    @turt7536 Год назад +259

    This was already perfect, and then you realize he was self censoring his own swearing the whole time until he got the clear to let it slide 😲 the greatest ever! Rip BIG

    • @knightshousegames
      @knightshousegames Год назад +12

      It's wild that that first verse was him holding back.
      Once he gets the go ahead he just lets loose with some measure of his full power.

    • @Lucabg...
      @Lucabg... Год назад

      it is a premade verse, jts called Long kiss Goodnight​@@knightshousegames

    • @Sam-j8b9d
      @Sam-j8b9d 9 месяцев назад +3

      Wow nice you pointed that out because that makes it alot crazier because it’s alot harder to do censor yourself like that and it’s alot easier when you can curse even tho freestyling is hard period let alone as great as one of the greatest ever

    • @papa206gr
      @papa206gr 9 месяцев назад

      Can listen this for ever...

    • @Sam-j8b9d
      @Sam-j8b9d 6 месяцев назад

      Wait people say this was prewritten and not a real freestyle

  • @marcellos4562
    @marcellos4562 Месяц назад +7

    2:48 the way he had to censor his flow made it sound so much more fire here, gets me every time

  • @mox19380
    @mox19380 Год назад +64

    his phrasing, his flow, they way he changes his rhyme schemes. a pure master

  • @Lechatnoire
    @Lechatnoire 4 года назад +187

    He sounds good over ANY beat but over that Mobb Deep beat, something truly amazing happens.

    • @korruptnovellst4751
      @korruptnovellst4751 3 года назад +12

      Right. That was a perfect mesh. So hard!!

    • @carlcarter8295
      @carlcarter8295 Год назад +1

      Wuss the beat?

    • @Lechatnoire
      @Lechatnoire Год назад

      @@carlcarter8295 ruclips.net/video/R2P0XrkMy-c/видео.html

    • @mjanice308
      @mjanice308 Год назад +2

      @@carlcarter8295 Hell On Earth Mobb Deep

  • @gepettowins
    @gepettowins Год назад +50

    the hallmark of his flow is how he can change direction, rhythmically, at any point. and when he says "rest where the worms and the weak be" i got a shiver. RIP to the greatest

    • @slingshotdon
      @slingshotdon Год назад

      ... be alot flower bringing slow singing if my burglar alarms ringing , biggie had more bars in 2 albums than artists in 2 decades cough fake wayne
      ruclips.net/video/xsyEjQ8a8XI/видео.htmlsi=QTIKeiOVwTMlvH4z

    • @kingisraelite3770
      @kingisraelite3770 10 месяцев назад

      That freestyle in Hot ( pac just got killed) ass L.A got him murdered, smh. Puff daddy set that man up, 2pac still my #1 of all time, but i have to admit Biggie had the better lyrics, flow, and was a better storyteller, shit why do i like tupac better again 🤔

    • @pradabears
      @pradabears 8 месяцев назад

      @@kingisraelite3770he was a larger than life figure in both hip hop and well…life

  • @cesarbriones2419
    @cesarbriones2419 4 месяца назад +4

    I first heard rap in 1981. This man IS the greatest rapper ever. Aside from an impeccable delivery, he draws vocal pictures like Picasso paint pictures. He’s a master.

  • @yeeterskeeter4589
    @yeeterskeeter4589 Год назад +114

    his flow is crazy gotta love biggie man can only imagine all the bangers we would've been blessed with if he stayed with us

  • @seentruth
    @seentruth 4 года назад +488

    Instrumentals in order of appearance:
    Step Into A World - KRS 1
    Stages And Lights - Sadat X
    Hell On Earth - Mobb Deep

  • @hpmlucci7553
    @hpmlucci7553 5 лет назад +155

    That headbop, a ny classic

  • @benburton272
    @benburton272 5 месяцев назад +9

    Sway really been out here since the beginning. And still holding it down just like he was in the 90s. Salute

  • @joeygopro9697
    @joeygopro9697 5 лет назад +934

    I listen to this everyday 🙏

  • @hulstie
    @hulstie 3 года назад +376

    His last line was "You're nobody 'til somebody kills you" and was shot 8 days later... RIP Big

    • @thoughtstorn854
      @thoughtstorn854 2 года назад +4

      😔

    • @davidwebb4234
      @davidwebb4234 2 года назад +30

      That line must of been a dig at Tupac

    • @officeroinker440
      @officeroinker440 2 года назад +37

      @David Webb exactly. So was the "I ain't mad atcha" part. Dissing the dead smh...

    • @tavius88
      @tavius88 2 года назад +15

      @@officeroinker440 I could never respect Big for that bc he wasn’t on that when he was alive but after he gone you wolfin

    • @big710jars2
      @big710jars2 2 года назад

      Nothing great about a fat phony ass mf Rest In Peace Tupac shakur

  • @lilporra76
    @lilporra76 4 года назад +1355

    This man was dissing mumble rappers before they even existed 🤣🤣

    • @aniyahmcmillian431
      @aniyahmcmillian431 4 года назад +8

      Dang😂😂🤣

    • @antech2.0
      @antech2.0 4 года назад +5

      All of 'em😂😂

    • @jerelminter
      @jerelminter 3 года назад +44

      Mumble rappers existed back then, but you didn't know they existed until now.

    • @mbmkevie8059
      @mbmkevie8059 3 года назад +2

      O no momma

    • @caseyobrien7939
      @caseyobrien7939 3 года назад +21

      And straight dissing Tupac right after he passed. This freestyle might have been the thing to get Biggie killed.

  • @stealthmode972
    @stealthmode972 Год назад +28

    "With the Holy Ghost,
    I put holes in most you hold your toast shaky
    slip and try to break me" wordplay is on another level 💯🔥🗽

    • @xp7575
      @xp7575 Год назад +2

      POV: you don't know what word play means

    • @AmmoGus1
      @AmmoGus1 9 месяцев назад

      ​@xp8969 true but also you don't know what POV means so stfu

    • @cibida1
      @cibida1 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@xp7575yes he does. With the Holy Ghost, holes in most is definitely showing skill in wordplay.

  • @timwillis8647
    @timwillis8647 Год назад +87

    LEGENDARY!! IF THE DATE IS CORRECT.... HE PASSED 8 DAYS LATER! WE'LL ALWAYS LOVE BIG POPPA

    • @BryantMorales
      @BryantMorales Год назад

      Faked his death. Big 6 tryna wake us up early in the morning 🛸👁️

    • @willvalle5969
      @willvalle5969 5 месяцев назад

      ​@georgepavicevic1852you like this

  • @inMotionOutdoors
    @inMotionOutdoors Год назад +82

    I’ve watched this countless times and I think this might be one of the best rap moments in history ever captured

    • @JesseKatch
      @JesseKatch Год назад +2

      Black thought funk flex, Canibus+ big pun+dmx+mos def round table discussion, Vince staples sway in the morning (off top), crooked i funk flex….

    • @kiptonanthony3362
      @kiptonanthony3362 Год назад

      For sure

    • @LemarRashad-Bey
      @LemarRashad-Bey 4 месяца назад

      This and the Cee-Lo freestyle on Sway.

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 2 месяца назад

      Dughidowngrave

  • @MichaelSmith-Moving
    @MichaelSmith-Moving 2 года назад +77

    Biggie had literally everything a MC could want. RIP the legend

  • @TheTriangleOffense47
    @TheTriangleOffense47 7 месяцев назад +3

    The flow and breath control is so masterful. Aside from the rhymes, the cadence of BIG was mesmerizing.

  • @madmike987655
    @madmike987655 2 года назад +105

    Biggie had such a great flow and how he linked each line together was something I don't think any rapper did as good as him. For me he is still one of the greatest to ever do it.

    • @atusayesimwaka5296
      @atusayesimwaka5296 Год назад +3

      Even 2 PAC wasnt near to this style.

    • @sebbird08
      @sebbird08 Год назад +4

      MF DOOM is the only other rapper who equals Biggie in both flow and wordplay, imo. Both legends of the game RIP

    • @cody7149
      @cody7149 Год назад

      Hes one of the greatest for the majority of rap fans

    • @notoriousmiks1927
      @notoriousmiks1927 9 месяцев назад +1

      He is THE Greatest

  • @salvillanueva1079
    @salvillanueva1079 4 года назад +232

    Its a blessing just to hear him freestyle over the hell on earth beat

    • @theunknown5921
      @theunknown5921 3 года назад +4

      He’s the “best in the world” 😉

    • @theunknown5921
      @theunknown5921 3 года назад +3

      He lead a cult of personality and nobody could see him punk 😂

    • @DJ_Mixes_808
      @DJ_Mixes_808 2 года назад +2

      Big up Havoc for the beat

    • @heishephaestion4178
      @heishephaestion4178 2 года назад

      had his freestyle on hell on earth on a cd growing up, nostalgic to hear it again.

    • @fastesteddiealive
      @fastesteddiealive 2 года назад +1

      A non existing blessing because there is not one word freestyled or spit that wasn’t written on paper and practiced. Sorry to break your heart. You must not be a fan of his tho If I don’t know that already

  • @sanddc178
    @sanddc178 Год назад +75

    A master wordsmith with an unmatched cadence. A genius in his element

  • @Bigeazy117182
    @Bigeazy117182 Год назад +29

    The flow is what I miss more than anything. This is effortless to him. RIP the greatest to ever do it.

  • @carlos86ruiz
    @carlos86ruiz 6 лет назад +1430

    Just wow. Dude was ridiculous... the G.O.A.T.

    • @ositofreitas
      @ositofreitas 5 лет назад +5

      No, Rakim is the GOAT

    • @michaele.918
      @michaele.918 4 года назад +33

      ositofreitas Biggie and Nas better than Rakim

    • @michaele.918
      @michaele.918 4 года назад +2

      Sitting Bull What’s that supposed to mean, since he’s their inspiration that they can’t pass him?

    • @Chinoblitz
      @Chinoblitz 4 года назад

      ositofreitas Rakim is my favorite artist but he would probably loose to snoop dogg

    • @clearwater54
      @clearwater54 4 года назад +2

      Definitely not Jay Z

  • @donjuandelanoootch
    @donjuandelanoootch 2 года назад +39

    Shock G described his flow perfectly he’s swaying side to side like a jazz player.. RIP to Both Legends.

  • @lifeisgood420365
    @lifeisgood420365 3 года назад +112

    Listened to this so many times and somehow always missed this line:
    "as I leave my competition respirator style, climbed the ladder to success, escalator style" 🔥🔥🔥

    • @158-i6z
      @158-i6z 2 года назад +11

      A marker of greatness is the depth of the work - finding new things even after multiple experiences.

    • @evonrn2000
      @evonrn2000 2 года назад +3

      Dissing pac.... diddy sent the crips.

    • @Redwill85
      @Redwill85 2 года назад

      That's smooth

    • @Redwill85
      @Redwill85 2 года назад

      @@158-i6z Solid sturdy ass facts

    • @squag9579
      @squag9579 Год назад

      ​@@evonrn2000cause he said he fucked his bitch. He fucked no bitch.

  • @codesportsorganics5934
    @codesportsorganics5934 Год назад +9

    The flow is impeccable did you hear the delivery the continuous flow on pure luxury and success on top of the street absolutey grimey absolutely an masterpiece

  • @GrittyPlanet
    @GrittyPlanet 4 года назад +109

    Got chills listening to this, absolute classic

    • @135jchance
      @135jchance 4 года назад +1

      Yo, I literally posted the same words on my Facebook page.. this gave me the CHILLS..👑

  • @boxtradums0073
    @boxtradums0073 Год назад +37

    “You I can rap all night” I bet you could Biggie. Hands down the best flow that has ever or will ever be.

  • @Shmego
    @Shmego 2 года назад +22

    been listening to this for years and it never "ceases" to amaze me

  • @SAMZIRRA
    @SAMZIRRA 2 года назад +386

    The most recognizable voice, the most incredible lyrics, the most bitten, the best mc that ever walked our Earth.

  • @Howard-sc2lg
    @Howard-sc2lg Год назад +106

    "I leave my competition - respirator style - I'm climbing the ladder to success - escalator style.."
    Props..

  • @bawona
    @bawona 2 года назад +430

    That last verse was absolutely insane in the membrane.

  • @burstreviews8336
    @burstreviews8336 2 года назад +173

    His voice, delivery and flow put him on another level.

  • @milkman4eva
    @milkman4eva 2 месяца назад +3

    People have the guts to compare Pac to him… Pac was a complete artist… But a limited MC with a repetitive flow! B.I.G was a true MC… A pure rapper and lyricist 🔥
    RIP Christopher Wallace

  • @Mikeychance
    @Mikeychance 2 года назад +108

    The last bar sent a shiver down my spine. The greatest to ever rhyme.

  • @danielhy333
    @danielhy333 Год назад +13

    1997, the year I left school. Blowing through time, BIGGIE Smalls, legendary, incredible, poet. Like watching Black Shakespeare, here! Rest in Piece Notorious.

    • @stoneymcstonerson4504
      @stoneymcstonerson4504 Месяц назад

      Lol yeah bro that's how I still see him, like a modern age Shakespeare

  • @th33399
    @th33399 2 года назад +287

    The fact he is editing himself as he freestyles is why this man is the GOAT. Love how he just let's go over the Mobb Deep beat.

    • @BankaiFever
      @BankaiFever 2 года назад

      That shit changed the whole fuckin video. Bet mfs didn’t notice he wasn’t cursing

    • @derrmann1800
      @derrmann1800 2 года назад +39

      its not a freestyle. HE is rapping Long kiss goodnight. A diss song to 2pac after his death

    • @TheLastDragon5
      @TheLastDragon5 2 года назад +16

      @@derrmann1800 Fat boy dissing a dead man. He should have thought about it…now he has to talk to god about it

    • @jayboogie5403
      @jayboogie5403 2 года назад

      @@TheLastDragon5 pretty ghey of u babe

    • @mrcrunch8000
      @mrcrunch8000 2 года назад +10

      ​@@TheLastDragon5 play the hypocrite role much? 🤣

  • @beirutlebanon2195
    @beirutlebanon2195 Год назад +9

    Never ever duplicated . lyrical masterpiece Biggie

  • @bibibibou8382
    @bibibibou8382 4 года назад +44

    I listen today 2020!

  • @dylancates5965
    @dylancates5965 2 года назад +31

    3:31 I love the way he just slides right back into the beat with the “my man” and with his his smooth flow and exceptional lyrics he just gets back into the zone. RIP to Biggie. A true legend gone too soon.

    • @simper7974
      @simper7974 8 месяцев назад

      Facts.wen he asked can he curse it was like it was apart of the freestyle it was so smooth

  • @parison4254
    @parison4254 2 года назад +227

    Recorded around a week before he died. With the way he was rapping here we missed out on a lot of fire. RIP.

  • @jpeboy8949
    @jpeboy8949 Год назад +8

    B.I.G still 2k23 lyrics never die 🔥

  • @pallocskaj
    @pallocskaj 4 года назад +492

    crazy that sway has seen everyone from biggy to jack harlow come up. thats a true og

    • @panchopanchito7984
      @panchopanchito7984 4 года назад +18

      Jack harlow GTFO of here lame

    • @santiagocuriel8511
      @santiagocuriel8511 3 года назад +58

      @@panchopanchito7984 he’s saying for how long he’s been bringing in rappers to rap. Use ur brain

    • @Nachomoney7q
      @Nachomoney7q 3 года назад +20

      Bruh jack Harlow is nowhere on BIGGS level

    • @pallocskaj
      @pallocskaj 3 года назад +18

      @@santiagocuriel8511 thanks brotha. I'm not saying hes anywhere biggys level yall!

    • @woodyjoint5006
      @woodyjoint5006 3 года назад +1

      @@panchopanchito7984 allergic to good music

  • @JGRIMES
    @JGRIMES 4 года назад +338

    *ugh there’s gotta be more unreleased biggie raps in the hip hop archives somewhere, the world needs to hear em, I NEED TO !!!!!!!!!’*

    • @zaksnook4775
      @zaksnook4775 4 года назад +2

      J. GRIMES amen

    • @PaulWrites23
      @PaulWrites23 4 года назад

      Factz man. Yo when you get a chance, can you check my free on Sway. Its on my page. 🙏🙏💯💯

    • @jacksongreen2683
      @jacksongreen2683 4 года назад +11

      what he was rapping is released its from long kiss goodnight and your nobody till somebody kills you

    • @BornJamerican
      @BornJamerican 4 года назад +11

      I get a feeling theirs a reason why Biggie didn't release those tracks. Hes an artist. Maybe he felt they weren't his best work or maybe its sumthin else.

    • @phyllisgerman6774
      @phyllisgerman6774 3 года назад +8

      It’s all released every verse

  • @kxngdavid
    @kxngdavid Год назад +24

    “Slugs go touchy touchy; you bleeding lovely, with ya spirit above me or beneath me, ya whole life you live sleepy, ya resting internally sleepy, you burned when you creep me, rest where the worms and the weak be. “
    That was hard 🔥

    • @rdebaron
      @rdebaron 9 месяцев назад +3

      Hardest bar ever.

    • @lukasgordon4756
      @lukasgordon4756 4 месяца назад

      This was a 2pac diss and him freestyle this on LA radio after pac died ultimately got him killed

  • @k2klizzy
    @k2klizzy Год назад +9

    wow just wow. the unruly undisputed 🐐 of NY. chills when he started spitting on the second beat.

  • @rialtaf2239
    @rialtaf2239 2 года назад +52

    That last bar hit deep, gave me goosebumps

    • @TripleOGWhyteLoc
      @TripleOGWhyteLoc Год назад +2

      Fa sho cuz ✌️and that's what got his cap peeled back in LA

    • @antanderson3258
      @antanderson3258 9 месяцев назад

      ​@TripleOGWhyteLoc facts

  • @zanonzimande3099
    @zanonzimande3099 3 года назад +77

    This freestyle will never get old ..

    • @lukaszkochanowski3542
      @lukaszkochanowski3542 2 года назад +5

      this is not freestyle...this is long kiss goodnight song.

    • @zanonzimande3099
      @zanonzimande3099 2 года назад +1

      @@lukaszkochanowski3542 Owell ..lol....

    • @fastesteddiealive
      @fastesteddiealive 2 года назад +1

      Because it was never born. And it’s not in existence. It’s not any type of freestyle. Not a ny freestyle def not an la freestyle. It’s a verse off his song n if u don’t know that in 2022 you really aren’t a fan of his

    • @oladayolawrence9269
      @oladayolawrence9269 Год назад

      It was not a freestyle
      It was written.
      Long kiss

    • @bazglsgw1208
      @bazglsgw1208 Год назад

      It’s one of his best tunes produced by RZA

  • @drstew1
    @drstew1 Год назад +15

    I dont know of any rapper since Biggie with this level of framing and delivery. And how he mixes up with lyrics in real time? Extraordinary…R.I.P Christopher George Latore Wallace.🙏🏽

  • @norismith9651
    @norismith9651 3 месяца назад +3

    Biggie wrote cease whole verse and it was fire 🔥 damn he was a all around beast

  • @jackgowrie8050
    @jackgowrie8050 2 года назад +13

    Truly amazing, I fell into a trance listening to this incredible footage. Christopher Wallace was from a rap world that came to visit planet earth. God bless this beautiful MC

  • @xcarraskii
    @xcarraskii 4 года назад +114

    Today is Biggie smalls birthday may 21 happy birthday

  • @seanohare2214
    @seanohare2214 4 года назад +33

    ‘So don’t you get suspicious, I’m big dangerous, you just a little vicious’.... Delivery 💯

  • @donovanhiggs1567
    @donovanhiggs1567 Год назад +5

    Years later and big still is a monster on the beat.

  • @tsheponcamane2018
    @tsheponcamane2018 4 года назад +99

    "I ain't mad at cha"?..."You nobaby knows you till somebody kills you"...Biggie subliminally taking shots...

    • @adelnoor
      @adelnoor 4 года назад +14

      that's what killed him

    • @theshahofiran7929
      @theshahofiran7929 4 года назад +4

      This isn’t a freestyle it’s his song long kiss goodnight

    • @tsheponcamane2018
      @tsheponcamane2018 4 года назад +6

      @@theshahofiran7929 at this point it was not yet realised as song

    • @theshahofiran7929
      @theshahofiran7929 4 года назад +2

      @@tsheponcamane2018 no the song was already recorded before , but released later on life after death.

    • @tsheponcamane2018
      @tsheponcamane2018 4 года назад

      @@theshahofiran7929 ok

  • @LibraLee88
    @LibraLee88 Год назад +14

    Him and Pac Voices Were so Uniquely Powerful U Listened.Them Guys never made it to see 26yrs old But They were Men In voice and Appearance. HIM AND pac were in there early 20s and it felt like they were 30-40yr old men R.I.P POPPA

  • @Hattila17
    @Hattila17 Год назад +15

    The Biggie flow what everyone missing since he died. One of one. Gone way too soon legend.

  • @grimnartusk265
    @grimnartusk265 2 месяца назад +5

    Dude was just a “once in a lifetime” kinda talent and person. A rare combination of all the billions of variables that need to mesh to create dude.
    Just something about it, the times also play into it, rap isn’t like it used to be (obviously) and the environment people are growing up and rapping about is different too. Whole games changed, won’t be another biggie

  • @k.l.s1869
    @k.l.s1869 2 года назад +26

    Biggie breath control was crazy, he sound just like the album

    • @clarkbar
      @clarkbar 2 года назад

      thats cuz all these were verses are written, all from Life After Death

    • @k.l.s1869
      @k.l.s1869 2 года назад

      @@clarkbar bro I know that, what I’m saying is that he sounds just like the album outside of the mix and mastering. Some artists don’t sound as good as they do on the album.

  • @sukiafc
    @sukiafc Год назад +23

    26 years to the date! RIP Biggie. 100% hip hop.

    • @ethanlambiris1890
      @ethanlambiris1890 Год назад +1

      Fmd 1997 was 26 years ago? Thanks for making me feel old 😂

  • @clearlyblurry508
    @clearlyblurry508 2 года назад +28

    Damn. Biggie's flow is something else! One of the G.O.A.T.s, no doubt.

  • @Richard-xr4wj
    @Richard-xr4wj 7 месяцев назад +2

    Smoothest flows in the business. Never gets old. Just better and more true. RIP Biggie

  • @adamknight1413
    @adamknight1413 Год назад +44

    God, how great would it have been to still have Biggie with us, spitting incredible bars. 😢

    • @RogerFisher-bj1wv
      @RogerFisher-bj1wv Год назад +1

      I really be thinking puffy wicked as hell man

    • @RigidRecords69
      @RigidRecords69 10 месяцев назад

      @@RogerFisher-bj1wv puffy should be in prison!

  • @peejay8519
    @peejay8519 Год назад +13

    Biggies flow, voice and style is unmatched! Incredible!💕

  • @RobinXlone
    @RobinXlone 3 года назад +15

    thing about big is he so lyrical without sounding over-complicated. every word he says makes perfect sense

  • @tomlang80
    @tomlang80 6 месяцев назад +4

    Rest In Peace….biggie….the best lyricist ever…hands down.

  • @annawalsh8880
    @annawalsh8880 Год назад +12

    Biggie was born to rap, he's a natural as he said himself I can rap all night. R. I. P Biggie

  • @thecoach11
    @thecoach11 Год назад +91

    You have to be talented to have only put out two albums three to be technical since it was a double disc. And the fact he’s considered top 3 of all time is amazing Biggie was that talented. Bar for Bar with any emcee in the world

  • @Esz420
    @Esz420 4 года назад +15

    Man at the end when the guy tells him to just go and don’t worry about cussing.....that’s the reason he’s the G.O.A.T!!

  • @brentcarterandfriends
    @brentcarterandfriends Год назад +6

    Rhythmic flow is impeccable!

  • @ignorantatheist4258
    @ignorantatheist4258 5 лет назад +1536

    Biggie rapping about backwoods 20 years before any one

    • @pyrex7332
      @pyrex7332 4 года назад +32

      so false xD biggie didn't pioneer backwoods or popularize them

    • @Townsteppa
      @Townsteppa 4 года назад +21

      Mr.Unlimited he said sippen white russian not smokin em😂😂

    • @BIGMONEYMEDIA
      @BIGMONEYMEDIA 4 года назад +42

      @@Townsteppa listen before you speak, he said "i smoke backwoods" before the russian line

    • @tyreesneed
      @tyreesneed 4 года назад +18

      @@BIGMONEYMEDIA people been smoking backwoods long before biggie started rapping. just because your bozo ass only heard about them from new era bozo rappers just shows ura bozo

    • @detroit1018
      @detroit1018 4 года назад +13

      SNEEDS DURAG he said biggie was RAPPING ABOUT IT FIRST you can’t read nigga?

  • @JustAGentlemanZ
    @JustAGentlemanZ 2 года назад +28

    I miss this head noddin’ hip hop greatest era. Whole different level then rappers these days. The golden era is over but maybe one day the diamond age of this style will come up. Ain’t looking like that’s happening too soon though. Much love to all the true G’s out there and if your reading this big ups for still keeping Biggie alive. True legends never really die but style changes and evolves. Just don’t feel like many artists these days have ascended to this level of true talent and sound that everyone can get down with. Much love y’all. 2023

    • @707josh
      @707josh 2 года назад +1

      It’s not gone, plenty artists still like that. Not everything new is bad

    • @JustAGentlemanZ
      @JustAGentlemanZ 2 года назад

      @@707josh got some suggestions my good man?

    • @JakingTheDivine
      @JakingTheDivine 2 года назад +1

      The diamond era is starting to happen

    • @destinyezife174
      @destinyezife174 2 года назад

      @@JakingTheDivine and who exactly is part of this diamond age? Cardie b?

    • @JakingTheDivine
      @JakingTheDivine 2 года назад +1

      @@destinyezife174 no it’s a buzzing scene in the underground full of upcoming dope artist who are original .. Freddie Gibbs, Benny the butcher, action Bronson, Conway, earl sweatshirt, WestSide gunn, Mavi, pink stifu, mick Jenkins, 38 Spesh, Ransom, to name a few of the known and it’s more younger cats on they way. You have to search for the music you want not complain about what you don’t see. It’s out there .. go support those artist still holding it down

  • @bigbruce2528
    @bigbruce2528 Год назад +4

    Check back on this one every once in a while, godly bars and wordplay transitions are fuckin seamless

  • @OhHeyRey
    @OhHeyRey Год назад +12

    The fact that he said he can rhyme all night 😤😤😤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @Dev-rk4ne
    @Dev-rk4ne 3 года назад +64

    90s American rap was something special biggie still played every where in Ireland 🇮🇪💪