Top 10 Best Freestyle Rappers
Slim built his entire empire on the foundation of freestyle rap, which is why he can rap about anything, anywhere, to any music. When you honestly ask yourself if his freestyle flow and creativity are better than his recorded songs, it's kind of hard to even find anyone close. If Biggie had lived, it would be a hard choice, as I witnessed a great many of his freestyle raps that you had to be there to hear.
He's an amazing freestyler because he uses a lot of play on words, and he has incredible endurance to go on and on forever. It's incredible how he thinks of the best lyrics on the spot. He has all the requirements of a great freestyler.
I am a ballet style person and never liked listening to rap. I don't even like the tracks where rap and songs are mixed. The only rapper I have ever heard and then heard again and again is Eminem. He is indeed the 'Rap God'.
First, I will say from this I see most of you guys don't know old rappers and just go with what you know.
The late, great underground emcee was one of the best freestyle rappers out there. He was overlooked by some, but you can't deny his ability to freestyle off the top of his head. I'm not the only one who thought this, but he was better at freestyling than writing songs and hits. It's the truth, and you guys know it.
1. Big L
2. Snoop Dogg
3. Eminem
4. Canibus
5. Jin from Freestyle Friday
Big L spits faster, harder, and better lyrics than Eminem and anybody else when it comes to the freestyle game. If you listen to his freestyle with Jay Z, you will understand what I mean. Jay Z is a nasty freestyle artist, but Big L goes so fast and is so good that he makes him look slow and bad in comparison. Lamont Coleman #1.
As an Eminem fan, I gotta say, Big L has the coldest freestyles ever spit on the mic, with awesome wordplays and deliveries. Eminem himself paid tribute to him. For anyone who is still in doubt, check the Freestyle Big L had with Jay-Z.
Where's Brooklyn at! He is the best freestyler ever. How can Eminem be the first? Biggie is a lyrical genius. The lyrics to his freestyle have deep meaning too... Rapping freestyle right from childhood has made him the finest freestyler... He would kill Eminem in freestyle. If not in his songs.
I love Eminem and I feel that he should be good against Biggie, but I feel that Biggie is the greatest freestyler of all time. Em has some really good freestyles, but when I hear Biggie, he is the most talented rapper of all time.
Without a doubt, Notorious was the sickest freestyler of all time. He had the best lyrics and the smoothest flow. Put anyone in front of B.I.G., and he will smash them. The main talent of B.I.G.'s was his freestyle.
Eminem says it all. He's better than Em when it comes to freestyling. Now, there is another individual who I would've put on #1. His name is Harry Mack. He truly freestyles.
How is Proof not at least top 5, let alone top 10? Have any of you heard his freestyle with Eminem on Westwood? That 4th verse is mind-blowing, "I know the truth so now I'm baring all, I made R Kelly confess he stole his first style from Aaron Hall, a wack MC with a gun, I'm not one, when you see Kurt Cobain tell him bring back my shotgun." Amazing, just amazing.
Even Eminem admits Proof was a better freestyler than him. GOAT.
Out of all these top 10, Juice WRLD is my favorite. He helped heal the world with all types of depression, anxiety, and many others. He sang with his heart pouring out and always delivered beautiful performances with any beat given to him, as stated in the description. He wanted someone to follow in his footsteps and perhaps surpass his own achievements, as he mentioned in his latest album "Fighting Demons" on the songs "Juice WRLD speaks" or "Juice WRLD speaks 2". His music still guides me through sadness, heartbreak, and many other challenges. Millions of people continue to find solace in his music. If only he were here. :( 999
Self-proclaimed Freestyle King, and he's not wrong. He claims he made Lucid Dreams in 15 minutes and that he freestyled the entirety of Death Race for Love, and I have no reason not to believe him. Everyone will bring up Westwood where he freestyled for an hour. Look up his Fire in the Booth where he tells the guy to just start throwing words at him, and he incorporates them into the song at the same time. 999 forever, man. No one's going to touch this guy as far as freestyles go. RIP.
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Look up freestyle in the dictionary, and you will find this man. He can think of multiple rhymes in one sentence just like that. The only reason he isn't at the top is because most people here just bob their heads.
A full range of skills, Thought can do it on T.V., in the studio, on stage, and on the street. That Flex freestyle should put him in the top 10 by itself.
He literally spit a 10-minute bar that was smart and had crazy flow throughout. He absolutely has to be in the top 3.
I'd keep moving Kendrick up in this... He does this gnarly flashcard freestyle, and it sounds like he wrote it because it's got punchlines, metaphors, jokes, and it's just fire, like all his freestyles.
Come on, man, he deserves to be in the top 10...!
This man's words have their own mind.
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Damn, this man got those wordplays, fast rhymes, and flows. Nothing can be taken from this man.
Who else out there has multiple 10 and 11 minute freestyles? Look on YouTube for Coke on the Scale, Where is Cass at, then compare that to his modern 0 to 100 and Control remixes. Been on point for a long time.
One of the best freestylers to do it. All you have to do is watch the freeway battle. I love Lupe, but he can't freestyle. And Canibus pulled out a pad in a damn battle.
If you really know about freestyles, how is he not in the top 5? Most people here are voting for artists for the wrong reasons.
In freestyle rap, he is for sure better than number 4 down. Plus, he is the biggest selling rapper of all time, releasing most of his hits between '95 to '97, get it? Listen to him talk in interviews, throw in a beat, and you'll see what I'm talking about (sounds like he's freestyling).
#1 doesn't matter if we're talking about freestyling or rapping! I will vouch for this man till the day I die. Best one I've seen on this chart!
Contrary to popular belief, Tupac had mad freestyle skills. When he was young, he rolled with a notebook and pad everywhere, ready to spit at any minute.
Eyedea's range in freestyle, and the fact that it was truly never written, is what's most amazing about his freestyling. He was an accomplished battle rapper, winning Blaze, Scribble Jam, Rock the Bells. He did lose twice: one toss-up epic battle vs Brother Ali (an amazing freestyler/artist and good friend of his) and one of his very first battles, which was pretty bad, where he lost to Slug (from Atmosphere, also a good friend of his). His actual freestyles are much more magnificent than his battle raps. He can go off the dome fast, slow, with so many styles, so many original interesting thoughts, and great at respecting people on the mic and not cutting people off, even though he blows their asses out of the water. R.I.P. to the G.O.A.T.
It's a joke this guy is anywhere but number one on any freestyle list. He won two of the biggest battles in the world before he graduated high school. He stopped freestyling because he got bored. He no longer found it amusing to insult people. Not to mention, everything was off the top of his head, unlike most other so-called "freestyle" artists. Look at his battles vs. RK, or Shells, or Optimus Prime (my personal favorite), and tell me he's not the best.
Yo, Dr. Dre should be the first. This website is close, he was the one who had the best producing company ever. Eminem was on his label Aftermath. It used to be all about this and all about that, so voting for him. Thank you, bye.
King Los has one of the best 5 Fingers of Death freestyles ever, and his Bootleg Kev freestyle challenge was amazing as well. I like a number of artists, such as Eminem, Tech N9ne, and Slaughterhouse, better than him, but when Los freestyles off the top of his head, he is number 1 without a doubt. His vocabulary is insane, his intellect and wordplay amazing, and his rhythm and flow unreal. He also has a very unique pattern rap that he calls reverse pattern rap, which gives him a different edge.
King Los is back at 36, but people who have literally never actually freestyled (Pac, Dr. Dre, Kanye) off the top are top 10 just because you all recognize the name. Stop conforming to what people tell you are the best rappers and listen for yourself. Use your own brains. And when people ask for your top 5, give them YOURS, not the typical "Biggie, Eminem, Tupac, etc". If you think that, so be it, but King Los is the best freestyler since Biggie, and I would even say he could out-freestyle Biggie time-wise.
Lupe Fiasco is one of the best at freestyle rapping in the world. Almost all of his songs have a meaning. That's why he's the 5th best in the world. No jokes about that. If you want proof, battle him yourself!
Not in the top ten because not enough people have heard his freestyles. My top 3 are Eminem, Lupe, and King Los, in no special order. They are all sick off the top!
His flow is unreal, but more impressive is that his freestyles have meaning and it's not just different versions of 'I'm great and...kill people.'
Even though he had a short rapping career of three years, most of his songs were based off freestyles. Snupe had been freestyling since he was six, and it is very rare to find freestyle artists like Lil Snupe in the 2010s era with lots of potential. In a song, he admitted he is the freestyle king because there was no one to freestyle like the wacky rappers we have today.
All he did was freestyle. He was able to freestyle at 6 years old! Every song of his was fire. If he wasn't shot, he would be the best in the game right now. He was back then and still would be. There was so much left for him to prove. He's even admitted in his songs that he's the best, the freestyle king. Nobody can top him, not even Eminem.
RIP Lil Snupe. Go on YouTube and watch his videos. Any true rap fan will appreciate what he brings to the table. He is the Freestyle Rap God. If he would have had the chance to blow up like he should have, then he would for sure be number one on this list. And he wasn't like any of these fake-ass rappers. He really worked on the block, and his goons are still out there.
Snoop Dogg is a real freestyler. He has written nothing. He just comes in and freestyles off the top of his head. You can hear his song 'The Shiznit'. It is all freestyle. And his flow in his freestyles is outstanding. He has a good vocabulary, that's why his rhyming is awesome. You can check out his freestyle videos on YouTube. There are tons of them.
While I didn't vote for him, I would put him in the top ten because I think in some of his songs, he does make up some of the lyrics as he goes along.
Snoop Dogg is one of the best freestyle rappers. He should be in the top 5-10. Just watch his rap battles on Wild 'N Out, and you will see what I mean.
J. Cole is a young artist who is known for sounding like Drake. Like Drake, he will leave you in tears.
Cole's new freestyle sets him apart from the rest.
Frankly speaking, J. Cole is the king.
Truly nothing to say, he's just a genius and does freestyles effortlessly.
He is a freestyle genius, damn it!
He has to be on here.
He deserves it, his funny rap style, and fast rhymes alongside his voice.
Not only the best freestyler, but the best rapper overall that the world has ever seen.
Before I get a bunch of replies saying that "Eminem is better" or "Biggie would smoosh Nas in a rap battle", I agree with both. However, just hear my case. Without a doubt, the greatest freestyle of all time, and possibly the greatest rap of all time, is Nas' song "N.Y. State Of Mind". A lot of new generations haven't heard it yet since Nas didn't reach the same iconic level that Eminem, Tupac, or Biggie did. The intense rhyme schemes prove that he can write a masterpiece within seconds in his mind.
His DJ even gave an interview where he just played the beat and Nas freestyled over it, in one take! Everyone in the studio, including Nas himself, was astounded at the quality of the freestyle. Now, the "hard" freestyles just contain simple, cliché rhyme schemes and have no actual meaning, while "N.Y. State Of Mind" describes the ghetto life and its struggles in Brooklyn.
Obviously, Nas hasn't recorded any other freestyles that are as iconic or well-known, but that one session really changed rap and set the base for the greatest rap album ever, "Illmatic". He should be #1, followed by Biggie at #2, and Eminem at #3. Why Biggie above Eminem? He freestyled all of his classic album, "Ready to Die", and it was still widely regarded as one of the best and deepest rap albums of all time.