FIRST TIME REACTION to Eminem biggest ever freestyle in the world! Westwood

[@pantelischristodoulou9370]

Bro how can you even question Em’s freestyle ability😂He literally grew up practicing every single day to the fullest, that was a light work for him 😅

[@zepyiM]

im late but this comment need more fkn likes!!!!!!!

[@jamiej5229]

whoever doubted that this is freestyle, just be reminded that his written lyrics are multimillion dollar smash-hits. for some its hard to believe, but imagine practicing your whole life just one thing. and now we see another dedicated example of what is possible in freestyle with harry mack. eminem is just immensly ahead of his time!

[@pantelischristodoulou9370]

broo E X A C T L Y

[@alessial134]

His world play is out of this world - the timing the speed the rhyme is unbeatable he’s a monster

[@zeus8684]

It’s written and off the top, it’s both and it’s great

[@vortexca888]

Yeah exactly. I see people saying it’s all off the top when there’s sections that are obviously written. Still like em though.

[@Valleystick]

I feel like the start and end was freestyle, while the middle 10:58 was written, he is going way too fast and fluid here! No disrespect to Em he is a legend, but I feel if any rapper wants to prove their freestyle skills they need either words or objects like H Mack does to prove it

[@kioez2109]

@@Valleystick i honestly don't think so look how impressed tim westwood was during it and was random beats you can't just freestyle written lyrics on a random beat like that

[@jasons2851]

Loved this when I freestyle when I found it online not long ago. From what I understand they came up with the hook on the way but I think the rest is truly freestyle. Agree with you on Eminem. Truly groundbreaking. All these reactions and rabbit holes got me back into rap and lots of other musicians I hadn't heard of. Thanks for your reactions!

[@andrewsears16]

Em is freestyling in the sense that he did not plan what he was going to rap. But also he's got so many lines and such in his mind ready to pull at anytime. This is what he excelled at and how he got to the top. Him and proof used to just sit there and freestyle for hours as well. Are we going to argue that Harry Mack isnt freestyling off the top when he's pulling from his repertoire of rhymes and lines in his head? That's an extreme argument but if you really look at Eminem's eyes while He's performing this, he's gone to that same place that Harry goes when he gets in the zone. To be fair, I could be wrong...that being said I wish we could see him freestyle back and forth in a cypher with someone like Harry where they're feeding off eachother's bars so we can put this convo to rest and finally have some answers as to what he's capable of and whether these freestyles are truly off the top

[@andrewsears16]

Sidenote: look at the difference in his demeanor while he raps the hook compared to the rest

[@PlightOfAMan]

Stanley dinner is done

[@andrewsears16]

@@PlightOfAMan I'm sorry but I don't understand the reference

[@smrzgg]

I'll always have Em as my favorite artist. I would always admit Harry is better at freestyling than Em. As you said - they both have thought of millions of rhymes in their head. Different styles, em was always focused on records (after he got out of the battle space). Battle rap is slightly different to what HMack does too.

[@andrewsears16]

@@smrzgg very well said

[@seanmurphy1218]

Whether it's top of the dome or written, the rhyme scheme, cadence and delivery is top of the line.

[@dasyeah2695]

i think ppl also forget how much he worked his ass off and he always gives dues and pays respect to the fore runners and way pavers. He live and breaths Hip Hop, it helped him throughout him growing up and he just got morre nerdy and complex with it. Give the Man the respect he desrves, he has the skills, the passion and the catalouge to back it all up. Old and new Em have their place

[@jasonerickson1753]

100%. Great artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Beethoven, Bach, Ravel, etc. all went through periods where they changed up their styles to explore new directions that kept them excited and evolving. I would be seriously disappointed if Eminem hadn't kept exploring new directions. Better for him to lose old fans and gain new ones, because the new ones will look at his back catalog and appreciate him even more, even if they have different preferences about which parts of his career they personally prefer. The old fans will still love his old work, and eventually they'll come to appreciate some of his newer work. The worst outcome would be for him to get bored because he no longer has room to grow. It's his growth that has kept him relevant, because "the hood" is such a small part of the market, and he's thinking so much bigger. That's why he puts out masterpieces like "Darkness" that are lyrically, sonically, and visually stunning... and which people speak to people on levels that a lot of his other work does not.

[@lynette.]

He worked so hard at the start of his career every opportunity that came along he made the most of it.

[@themadgamer4571]

There's another Eminem Westwood freestyle with Royce Da 5'9 check that one too!!!

[@cyborgreality]

Old school Slim Shady LP and Marshal Mathers LP are so good. Don’t get me wrong I like the new stuff but I LOVE the older ones. Also pretty positive that at the end when they started to rap together was the only part that was written on the way up there

[@kristentitus4946]

He exudes this rap. You can just hear his focus and determination in his voice ❤❤

[@williamprater2212]

It's both. There is a point when the second beat drop where you can see on ems face he ain't in the room anymore, he's linking words to bars

[@halvanhorn7051]

He was definitely freestyling

[@jimmyhughes5392]

alchemist is always on fire with his beats, man is a legend in the game with not enough recognition

[@HipHopMachine]

It’s written and off the top, BOTH ! And itsss 🔥🔥🔥

[@DoctorNerf]

You can see how much the middle section smacked bro on the right. It is really that deep. The word play and flow in that section is like leaving planet earth.

[@kyleburns1340]

Eminem is the goat. Has been and will always will be. Even during the damn super bowl he got the loudest cheer.

[@lewisfender318]

The first 2 verses from Em might have been off the top freestyles. I don't know if it's possible for the rest to be

[@derekstover2236]

This was all off the top Eminem the god

[@SS-hz2xw]

This is for sure freestyle from where he came, and Royce also mentioning Em never used pen making rap god. Em has also talked about having pocket schemes when freestyling. Check out D12 Backstage freestyle , its like 30min from 2001.

[@jasonerickson1753]

Em claims to have written "Rap God" in 6-1/2 minutes, that he one-take freestyled the whole thing. But just listen to the music and beats he's going over ...there's no way he didn't hear that a few times and have a detailed plan for how he planned to weave everything together, especially with the callouts and references to preceding rap groups. The fastest part of the song is a flow taken directly from "Supersonic" by the group JJ Fab - he even incorporates some of their lyrics. Like Lil Wayne and Jay-Z, he may have composed most of the lyrics in his head beforehand, then spit the completed work when he hit the booth. Even Harry Mack has used that approach for some of his more intricate works, like portions of the "Soulliliquies" EP, and in the video, there's a brief description of the approach he used for each section.

[@BoydOfPray]

​@@jasonerickson1753The clip where he says he freestyled Rap God, if you watch that entire clip I think it's pretty clear that he was joking about that. Not to diminish Eminem's skill by any means, but I see people throw that out all the time like it's an established fact but I think people only see the cut version of that clip. 🙂

[@lewisfender318]

Oh sht, gotta Vinnie Paz and Sean Price mention! Nice! I used to listen to Jedi Mind Tricks and AOTP all the time back in the day

[@mrwick7961]

renegade was actually em and royce's song originally then jayz wanted on it. so jayz new what to expect and still got murdered on it lol

[@AnaIBarker]

Here for all Em’s reactions 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lynette.]

I think they even say that they prepared the joint in the taxi on the way to the show.

[@EbizzerHH]

AFAIK this is beside the hook from the top of the dome... and don't forget this was EM's drugged Prime and you can feel he could've continued for hours with this... I love the moment, when the second verse beat kicks in and you know: EM WILL EAT NOW!!! It is this type of beat and boy... did he deliver! Much love from germany! ^^

[@Vexatl]

Eminem will always be top 5!

[@losnamerales3403]

💯 I've lived through the biggie/pac era and grew through the NWA era.. Em has proved he belongs in that top 5, I place him number 1 because of his skill and strict dedication to the craft he's a true student of the ones that came before 💯

[@env0x]

there's a full uncensored version of this out there somewhere on yt but it doesn't have the video. it's absolutely insane.

[@yzwme586]

the first freestyle was off top but the one over the microphone beat seemed written

[@BoydOfPray]

If you're talking about the part where they rap a hook together, he points out in the video that it was a vocal exercise they put together in the car on the way there.

[@aljohnson3054]

This. Is written we are now spoiled

[@justinatest9456]

If you haven't seen Em's video for Darkness, it's his best work imo.

[@piotrd7718]

I believe I seen somewhere he said it was rehearsal before the Westwood show, maybe not on same beat and not fully written but at least some bars pre arranged before air I think

[@skiman5289]

First time I see you two I love how you play a good amount of the freestyle then comment

[@markstelle9402]

Yeah this one goes hard. He has another real good one with Royce, Mr Porter with alcamyst

[@darkhumor8125]

This dude has three styles, Eminem, Marshall and Slim. No one can touch him lyrically

[@turbompson4546]

The ones thinking this isn't freestyle don't know how versatlile Em really is.

[@Mznewwave]

After seeing Harry mack you can’t not believe that this is freestyle some people are just different man em is one of those emcees

[@DuaneIsAwful]

Eminem is my FAVORITE RAPPER OF ALL TIME. Most of his FREESTYLES are part written. Watch his rap battles. He doesn't have punchlines

[@mama_nez]

Now as far as the written vs off the top debate, I'm definitely going to wait until after y'all hear Em explain the hook they came up with on the way to the studio before I jump down your throat over thinking the verses were from writtens

[@maxelito7590]

EM is a never ending story

[@magicmandirtlurper7732]

It was a real freestyle you can tell by looking at his face while he’s rapping you can see him make the connections in his eyes, he also said they wrote the hook on the way to the studio, just the hook!

[@jeffspalding5368]

It’s off the dome. 😂

[@budbudsky5466]

HIS NEW FREESTYLE ARE 🔥🔥🔥

[@AmaBrigitte]

The great Eminen, love him ❤ thanks guys❤

[@DoomGoy88]

Sounds to me like a mix of freestyle off top and written prepared bars. He probably spent 20 minutes before the performance to sort of put it together either in his head or on paper. The "white fellow, quite mellow, bright yellow" bar sounded very improv, while a lot of the rest of it sounded like he had it memorized, but not necessarily rehearsed

[@cokedealer2084]

JayZ is rapping to a different audience than Eminem is. JayZ can make a banger, but listening to an Eminem song is like brain twister man. He never ceases to amaze me.

[@theunseenencyclopedia]

was off the top, dudes an alien

[@agapic445]

It was not off the top dude… and that wont make any less crazier but do not make yourself a fool

[@theunseenencyclopedia]

@@agapic445 the first one was 100% off the top, second one is debatable

[@mama_nez]

13 years ago makes this freestyle a year after Relaose was released. (I'm typing this immediately after our boy said the freestyle was posted 13 years ago, and I'm not going to come back and edit this even if y'all end up discussing things later in the video that make my comment look ignorant 😂😁😏

[@kimzwolinski9919]

Who else would repeatedly talk 💩about Christopher Reeves 😂 This is my favorite freestyle. Been listening to “Prophecy “ for a couple of days now and love it. Great song 😊

[@ShaneRich47]

you guy rule!!!

[@ShaneRich47]

guys.. cheap key board

[@mama_nez]

OH SHIT HERE WE GOOO!!!

[@orbitalviewer]

the only reason i would suspect it is off the dome, is because he is extremely focused, if you watch his eyes he is constantly staring at the floor in deep focuse, not like somebody reciting lines, more like h mack or any other good freestyler when they go into almost a trance. Also keep in mind that em was a battle rapper, so he had at least some freestyle foundation way back then. Plus he is a hiphop extremist, not to sound parasocial but i would believe that that guy lives and breathes hip hop, and over the years of yes 20+ year career, he would have accumulated a metric shit ton of rhymes jsut in his nots or hovering somewhere in the back of his mind, so chances are he could easily freestyle some crazy shit off the top and jsut weave in some writtens to make something that sounds alomst too good to freestyle. If you think of harry mack he has like 90% freestlye and 10% "written" when he spits and by written i mean lines he has used before, like fillers or his weed bars and water bottle bars etc, technically once he has spit them once you could consider them in his "book of rhymes" kinda like when em writes it down. It would be impossible to tell what percent of ems freestyle came from his "book of rhymes", but i would assume its a lot more then harry. But yeah we cant really know unless someone could throw him some words or shit like that, but he doesent really have a reason to do that sadly. Well soory for writing a book, just kind of kept on typing and this is what came out. Edit: actually one more thing i forgot to mention that would speak toward the fact that it is off the dome is that it is nowhere close to as clean as his written bars normally are, i dont mean that small things, but more as a whole it jsut doesent all fuse well together like something em would write normally would. Or i could be delusional. I will finish the vid now xD

[@Time4SumAksion021]

"Here's a smidgen, a miget to get your digits, Bridget, Don't try to fidget w it, ribbit ribbit" 1. Eminem 2. B.IG. 3. Rakim 4. Nas 5. Andre (Outkast) 6. Kool G Rap 7. B.D. Kane 8. Redman 9. Busta Rhymes 10. KRS-One.

[@imeetay]

One day you'll get around to Lupe Fiasco's "Mural" and your minds will be blown 🤯

[@jp.thecameraman]

Its off the top bro

[@TweezerShred]

Mechanical hannibal.

[@VladimirMizich]

Em has great discipline.

[@Moose96080]

It's off the top

[@dcmartinez1977]

Y’all should check out early Eminem called Biterphobia. Sooo dope.

[@mikavelli5516]

Aye pic pac up off the floor. Gotta have respect

[@brandonreynolds9587]

Bro it all is off the top. They was clowning around. Think of it none of this was ever put in a song just from the head all for this only

[@dannybo1472]

Black Thought Funk Flex freestyle

[@cesarangulo7419]

This is off the top. Don't forget that's how em came up. On the battle scene. Him and Lupe are deadly off the top

[@damaconx6854]

It’s comical that you think that

[@vortexca888]

Yeah I agree that some of it is off the top. But there’s parts were you can tell it’s most likely written. Idk maybe I’m wrong though.

[@Valleystick]

I feel like the start and end was freestyle, while the middle 10:58 was written, he is going way too fast and fluid here! No disrespect to Em he is a legend, but I feel if any rapper wants to prove their freestyle skills they need either words or objects like H Mack does to prove it

[@mawangshallhang]

Come on. How can you think that, really.

[@wooshbait36]

Gullible clown 🤡

[@skater61991]

I think it was all off top. Or potentially conceived in his head ahead of time, and then put together in the moment. But I would guess it wasn’t actually written down and perfected before he spit it.

[@michaelpahula5236]

Eminem actually recorded the son RENEGADES without Jay-Z .. originally Royce was on it. Then him and Royce had that crazy beef for all those years, Jay Z heard the song and bought the song from Eminem and just took Royce's spot in the song. Everyone always talks about Emimen bodying Jay Z on his own song .. but in reality Emimen bodies him on Ems song.

[@michaelpahula5236]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZCykGCLh7Gaf68 Fifteen years ago.

[@mase12fan]

If you haven’t heard Eminem diss track called nail in the coffin you gotta hear that!

[@wonderbreadbrandonabel9093]

Eminem part is definitely a freestyle

[@pallew]

Do more Em 💯💯

[@bossaudio12]

Em is the goat

[@followdanger890]

Go listen to relapse if you want more wordplay like that. Criminally underrated album and a birth to a new form of horrorcore.

[@ghostboy4965]

I personally think your freestyles are better than the songs you put out. Your music is fire regardless, but as you said, you unlock different levels when going off the top. I bumped the one take free like 100 times. Fire reaction anyway! Em is amazing. You should react to BET cypher 2011 Shady 2.0 !

[@bowZuRR]

lupe fiasco "mural" dooo it!

[@drittzz9245]

Definitely should do the 97 rap Olympics/Scribble Jam Em footage it's recorded on a potato but just to see him actually in a battle situation is something different imo

[@jasonerickson1753]

Westwood hosted Eminem & Proof freestyles in 2000, 2004, etc. Great time capsules, even though it's hard to tell how much is off-top vs written. Several available here: kzbin.info?search_query=westwood+eminem+and+proof

[@nickcancellieri435]

Watched many reactions and I get frustrated when they think this is a “freestyle”. It takes a true freestyler to know this was a written…sick nonetheless! Cheers to this reaction!

[@1osttt]

you gotta listen to eminem's sway in the morning freestyle it's a perfect acapella

[@jessisanchez8150]

Just saw R.A last nite in El Paso

[@kylechristie5792]

The real slim shady has entered the building

[@aprilboxton2284]

I have a head snippets of Em's verse here elsewhere but it's not the same . So i would say it's got both... freestyle with a lil written sprinkled in.. I've only heard the angels Angela Jolie part in another freestyle... the rest I've never heard b4

[@rhyskirby893]

More Eminem reactions pleaseee

[@matthewpaul7222]

Freestyle either way, and i think its a mixtures of writtens and just odd off the top parts just him having fun

[@coreyrees840]

When the slaughterhouse beat drops it’s written, clearly, the beginning and end verses are off too though

[@TheShinnion]

Rakim : Em is nasty

[@ItachiUchiha-jv3rf]

Jay-Z started out with a group called Original Flava. I get where you're coming from though.He was there during the fast rap 90's movement.

[@mama_nez]

Watching anxiously to hear whether Crooked I is included with Tech N9ne and the rest as a top lyricist 😬

[@mase12fan]

Looooove Crook! Such a dope lyricist his brothers too Shoe Gang

[@Thebob6]

It’s off the top. Except the hook in the 3rd one. It’s why he is the best.

[@BirdDogg]

Pretty apparent that Harry is levels and levels ahead of Em at this point in his career, unless em has transcended, this ain’t even the same venue

[@betagaurdian224]

React to juice wrlds freestyle over Eminem beats

[@LauraMcClay]

please do more eminem videos

[@daisy92204]

💜🦋💜🔮🔮🔮

[@ALLnamesTAKENffs]

9.01 secs.. whatcha think he's talking about? I think he went to a dark place and spit flames off top.

[@ALLnamesTAKENffs]

13.10 old mate wouldn't even drop a verse because em just cut sick. If it was written, that wouldn't happen because it would of been planned

[@bryanpineda6187]

Eminem just wrote multiple bars to rap over different beats to say it word for word as fluently as a song he’s preformed already…lol yeahhh…

[@karmicscope5259]

Em said they wrote the hook. Not the song, on the way there.

[@IpimpshaftI]

Bp....check out bad meets evil....Royse da 5 9.....sick as hell....one of the best hip hop albums of all time

[@jasonerickson1753]

Eminem and Royce da 5'9" early freestyles (unclear how much is written vs off-top, but super dope time capsule): kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZq5p4JvbLCqh8U

[@TheOsloDude]

I feel people are overlooking the "70 spirits of ladys cause shady murdered the virgins" bar. If u commit jihad u go to heaven and get 70 virgins, em so crazy he did jihad and then killed the virgins, that so fucking hard haha😂

[@ower2532]

I think he's cappin I think he's already seen most of the stuff he reacts too lol Especially this one

[@barranation2610]

Tripping if you think that’s not off top atleast the last one they thought of the hook on the way to the studio but everything else was just old school em high as fuck and zoned in!!

[@hecticreaction]

If you start reacting to Em you might hit 100K by next week bro! No 🧢

[@horrordaniel]

Hell ant enough, they need to invent somewhere new to send me😮