LYRICAL MASTERY! College Student Reacts: Black Thought: Funk Flex Fresstyle

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[@roal3303]

Young homie, you caught more bars than a lot of people.Big Ups to you , doin this shit justice. You get some thangs.

[@jobencin8460]

True!

[@alangiovann4249]

100%

[@johnfennell7569]

Soooooo many educational bars in this! Black Thought is an Avid Reader. Very well read!! 1. Henrietta Lacks- Black woman whom after her death, her cells were stored to fight polio. 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald- Poet / Novelist of The Great Gatsby. 3.Griot - African traveling poet, musician, story teller. 4. Amalgamism - A mixture of different elements. 5. Algorithm - A process or set of rules in calculation. 6. Anomoly - Something that deviates from it's normal pattern. 7. Tigris & Euphrates- Rivers located in West Africa near Turkey, Syria and Iraq. {Birth place of man} 8. Similac- Baby formula filled with protein. 9. Fentinal - Synthetic Opioid, similar to Morphine. 10. Seoul {Soul} Capital of Korea. 11. Apex Predator- Top of the food chain. ie, Great White Shark, Dinosaurs, Lion. {Hard to defeat} 12. Henry Kissinger- Politian who wrote war policies, and treaties. 13. Sharia Law- Muslim Law {Derived from the Holy Quron} 14. War & Peace- A book with more than 1,000 pages. 15. Excalibur- A steel forged sword made of dragon fire of King Arthur, that can only be held by it's true master. 16. CB4- 1993 Chris Rock film about a fake gangster rapper {Rock} who gets checked by some real O'G's. 17. Long In The Tooth- Grow Old. 18. D.O.C. Legendary West Coast Rapper- Lost his vocal cords do to a car accident, whom rapped like an East Coast Artist. JUST A FEW I CAUGHT!

[@initiativemusicworks6459]

Things Fall Apart -Novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

[@majr6852]

@@initiativemusicworks6459 Also, the name of a Roots album...

[@initiativemusicworks6459]

Based on the book@@majr6852

[@kennonwright-zc8so]

"things fall apart" is also a Roots album or single name too!!! #phukingenius...​@@initiativemusicworks6459

[@emerj101]

I had to look up “griot”, nice lesson in African History

[@bobbypowers4693]

10 minutes of straight FLAWLESS flow. He tied the First Verse Up with the Last Verse. First verse. I’m sorry for ya loss / it’s somebody’s dead in car/ and probably one ah yours/ Writings all across the windows and the walls/ whether it was true or false/ you shouldn’t of gotten involved.. THEN HE SAYS REMEMBER…. Last Verse. Eh yo Flex I’m glad we made contact/ Ma Nigga also know dis shit fa combat/ Brain matter contains to MUCH DATA/ AH TELL STORY LIKE FINGER PRINTS & BLOOD SPLATTER. He has a new book called The Upcycled Self.. He’s one of my top 5 Mc’s

[@jobencin8460]

I like your attention to details

[@Pooz30]

I want to see someone sit down with Black Thought himself and go bar for bar breakdown. I’d watch that for hours.

[@michaelmckay7796]

I thought I was the only one to catch this!! 🔥 🔥

[@robertriojas2639]

This is the best freestyle ever so far and then king Los second trip to LA Leakers…. Black thought killed this great reaction

[@icecreamjones1]

You'll never hear one better, Sir.

[@behtashbahador6588]

This 2:36 was a triple entender: "I hate to say I told you all but I told you all things fall apart when the center too weak to hold y'all I'm just collecting what you owed to my old Jawn" 1) Things fall apart is the "old Jawn", the roots third studio album from 1999, so he's saying he already 'i tried to tell you then' and now I'm collecting the respect for it. 2) "Things Fall apart when the center is too weak to hold y'all" refers to the force of gravity which if not strong enough will not pull matter/objects towards the center of the force, so instead of being held together by the force, things fall away (aka apart) from the center 3) aside from the literal meaning and the metaphor in reference to the roots album, it's also a cultural/social/spiritual metaphor - if a cultural/society/individual is not strongly centered through values, structures and mechanisms for support, connections, etc), all can fall apart.

[@markswenson1194]

I really enjoy your college thesis breakdowns! Keep it up man!

[@PopePlatinumBeats]

this one makes u go do homework... i learned a GRIOT is an african storyteller

[@ohioono6636]

I had to look it lol

[@funkr77]

Excellent breakdown and shows you follow the forgotten elements of hiphop what is knowledge. Glad I found your channel

[@rema11769]

Daylyt funk flex freestyle please

[@WRECK-A-NIZE]

Facts gotta be next.

[@kyleallen9912]

Great reaction. Science, history and black history..hood history all in one. What he's talking about made school fun - the bullies.

[@qayyimcutta6682]

The hardest bar is about Henrietta Lacks. Double meaning "like Henry Lacks up in the cells" meaning jail cell and Henrietta Lacks cells a black women who's cell are still used today in cancer research. Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 - October 4, 1951)[1] was an African-American woman[4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line[A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific

[@danelson23BX90]

ive listened to this 50 times You caught shit i didnt catch

[@bluesafari5405]

Dat part! 💯💪🏾

[@SSCS2023Adrian]

Tell us you love hip-hop without telling us you love hip-hop. Well done young man.....well done.

[@mookX92]

My man went from fully invested ready to dissect these bars to, I'm not getting all of these double entendres. Lemme just stick to the basic meaning 'cause we already know that this man goes way deeper than I can interpret. Or else it would take me hours 😂. That right there is the difference between a true hip hop MC (i.e Mos Def, Ras Kass, Cormega, Big Pun, etc...) and a rapper repeating the mandatory list of money, guns, clothes & hoes

[@eitanaltman158]

One of the subtle bars that most people don’t catch because they are separated by a few measures - when he says “I’m the Sum of All Fears” he isn’t just flexing, there’s a movie called “Sum of All Fears” which stars…. Morgan Freeman 🤯

[@emerj101]

“…A damn good bargain.” is a Morgan Freeman line from Shawshank Redemption😮😮😮

[@eitanaltman158]

@@emerj101 holy shit 😮

[@emerj101]

Oh shit! Good on you bro, this is SO dense with references, Kudos bro…I love the Roots If you want more, Things Fall Apart is an EPIC hip hop album

[@Pooz30]

Give yourself credit dude… this was one of the most, if not the most, thorough breakdown I’ve seen.

[@danagordino7178]

You did an excellent job with this.

[@kennonwright-zc8so]

That beat is Mobb Deep's "the learning!" Prodigy (rip)/Havoc/feat Noid (I think)..that song is phukin Nabannas... check it out frfr!

[@phoenix1473]

Best on flex for me. Thanks for reacting brother 🙏🏽✌🏽❤️

[@starrisking1]

Your reaction top tier

[@kennonwright-zc8so]

LMFAO... he's a double and triple entondra master! I've literally watched this a hundred times not to mention various reactions!!!

[@2gritty]

this top tier

[@alangiovann4249]

HE'S ALWAYS A BEAST

[@tictaquess]

gotta do daylyt

[@terrancedavis338]

I love how you use your education to break down the verses. This now my favorite reaction channel. Subscribed!!

[@lovehate8286]

HE SNAPPED!

[@luigimario4458]

Harry Mack really is the GOAT! 😂😂😂🐐💯

[@tibos79]

Without any doubt

[@ryanmcauliffe717]

Top 5 in my books.

[@jfulton2852]

Thought is the greatest orator

[@kennonwright-zc8so]

YOURS IS THE BEST, MOST THOROUGH BREAKDOWN I'VE SEEN! LOL.. DON'T FEEL BAD, YOU STILL CAUGHT AND BROKE DOWN MORE THAN 80% OF THE BARS YOUR PEERS MISSED! #AWESOMEJOB...😂

[@egormalonga9037]

Try RJ Payne freestyle on bars i 95!

[@awhaley35]

Great reaction. You caught so much more then most... Your nerdy in a good way... Keep it up

[@jobencin8460]

True!

[@Taxmandarmus]

How you know about cb4, you must have been born around 20 years after it's release 😂

[@_coachcraig_]

This is a dope reaction. Your exasperation is too funny. All of this in one take. I like a few of the lines. 1. "...headed for the web even before computers". The internet used to be referred to as "The World Wide Web". Hence the www.... 2."where people who care don't get the lions share." Billionaires compared to nurses and teachers. 3. Fat Pharaoh = Pharaoh Monche. 4. "Family and friends" was the cheap phone plan to keep families in touch with each other. 5. CB4 the movie about a fake gangster rapper. 6. Every dinner could have been a last supper. 7. I'll have you and the living a category apart. 8. Henrietta Lacks had special cells . When she died, scientists took samples of her cells for research to help cure diseases. All without her permission. 9. Panther mind made of elements you can't combine. 10. Helping rappers everywhere fulfill a death wish. 11. The sh*t for Combat is a shout to Combat Jack who was sick and dying at the time. He passed away little after this came out.

[@kennonwright-zc8so]

Lol...do you know who Henrietta Axe(sp?) is? He literally dropped mental bombs throughout this lyrical masterpiece..

[@bluesafari5405]

Luv your breakdown of verses my friend 💯👍🏿

[@kennonwright-zc8so]

What's the vibes Tempy...I hope ALL is peace with you! Wondering if you've had a chance to check out that "The Learning (the burn) by Mobb Deep feat Noyd? That shit is 🔥..in my playlist constant rotation, and it's 30 years old 🤦

[@jfulton2852]

Doc over here cuh

[@mookX92]

You're pretty knowledgable for a white dude. Catching bars about the pan African flag & Nat Turner I know that ain't no shit you learned up in school. Please react to Canibus - 100 bars. Much more digestible than this but still bar heavy

[@DJ_Shenanigan00]

The only freestyle close to this level is Akala fire in the booth 1 & 4

[@joshuakohn4408]

38 minutes? ... that's just 2 much dog

[@tibos79]

These are not freestyles, I hope u know

[@petefunk]

Haters wanna hate Lovers wanna love I don't even want none of the above....