KRS-One Rap City 2001

[@rickpcp]

I miss rap city. I appreciate KRS1 more now that im older. His lyrics make you think about the real world and history.

[@josepolanco1926]

+rick213 Word. by they way, that's the preacher from PG2 on your pic? he was my fave character in the whole saga

[@rickpcp]

Jose Polanco lol. Yup. Thats the preacher from Poltergeist. Come to the light children..

[@kpimkpim349]

same here, not for an unready mind

[@trentyates418]

Krs will body all these whack rapper today

[@tripdizzy5562]

@@rickpcp have you seen the beastcoast rap city? Its as close as we're gonna get to the nostalgia and its got some top tier rappers on it

[@BBLLZZ]

KRS is one of the best mcs to bless the mic

[@carloskerr7491]

😃

[@brandondyson7769]

Trash

[@trentyates418]

He epitomizes of what an MC raps like

[@Raftiano]

Edit: one of the best storytellers

[@ace_buggy6005]

@@brandondyson7769 you don't know shit. Probably a young thug fan

[@zdow12]

Big Tig is better than most rappers now ! ! !

[@motivationboyz1033]

He'll yeah,say it again

[@ASSman864]

for sure

[@floydjones1219]

😂😂💯 real shit

[@delopera6044]

Lmao. Please dont gas that brother lol

[@rory-leedavis9491]

Facts 😂😂😂

[@punjabisole23]

Krs one is one of the nastiest mcs to ever spit on the mic. Notice how he got tigger on the mic in the middle of the freestyle. Always showing respect to lesser mc. This mans a legend. Forever

[@trentyates418]

This is what you call MC'ing. KRS one is the definition of an MC

[@kingdavidtheone]

Tigga was extra hyped and seemed inspired in this one. I think it was that first beat and the fact that KRS was there. Tig was turn't! lol

[@antonydrossos5719]

Watching from Summer of 2024. I miss these days.

[@thomaswiggins134]

KRS 1 is unmatched ....30 years in the game!!! life time achievement award for the God of Rap

[@ThePhreakass]

Lool. I am the god of rap

[@astarinstructionisd2584]

Damn! The pressure to freestyle in a cypher with KRSONE must be insane. Respect BIG TIG!

[@4marriages539]

KRS ONE Freestyle is a extra BONUS treat!!! His complete rap game as a writer entertainer he is the BEST EVER constant 40 years dope hits all your other favorite rappers came and went!!! So when yall say underrated ya slippin!!!

[@Aaron-dk1rf]

Dog, it's so much substance and truth in KRS' s lyrics. He gets nowhere as much credit as he really deserves

[@YakThaWiseman72]

AA You're right but every Emcee that they put on their top Emcee talks gives Kris those Props!!

[@Casanovaelrey]

Except for the gold comment. That was straight ignorance. Gold is one of the best assets to own. Only the "conscious" cats of the 90s-early 00s followed that trend because it made it seem like they were more intellectual. When in reality, real intellect would have been there encouraging their audience to invest in assets like gold and silver instead of the fake knowledge that Nas, Talib Kweli, Common, and a lot of these neo-soul (I know Nas isn't neo-soul) were going on about.

[@wacpj1929]

@@Casanovaelrey Lmao, I love it the most when ignorance manifests itself as “smartness,” like it does with your smart-ass comment. How would people make money off of gold if they didn’t “know” to? The very nature of that arrogant ass comment you made serves as a direct rebuttal to the point you were trying to prove. Gold is one of the most valuable assets?? Pfft. Even if we lived in an ideal world where the value of the gold only continues to gradually increase ( _which it doesn’t_ ), the amount of time that it takes for it to be worth the investment could have been spent in *much more productive* ventures than simply trying to focus on the gold and nothing else and just riding it out in a low paying job in the meantime. The overhead that it would take for you to be making substantial money off of gold in the long term would be completely infeasible to somebody trying to make it out of the streets *right now.* The yearly percentage increase of the value of your investment is minimal in the case of hedging your bets on a material like gold. Knowledge is how you have a job and master it. Knowledge is how you develop skills and abilities that last you for the rest of your life once developed. If you do learn a skill and master it, and learn how to properly convey its (and _your_ ) value (also through knowledge), you’re able to make a living *out of nothing.* You can walk the streets in charge of your own schedule, a completely free man who isn’t tied down as a slave to a 9-5 job simply trained by an educational system that was designed to create factory workers, all because you invested in *yourself* instead of some bullshit trend (just like gold is, regardless of how steady and reliable its growth seems to be for you). Take it one step further and get good enough at this business to train people to perform the skill that you perform, and you’re developing a semi-passive income. Take it one step further than that and show people how to do _the entirety of what I was just saying,_ and now you’re potentially a free man who never has to work a day in his life again if you do it wisely. Does this happen a lot? No. *Can* it happen? Abso-fucking-lutely it can, and the ignorance of implying that you can’t use knowledge to develop wealth that immensely overshadows the corny little 25% yearly boost (a number that purposefully outperforms the true growth trend of gold on even the best years) of gold is far worse than whatever you think conscious emcees were guilty of. Yes, I’m aware of exponential growth and what would happen if you double the value of a penny for thirty days, just bear with me - even using the low of gold and buying a shit ton when it was around $250/oz around 1999, and somehow knowing to sell it all precisely at around $1700/oz in 2012 (I’m grossly exaggerating my point in your favor on purpose), that’s a 6x profit in 13 years. If you were living on the streets in 1999 and were actually able to somehow muster $100k ( _living on the streets,_ mind you - I’m taking the value that you claim gold has and creating a disgusting hyperbole out of it… I’m not even going to get into the implications behind spending $100k on something you can’t utilize while living in a low-income area and what you would have to do next to survive), you would have gained $600k over 13 years. Whoop-dee-doo - that’s less than $50k/yr of money _that was rendered completely worthless to you in an entire stretch of over a decade because you wouldn’t have been able to use it as a liquid asset_ - enough to match a mediocre job. Hindsight is 20/20, so there’s no way you would have “known” to do this in the most effective way beforehand, regardless of how smart you think you are on the topic now, looking back. “But it’s passive!” Yeah, sure - “passive” gambling and taking an inherently deep risk all for hoping for some magic lottery payout later on in life. Sure, you could make different decisions (like continuing to invest as you made money, etc.) for you to maximize the profit, but that would require * knowledge * (today’s magic word). Plus, since knowledge is so worthless, you wouldn’t have been able to rely on * anything else * for money other than your dead-end, blow-your-brains-out, soul-draining job that you were LUCKY to get (since you don’t fucking know anything) in the meantime. By the way, the example I gave earlier regarding potentially creating a passive income was ONE of _countless_ manifestations of the value of knowledge (and we’re not even getting into the value of wisdom here, Mr. Pedestal). Sure, there’s a risk involved there as well, but you’re stretching yourself and getting more resilient in the face of the unknown (you can’t make the same argument for waiting around for gold simply because that’s inherently uncertain too), which would easily translate to becoming *much* more effective in new ventures in the event that you did fail. The requirement for creating an extremely high-paying source of income out of nothing? *Knowledge.* The requirement for being creative enough to develop something that makes money for you with minimal active time investment? *Knowlege.* The magic thing worth more than a Lamborghini in that corny Tai Lopez video? *Knowledge.* Sit your “smart” ass down and shut the fuck up. Go make more money on gold and Bitcoin than an entrepreneur gaining traction and true momentum on an extremely valuable service that he provides since you’re so superior. If you try to turn around and use COVID as a rebuttal to my points, suurrrrre... _of course_ *that's* the reason why you would have said investing in gold is better than using that to invest in yourself and your own ventures / life learning a year ago

[@hisword8531]

@@wacpj1929 not sure if anybody else read all of that but I did. Thank you sharing for your time and ahem…knowledge 🙏

[@IbeWazir]

I can tell the difference between written freestyles and off the top freestyles. These are def. off the top freestyles! Props to Big Tigger and the legend KRS One!

[@wav.yliving]

They seemed like they were having so much fun haha

[@mammassdf]

long live steelo

[@mammassdf]

***** Classic!

[@becarefulwhatyoufish4764]

Freestlying is fun. When you're good at it. I used to do this all the time at school during lunch and recess from about 3rd grade and I think the last time I freestyled was when I was 13. It's fun if you can do it but I'd have to practice before even think about battlin somebody it's been so long.

[@theinspirationfactory5247]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIGyYayYjdlmocU

[@NoMoneyAfterTipping]

One of the best freestyles I ever heard big tigger do I love how he actually freestyles improv and raps with his guests styles

[@Joe_Parmesan]

He had to show out for his all time favorite

[@VickStarkiller]

KRS spit so hard he inspired Tigger to come with some hard lines.

[@adem2958]

MaxwellD13 i also thought the same thing here !

[@DavidAndTheDummies]

+MaxwellD13 "drop the r dont call me trigger" shit was nice

[@BwoodsGod27]

L M F A O!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ASSman864]

yeah krs one inspires and influences me cause he makes you think from a mew perspective

[@theinspirationfactory5247]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIGyYayYjdlmocU

[@Juggalo94]

Look how excited he was to hop on the Mic Rapping is a passion to him 💯💯

[@tyrone5969]

Man, Rap City was life back then. The Basement introduced me to so many rappers and put me onto so many of the greatest freestylers. Man, we really need this again.

[@BEENIECRIS]

💯🔥

[@derrickswynn]

KRS-One is a damn BEAST!!!!!!!! Real Hip Hop SON!!!!

[@kudabeen]

Off the top game is sick...Tigger always had that conductor flow...he keep these freestyles and verses popping.

[@christiannash3404]

" now when I flip these rhymes, show off the top of the head, KRS rock dreads and i rock the bald head " - Big Tiger haha your a legend

[@hnb2784]

Krs kills every mic he on.

[@NujuBIONICLE]

Just like PLK ;)

[@cacapoopoo69]

​@@NujuBIONICLEbunch of lies

[@bigdawg3305]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@NujuBIONICLEwho?

[@NujuBIONICLE]

@@bigdawg3305 punch line killer Lloyd Banks

[@bigdawg3305]

@@NujuBIONICLE I gotta agree with that

[@shawnsteed4140]

Big Tigger is hella underrated when it comes freestyling, he can hang with the best💯

[@michaelanderson755]

Real TaLk💯

[@DonTheking]

Facts

[@Joe_Parmesan]

He was pretty damn good here. I recall from a different video that he said KRS One is his all time favorite, so he had no choice but to show out on that day

[@mrkingssizesnicker]

The Greatest MC Of All Time!

[@brodriguez6384]

Now this is the G.O.A.T!!!

[@GoddardsKoalaFitness]

Jaakko M I agree but nowadays he is...no one but loyals listen to his music anymore :(

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

KRS ONE is the legend!!!

[@fabiana2630]

The most underated mc of all time!!He a all around Mc ,even freestyles off top of his dome!

[@darenunlimited]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!! Of course, I knew that Tha Teacher would kill it in the booth in tha basement. KRS-ONE embodies hip-hop. Shout-out to Big Tig and Rap City. I feel blessed to have caught so many of these freestyle moments, "live," back in the day, when true hip-hop was still accessible to the masses, before it was driven, back, underground. Long live hip-hop.

[@mjdghost]

This is FREESTYLE!!!!!

[@deluxerecordings7]

Miss this show man 😢😢😢

[@zakalu]

i look back at this video, and people do walk already dead, true KRS! Big-Up!

[@SuperVelc]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔋🔋🔋

[@Crunchysopa52]

Lol they're having mad fun

[@Vizion_Precision]

good old days i miss it..

[@MADDLION247]

There is nothing..... and I repeat "NOTHING" better than an Emcee that can freestyle off the top and it makes sense!!! SALUTE TO REAL HIP HOP!!!! 💪💪💪💪

[@mistermustelid]

Tigger loves his life

[@torrijones8434]

Man i miss these days i wanna cry 😢😢🫤🫤

[@disco3466]

You are a REAL MC when you can rhyme off the top!

[@KingReyhanShippey]

Rest In Power To The Almighty Fatman Scoop. We love you and miss you King 🤴🏾.

[@THANEWTRIBE]

18 people were born in between 2005 and 2015! How sad cause they missed the best!

[@matiasmarshall]

KIKO Vava and they like lil uzi and all that shit .

[@Doatello1991]

KIKO Vava Was this by Xzibit or Ja Rule? I think I was 10 when I heard this beat.

[@theinspirationfactory5247]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIGyYayYjdlmocU

[@realrecfake8966]

6ix 9ine Slim Jesus luvin wierdos

[@rootboysupreme1]

Tig is by far one of the few "freestyler's" that actually freestyle correctly. When someone (a rapper) is rapping about the current situation directly in front of them like what Tigga does..., THAT'S real freestyling. There is only a few I've heard do that (Eminem, Jin, KRS1, and Luda)

[@MsRandomPro]

Tony Benson Don't forget Supernatural man, he's like the god of freestyle.

[@rootboysupreme1]

MsRandomPro oh I gotta check dude out then

[@mrvietcong1]

Tony Benson Keith Murray

[@rootboysupreme1]

Artem S Okay.., I got to check dude out. thanx

[@rootboysupreme1]

MsRandomPro Couldn't fine nobody by that name on the tube.

[@papiijeffrey2152]

Its funny cause what krs is saying is actually true

[@micheallee5313]

papiijeffrey21... 😂😂😂 Facts lol

[@teflonpete]

20 years we will looking back, looking back on these video tracks

[@davidstevens9294]

The Greatest Rapper Of All Time Period.........

[@rumhurius]

wow thats a real top of the head freestyle... Major respect to the legendary man.... KRS-One !

[@Cityofangels714]

wow! sometimes Krs one comes with some simple wording on freestyles, but here both men inspired each other and had great chemistry!

[@smoothcoastin2484]

5:09 For those who don't know, the two fingers he threw up shows the ORIGINAL PEACE SIGN.

[@christographerx64]

2021. KRS One verse relevant today.

[@robertlesuer2755]

Fat Man Scoop, RIP 😢💔, respect 💪💯.

[@omgimover4075]

Damn KRS One is a genius!

[@HenryFlamez]

KRS hosted Blaze Battle a year before this and since 1998 I think... good to see that he got some skills off the top too...

[@big973e]

first, I loved Tigger doing "Step into the Rapture" at the start second, Kris is so intelligent and he shows it when he isnt stroking his own ego, a lot of the stuff he spit still holds weight today third, Tigger gotta be one of the most underrated on the mic, this dude be spittin some cold freestyles

[@MrVee24]

Certain things u don't miss.A krs one freestyle is one of them :)

[@yankees56809]

Wow What A Classic Video!! I Remember Recording This Video Back in The Day!! KRS & Big -Tig Was KILLIN The Mic!!

[@slickrickdarula]

That was just amazing! What an amazing mix of skill and thought.

[@ikennakonkwo5939]

Why am I just realizing that Tigger did his version of the step into the world chorus? Tigger got bars for days.

[@Sjoerd2212]

The TEACHA!!!

[@Nazza1188]

love the way he started rapping. some guy dissed his t-shirt during a freestyle and he just decided to freestyle back and beat him XD guys a legend

[@dwanehargrove2205]

tigger can spit

[@MakaiHassanRhamdas]

I bet any rap instrumentals that anyone play for KRS, he still be spittin' out his lyrics.

[@generule88]

This is LEGENDARY, Big Tigga definitely had too bring his GAME haha

[@KMDGAMES]

I always respect it Big Tigger he always freestyled I remember when I used to watch rap City and when I would hear somebody's album I was like wait a minute they spit that same line on that freestyle on rap City there was a lot of rappers who used to go in there and repeat lines from upcoming albums and nobody would pay attention because the album was not out yet but I always would catch a few people repeating some things

[@GEtThaFCKout]

Big Tigga was one of the best Hosts of all time!!!

[@4marriages539]

Another thing is KRS ONE he don't unload fully most of the time in freestyles unless he want's too and feel like shocking the audience but he trick rappers not doing his best at times making them think they better or nicer but BATTLE HIM, self destruction your head for self destruction!! Give him a reason to get real raw yo I heard many freestyles from this dude people be like DAM!!!! you heard dat BLASTMASTER KRSONE DA TEACHA fan since I was 16 i'm 44 year now and still amazed in 2015! HIP HOP CULTURE WE REP DAT!

[@Cityofangels714]

lol didn't even see your comment, but exactly my thoughts and wrote a comment saying how usually he doesn't spit heavy wording in freestyles, but when he does and he has the chemistry with the other freestylers he unloads that heat!

[@ImBlackIvy]

4 marriages damn u seen the golden era then , lucky you lol

[@ImBlackIvy]

I can watch this all day

[@hanzflackshnack1158]

My homey sent me a letter but there was one tricky thing he did. KRS-One signed the back of the envelope. It sucks I couldn't be at the concert and my homey knew that. Rad gift.

[@DigitalOdyssey3001]

KRS brought the best outta my man Tigger!!! Great session, off the dome!

KRS was really dope and Tigger really brought it on that 2nd beat

[@kamalrhudd2547]

I remember in the early 2000s it seem like everyone had some of those fubu fat Albert and gang edition garments

[@yankees56809]

Wow What Classic Video!! I Remember Recording This.. KRS & Big-Tig Was Killlin The 🎤 Mic No-Doubt!!

[@leticialush3446]

Knowledge reign supreme over nearly everybody Call up KRS guaranteed to rip the party! KRS..... I'm not saying he's #1 Oh wait a minute I lied He's #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5!!!!!

[@teclyx1737]

lol

[@bkyzfynest]

I see what you did there.

[@theinspirationfactory5247]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIGyYayYjdlmocU

[@YakThaWiseman72]

Indeed

[@roskooo99]

wow, just sat here with a huge grin on my face. That was awesome!

[@realbarz7623]

Nutting But Real Hip-Hop And Barz...I Miss RapCity✊👊💯✌

[@robertrixey8447]

*MY FAVORITE RAPPER OF ALL TIME✊*

[@christophercorders6526]

Kris Parker is all-time top10 no question!

[@gghhap]

Theres a floating smile in the background when Tigga raps

[@mrchaotiq]

KRS is the best freestyler I've ever heard and my second favourite emcee behind Kool G Rap.

[@enjoi778]

all these kids saying hes overrated I cant believe it. Guess what kiddies, 99% of those "freestyles" you see, are written. Don't get me wrong I understand wanting to promote yourself as lyrically as possible when you get a chance to get on but I promise you whenever you ask krs to freestyle, you will get one off the top.

[@rootboysupreme1]

Agreed..., Tig is by far one of the few "freestyler's" that actually freestyle correctly. When someone (a rapper) is rapping about the current situation directly in front of them like what Tigga does..., THAT'S real freestyling. There is only a few I've heard do that (Eminem, Jin, KRS1, and Luda)

[@THANEWTRIBE]

see kids! that right there comes from someone who has lived hip hop their whole life!! Listen and learn.

[@ThePhreakass]

Eminem prewrites all his shit

[@enjoi778]

He definitely spits writtens often but there's plenty of clips of him off the top. Hes as good as anybody off the top

[@frozenray0079]

KRS. freakin' MURDERED THIS. LEGGO

[@PA-qv2dy]

Luv this!!! And miss this!!

[@brianpbillingsley3687]

You can tell they was havin' too much fun with this!

[@dameyunhenry3347]

THE LYRICAL KINGPIN HIMSELF 1980s KRS ONE STILL NUMBER ONE YOU NEW MCS TAKE NOTES ON REAL HIPHOP

[@kudzaimusicofficial]

KRS is mad. If you want to learn gow ti even remotely spot great listen to this man.

[@btowel]

That dude held his own with KRS.

[@BlueHeartFam]

This was Tiggers best freestyle lol, he knew what he was up against

[@lcfsmdp]

This is awesome

[@samuelvasquez9170]

Now is HIP HOP not about bragging how righ how many cars and woman you have respect fun one love and carrying for your people and for everyone else KRS ONE

[@carabajal43]

Tigga casually spits fire wth he makes it look easy

[@mariavelasquez8507]

When it comes down to it krs one is the illest with the flow and vocabulary. Just like method man but with concious lyrics and more complex patterns, but smooth delivery and entertaining.

[@tanhuulusoy]

Take a shot each time Krs says his name lmfao I love this man word up and that host is fire too

[@jdac22]

Now this is true hip hop right here! Hip hop is so much more interesting when you have people that are truly freestyling off the top of the head. These dudes ripped it! KRS was and is still a beast!

[@HighRankingTV]

There is a reason why this video has no dislikes!

[@MrMessyb]

Actual freestyles - Respect. KRS a rap legend anyway but even more props for this

[@EAZUP]

KRS...legendary..

[@sumnsumn2145]

Just so everyone doesn't suffer, the first beat is from Xzibit's song "Front 2 Back"

[@luisparrilla7950]

Still watching this even in 2020😖😂👍🔥

[@seanfelder3578]

Legendary MC,met this man in Bronx back in the days.South Bronx song put KRS on the map from Criminal Minded classic album

[@dominicanvic9]

0:52 he told you what you would be doing right now 😂

[@smashwrestlermachinexzibtt6707]

i love rap city

[@charlesblocker2490]

Yeahhhh!!! Kris Parker Always been my favorite MC!!! I already knew what type of a person he is. He's the greatest of all time like Muhammad Ali.

[@matthewmann8969]

Nice of KRS Rakim on this beat would be something to look forward to

[@ImBlackIvy]

KRS ONE got a great spirit about him when he rhymes!

[@coreyobi7722]

El negro dizzy here sayin that was dope the legendary forefathers of hip hop love love love peace!!!!! End the legendary teacher KRS ONE