I ain’t THAT much of a purist, tho, where I think every “freestyle” should be off the dome. But when the game becomes so watered down that people can’t recognize the talent to go off the top when it is actually done, it dilutes the overall integrity of the craft.

If nobody has heard it b4, it’s a freestyle that you can spit in a cipher or whatever. A lot of the dopest “Freestyles” people allude to may have been pre-written or in someone’s head ahead of time. There is no way of knowing. Just because the person throws in a couple of custom lines to make it seem like it’s personalized.

And personally, I don’t hate on that fact. If you have ever been to a freestyle battle where they really go OFF the dome COMPLETELY, you can see it’s not that great. Yeah, it upholds the purist format of hip hop battling, but our minds have been so trained by SMACK DVDs to have line after line be off the chains, cats going off the top of the dome just rambling becomes very uninteresting. If cats are doing a live freestyle or a cipher, I’d rather it be a freeverse than just a pure freestyle where they were just saying any old thing without though, even if they were rhyming or not.