It never meant that.
"Back in the 80s when we said a freestyle rap, it meant it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style. Meaning it's not a subject matter. It's not a story about a woman, it's not a story about poverty. It's basically just a rhyme bragging about yourself. Off the top of the head, we just called that "Off the dome"
thats why i dont get definitions from rappers... the 80s to now it DID & DOES mean that where im from, many other places too..... off top & often DOES have subject matter (kick a freestyle about gettin chicks)... we never had a set name for off topic/brag rap, closest was just spittin...
if a dude said kick a freestyle & you spit a written you got clowned, when eyedea won battles they called it real freestyle battlin, wayne mentioned rappers stoppin him on the street & challengin him to freestyle battles, if people couldnt go off top they said "i dont freestyle," i watched a interview when i was younger where a big ny rapper (think it was krs but might be wrong) said if a dude couldnt freestyle, meaning off top, he wasnt a real mc, etc....
LMFAO so a nikka who never done anything in Hip Hop is telling one of the legends and originators of the artform what freestyling meanings
I really love the internet. You nikkas are hilarious.
This nikka mentioning some nerd ass Scribble Jam shyt, talking about Eyedea. Come on bro
whatever breh, stick to what shyt means in your hometown & ill stick to mine, this isnt a debate, what he says it means dont mean shyt in a place where it meant somethin different over 30 years, FACT, not my opinion.... grew up wit people from ny, cali, st. louis, chicago, ohio, wisconsin, etc... ask em all they say the same thing, off top, i tell my people a freestyles just written braggin cause of BDK & ima get.....















