A lot of mainstream rapper's do this now, why? Because if they were performing on a radio appearence and such and they did happen to mess up, or choke, it looks bad on their rep.

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the last thing a rapper/mc wants to do when they are in front of a crowd...or national audience such as rapcity is fuck up their flow and look like assholes...
so you cant really blame artist, especially well known artist for
pre-writing..a so called free style..
but most people who are into hip hop and battling..can spot an actual freestyle or a prewrittin freestyle a mile away...kinda takes the fun outta of it to me though...but at the same time i would hate to see any artist make a fool of themselves...while on the spot light...

but as far as Lloyd banks reciting soemthing that he spit on someones album...is kinda wack to me...should have came a little more orginal...and 50 co-signing his punchlines made him look even worse....

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in the immortal words of Ghostface "I'd rather suck honestly then be seen as dope from a lie" shits true oh and just cuz a lot of rappers do it don't make it acceptable, just makes it more depressen. Fuck fucking up in front of a crowd, did u ever see Pac or Jay Z perform? They fucked up all tha time freestyling or reciting an old ass song wit no beat, tha crowd just cheered harder and louder cuz it was real.

good point gunman..
but you have to admit that if a nobody fumbles a freestyle..he would get booed off the stage.. if a well known artist does it..he might get away with it...good to be prepared either way..

but we all know that those who can freestyle....with no prewrites
is going to get more respect in the long run...no matter who it is..

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lloyd banks victory freestyle was up there as the best of end of 2002/beginning of 03 with hell rell's freestyle from jail. luda can't freestlye and the only niggas who really can are jigga,nas,and mos def like it or not

Not many rappers actually freestyle at all, they have pre-written insults, or just punchlines for fat people, or gay people, or whatever. They add them in to their verse while they are going. You can definitely tell when someone is freestyling.

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Lloyd's victory 'freestyle' was far from being that dope. Jay's "Pump if up" freestyle was better then that. and tha best freestyle of tha year was Ghostface shit but i doubt ya'll heard it. Hell Rell's freestyle was ok but tha one from jail wasn't even his best one and neither one of em are up there for freestyle of the year. top 3 freestyles of the year. Ghostface,Jay,and Rass Kass