Have you ever freestyle rapped? Please, right now, take the time to try it. Go to YouTube, find an instrumental, and just try to rhyme in rhythm off the top of your head about whatever you want.

DETROIT The winner of a national freestyle rap battle competition held in Detroit and hosted by Eminem is from where else Detroit. Eighteen-year-old Saffal FowL Tall won the Red Bull EmSee title ...

Red Bull Batalla is the largest freestyle battle on Earth and the rappers are elite. Suddenly, Reverse went in for the kill. He had everyone in the audience throw various items on the floor, ranging ...

We first told you about the Detroit-based rap-tech startup Rapt.fm a year ago. Since then, the online platform for freestyle rap battles has amassed a private but growing, loyal community of battlers ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda did two important things on Tuesday’s “Tonight Show”: participate in an epic freestyle-rap battle with The Roots’ Black Thought and he announced that he’s going be taking his ...

It all comes to a head when David unmasks Yung Felon as the culprit, quietly ambushing him in a dilapidated recording studio where the latter is laying down new tracks. The sequence, which leads to an ...

*Last Thursday (08-12-21), the largest Spanish freestyle rap battle in the world, Red Bull Batalla held an unprecedented virtual battle qualifier event that saw 36 of America’s greatest Spanish ...

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A hilarious video of a high school student challenging his gym teacher to a freestyle rap battle is circling the Internet. “I rap a little different, just be ready for it,” the teacher informs his ...

Being Philly alone has so many different hip-hop scenes, were any of them your first exposure to hip-hop? Not really, actually. When I was in junior high, when Nelly and Ja Rule and 50 Cent were ...