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Jay-Z Takes Battle Rappers to Task

By , About.com GuideNovember 4, 2009

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If you're going to call on Jay-Z to judge your freestyle contest, it might be a good idea to pick people that won't pee all over their pants upon seeing him. The contestants in this MuchMusic freestyle battle (I used that term loosely) were laughable. Jay complimented the chick on her "all black everything" outfit. She then proceeded to make a fool of herself. The guy obviously came loaded with a stash of pre-written rhymes. Jay called him out on it and requested a 2nd round. He was probably thinking, "been there, done that." It wasn't even close. At least, the guy had decent flow.

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November 4, 2009 at 10:26 pm
(1) Patrick L says:

Those guys were terrible. I don’t know how they made it on that show. Especially the girl. She spent 15 seconds going uh uh uh. And the first freestyle from the guy was obviously written and the second probably wasn’t because it was also terrible. Those guys sucked.

November 5, 2009 at 11:09 am
(2) Mitch says:

FACEPALM

November 5, 2009 at 11:12 am
(3) Mitch says:

On a sidenote I managed to catch Jay, Wale, J Cole & NERD in Ottawa and it was an AMAZING show.

November 5, 2009 at 1:12 pm
(4) Wicka says:

Yea I saw that same group at Penn State. It was definitely the best live show I’ve ever seen

November 6, 2009 at 10:17 pm
(5) Lammy says:

They made it on that show cuz it’s Toronto. TORONTO HAS NO REAL HIP-HOP TALENT!
And I can say that cuz I live here.

Seriously tho, I almost threw up watching that, so you can imagine how Jay-z felt, having to stand there.

November 7, 2009 at 3:27 pm
(6) Mitch says:

Drake and Kardinal are good rappers. Emphasis on the word rapper.

November 7, 2009 at 9:31 pm
(7) Lammy says:

Kardi is wack and hasn’t put anything out in the longest time and Drake started out on Degrassi. I mean he’s decent, but that’d be like somebody off ‘the hills’ kicking off a rap career.
I will issue a partial retraction however. K’naan is pretty dope.

November 8, 2009 at 12:25 pm
(8) Mitch says:

Oh yeah forgot about him :]

November 9, 2009 at 9:06 pm
(9) bryan says:

isnt K-os from Canada. I know almost nothing about him really but the little I have heard is really good.

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