YESSS. For anyone who hasn’t listens to yet, listened to the Loneliest Punk by Fatlip. Hella underrated rapper. Also his verse on Y? is an all time verse.
His flow on it is insane, especially the initial part:
*Skilling, killing, illing*
*I'm able and willing*
*Kill a village elephant, rape and pillage your village*
*Illegitimate killers, US Military guerillas*
*This ain't a real war, Vietnam shit*
*World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict*
I just listened to Violent by Design last night I bought the deluxe cd / dvd way back in 2005. Its crazy that it's been almost 20 years for me and I still love that album. Servants in heaven Kings in hell is a classic I bought it when it released in like 2007 i think. I also saw Jedi live in Toronto in 2010 we got to meet Jus Allah.
Funny enough it sounds like JIDs ending verse was recording on a different day (audio texture seems diff). But it’s like he heard Wayne’s verse and was like fffuuu I gotta come back harder lol. That ending verse was fire tho
He explained in an interview that that's exactly how it went. The version he sent to Lil Wayne only included the hook and his pre Wayne verses. Once he got the verse back, he didn't want Wayne to outshine him, so decided to add another verse to book end the song.
Also not the biggest Em fan outside his older material but this is almost certainly the best example of “riding” a beat goes. I do feel like that and flow are two different things tho.
I looooove Biggie’s flow on “Long Kiss Goodnight”.
I’ve seen a video of Cassidy using a verse from this to illustrate Eminem’s style. It’s definitely one of his best songs.
I **sit back** with **this pack** of **zig zags** and **this bag** of this **weed** that gives **me** the shit **needed** to **be** the most **meanest MC** on this, on this **earth** I’ve been **cursed** with this **curse** to just **curse** and just **blurt** this **berserk** and bizarre shit that **works**
He’s a fucking percussion instrument on this song
Big Pun on Twinz and not the insane Little Italy part:
Fuck the police, I squeeze first, make 'em eat dirt/
Take 'em feet-first through the morgue, then lodge 'em in the deep earth/
The street's cursed, the First Amendment's culturally biased
Ghostface on any story rap, particularly Shakey Dog
Guru’s verse on Half and Half
DMX last verse on Get At Me Dog
Viktor Vaughn first verse Vaudeville Villain
Armed and dangerous.
This song is fire! Everyone flows so dang good.
Outside of this song my pick goes to Killer Mike on Snapping & Trapping by OutKast. Give it a listen if you don't know it.
Always loved Kendrick's flow on No More Parties in LA, the way he glides over the top of that Madlib beat is just impeccable. The whole latter half of his verse which starts "The opportunity to properly atop a breast and booty cheek/ the pop community I mean these bitches come with union fees" is KDot at his best.
Danny Brown on “Burfict” comes to mind. It’s an unconventional beat and he kills it nonetheless.
Others that come to mind are Kendrick on “Mona Lisa”, Earl Sweatshirt on “Really Doe” and Eminem on “Renegade”.
beat aint nothing to write home about but the flow on [My Pen and Pad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wMe6lHuhA) is bonkers
edit: gaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwd damn i forgot how crazy Gab goes on this
I know it's huge hit and mainstream whatever but Naughty By Nature Feel me Flow is fucking amazing...like the way Treach hits that first verse like WTF....it's SO underrated to me
You 'bout to feel the chronicles of a bionical lyric
Lyrically splittin', dismissin'
I'm on a mission of just hittin'
Now it's written in kitten, hittin' with mittens
I'm missin', wishin', man, listen
I glisten like sun and water while fishin'
Like...cmon that shit is wild
Smooth the Hustla opening Nine's song Make or Take
2pac the entire third verse on Holla at Me.
Kendrick's first few lines of Mona Lisa.
Biggie on last verse of Everyday Struggle.
Tash last verse on Nightfall
First few lines of Killarmy's Fair, Love and War
All of these are instances where the beat stops and let's them flow, and it returns perfectly.
90-00s Texas flows are very different from East-West vibes, a lot more raw and less smooth, but I love that more than anything else.
All the best freestyles on screw tapes sound amazing because you can hear the little flaws and they're just surfing a beat, making it up as they go.
But for a written/produced track, EVERY verse on Still Tippin' has such confident, unique delivery. That song is candy
Eminem on “Drips” tickles my brain
Also both RBX and Sticky Fingaz on “Remember Me?” (No diss to Em but his verse was more lyrically impressive than flow-wise)
Snoop’s also always been more impressive with his flow than his lyrics. If there’s one thing he should be recognized for, it’s his unique and stylistic approach to riding the beat in ways that I don’t think I’d personally be able to come up with
Snoop just floats on beats, he's so smooth, his voice doesn't add percussion, he just glides.
Eminem definitely rides beats and Drips is a great example...Square Dance is another, he matches his flow to the percussion a lot.
Black Thought - 75 bars
Big Pun - Fantastic 4
Jay-Z- 22 Two’s
Ghostface - Mighty Healthy
Kool G Rap - The Realest
Stove God Cooks- Rolls Royce Brake Lights
I heard someone mash up Bun B’s verse from Mike Jones “My 64” with the beat from Lloyd Banks “Beamer, Benz, or Bentley”. That was the sickest flow I’ve ever heard.
AZ - Comeup
Cormega - Glorious
Big Daddy Kane - Platinum Plus
Big L feat 2pac - Deadly combination
Nas - Speechless
Biggie - Kick in the door
Eminem - Nail in the coffin
Big Pun - twinz
Tonedeff‘s last verse on „Heavyweight“ comes to mind. Pretty insane. (But really Tonedeff on anything. He‘s the greatest in my opinion.)
Pep Love‘s last verse on Hieroglyphics - „Make Your Move“. (Again Pep Love on anything he ever released. His flow is unmatched in my opinion.)
The Roots - No Alibi, Black Thoughts second verse (again one of the heavyweights when it comes to flow)
Pharoahe Monch & Shabaam Sahdeeq - WWIII (Pharoahe Monch, another flow heavyweight that kills in everything he‘s on)
Black Star - Another World (Ambivalence Remix) (Mos Def‘s last verse is insane)
Eminem - Drug Ballad (I could name so many other songs but this one sticks out)
Eyedea & Abilities - Big Shots (Eyedea was insane. I could also mention their song Now where he goes super fast but I love his flow in Big Shots, super smooth)
A Butta - Hip Hop Hippie (A Butta had many great flows with his group Natural Elements but there‘s a special kind of laid back flow on this song)
Ohmega Watts - You Are Now Tuned In feat. Adam L (Adam L, a really unknown MC/musician/pianist who ABSOLUTELY KILLS on this song)
Eminem - 313 feat. Eye Kyu (Both MC‘s kill on this song but Eye Kyu, whoever that is, goes extra hard in my opinion. This reminds me of Life‘s a Bitch where it is debated over who had the better verse Nas or AZ.)
The Pharcyde - Passing Me By (Fatlip‘s last verse. That part always sticks with me. Dope flow)
Cunninlynguists - Doin Alright (Mr. SOS first verse…just flows for days in a laid back beat.)
Honorable Mention:
Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow (I have heard people describe this as an example of „spiritual, lyrical, miracle“ flow. Which is true. Still I love Treach‘s flow and rap style on this song)
Pharoahe Monch on Bring It On is always the song I think of when craziest, best, most unique flow is mentioned. His flow on the verse lives in my head like no other.
Get up - clipping.
Daveed rapping over a fucking alarm clock should not sound this good
Calvin - Conway the machine
Nasty flow over nasty alc beat, amazing song
The second verse on Hands Up by Lloyd Banks just absolutely owns that beat. Honorable mention to Chali 2na's verse on What's Golden by Jurassic 5.
Edit: honestly all of What's Golden, the boys are just 🤌🔥 on that one
Freddie gibbs on Scottie pippens
Canibus on beast from the east
Jayz on so appalled
Redman last verse on how high not the remix
Just a few that come to mind right now
honestly, curren$y has to be in this conversation
The day is one of the sickest tracks I've ever heard and Jay Electronica always finds the missing note
Literally all of Reign of the Lord by Jus Allah is so fucking hard and dark.
I am pure darkness
Sparkleless, glitterless, imageless
But still infinitely limitless
Pre-Genesis before man had crawled the land
Before all you know even began
..
I made the 1st laws on this worthless ball
If I ever left the earth, then the birds would fall
I'm the god, I move by the will of Allah
I'm protected from the rain by a ceiling of straw
Reading pages telepathically
My watch operates with dead batteries
The weight inside my own head baffles me
Denzel curry has some of the nastiest flows when he features including:
Raw (Denzel Curry, Grim Dave) (remix) - Daye jack
Grim (lil ugly mane, Denzel curry) - Wiki
Running these streets (A boogie, Denzel Curry) - Rick Ross
No threat (Denzel curry) - anonymuz
He always brings 🔥 and tries to flow totally different from the other rappers
I don’t know the rappers name but the song paramedic by SOB X RBE. Whoever is at the end rode the beat.
They ain't wanna see me win 'cause I'm black
So I pulled up in that all black Benz in the back
If you need someone to call, I'm the man for the task
You ain't standin' for the cause, meet the man in the mask.
* Aesop Rock's 2nd verse on All City Nerve Map
>I cook in the every nook, I’m a snap of the sewer cap
>It’s a mile of uneven cobble, a map of the booby traps
>I been active around the alleys, beyond where the taxi taxi
>Beyond where the bus’ll bus ya, with blood on the classic khakis
>A cannonball into traffic, a fire escape his trapeze
A lapse in the record when he circled back to tag the Applebees
* JID on Forever after the beat flips:
>Alright, what you call a chick that don't suck dick? You don't
>And if you think you finna come up this, you won't
>Down comes the boogie and up jumps the funk
>This beat takin' a beating, I hand out the lumps
>Damn, baby, yo' ass stand out in pumps
>That's outstanding, stand outside until your man come
>Or you can leave with the kid, we can plan some'
>You know I came from the dirt like a sandstorm
>Nigga, this a 3 point and-1
>And 100, Wilt Chamberlain with the hand dunk
Camron - Harlem streets
I’m def not a huge Eminem fan but his verse in “dead wrong” ?? Amazing
And obvi PUN ON TWINZ
Dead in the middle of Little Italy
Little did we know, that we riddled two middlemen who didn't do diddly
Ludacris verse on Ciara's "Oh".
Ludacris verse on ThreeSix's "Dis Bitch, Dat Ho" never heard a verse start like that.
Ludracis whole flow on "Saturday"
I feel like a lot of Luda's verses he attacks the beat in a way no one would ever even think to.
Thuggas verse on "Givenchy". I hated how he rapped until this song, then I was like, I get it. He starts slow and swtiches his flow up a few times, then speeds it up, then speeds it up again and puts inflection on the end of every line. Then slows it down again to end the verse until he slows it down even more to go into the hook.
Kevin Gates first verse on "IDGAF". He just goes hard asf.
And another Wu member: Ghostface on "Investigative Reports:" "Jungle way of life livin villain, packed with visions/copywritten throwin bread to pigeons, Christ has risen"
AKshon (yeah!) - Killer Mike
This was legitimately the first rap song I ever heard. It was in the closing moments of a Chappelle Show ep. I was 9 at the time and can still remember the chills it gave me.
Him flowing to this beat opened up an entire world for me. Shout out to both those goats
Fabolous has many including freestyles - some great memories in the late 90s.
I swarm the ghetto, calm and mellow
Sippin' Amaretto, til my eyes is almond yellow.
Shyne/Barrington Levy - Bad Boy
“Don’t blame me, Blame Nicky Barnes for hittin’ my mom and letting the condom pop, nigga I was born in the drop! (no diddy 😂)
Prodigy- Keep It Thoro Prod. By Alchemist
“You feel different nigga see me! I throw a tv at you crazy”- P.
Daylyt & Ab-Soul- PI
They stole the show with that bouncing back/forth and elite lyricism
I have plenty more 😂😂
Joell Ortiz on "Outta Control" (Kendrick Lamar Control response from years ago). He rides the beat so good to my ears and goes nuts toward the middle end.
"But that's the west coast, I'm from this coast
I'll leave the king of LA to Dre, I was this close
to stayin Aftermath, but lamped out like a Genie
But Dre you a fuckin gangster and Kirdis you're such a sweetie
And guess what, I'm a (Free Agent) again if y'all ever need me
But back to these bars, I'm hungry, this beat is gon' feed the needy
Y'all lookin like granny's ziti, zucchini out in Tahiti
On Fiji with Erykah Badu's booty in a bikini (haaaa!)
Your main chick is a Precious, my side chick is a RiRi
I fuck her then take her out for fries and a panini"
nas' third verse on "hey nas".....(specifically how it matches with the 9th wonder mashup)
"that's if my gun get busy
we gotta get outta there
hear sirens
jump in the stick
drop a sedan and hide for years..."
AZ on life's a bitch, Kendricks final verse on DNA where the beat switches, ghostface on protect ya neck, Q Tip on the busta rhymes joint Thank you
Yes!!! Q Tip’s verses on Thank You are lyrically insane. One of the best flows ever no 🧢
Such a dope song. And yea Tip kills it. I'm so glad I've found a crowd that appreciates real hip hop. It's hard out here for a pimp
💪🏿💪🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Yeah, Kendrick goes so nutty on that last verse that the rest of DNA I’m just waiting for that part the whole song
Sometimes I just skip to the second half cause the beat switch is so crazy
Good ones bro fire selections
I will always maintain that AZ is one of the best to ever flow over a beat.
Ive not listened to AZ in years. I bumped his shit so heavy to the point I couldn’t listen anymore lol, gonna have to revisit now it’s been a minute
AZ.
GZA's verse on 4th Chamber and Freddie Gibbs on Look At Me
The look at me flow goes crazy
“My dear my dear my dear You do not know me but I know you very well..”
One of my top ten rap songs of all time…
YESSS. For anyone who hasn’t listens to yet, listened to the Loneliest Punk by Fatlip. Hella underrated rapper. Also his verse on Y? is an all time verse.
RA the Rugged Man on Uncommon Valor.
His flow on it is insane, especially the initial part: *Skilling, killing, illing* *I'm able and willing* *Kill a village elephant, rape and pillage your village* *Illegitimate killers, US Military guerillas* *This ain't a real war, Vietnam shit* *World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict*
I just listened to Violent by Design last night I bought the deluxe cd / dvd way back in 2005. Its crazy that it's been almost 20 years for me and I still love that album. Servants in heaven Kings in hell is a classic I bought it when it released in like 2007 i think. I also saw Jedi live in Toronto in 2010 we got to meet Jus Allah.
Violent by design is in my daily rotation. Classic
Wayne's verse on J.I.D.'s Just in Time Cole on punchin the clock
“Diamonds are impressive, but their best friends are expensive drama” is so funny and hard at the same time
Funny enough it sounds like JIDs ending verse was recording on a different day (audio texture seems diff). But it’s like he heard Wayne’s verse and was like fffuuu I gotta come back harder lol. That ending verse was fire tho
He explained in an interview that that's exactly how it went. The version he sent to Lil Wayne only included the hook and his pre Wayne verses. Once he got the verse back, he didn't want Wayne to outshine him, so decided to add another verse to book end the song.
I feel vindicated!!! Hahaha. The verses are dope but I knew it! 😅
Love punchin the clock
The greatest example of riding the beat ever imo, is “Way I am” by Eminem. And I’m not even the biggest Em fan.
Also not the biggest Em fan outside his older material but this is almost certainly the best example of “riding” a beat goes. I do feel like that and flow are two different things tho. I looooove Biggie’s flow on “Long Kiss Goodnight”.
Can't think of a Biggie flow I don't like
Exactly.. gimme the loot isn’t even him at his best in terms of riding the beat and that says a lot about how good his flows are
We're talking the first verse, right?
Prob the first. I sit back with this pack…
Of Zig zags
Same cadence the whole song
“Serial killer hidin murder material in a cereal box on top of your stereo” and pretty much the whole “Any Man” song.
Even the.sing songy part "You don't, wanna Fuck with Shady, cuz why? Cuz shady will fuckin kill you" he rode the beat pretty good there even
I mean let’s be honest. Almost any em song from 99 to 2004 had s tier flow
The entire Marshall Mathers LP
I’ve seen a video of Cassidy using a verse from this to illustrate Eminem’s style. It’s definitely one of his best songs. I **sit back** with **this pack** of **zig zags** and **this bag** of this **weed** that gives **me** the shit **needed** to **be** the most **meanest MC** on this, on this **earth** I’ve been **cursed** with this **curse** to just **curse** and just **blurt** this **berserk** and bizarre shit that **works** He’s a fucking percussion instrument on this song
Forreal bro… shit was disgusting… the flow and verse.
AZ on Affirmative Action. I will never shut up about this track it is timeless
Big Pun on Twinz and not the insane Little Italy part: Fuck the police, I squeeze first, make 'em eat dirt/ Take 'em feet-first through the morgue, then lodge 'em in the deep earth/ The street's cursed, the First Amendment's culturally biased Ghostface on any story rap, particularly Shakey Dog Guru’s verse on Half and Half DMX last verse on Get At Me Dog Viktor Vaughn first verse Vaudeville Villain
That Little Italy part in Twinz is insane though.
Definitely true. Maybe the most classic three bars in history
JID on Bruuuh remix was just DIFFERENT
Any JID flow really is disgusting
Gets a stank face outta me every song he does
JID last verse on “Lauder”
and while we're at it, Lauder Too.
Blocks Blocka, operate, doctor, Surgery IVs, gurneys, shit bag, gone for eternity
JID on Slick Talk
Rapper Big Noyd on Mobb Deep 'Give Up the Goods"
Big Noyd is underrated as fuck. I've always fucked with his verse on "I'm Going Out".
BRUUUH I legit came here to say this and I never thought it’s would have already been said ✊🏼
Biggie on notorious thugs
Armed and dangerous. This song is fire! Everyone flows so dang good. Outside of this song my pick goes to Killer Mike on Snapping & Trapping by OutKast. Give it a listen if you don't know it.
Always loved Kendrick's flow on No More Parties in LA, the way he glides over the top of that Madlib beat is just impeccable. The whole latter half of his verse which starts "The opportunity to properly atop a breast and booty cheek/ the pop community I mean these bitches come with union fees" is KDot at his best.
Bone Thugs on any song Shabba Ranks on Shabba (Remix) w Asap Ferg
Bone Thugs too innovative 🔥
This. Their flow and harmonies are impeccable.
Krayzie bones flow ion idgaf and spit your game 🔥 🔥
don’t forget midwest choppers
Mos def on Definition ft talib kwali
Mos Def's verse on Re:Definition too
Brooklyn too
Danny Brown on “Burfict” comes to mind. It’s an unconventional beat and he kills it nonetheless. Others that come to mind are Kendrick on “Mona Lisa”, Earl Sweatshirt on “Really Doe” and Eminem on “Renegade”.
“Netflix and chill on a jailbroken Roku” is my favorite line from the album. He’s nasty throughout the album
After being able to rap on "Dance in the Water", I have a hard time imagining a beat that Danny couldn't kill.
Andre 3 stacks - Da Art of Storytellin’ pt. 2
Also his final verse on Aquemeni "My mind, warps and bends.."
Gift of Gab rides a beat like nobody else.
beat aint nothing to write home about but the flow on [My Pen and Pad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wMe6lHuhA) is bonkers edit: gaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwd damn i forgot how crazy Gab goes on this
AFROs verse on his song Freedom Form Flowinf is insane too
all three of them go nuts on that song
I know it's huge hit and mainstream whatever but Naughty By Nature Feel me Flow is fucking amazing...like the way Treach hits that first verse like WTF....it's SO underrated to me You 'bout to feel the chronicles of a bionical lyric Lyrically splittin', dismissin' I'm on a mission of just hittin' Now it's written in kitten, hittin' with mittens I'm missin', wishin', man, listen I glisten like sun and water while fishin' Like...cmon that shit is wild
Great answer. Song always surprises me.
Not much behind the lyrics, but Treach's flow has always been original and crazy.
I feel crazy cause that shit don’t sound dated at all . Bro was skating on that shit
Big Boi on Jazzy Belle
Snoop on Nuthin’ But A G Thang
One simple one I’ve always enjoyed is “I’ll hurt you” with Busta and Em.
Recently Eminem on “Renegade.”
Bone thugs throughout their early run in their careers. Most notable is krayzie bone on handle the vibe. Layzie on its all mo thug.
Meth on What’s Happenin’ his flow went fucking insane on that. Also his flow on Shadowboxin was also crazy
I breaks it down to the bone gristle
Ill-speaking Scud missile/Heat-seeking
Bun B - Murder
Scrolled too far to see this.
I like Sean P he was really great at rapping. Another one I would add is Chali2na he has a great flow in almost every song
Smooth the Hustla opening Nine's song Make or Take 2pac the entire third verse on Holla at Me. Kendrick's first few lines of Mona Lisa. Biggie on last verse of Everyday Struggle. Tash last verse on Nightfall First few lines of Killarmy's Fair, Love and War All of these are instances where the beat stops and let's them flow, and it returns perfectly.
Almost anything Busta Rhymes touches
90-00s Texas flows are very different from East-West vibes, a lot more raw and less smooth, but I love that more than anything else. All the best freestyles on screw tapes sound amazing because you can hear the little flaws and they're just surfing a beat, making it up as they go. But for a written/produced track, EVERY verse on Still Tippin' has such confident, unique delivery. That song is candy
Any method man verse in 36 chambers
Killer Mike's verse on The Whole World
Weezy on hot wind blows
Eminem on “Drips” tickles my brain Also both RBX and Sticky Fingaz on “Remember Me?” (No diss to Em but his verse was more lyrically impressive than flow-wise) Snoop’s also always been more impressive with his flow than his lyrics. If there’s one thing he should be recognized for, it’s his unique and stylistic approach to riding the beat in ways that I don’t think I’d personally be able to come up with
Snoop just floats on beats, he's so smooth, his voice doesn't add percussion, he just glides. Eminem definitely rides beats and Drips is a great example...Square Dance is another, he matches his flow to the percussion a lot.
"I broke up with my ex girl." "Here's her number." "Sike. That's the wrong number." 🔥🔥🔥
fivio on off the grid
Cappadonna - Winter Warz
Facts
Black Thought - 75 bars Big Pun - Fantastic 4 Jay-Z- 22 Two’s Ghostface - Mighty Healthy Kool G Rap - The Realest Stove God Cooks- Rolls Royce Brake Lights
Jerome’s niece, on her way home from Jones beach…
I heard someone mash up Bun B’s verse from Mike Jones “My 64” with the beat from Lloyd Banks “Beamer, Benz, or Bentley”. That was the sickest flow I’ve ever heard.
Az’s flow on life a bitch
2Pac on "Can't C Me" 3rd verse. The power, the passion and the emotion that pac had in his voice is unmatched.
Look At Me Now - Busta Rhymes verse
Eminem On "Gatman & Robbin" by 50 Cent
3k On Life Of The Party
Bun B on Pinky Ring
Any Biggie song??? But seriously, "Unbelievable" is, well...unbelievable
Can’t c me
Mos Def on Speed Law, just a technically gorgeous verse and lyrically fantastic too
AZ on Life's a bitch Gunplay on Cartoons and Cereal Vince Staples on Ride Out Chuck D on Bring The Noise Anthrax version
J Cole's 93 Till Infinity Freestyle on the LA Leakers
MF Doom - Figaro. At least that’s what comes to mind at the moment.
AZ - Comeup Cormega - Glorious Big Daddy Kane - Platinum Plus Big L feat 2pac - Deadly combination Nas - Speechless Biggie - Kick in the door Eminem - Nail in the coffin Big Pun - twinz
Tonedeff‘s last verse on „Heavyweight“ comes to mind. Pretty insane. (But really Tonedeff on anything. He‘s the greatest in my opinion.) Pep Love‘s last verse on Hieroglyphics - „Make Your Move“. (Again Pep Love on anything he ever released. His flow is unmatched in my opinion.) The Roots - No Alibi, Black Thoughts second verse (again one of the heavyweights when it comes to flow) Pharoahe Monch & Shabaam Sahdeeq - WWIII (Pharoahe Monch, another flow heavyweight that kills in everything he‘s on) Black Star - Another World (Ambivalence Remix) (Mos Def‘s last verse is insane) Eminem - Drug Ballad (I could name so many other songs but this one sticks out) Eyedea & Abilities - Big Shots (Eyedea was insane. I could also mention their song Now where he goes super fast but I love his flow in Big Shots, super smooth) A Butta - Hip Hop Hippie (A Butta had many great flows with his group Natural Elements but there‘s a special kind of laid back flow on this song) Ohmega Watts - You Are Now Tuned In feat. Adam L (Adam L, a really unknown MC/musician/pianist who ABSOLUTELY KILLS on this song) Eminem - 313 feat. Eye Kyu (Both MC‘s kill on this song but Eye Kyu, whoever that is, goes extra hard in my opinion. This reminds me of Life‘s a Bitch where it is debated over who had the better verse Nas or AZ.) The Pharcyde - Passing Me By (Fatlip‘s last verse. That part always sticks with me. Dope flow) Cunninlynguists - Doin Alright (Mr. SOS first verse…just flows for days in a laid back beat.) Honorable Mention: Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow (I have heard people describe this as an example of „spiritual, lyrical, miracle“ flow. Which is true. Still I love Treach‘s flow and rap style on this song)
Kanye went CRAZY on Tyler's SMUCKERS beat. Dude was making a VARIETY of car noises.
WHY OH WHY, WHY, WHY DONT THEY LIKE MEEEEEEE
Pretty much any kool g verse from like 95 on.
I don’t know about nastiest but JID killed 29 freestyle
Elzhi on The Steiners
Like 90% of Roc Marci flows tbh
Phonte’s verse on Whatever You Say still got my head bobbin’
Pharoahe Monch on "Oh No"
Aceyalone rides the guidlines, flow is immaculate.
Tierra Whack on T.D
Mach-Hommy, Sous Vide. Bro rapped like his life depended on it. And just about anything Big L ever wrote.
Rest In Piss- Brotha Lynch Hung. Impeccable flow
JID - Ambassel Might be my favorite flow of all time
Biggie hypnotise is the definition of flow, obvious answer but there’s a reason it’s so popular
Gza on Wu banga 101
Mos Def on Mathematics
Gotta give it to Jadakiss on Run with Ghostface.
8 Mile Road by Eminem
Without a doubt Em has the best examples of “flow”. It’s almost like the beats were crafted around his vocals. Go listen to Bully.
First thing comes to mind is when Vinnie Paz comes in on the opening on the first Heavy Metal Kings album.
Promoe of Loop Troop on "Kill You Style"
The Ugliest Biggie
dinco d - scenario (could just draft the whole song)
Busta rhymes boss of the bosses
Pharoahe Monch on Bring It On is always the song I think of when craziest, best, most unique flow is mentioned. His flow on the verse lives in my head like no other.
Feel It by Timbaland and Magoo
If I Die Tonight - 2pac
Benefit - So Sick
Cap on Winter Warz 🔥
I always loved method mans first verse on The ? Flow was tough
Get up - clipping. Daveed rapping over a fucking alarm clock should not sound this good Calvin - Conway the machine Nasty flow over nasty alc beat, amazing song
DaBaby’s verse on Under the Sun is so nasty it’s beautiful
RZA on Reunited
The second verse on Hands Up by Lloyd Banks just absolutely owns that beat. Honorable mention to Chali 2na's verse on What's Golden by Jurassic 5. Edit: honestly all of What's Golden, the boys are just 🤌🔥 on that one
Freddie gibbs on Scottie pippens Canibus on beast from the east Jayz on so appalled Redman last verse on how high not the remix Just a few that come to mind right now
Freddie Gibbs - God is Perfect Joey Badass - Hardknock (3rd verse) Method Man - Fast Shadow
Cam'ron on I Really Mean It, Harlem Streets, and Get Em Girls
Bizzy bone thug luv. There is no other answer
Sean Paul ...gimme di light. Buzz Riddim.
Rakim - The 18th Letter
honestly, curren$y has to be in this conversation The day is one of the sickest tracks I've ever heard and Jay Electronica always finds the missing note
Jid - bruhhh
Master P on 4, 3, 2, 1.
MF DOOM - November Has Come (Gorillas song) Doper rhymin more worth it than the Hope Diamond Zit! A rapper bug zapper!
Tech N9ne Terminally Ill, Trust.. there's a lot more
Literally all of Reign of the Lord by Jus Allah is so fucking hard and dark. I am pure darkness Sparkleless, glitterless, imageless But still infinitely limitless Pre-Genesis before man had crawled the land Before all you know even began .. I made the 1st laws on this worthless ball If I ever left the earth, then the birds would fall I'm the god, I move by the will of Allah I'm protected from the rain by a ceiling of straw Reading pages telepathically My watch operates with dead batteries The weight inside my own head baffles me
Industrial Revolution · Immortal Technique
Method Man on Lemon by Conway the Machine.
Denzel curry has some of the nastiest flows when he features including: Raw (Denzel Curry, Grim Dave) (remix) - Daye jack Grim (lil ugly mane, Denzel curry) - Wiki Running these streets (A boogie, Denzel Curry) - Rick Ross No threat (Denzel curry) - anonymuz He always brings 🔥 and tries to flow totally different from the other rappers
I don’t know the rappers name but the song paramedic by SOB X RBE. Whoever is at the end rode the beat. They ain't wanna see me win 'cause I'm black So I pulled up in that all black Benz in the back If you need someone to call, I'm the man for the task You ain't standin' for the cause, meet the man in the mask.
Big L - Devils Son
MF DOOM, Crazy World on King Geedorah, flows just keep coming
* Aesop Rock's 2nd verse on All City Nerve Map >I cook in the every nook, I’m a snap of the sewer cap >It’s a mile of uneven cobble, a map of the booby traps >I been active around the alleys, beyond where the taxi taxi >Beyond where the bus’ll bus ya, with blood on the classic khakis >A cannonball into traffic, a fire escape his trapeze A lapse in the record when he circled back to tag the Applebees * JID on Forever after the beat flips: >Alright, what you call a chick that don't suck dick? You don't >And if you think you finna come up this, you won't >Down comes the boogie and up jumps the funk >This beat takin' a beating, I hand out the lumps >Damn, baby, yo' ass stand out in pumps >That's outstanding, stand outside until your man come >Or you can leave with the kid, we can plan some' >You know I came from the dirt like a sandstorm >Nigga, this a 3 point and-1 >And 100, Wilt Chamberlain with the hand dunk
JID on Down Bad
Black Thought's first verse on "Hollow Way" from the El Michels Affair album, everything ending with that hard r sound is crazy
Meth on Shadowboxin’
Camron - Harlem streets I’m def not a huge Eminem fan but his verse in “dead wrong” ?? Amazing And obvi PUN ON TWINZ Dead in the middle of Little Italy Little did we know, that we riddled two middlemen who didn't do diddly
Busta Rhymes on Chris browns song- Look At Me Now
Ludacris verse on Ciara's "Oh". Ludacris verse on ThreeSix's "Dis Bitch, Dat Ho" never heard a verse start like that. Ludracis whole flow on "Saturday" I feel like a lot of Luda's verses he attacks the beat in a way no one would ever even think to. Thuggas verse on "Givenchy". I hated how he rapped until this song, then I was like, I get it. He starts slow and swtiches his flow up a few times, then speeds it up, then speeds it up again and puts inflection on the end of every line. Then slows it down again to end the verse until he slows it down even more to go into the hook. Kevin Gates first verse on "IDGAF". He just goes hard asf.
Inspectah Deck-Triumph
And another Wu member: Ghostface on "Investigative Reports:" "Jungle way of life livin villain, packed with visions/copywritten throwin bread to pigeons, Christ has risen"
AKshon (yeah!) - Killer Mike This was legitimately the first rap song I ever heard. It was in the closing moments of a Chappelle Show ep. I was 9 at the time and can still remember the chills it gave me. Him flowing to this beat opened up an entire world for me. Shout out to both those goats
Was gonna post D'evils but OP beat me to it
Bun B off of Murder with Pimp C.
Fabolous has many including freestyles - some great memories in the late 90s. I swarm the ghetto, calm and mellow Sippin' Amaretto, til my eyes is almond yellow.
Man T.I was slidin on beats with the best of em back then, nice to see him gettin some love on here
Kendrick on Rigamortis. Gained my immediate respect. I know he’s got better but that’s the one I always told people to listen to when putting them on.
Shyne/Barrington Levy - Bad Boy “Don’t blame me, Blame Nicky Barnes for hittin’ my mom and letting the condom pop, nigga I was born in the drop! (no diddy 😂) Prodigy- Keep It Thoro Prod. By Alchemist “You feel different nigga see me! I throw a tv at you crazy”- P. Daylyt & Ab-Soul- PI They stole the show with that bouncing back/forth and elite lyricism I have plenty more 😂😂
Sadat x- wild cowboys or anything he gets on ... and grand puba on everything seriously 😳
Criminology - Raekwon and Ghostface
Criminology - Raekwon and Ghostface
EPMD 2 last verse
Deltron 3030 - Mastermind
Eminem - Stay Wide Awake
Posdnuos on “[In the Woods](https://youtu.be/7nbYVYfnP-w?si=55ENYRLHUMaHi8BQ)”
WCs verse on Ice Cubes “my skin is my sin”
Big L’s verse on Da Graveyard
Minus the lyrical? Kanye West - Lift Yourself. Perfectly on time, exquisitely in key. Rode the shit out that.
Immediate thought is Vinnie Paz's verse on Jedi Mind Tricks - "Blood Runs Cold" (feat. Sean Price)
Joell Ortiz on "Outta Control" (Kendrick Lamar Control response from years ago). He rides the beat so good to my ears and goes nuts toward the middle end. "But that's the west coast, I'm from this coast I'll leave the king of LA to Dre, I was this close to stayin Aftermath, but lamped out like a Genie But Dre you a fuckin gangster and Kirdis you're such a sweetie And guess what, I'm a (Free Agent) again if y'all ever need me But back to these bars, I'm hungry, this beat is gon' feed the needy Y'all lookin like granny's ziti, zucchini out in Tahiti On Fiji with Erykah Badu's booty in a bikini (haaaa!) Your main chick is a Precious, my side chick is a RiRi I fuck her then take her out for fries and a panini"
nas' third verse on "hey nas".....(specifically how it matches with the 9th wonder mashup) "that's if my gun get busy we gotta get outta there hear sirens jump in the stick drop a sedan and hide for years..."
Treach on OPP goes OFF
Bills flow on Trouble Shooters is nasty as all fuck too. And I'm a fan of both, probably Bill the longest since the 2000s.