Mos Def always seems so effortless in his flow

@charlessamuel9642

5 ай бұрын

Mos Def is one of the best lyricist ever

@oraculox

4 ай бұрын

He should be profesor of litterature and Doctoral Advisor in a University Chair just like that, singing

@davidlee7142

4 ай бұрын

But Bruce Willis couldn't even get him a few blocks away 😜

@yinzerdad3422

3 ай бұрын

That's valid. Black Thought too

@charleswoo7656

3 ай бұрын

He gay now

Three GOATS One mainstream, one underground and one that comes out every now and then to remind everyone he is THAT lyricist

@typroblemm

3 ай бұрын

dude .. are you reading my mind or what 😅 . so precise

@helpoj

3 ай бұрын

@@typroblemm after this whole tiff between drake and mos def, i realised mos def is arguably the most overlooked lyricist alive

@typroblemm

3 ай бұрын

@@helpoj no doubt . at some point in every HipHop head career in hiphop .. you spit the facts and stats out the jizz bro

@helpoj

3 ай бұрын

@@typroblemm Mos Def is the same class as Nas, Em, Pac, L, Big, Pun and and Thought Hip Hop is so diluted with irrelevance

@typroblemm

3 ай бұрын

@@helpoj you mean irreverence right ? cause yeah . mos def alongside talib .. common .. masta ace .. krs

In my humble opinion, the best Cypher ever on BET period.

@kdizzystl

3 ай бұрын

For. Sure.

@prophet2296

3 ай бұрын

This one and TDE fs

@abdulazeemmcdaniel8750

3 ай бұрын

Agreed

@richardmorgan9895

2 ай бұрын

Spot on

@ThePhillyfashionista

2 ай бұрын

you are absolutely right! i would pay big money to see them in concert.

Eminem knew he had to focus here. The beat is crazy

@wutangblaze8501

3 ай бұрын

And still came in 3rd. And Em is a BEAST!!!

@ps5andstuffhere

3 ай бұрын

Pretty even

@blindi6326

2 ай бұрын

as if these aren't prewritten....

@gambino48

2 ай бұрын

Yeah for sure this is not a beat that you would normally hear his flow over and not to mention he's got two of the dopest lyricists in the cypher with him in mos def and black thought

@TheBigMenace

2 ай бұрын

@@wutangblaze8501 em hate is crazy, that flow was crazy

The amount of bars and schemes in under 3.5 minutes is insane

@Mr1and14orth

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 facts

I’d kill for a part 2 of this. Side note: This line up would have been even more fucking insane in ‘99.

@j-remy9832

3 ай бұрын

In the Sound bombing era !!!

@alexisherrera4687

Ай бұрын

The crazy thing is that Black Thought has even gotten BETTER since then

Man my asthmatic ass wishes I had Mos Def's lung capacity 😂

@kjp1232

5 ай бұрын

He will rhyme 245 words with asthma before you have a ashtma attack 🤣😎

@F.HeatherJoseph

3 ай бұрын

​@@kjp1232❤️🦅

@staceytunstill4041

3 ай бұрын

Black has the best breath control in the biz. It's called circular breathing and he perfected it in creative arts high school. He'd lay down and rap while the teachers placed stacks of textbooks on his chest. Funk Flex Fresstyle and the joint Web are surreal. "Breathe like Black or collapse your lung"

@staceytunstill4041

3 ай бұрын

@@kjp1232 nice... lmao

@zaidholliday6033

3 ай бұрын

Bro, you just said a mouth full 😁

Daaaaaang. Three of the top MCs in the game. Eminem don't have double entendre's he has quadruple entendre's! Crazy skilled.

The complexity in Em’s bars is crazy. Black Thought is one of my favourite rappers but Em had everything in this cypher from lyrics, delivery and rhyming schemes

@HowieFeltersnatchMD

Ай бұрын

By complexity you mean just saying a bunch of words that rhyme really fast? “Boiling water, like me it’s hot, might throw it on my daughter! Kongo line, light shines, Im from the same trailer park as Kevin federline! Spanish, planned this, only thing I’m owing, is a slap to Candace.”

@TheGillenium

28 күн бұрын

@@HowieFeltersnatchMDwhat are you on homie?

@HowieFeltersnatchMD

27 күн бұрын

@@TheGillenium that’s an Em line bro

@kola420

26 күн бұрын

@@HowieFeltersnatchMDalright bro lets hear one of yours

@HowieFeltersnatchMD

9 күн бұрын

@@kola420 I just gave you bars and you actually believed that was by Eminem. You teen angst emeinem lovers are hilarious.

I listen this ONE at least a few times a yr. Lyrical mastery

Black Thought still making it hard on the next up. Fantastic lineup

Mo's Killed It! Brooklyn Stand-Up!

@himwhowhy91

3 ай бұрын

And still one of the most livest ones

Black Thought is THE GOAT, but Em gave him a run here... All three were brilliant.

@digitaltrademusic

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@danielalberto2895

11 ай бұрын

Seriously? 😂Em shouldn’t even have been in this cypher! Completely different rapper from mos and thought! They should have had Common In this cypher! Or even talib or pharaoh monch

@staceytunstill4041

11 ай бұрын

@@danielalberto2895 lol.

@djlightfighter

10 ай бұрын

Black is that dude. He one of the best to ever do it ........ this whole cypher session GOAT STATUS

@staceytunstill4041

10 ай бұрын

@@danielalberto2895 He is different. That's why it's difficult to say who won it. I just love seeing three artists who can actually spit off the dome on that level.

I love all the guys faces in the background when Eminem goes you can see them just laughing and shit because his word choice and his pattern and his flow is so unique and so fucking psychotic in the words he chooses it's hysterical but he gets so much respect from the true hip hop community I mean you got guys like most deaf and black thought in the cypher who are monsters in the history of hip hop culture and as a white dude to come in there and do what he's done and get the respect he gets from those guys it's crazy

@gambino48

2 ай бұрын

Mos def*

Black thought, and Mos Def, did they're thing, they flamed it, but you have to give Eminem his props, he had everyone mesmerized

Save the best for last: Eminem KILLED IT!!

@HJules-cw6fb

2 ай бұрын

He was saying anything though. Just cool sounding words

@sews1523

2 ай бұрын

​@@HJules-cw6fb not everything has to be about deep topics. What he spit was entertaining, and impressive with how it was put together

They were all nervous haha

@SheedLordBear

3 ай бұрын

Yes.. they was super focused

This is REAL hip hop! One of the best cyphers ever!

Black Thought had the best verse, for sure! 🔥🔥🔥

@cuzzymuscle1238

Жыл бұрын

They all amazing using different styles. But tbh I think em, mos def then black thought but they all killed it

@ayushanand568

Жыл бұрын

I think em

@manboyman4927

Жыл бұрын

@@ayushanand568 i think not CHECKMATE!

@manboyman4927

Жыл бұрын

THAT WAS SO FUNNY

@moballardful

Жыл бұрын

All had the best verse for different reasons. Em was the most technical. Mos had the best cadence. Thought had the best content.

Three titans of the game, killing it together!

Still can’t choose who I like more between Black & Em, they went crazy

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

Black Thought was NOT spitting off his dome. Black Thought used a song that he had in his album. He had been working on this song already. He had been working on the album which took 8 more months or a full year later for the album to be ready for the public or to be published. People ignore or many forget that an artist may have the songs ready , and an album being in the works, and the whole production can take a long time before it is released. The bars from Black Thought in this cypher was from the song in the album -- How I Got Over The album came out a year later, but the album was already in the works

@Helmuesi911

2 ай бұрын

@@naldebol All three verses were written.. off the top freestyles are usually choppier with the artist stumbling to find words to rhyme. There’s a reason all their verses were smooth and practically flawless as they should be.

@YourLuck100

2 ай бұрын

Freestyle use to not mean off the top of the dome and Most old school hip/hop heads don't use it for that term. It meant you were free to do with your style whatever you wanted but you knew what you were gonna say.

Prolly one of the only cyphers that em is one that give each rapper equal time lol. Love it

this should have a lot of views

@tdavenport3387

Жыл бұрын

People are lost and don't know greatness!

@F.HeatherJoseph

3 ай бұрын

It's welcome to the Party, 🇨🇦🎶🎵🎶❤️🦅

Thought Murdered the beat

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

Black Thought was NOT spitting off his dome. Black Thought used a song that he had in his album. He had been working on this song already. He had been working on the album which took 8 more months or a full year later for the album to be ready for the public or to be published. People ignore or many forget that an artist may have the songs ready , and an album being in the works, and the whole production can take a long time before it is released. The bars from Black Thought in this cypher was from the song in the album -- How I Got Over The album came out a year later, but the album was already in the works

@Chiefmiest

Ай бұрын

@@naldebol and he still bodied it

I never get tired of this MC combo showcase

Mos def killed it the rest I salute

@mjperkins5400

Жыл бұрын

His flow was dope but he had no hard nightingale punchlines. They battle rapping homie.

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

@@mjperkins5400 Black Thought was NOT spitting off his dome. Black Thought used a song that he had in his album. He had been working on this song already. He had been working on the album which took 8 more months or a full year later for the album to be ready for the public or to be published. People ignore or many forget that an artist may have the songs ready , and an album being in the works, and the whole production can take a long time before it is released. The bars from Black Thought in this cypher was from the song in the album -- How I Got Over The album came out a year later, but the album was already in the works MOS DEF also spit bars that were his already pre written song. The ONLY one there who was free styling was Eminem. Eminem holds on to his crown.

@Chiefmiest

Ай бұрын

@@naldebol Your dickriding is crazy. Eminem's verse was prewritten to the only difference is he didnt put it on the song. Stop discrediting other rappers to try to lift up your fav.

DJ Premier from Gangstarr doing the mixin. 😁

Thanks for posting these lost cyphers Danger!

Shady's flow is immaculate but it har to bob your head to

Em is goated but he got outclassed here by Mos Def and Black Thought

Mos Def almost took it but Em with that line about adding inches made me rewind like 10 times🤯😅

@justkev1044

2 ай бұрын

Average shady bar

"Used to bomb ya like Saddam, but now that I'm a little calmer I'm a fuckin' cross between Osama, Dahmer, Obama and Dalai Lama. Tell Miley I'm knight in shining armor." No one else is touching this level of rhyme skill. Period.

@ShaniceandKhris

Жыл бұрын

Big facts unmatched till this day 🔥🔥

@jesusisking4953

Жыл бұрын

Black thought has ryhmes are that are way more stacked than this, and are actually coherent. Yeah that ryhmes but it doesn't really make any sense

@codykirk2818

Жыл бұрын

@Jesus IsKing yes it does make sense. In terms of thus rhyme. Implying before he was crazy like Sadam. Now he has calmed down but uses two peaceful figures, Obama and dahli lamaas well as two evil figures, Osama and Dahmer, to imply that even when he is calm, he is still part crazy. It does make sense if u break it down. But ya black thought was better on this I would agree.

@benjamindover2483

Жыл бұрын

@@codykirk2818 I fully agree

@benjamindover2483

Жыл бұрын

@@jesusisking4953 em was coherent in that verse, but black thought was overall better

Bigger then the half time show

The Goat session as far as MC’s go on the cypher!

Black Thought bodied this joint!

1 of the smoothest Cyphers Ever

Heat !!! 33, 000 degrees please acknowledge each one of these men for being just that .... MEN , period

Maaaaaan I love hip hop!!! 3 of the best to ever do it!!!

The BEST BET Cypher EVER.

The Woooo! At the end tells us eveywe need to know about this cypher. My goodness

I'm Brooklyn all day, til death do us part, but the first time I heard Black Thought I was an instant fan.

Reaction from the crowd is representative of the crowd from around the globe. Eminem earned the crowd's reaction there and all over the planet. I LOVE MOS DEF and I sure miss him in the field, I miss him doing his music and I got blessed by hearing Eminem's Zeus level bars , he on Olympus, not earth.

@charlessamuel9642

5 ай бұрын

MOS DEF. 1 of the best lyricist ever

This is the best cypher out of all the other cyphers they did. This year was one of the best, maybe not the best because I think it was the 2013 one was crazy but I wish I could find all of them

Man, that shit gave me goosebumps. I love mos and em, but black thought lyrics was the ill as hell. It had to be premo on the decks!!

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

Problem is Black Thought was NOT spitting off his dome. Black Thought used a song that he had in his album. He had been working on this song already. He had been working on the album which took 8 more months or a full year later for the album to be ready for the public or to be published. People ignore or many forget that an artist may have the songs ready , and an album being in the works, and the whole production can take a long time before it is released. The bars from Black Thought in this cypher was from the song in the album -- How I Got Over The album came out a year later, but the album was already in the works

@effenbegee6252

3 ай бұрын

@@naldebol None of them were spitting off the dome. Just because you hadn't heard Eminem or Mos Def's verses elsewhere doesn't mean they weren't premeditated.

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

@@effenbegee6252 MOS DEF WAS NOT spitting off dome. I SAID this various times in comments. The only one who was NOT rapping o e of their songs made for their album was Eminem. I own the entire collection and I have scrutinized the works. Those bars are not in any of Eminem albums or other works. There is ZERO EVIDENCE to accuse Eminem of this stuff, but we do have evidence against Mos Def and Black Thought Feel me?

@effenbegee6252

3 ай бұрын

@@naldebolCan you read though? You talk about "spitting off the dome" - do you actually know what that means or did you discover hip hop when you watched 8 Mile for the first time yesterday? My point is that it might not be a verse we've heard on record from Eminem but it was still clearly written and memorised and not a freestyle/off the dome. What's hard to understand about that? Feel me???

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

​@@effenbegee6252 It's apparent that evidently the central part of this discussion has escaped you. I will explain -- These 3 artists, rap /hip hop artists, they were invited to a FREESTYLE , CYPHER. Now, you, and a few others, need to be reminded about what these artists WERE NOT INVITED TO DO --> None of these 3 artists were invited to sing or perform a song from an album of theirs. It's important to emphasize that -- when freestyle events are put together, normally, artists are NOT INVITED TO SING A SONG FROM THEIR ALBUMS. Not spitting off your dome is already a thing that's piss poor to do since the public in freestyle events want to see you improvise. But showing to a a freestyle event so you can rap a song that you already were working on for a LOOONG TIME and for AN ALBUM .... that's pathetic. The only person in this trio who came to freestyle was Eminem. We have NO EVIDENCE that Eminem showed up with material that he had prepared for a long time. WE DO HAVE EVIDENCE that Black Thought and MOS DEF were just there rapping songs from their albums. So, the bottom line here is that the winner is Eminem. I have been listening and loving hip hop since its birth. I know how it's supposed to work and I know we the audience, the public need to call out the bullshit when we see it. Like when you want to engage in a dissing battle but you have others ghost write your songs so you basically have others fight your battles... like that's another bullshit. I hope I was able to dumb it all down for you to understand. We need to call out the bullshit happening and make some effort to keep the integrity of hip hop.

Respect the grind w the tea sponsorship, keep it up man

3 of the best in the dome game. spittin fire

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

Serious problem with this here. Black Thought was NOT spitting off his dome. Black Thought used a song that he had in his album. He had been working on this song already. He had been working on the album which took 8 more months or a full year later for the album to be ready for the public or to be published. People ignore or many forget that an artist may have the songs ready , and an album being in the works, and the whole production can take a long time before it is released. The bars from Black Thought in this cypher was from the song in the album -- How I Got Over The album came out a year later, but the album was already in the works

One of my favorite old school cyphers. ❤

Em was focused and razor sharp.. he had to go hard being up there with those dudes

Black thought raspy delivery ❤

as i listen to it as a 33 years old adult, i realize eminem wasn't even the best like i used to think. Mos was.

E&m killed that shit!

@JayC216

3 ай бұрын

FOH 😂 ....He said a bumch of random nothing. You just like his flow and you're listening to the crowd reaction.

Black Thought & Mos Def _ my faves! Missed watching BET awards for the Cypher (ONLY). Cant get into dudes today ....

That boy snapped 😢

Man this whole shit still gives me goosebumps

Sometimes I wonder if Marshall had 4 lungs back then hahah, damn!. And Mos, that´s the evolution of the writen word put into sound right there!!!

@atlemartoresonfjeldstad4557

3 ай бұрын

Naw he had space to breathe. As a former rapper there`s always put aside space to breathe so you don`t strain your voice or lose your breath. Everything you write you have to take into consideration that you`re probably gonna do it live at one point.

@oraculox

3 ай бұрын

@@atlemartoresonfjeldstad4557 Yes, you are right, you can see that now with the freestyle scene all over the world, the kids this days are like miniguns with the rhymes hahahah

I listen to Black Thought part about 20 times😂

Haven't seen this since it aired, but man this is classic

"Doing it late night like here's johnny" FIRREEEEE

Black thought best verse; flow and lyrics tight asf 🔥

Dope Cypher. Love all these artists but the Black Thought verse is actually 2 verses both from the Root's song "Doing it Again"

@PapaBPoppin

2 ай бұрын

In fairness, cypher is pretty open ended. Freestyle is open ended. Reworking memorized lyrics to a new beat on the fly is freestyling There are definitely more distilled terms for full blown off-the-top and improvised, but unless there are set terms to follow (dunno much about BET cyphers. are the claims set somewhere that it’s all improvised? honest question), all 3 verses coulda been pre written and the dj is throwing down a new beat, and it’s still a cypher Mixing skills in the moment. Live creative collaboration of two or more brains O, my heart yearns

@verbzfromnyc3377

2 ай бұрын

@@PapaBPoppin agree. Plus I feel like a lot of fans know Thought's solo work more than his bars on the Roots records, so it was probably new to many

Eminem's not human y'all 🔥🔥🔥

if you think Thought didn't win, you should listen and think again

@rosalind1635

Жыл бұрын

1. It's not a competition. 2. Mos Def won.

@bizrankin

Жыл бұрын

It's a cypher, not a battle

@DMPREC0RDS

Жыл бұрын

nah, we won cause they all absolutely bodied this!

@coreyfulton520

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 🎶🎵🎧🎤

@tyresefisher3921

Жыл бұрын

@@rosalind1635 eminem won

Black Thought first 4 bars killed all of their verses put together lol

Em can hang wit the best of them,got to give him hes crown,mos and black are hip hop in human form🎤🔥💪🏾👑👑👑🌹🌹🌹👏🏾

I come by every now and then to listen to these legends after I hear some random dumbass listening to this trap shit now. Thank you KZread for keeping this real music uo

MOS WAS born TO RAP🎙️🎙️

Black thought is redeculous

Legend has it the building is still burning

Black Thought is so underrated!

@staceytunstill4041

3 ай бұрын

That is changing fast. Only took 30 years.

A cypher with actual lyricists

The only thing unrealistic is the crowd behind them not going nuts with every nasty bar or punchline. I would be spazzing out!!!

This is an all star team, Eminem wasn't messing around on this one.

BET cyber, they need to bring this back to television this is where hip-hop blues Eminem freestyle was so crazy

We need this again!!

3:00 - 3:20

Been hoping for years to see a mos def and eminem track!!

Yasin Bey is undeniable, I'm so vexed that so many people don't know about him

Solid lineup dude. Mos def is on my top 5 best of all time but recently i dont think em is as corny as i used to feel, hes one of the best honestly and he deserves the praise not the hate him and Dres whole era is goated

Ahhh Mos kiled this... I havent heard this cypher in almost fifteen years... Only have Em's part, literally spaced on the high their freestyles that preceeded his... fuck I miss those days of straight-up rap...

@naldebol

3 ай бұрын

MOS Def was rapping a pre written song. This song was a song from his album. Serious problem with this here. Black Thought was NOT spitting off his dome. Black Thought used a song that he had in his album. He had been working on this song already. He had been working on the album which took 8 more months or a full year later for the album to be ready for the public or to be published. People ignore or many forget that an artist may have the songs ready , and an album being in the works, and the whole production can take a long time before it is released. The bars from Black Thought in this cypher was from the song in the album -- How I Got Over The album came out a year later, but the album was already in the works ONLY EMINEM was doing a freestyle.

@NeoMatoane767

3 ай бұрын

@@naldebol dope

4 legends in one cypher!

@timeslot09

2 ай бұрын

DJ Premiere is legendary.@@CalvinDaGentlemen777

@timeslot09

2 ай бұрын

DJ Premier is 4@@CalvinDaGentlemen777

Black thought1. Mos def. 2 3.Em

This is one of those times were we should be able to give more than just one thumbs up.

Mos Def was top 3 in all the Cyphers

That was dope!

That was a dope cypher

RIP to this beat. They MURDERED it 🔥

Em was on point knew he couldn't flop with though or def

Nothing but awesome on this. I love the order. This should be in the dictionary for what MCing is about. Not one of them sound the same. All of them are tied to the beat. All of them let you know who they are.

After Eminem rhymes, you forget about everyone that was before him.

Most Def always been that dude Brown Sugar the Movie & Black Thought can rap for days without taking a breath✌

Slim shady murdered the track&I noticed how shady had respect from the entire hip hop community......nobody sent side shots&the best finished................at last

He wrote this 41 years ago. Damn!!!

aint nobody buying some dang smooth teas off a rap video

How have I ever seen this before

I came to watch em get bodied by these guys I left with a new found respect

This is Hip Hop none of that other BS. Best Ever

The Beat: well they destroyed me, I took that personally! Peace!

Black thought flow untouchable

B.Rabbit , Black Thought , Yasenbay 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mos Def was my favorite raoper for many years before he turned to Yasiin. Black thought has been criminally underrated for decades. Eminem is one of a kind.