This quote gave me a flashback when the freestyle battle aspect of hip-hop really gained my interest. It was back in my high school days when it was a friday requirement to be at someone's home between 7 -7:30 pm to catch freestyle fridays on 106 & Park {AJ & Free were holding it down }.. There were two rappers that really had me and my friends going "Postaboy" and "Jin". If we couldn't physically be together to watch, we would have each other on 5-way while the battles took place. To hear these guys rip their opponents to shreds was just amazing. They would take punchline after punchline and commit verbal manslaughter. You could always tell the difference between those who wrote their rhymes at homes, and those who came up with the slickest, ill, ego-crushing bars on the spot. There were countless arguments between who definitely deserved to win the battles. But whent it came to Postaboy & Jin; there was no argument there, they deserved it hands down. On the following mondays during lunchbreak we would have the wanna be rappers come downstairs to the cafeteria; and try to imitate the victorious Champion or imitate the lyrically decapitated Loser.{Those were the good ol' days ;-) }
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"Jin"Sited Sources:
Cobb, Jelani. To the Break of Dawn, A freestyle on the hip hop aesthetic. Chapter 3'Word of Mouth'. Page 80,Paragraph3
