Torae on the Underground Railroad

[eethry]

freaking awesome man

[jmartecep]

This is breath of fresh air, lyrics. Freestyle or not. This is what hip hop needs.

[christmdog]

1:30 is AZ - Magic Hour

[terroristclan1990]

wats the beat tht starts at 1.30 tht shit sounds sick as hell

[Schmooveness]

1. black star - respiration (pete rock remix)

2. atcq - bustas lament (the ummah)

[uknowo]

NICE-NESS

[raptrackfanman]

whats that last beat? Sounds like Pete Rock or somethin. Anybody know?

[RHYMESMOKE1]

Young Gifted and Black-Big Daddy Kane...produced by Marley Marl

[raptrackfanman]

oh.... thus why he said it lol... didnt hear that. Thanks.

[misterk213]

whats the beat on this?

[Oiinsaon1987]

Awesome freestyle, however I'm a little disappointed because I wanted to hear you speak. I miss your voice! You're slacking.

[RealKengeki]

I like the music, never liked the sound of rap though.

[thehiphopchannel101]

this aint rap this is hip hop rite here

[MeLaDammit]

TORAE SUCKS!!!!

.. i keed, i keed. He's the homie. he rools. I'll smack fire out anyone who says different. hehe

[nappyp33z]

my bad i put a thumbs down by accident

[klixxz]

I know that this is a dumb question: Why does he hold his phone? Does he have notes for his lyrics on it? I write a lot and do some spoken word & I used to use my phone to get down ideas while I was out and had no paper. I'd put them into a text and save it as a draft. Is it something like that or does it just help to have something to look at or occupy the hands? If it helps, then I'd like to try it. This guy has excellent rhythm and delivery so he's obviously doing something right.

[Ciaranmoll]

Its for notes, being a proffessional they make hundreds of songs, its too easy to mix text up or switch to another songs lyrics, they just keep notes on the phone to make sure they dont forget or switch, makes no difference occupying hands or not.

[klixxz]

Ah. Cool, thanks for answering my question. Now I know.

[mike7743]

good stuff Jay, looking forward to his new album with Marco Polo.

[Taktiker]

Amazing!!

[mattbane]

Torae's one of the brightest stars i've seen in hip hop in years.. Pure Lyricist & a true legend before he dropped a record. DUCK DOWN!!!

[krissynix]

awesome freestyle

[TroySoul]

It wasnt a freestyle, but yeah that was dope.

[Cez305]

This was FIRE!!!!!

Although 1 of his lines was spit by Lupe Fiasco about 5-7 years ago...."I stay over there heads like carry on luggage" - Lupe Fiasco

[SeeSwann]

The lyrics is back!

[quitejaded]

Can we have a link to this guy's blog?

[DerMitDemBlunt]

illdoctrine[.]com

[quitejaded]

I meant the rapper's blog. Not illDoc's.

[jocelynatlanta]

PHIRE!

[kungdungelung]

EY JAY! Post more videos like this one.. NICE!!!

[etifaim]

That's Hot!

I'm braindead today. What song is the beat from :50 through 1:30 from?

[jizzywix1993]

hey, do you like london grime music?

[socrstreets]

i've been seein this guy everywhere today.

[XPillage]

Pretty fuckin' sick, I wish the fans of today had the same mentality they did back in the 90's where lyrics proved an artist's skill. Now we have people like fucking Shawty Lo, Gucci Mane, and OJ Da Juiceman (WTF KINDA NAME IS THAT)

[turtlekicker]

Damn Double Barrel is DOPE!!

[TABULOUS1]

"Why hiphop fans focus on everything else BUT the music?"

cy:

Because the lyrics actually MEAN something --to ADULTS,

so they are just as important.....TO ADULTS,

& we there4 tend not 2jump on a bandwagon based *solely* on a beat.

[illdoc1]

I don't think Cy was saying you should judge SOLELY on beats (and when he says music I don't think he only means the beat)... he's right that people often get overly caught up in other things (in this case, whether it fits their definition of "freestyle") that are secondary to whether it is *good music* or not. Which is always what counts most. Like, Public Enemy's lyrical content/vision were vital, but if they didn't make GREAT MUSIC first & foremost the other stuff wouldn't have mattered.

[TABULOUS1]

In that case, I stand corrected.

[projectzdragn]

Ill flow. Loved that they used an AZ beat as well.

So sad that the real lyricists and artists are now so deep underground and the posers and false prophets get so much hype and exposure.

[TheIllegit]

Funny that people are still dropping Ed O'bannon's name in rhymes in 2009... I think his name just lends itself to rhyming, cause there's nothing particularly significant about the person

[Lebanks3]

Yeah I caught that too. lol i remember lil wayne and somebody else made reference to him aswell.

[Hollow4ever]

this dude is slick but he too good 4 these dumb rap fans

[UnderDaGroundAndMore]

thumbs up

[razorpayne13]

ill

[themightylex]

that was hot.

[pOiNtPuShEr]

he is nice.

[thepoliticpoet]

Hot shit.

[silentthriller]

That was excellent. Where did the real hip hop go? Underground I guess :)

[Tatt17]

you're brilliant.

[xdarkwing104x]

**makes black people "that"s funky" sound**

VERY nice

[Analyze84]

TORAE is the man

[grover86]

Good stuff

[TheAngelofCaffeine]

That was brilliant. And I don't even like rap much. O.O

[blackapinoo]

damn, that was pretty hot.

[effu2]

damn, this was quick, dope show last nite. BLAAAAAT!!!

[jwwetzel]

you catch method man and redman on carson? really straight interview.

[jwwetzel]

niceee

[dauoo]

For all those who have some sort of beef with the way this Kat flows, record your own video of you dropping lyrics(off the dome or written) and allow us to be the judge of your skill set. Otherwise, sit back and enjoy real Hip-Hop.

[cyclone927]

That was great, I dont give a fuck if is freestyle or whatever, enjoy the music!!!!!! Why hiphop fans focus on everything else BUT the music? Double Barrell is hot! Go support underground hiphop people, download Relapse and puchase Double Barrel...Em got enough money already LOL

[crono916]

sick! and if you didn't understand the ed o'bannon line research ucla basketball.

[ebonyd4ever]

HOTnessssss!!!!

[PowerSlouch]

freestyle doesn't strictly mean off the top...it can just mean a written that is on nothing in particular.

i will say that (1)torae=dope and (2)he wasn't improvising this shit

[axioms22]

meh

[VCRchannel]

Oh my god, that was amazing! Thanks for sharing this!

[popularelief]

from the way he was looking at his blackberry i think he had a few written reminders of verses on there. Torae is def a nice ass emcee and mad props to him but this is not a strict freestyle but still doper than most written.

[JehxOne]

nasty nasty nasty

I gotta get the hell out of here before my head explode

[DBrownofdc]

daaaaaaaaaaammmnnnnnnnnn

[TheArtOfTheComment]

This guy's up next.

[dasdafoij]

Yeah right,a freestyle, its written, retard

You are the kind of Emcee that is killing hip hop.

Go hide in your apartment, next time bring some skills on the table

[romeok2]

he brought skillz, just diddnt free

[logic39da]

And you're the kind of fan that is killing hip-hop. Other than the last 2 bars, It's clearly a written rhyme. Who can't see that? Jay labeled the clip a freestyle, NOT Torae. Did you hear Torae at any point say it was off the top? Didn't think so

Pretty much when an emcee spits a random verse, it gets labeled a freestyle simply because it's not, at that moment, apart of a song, NOT because it's improvised at that moment.

Bring some understanding to the table or go hide in your apartment.

[illdoc1]

Seriously.. I'm changing the title just cuz I don't want to bring Torae into an argument he didn't start, but personally I'd love to have this argument all day lol.. surprised to see people still promoting that "real emcees always spit off the top" fallacy.

Spitting off the top is great if you can do it well, but by no means should it be mandatory for every emcee.

(btw Torae def. does know how to go off the top, check my older video from Eclipse's anniversary show)

[damelokidd124]

Exactly Nas couldnt freestyle off the top to save his life.. 90% of verses labeled "Freestyle" arent.. That includes some of your favorites like Lil Wayne, Fabolous, Lloyd Banks, Cassidy, etc. They are just labeled "Freestyle" most of the time.. It sounds better to call a record "Victory Freestyle" than "Verse over the Victory beat".. Why does everyone get at Drake for this same thing? Charles Hamilton, Mickey Factz, Skyzoo and others have been known to actually FREESTYLE off the head tho..

[logic39da]

Suprised? Dude, they're EVERYWHERE! lol. Everytime I see these comments I want to flip, but I leave it alone for the most part 'cause theres too many of these people!

I don't know at what point freestyling (off the top) became a requirement to be an emcee. It's something that some can do and some can't, period. There's also this idea floating around nowadays that anything spat outside of a reccording booth can't be written. WTF?! SMDH. You should really vlog about that.

[illdoc1]

No disrespect but before you cop this kind of attitude you need to learn your history. For most of hip-hop's history "freestyle" did not mean off the top, that is a relatively recent idea and everybody doesn't use it that way.

[TwigsInc]

Nice flow. Good upload.

[chuckbjj2000]

Nice

[sfcalvinaz]

Excellent!

[prodigyat9]

Ha! Nice shout to your show at the end there.

[ghostdog221]

Jay I'm going into radio and I gotta say you inspired me to an extent

Do you do internships? because I would love to work at the Underground Railroad

[liveoutdoors]

Respect!

[Rhodebunny]

best freestyle ever seen

[DIRTYDUNNZ]

the lyrics are definitely nice...

[RWAcp]

awesome! Is there a way I can get these as mp3?