franco vs flo & the saurus

[si1vermane]

Franco is dope as hell. But thesaurus might not be from this planet. His performance this night really was just beyond spectacular.

[N1GNEEDSAC1G]

i miss thesaurus when he actually freestyled...when he had the crazy energy, the stamina, the effortless flow, the instantaneous flips and rebuttals...I think that all the weed and the money he made from acapella battling made him fat and lazy and complacent...the focus now on prewritten, prerehearsed battle verses in GrindTime and elsewhere has robbed us of seeing battles of this hype level of quality.

[si1vermane]

@N1GNEEDSAC1G

o my gosh, shut up damn. how can your nonrhyming computer nerdy ass throw out the word lazy. And if you actually listen, Saurus still incorporates freestyle rebuttals in all his written league battles. Stop looking for excuses to whine.

[N1GNEEDSAC1G]

@si1vermane I'm not whining, young friend. I'm stating a valid opinion. Yes, Peter still flips the occasional line, but you can't deny that his rebuttal game is much less sharp than it once was. Plus the fact that he hardly ever battles over a beat anymore (again, due to GT) means that as viewers we don't get to see the energy & fast-paced spontaneity of a FREESTYLE battle like this one

For fuck's sake, he had to look at his Blackberry for lines in his GT battle against Mac Lethal

[shro0mz]

@N1GNEEDSAC1G

N1GWANNAC1G from the old days? aren't you emcee goddess?

[N1GNEEDSAC1G]

@shro0mz Yes, I am the one and only original N1GWANNAC1G, the well-versed battle rap analyst/pundit whose knowledge & expertise in the field has been stunning the minds of battle viewers for the better part of a decade. But no, I am not MC Goddess.

[si1vermane]

I just googled Pat Benatar. LMAO. too damn funny

[BannedName416]

the saurus has gained about 130 pounds since these days

[LucasSlag]

The saurus before he got fat and lazy.

[smokedkippedANDbeef]

franco and flo are good mate i believe../

.james van der beek on 8 grams of tweek ...

[TheTJHenderson]

whats the beat at 7:02

[DjLenRomano]

damn i love it

[sanitary103]

love this classic battle...written league is great but I miss this type of stuff..thesaurus' performance was beyond spectacular

[earlmccormick88]

@sanitary103 Grindtime need to open another league for freestyles only. I love these battles. It's straight skills.

[shro0mz]

@earlmccormick88 more like straight premeditated bars. i'm not saying thesaurus wasn't good at freestyling but near the end of the freestyle battle era, everyone was just pre writing bars for people anyway and using them mixed in with freestyles.

imo written battles ddress penmanship head on instead of some lottery bullshit where you might go against someone who pre wrote 3 verses for you and get knocked out of a freestle competition because you simply were less prepared. see illmac vs h bomb.

[earlmccormick88]

@shro0mz I agree but I'm saying what is the odds of someone having pre-written bars specifically designed for you in a tournament. I'm not sure how the tournaments was held then but if a tournament was no more than a day with you battling random people......

[sanitary103]

it's so funny to see franco get in flo's face like he's punking him, yet he's much smaller!

[chulo1335raymond]

They need to bring these types of battles back.. Classics

[hiphopfreak31]

@adambomb51 ya i agree alot of people would find this entertaining,, idk who is disliking this but FUCK THEM

[adambomb51]

WHO THE FUCK CLICKED DISLIKE??? this is an ill fucking video, even ppl who dont like rap would like this vid

[Berlinptown925]

Thesaurus is main!e dope

[Syndo]

this shit is so classic, both battles were dope, flo's first round was the shit he killed that beat

[greensblue4]

@Syndo na man

[heturnal]

can't beleave some people r hating this guy? plz check out my freeystyles...like u its all off the head but we complety different i know u would appreciate it.

[pseudonymjim]

Illest battle i've ever seen. Just love Franco's energy.

[crescentbrooks]

there is good quality version of this somewhere all the rap olympics were filmed , other years are on youtube in good quality were is this year???

[jp000123]

they made fuckin history right there. this video should be fucking viral

[skinZ15]

BEST BATTLE EVER

[skinZ15]

BEST BATTLE EVER

[jasano1234]

So good!!!

[greensblue4]

I am a Rap Artist and this white guy is good but the other guy would never get a contract for not learning the ethics of rap. Rule #1 never turn your back on your rival, you idiot!

[liquidbullet5]

@greensblue4 which guy

[XanderBBo]

@greensblue4 A lot of the greats do that.

Also where would you need to rap battle with a contract?

[lupinyonsei]

@greensblue4 except your not a rap artist at all so stfu

[Qdog145]

Nobody wants to hear me rhyme no more?This guys a whore, I'll slash his spinal chord with an iron sword! SICK

[ChickityChoice]

Your game plan is weak, you look like james vanderbeek on 8 grams of tweak... wow, is that funny.

[HDibbles]

Homeboy looks like David Ortiz

[e7573t]

what's the beat at 6:58 ????

[VOCforlife]

@e7573t been trying to figure that out for years

[kntherappa]

@e7573t thats the beat from fatlip - writer's block

[e7573t]

@kntherappa

Huge Thanks Man!! Now I just gotta find it and download it.

[theoriginalCFA]

host look like poisen pen :D



[Ansatsouken]

"Noone really wants to hear you rhymin' no more"

"No one wants to hear me rhyme no more? This guy's a whore, and I'ma slice your spinal cord with an iron sword"

Fu-uuuuuuuuck.

[Pettyh]

Whats that instrumental at 7:00, can anyone enlighten me?

[ice9planet]

Saurus is great off the dome!

[raskaskoneisto]

That Franco vs Thesaurus is the best freestyle battle I've watched. Fucking ill.

[JokeswithJosh]

this all frestly and all skill you fucked my girl on your dvd called small ville lolololololololololol

[beezyb42011]

what beat is at 3:37? simple and smooth.

[MurphGiovanni]

eh, thought that said 'fresco'...franco is mediocre

[Cvasir]

@MurphGiovanni The difference between them is that Fresco is nice with writtens, and Franco with frees.

[MurphGiovanni]

@Cvasir is that what franco got zipped up in a bag during wrc...man, check out fresco's videos...they are on youtube, just type his name...his freestyle cyphers are sick..and they are legit freestyles because he rhymes about his immediate surroundings

[Cvasir]

@MurphGiovanni Yes, probably, because WRC involved a lot of preparation.

[superzvenomz]

The saurus is sikkk

[N1GSMOKEAC1G]

nice ring, sick bro; it looks like a pink Zippo burned King Hippo

if you're too young to understand the reference go look it up

[JukainPwnsSurvives]

@N1GSMOKEAC1G Lol i aint too young dat dude talking bout mike tysons punchout king hippo

[Dymdez]

Ive watched this countless times, epic every time, real freestyle FTW

[bassburglar]

Pink zippo burnt king hippo... Hahhaha Dooooooooooppe

[OneTrueAce]

TheSaurus had too many flips !!!

[MrUSMANJABBAR]

THESAURUS IS SOOOOO FRIGGENN SIIIICKKK

[Matu1]

7:45 and pure fire starts, omg this blowed my mind totally!!!

[rivalizm]

Franco touches people too much ...that why Capitol hill started swingin. I'm surprised Flo didn't do the same thing with how he's all over him.

Also, Flo comes way nicer on the mic then all off them, he actually Has flow, something almost every newschool battle rapper lacks ...you guys just aint gettin it cos he's not yelling his punchlines.

[RaGe098]

@rivalizm freestyling isn't really about the flow, its about beating your opponent with heavy punchlines..

[DropNutsDean]

@RaGe098 SO TRUE!!

[losttweaty]

@rivalizm flo and franco know each other well , and he was pissin franco off when he kept saying shit about his dead mother , I would be in the fuckin guys face too , fuck a capitol hill LOL guy was pissed he was gettin served. Franco prolly deserved to get hit there or I mean I can understand why he got hit lol but the shit with Flo is much different

[TheSaurusWins]

alltime favorite

[imcrazyforglue]

Why do you THINK franco didn't win? Obviously because he wasn't wearing the black dirty rats hood and burglars toque. Use your heads for once

[runningurlife]

@imcrazyforglue lol really...your retarded...saurus beat him...hes beat thesaurus before but this wasnt the time

[imcrazyforglue]

@runningurlife I was making a joke, runningurlife. A joke. I am absolutely thunderstruck, knowing that you didn't realize that after reading my comment. Unreal

[atlienintruder]

Why does Franco feel the need to feel on every opponent he has. Thats why he got knocked out by a fat pussy-cholo.

[CompLexYo]

the very last beat they spit to is sick...any ideas of what it is?

[GeGeMus12]

you got fucked by a water buffalo

[JiggityJack]

One of the most impressive freestyle sessions ever, the flips thesaurus comes up with are fucking unbelievable. Every single one is hardcore.

[manboobmanifesto]

whats the beat at 3:35

[earlmccormick88]

"Franco you droppin dead. Good job on that coin toss, thats the first time that you gotten head. Its a crazy concoction. Slim Shady's adoption of Haley Joel Osment"

"This clown so white, he get sunburned on a cloudy night."

"You fucked my girl on a dvd, it was called Smallville."

"I don't think rap from Kevin Federline is a step ahead of mine"

"You look like James van deer beek on 8 grams of tweek"

"This guys a whore and Ima slice your spinal cord with an iron sword."

Amazing replies by Saurus

[bigman32193]

fuckin SICKEST off the top battle ive ever seen.

[RHHINOTR]

Instrumental at 5:10 is HOT Need that beat anyone??

[joelystuber123]

@Blackrapperable i couldnt say it any better myself.. BRING BACK FREESTYLE BATTLES

[Minds5150]

Justice / 360 VS Thesaurus / Madness. . . . . . oh? Thesaurus loses again to Justice

[kieranibus]

@Minds5150 lol i bet thesaurus got flashbacks after that benjamin button line

[zoRniKoWns]

what is the beat at 5:10?

[HDibbles]

"James Van Der Beek on 8 grams of tweek!"

[IWILLEATYAFACE]

that 8 grams line was death............... THIS thesaurus could beat anyone in any battle ever

[wardartz36]

@IWILLEATYAFACE Except for Justice

[KingKungFuCantona]

"My rappings dope, backstage I slashed his throat and the only thing left was casper's ghost"

How the fuck did THAT get slept on? That was fucking sick!

[thistletilladie]

@KingKungFuCantona "Your raps a Joke"

[KingKungFuCantona]

@thistletilladie Yeah youre right, I was just going on memory

[thistletilladie]

@KingKungFuCantona Lol there was no need for me really to correct it. But i agree with your comment it was a beast line.

[FreeMind209707]

Haha saurus might have got Franco in this one, but Flo wouldnt even make eye contact Franco while he was dumpin on him.

[luxurykush]

The Saurus's freestyles in this video are some of the Best ive ever seen. Period.

[JamesPatino]

whats the beat at 1:45???

Help!!!

Beats sick dude......

[topdawgj]

@JamesPatino mobb deep 50cent natedawg - have a party. 

[JamesPatino]

@topdawgj good lookin top dawg...... that was cool of you homie, if you stood in my area id smoke a grape flavored swisher with Skywalker O.G. Kush with you dawg.

Thanks yo, Ive been bangin that track ever since...

[1MattyRoss1]

hahaha "he got stabbed in every orifice by a swordfish" thesaurus got franco, but that whole segment about the aquarium fucking killed me

[popp1nbottlez]

do people really think franco is good? also he needs to realize that claiming the other person uses writtens is actually a compliment, not a diss

[rockrageproductions]

props to franco hes got my respect

[vhiftyyi]

the saurus ATE franco......ATE. HIM. ALIVE. Franco KEPT saying that The Saurus was spitting written and The Saurus KEPT PROVING that he was freestyling....Damn.....that was brutal....lol

[Dramacydal18]

Thesaurus got Franco every time but he held his ground. Props to Franco.

[pick8lock]

1 both franco and thesaurus at the end made my brain orgasim

2 10 min ago franco overtook thesaurus as my fav freestyler

then thesaurus made me reconsider.

no one wants to hear you rap no more

this guys a whore

im gunna slice your spinal cord with an iron sword

ORGASIM MOMENT

[tgosse22]

Poor Franco.

[common51]

jesus that was intense!

[ElDarric]

What is the first beat when Franco faces Thesaurus? It's @ 5:10? It's driving me crazy that I cant place it.

[ElDarric]

@ElDarric its an S.O.B beat... I knew I knew it.

[natrl88]

all I know is that...

[TheHipHopSpot]

lol look at franco, didnt he learn anything. He tryied to spin that huge fuy around. Remember what happened when he battled capitol hill? LOL

[Drovedestroyer]

@TheHipHopSpot Yeah. He won.

[TheHipHopSpot]

@Drovedestroyer because capitol was disqualified. Because franco got punched by him, not a very good way to win

[Drovedestroyer]

@TheHipHopSpot Umm no, actually because Capitol Hill sucked pretty badly, and Franco didn't.

Who gives a fuck if the dude took a cheap shot, on a dude half his size, didn't knock him down, and then got disqualified? That has nothing to do with freestyle rapping ability.

[TheHipHopSpot]

@Drovedestroyer wow i wanna see franco finish that verse, not watch 1 punch. Call me weird for not wanting to see a short scuffle instead of a battle. LOL

[HDibbles]

The dude in the back with the cigarette behind his ear looks like Aesop Rock

[mykeb425]

what's the beat where thesaurus drops the james vanderbeak line?

[cw2349720]

Thesauras No1 battle rapper

[KOAbustible]

My favourite Thesaurus battle

[Ansatsouken]

Fuck, 8:33 onward is NASTY... Thesaurus flips Every... Single... line back at Franco... "Noone really wants to hear you rhyme no more"////"Noone wants to hear me rhyme no more, this guys a whore and Ima slice your spinal cord with an iron sword!"....

FATALITY!!!!

[rmmarti2]

it looks like a big zippo burned king hippo.....

[thehumanbrainn]

@rmmarti2 he spit that same line against thesaurus at WRC 07. kinda takes all the rad out of the line :(

[thehumanbrainn]

@rmmarti2 nevermind, i'm definitely thinking of another line in this battle.

[JiggityJack]

Awesome battle... Franco got some fucking skills... but thesaurus man, dude is unbelievable

[joelystuber123]

saurus vs franco is 1 of my faviourite battles

[Alexiscorchado]

ive never heard of franco but hes fuckin sick

[PhilosophyG]

Dude, I couldn't stop laughing once The Saurus was on a roll. Guy's hilarious.

[Jahrass7]

I like this...you can tell some of it was predisposed but a LOT of freestyle

[pellar1]

Saurus

[earlmccormick88]

All of them are sick. Flo, Franco and The Saurus was killin it off the head. I hope to see more of the three.

[GlobalModders]

@squidlepop

word, it's sick to see a homie from humboldt county that battle raps for once!

[ThanksAndPraise]

does anybody knows the name of the first beat the saurus raps on? that sounds really nice,

[TH89]

@ThanksAndPraise it's "Live Enough" by Styles of Beyond

[joelystuber123]

there both sick both off the top!

[xBlackieChanx]

the smallville diss shut it down thesaurus won there haha

[johnblaine]

whats the beat that starts at 7:00?

[caulderock]

wow

[JiggityJack]

Bitch I won that coin toss, that's the first time that you've gotten head

[joelystuber123]

this is a fuckn sick battle

[CH0CWAVE]

That "Smallville" rebuttle from Saurus was dope as fuck.

[dfective16]

why isn't F.L.O.'s flow like this anymore? he's so monotone now.

[Xenyph]

@dfective16

Drugs is bad mmkay

[majik1206]

I love how The Saurus underestimated francos flow

but appreciated the "Big zippo burned king hippo" line

Your game plan is weak u look like James Vanderbeek

On 8 grams of tweak. FUCKIN SICK

[Toallin09]

OMG the Saurus is a monster

[lafairweath3]

does anyone know what the beat is at 3.35?

[goreds07]

@lafairweath3 yeah i want to know this also

[Sevenyxxtimes7xx]

Fav line ---"You dont want to hear me rhyme no more, this guys a whore and im going to slice his spinal core with a iron sword".

[299229tom]

Cunts, each and every one of you!

[supraman181]

i am entertained

[tomatotrix]

whats the beat at 3:40?

[ThaSupraMan]

franco freestyles better than me, but he sucks and touches too much.

[Ricearoni80]

"Wrote all those lines? This is not written stuff/And your lips are gonna find the dick to suck"

That has to be the greatest flip in the history of battle rap--because Franco's "wrote all those lines" line was the last bar he said and TheSaurus immediately comes back and puts "written stuff" together with "and your lips are gonna find the dick to suck" referring to Franco's two bars prior to "wrote all those lines." It was so fast it almost had to be a fluke.

[yoliyoliyoli95]

yeah men that has to be the quickest rebuttle ever right there 10:12 he put one on each bar right there....wriiten stuff? then dick to suck! hahaha TheSaurus and Franco are both sick though

[WhoThat808]

watch thesaurus vs tantrum. way sicker flips over and over and over

[Tapout0014]

no he probably already had that line ready to set up for the dick to suck punchline. franco had already previously said youre lines are written. and he just happened to mention it again and it worked perfectly by coincidence. i dont doubt saurus could comeback that fast but i do think franco happened to use the same insult again and now it looks the way it does

[ishaun908]

Im a Thesaurus fan But Franco got flow nd He is Dope when he needds 2 b

[JiggityJack]

Seriously, never seen someone slayed as bad as Franco by the Saurus, and Franco was actually doing pretty good.

[facemelteruno]

HAHA. thesaurus killed him!

but did anybody else notice

franco's soul slowly dying?

[bet485]

flo bagged franco...spenca loca...!

[swervediggz]

this is the saurus best freestyle performance like 2 rebuttals each round balnced with good filler and dope punches ...flawless murkage

[avalanchesoul]

did franco get the w over flo? naway, man flo be losin just cuz his style ain't all hype but he has mad punchlines. shoulda gone on to flo vs saurus.

[avalanchesoul]

this shit was epic. props

[N1GNEEDAC1G]

timeless classic battle respect to franco but saurus murked him wit one of his most impressive performances ever

[drumgal246]

Definitely. Franco was fire, but The Saurus was raging like a Charizard. Dope battle.

[tomatotrix]

whats the beat at 3:36? hit me up

[earlmccormick88]

"A Fullgrown lifesize living chucky doll" LOLLLL.

"James Vanderbeek on 8 grams of Tweak*

"This guys got the Rap repertoire of Pat Benatar"

This shit was killer.

[lennard]

my rhymes go over your head because your 5 feet tall

LOL

[DURANIMO]

Franco's a little fighter man!

[bahdahdoop]

the saurus straight mercks people off the top of the dome

[supraman181]

i would hate to battle franco, he mad annoying and touches alot i would just end up beating his ass.

[facemelteruno]

oh thats not nice! lmao

[IsraelTheEmcee]

yeah on the real im from ny and when we battle we do sometimes tap there chest like when pointing but we wont touch the face thats disrespectful as hell franco's a good battler im not gonna lie but i wouldnt let that dude put his finger on my face like he did to the saurus

[pyeclam]

Tapping the chest is already too much, imo. It's a battle. Use your words, not your fingers.

[IsraelTheEmcee]

thats true

[ZackEads01]

like the Somoan

[facemelteruno]

i think this is the saurus' and franco's best!

[live2boardco]

ok, ok, Franco's dope, but I gotta say the saurus ripped it, and then Franco was a true competitor and gave the saurus his props too, that shit never happens. Props to you Franco!

[HDibbles]

@live2boardco What are you talking about dudes give eachother daps after every battle

In my opinion this is the greatest The Saurus performance ever!

He flipped ahead of time with kevin federline and transitioned to the vanderbeek line right away. Just incredible......