Oh my god, I just found the most incredible hour-long freestyle of Aesop Rock, Blueprint, DJ Abilities, Eyedea, Felipe Cuauhtli, Illogic, Sage Francis and Slug! Holy... If you have not heard this... you need to spend the next hour bobbing your head up and down to this!
Holy shit. I'm like 15 minutes into this and it is amazing.
That's an eye-popping list of artists and I will for sure watch this sometime soon. I was at an Astronautalis concert in Dallas this weekend and he freestyled about his days growing up in Denton and going to see Lips at the very club we were at, and his old freestyle battles outside of shows around the area. Now he's about to go on tour with members of Doomtree. His delivery was much rawer and real-er than his usual shit; freestyle is a forgotten genre.