FREESTYLE

Ab-Soul isn't the first rapper in the game to take issue with some of his colleagues. We recently saw Pete Rock lay out his feelings about some of the new wave of artists, including Lil Yachty and fellow rappers that are heard to understand on wax.

Although these past few weeks might be the longest we’ve gone all year without hearing new music from Currensy, the New Orleans spitter has been holding fans over in the meantime with his weekly “Lowriders N Raps” documentary series.

The reclusive Isaiah Rashad has opened up over the past few days and given a few interviews in support of his debut album, The Sun's Tirade, which is due out tomorrow (Sept. 2).

Waka Flocka's been on a prolific streak lately, dropping his Lebron Flocka James 4 mixtape with Young Sizzle and then two EDM-leaning collabs this month, one with Pretty Lights and another with Big Gigantic.

Mobsquad Nard, the fiery Jacksonville rapper signed to Cinematic, is back with a new freestyle over O.T. Genasis and Young Dolph's "Cut It." Though released almost a year ago, the track has still been in constant rotation this summer.

You better get used to seeing the name Young M.A around these parts of the web, because the female Brooklyn spitter is on the rise.

As promised, Gucci Mane and Zaytoven dropped another "GucTiggy" freestyle tonight at 10:17 PM. It's the duo's fourth of the weekend.

WopTober awaits us. In anticipation, the reliable duo of Gucci Mane and Zaytoven, aka GucTiggy, has decided to let loose a fresh pack of exclusive Wop freestyles over scorching Zay beats.

"I'd rather rap a Zay track than a Dre track," rapped Gucci Mane on "Waybach," reminding the world of one of the great rapper-producer tandems in the modern rap game.

With a smash single (“All The Way Up”) circulating the airwaves, Remy Ma made her by the Shade 45 studios earlier this week and paid a visit to DJ Tony Touch’s radio show for his “Toca Tuesday” freestyle segment.

Wale was feeling generous today, perhaps because Obama included his "LoveHate Thing" as the opening song on his Spotify summer playlist.

After appearing on Barack's official summer playlist, Wale suddenly decided to drop off four new tracks on his SoundCloud.

Tim Westwood is sitting on an epic vault of unreleased radio freestyles from the past 25 years. It's a trove so rich it could be the centerpiece of National Treasure III.

On Monday morning, Tory Lanez continued with his promo run for his forthcoming debut album, I Told You, which arrives August 19 via Interscope Records.

Kendrick Lamar continues to be an ambassador for the Reebok brand, with the two coming together once again for Reebok Classic's latest ad, "Respect the Classic."

The most newsworthy moment to come from Drake and Future's "Summer Sixteen" tour stop at Madison Square Garden, currently in its third of four consecutive shows, took place at the start of night 1, when Drake dropped an a cappella freestyle, during which he ca

During his visit to Siruis XM Radio this week & Shade 45, West coast artist, Anderson. Paak was asked to partake in DJ Tony Touch’s “Toca Tuesday” freestyle series, which he happily obliged with.

Joey Purp and Vic Mensa are currently performing shows together, and they recently did two nights back-to-back in NYC.

Harlem’s own Dave East made his way by the Hot 97 studios last night and blessed Funk Flex with a dope on-air freestyle.

Tim Westwood invited Big Boi onto his show in 2004 a few weeks after he and Andre 3000 won a Grammy for Album of the Year.

While overseas in London this week, Save Money’s own Vic Mensa decided to stop DJ Semtex’s BBC Radio 1Xtra Show and bless the listeners to an exclusive on-air freestyle.

Well here’s some good news for K Camp fans.

It’s safe to say Ab-Soul isn’t a big fan of Jay Electronica.

Boogie has slowed down his output this year, though his fans have come to expect absolute gold with each new release.

Every Thursday, Tim Westwood pulls out a gem from his untold treasure trove of radio freestyles he's amassed over the last 20-plus years and posts it online. Last November, he shared a Jay Z freestyle circa 1999.

We kicked off a new season of On The Come Up at the beginning of June, with newly-anointed XXL Freshman 21 Savage. Since then, we've rolled out videos with up & comers including RJ aka Mr.

Fetty Wap continues to keep the new freestyles coming.

Stark, acapella, and to the point, the freestyles that XXL produce in conjunction with their annual Freshmen class series stand out in contrast to the list itself, which takes numerous factors into consideration in order to determine the hottest up-and-comers