You can debate all day about who has the best pen or greatest verse, but when it comes to freestyles, one of the most respected proving grounds is still Funkmaster Flex’s HOT 97 show. Especially when ...

Kendrick Lamar may have earned the win on “Control (HOF),” but Big Sean also got busy with the bars. In fact, the Detroit rapper has been in a zone lyrically since his 2012 mixtape Detroit. He brought ...

This video of Common delivering a tough freestyle on Funkmaster Flex's show from 2011 has now reached the interwebs. Even with no beat to hold him down, the flow is on fire and Com references ...

Harlem was in the building last night as Funkmaster Flex invited the A$AP Mob crew over to Hot 97. Let me begin by saying some stories never get old. During a recent ...

50 Cent has revisited Desiigner's freestyle for Funkmaster Flex in 2017 after the "Panda" rapper dissed him on social media. In a post on Instagram, 50 shared a video of Desiigner's 2017 freestyle, ...

Hot off the release of his sophomore album Come Home the Kids Miss You, Jack Harlow returned to Hot 97 to drop a three-minute freestyle for Funkmaster Flex over Pharrell’s Gwen Stefani-featuring 2015 ...

The Roots' Black Thought proved yesterday that eviscerating lyricism still matters in hip-hop when the rapper dropped a nonstop, awe-inspiring 10-minute freestyle on Funkmaster Flex's Hot 97 radio ...

On his radio show, Funkmaster Flex invites a deft lyricist to bring East Coast swagger and counter "mumble" rap's stranglehold. Even amongst East Coast traditionalists, talk of bringing back New York ...