One of the few actual real freestyles I have seen on shows like this.
And when you evaluate it in the context of actual off the dome freestyles, it's actually pretty fucking good.
90% minimum of supposed "freestyles" are just dudes doing pre written verses they memorized, including almost all of the freestyles by famous people.
there is an upper level of legitimate well honed freestyle MCs, Harry Mack, JuiceWrld, Prime Eminem, I'm sure many dudes whose names escape me now... Chris Turner ain't bad for a prep school white boy.
Shia ain't in that tier. But his freestyle was better than the VAST majority of freestylesand he didn't cop out and cheat like the VAST majority of people do and I respect that.
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On a random side rant... I haven't seen many of Shias movies, couldn't give a fuck about transformers, maybe I'll check out PBF... but from the freestyle and the fact that he has written movies, combined with his artistic moments of hit and miss brilliance, I'd say dude is probably somewhere between "gifted" and "genius"
Couple that with drugs, specifically the "mind opening" hallucinogens like LSD, mescaline, psylociben , and then let that type of mind run wild, and I'm not saying I condone whatever he is going thru, but I get it.
Most people stumble thru life on autopilot, this guy has seen higher highs than most could understand and likely came to grips with real actual malevolent evil that again most folks don't understand or acknowledge.
Take the time to wrap your brain around how beautiful this life could be; then process that thru how fucked up and ass backwards this society IS, and it's enough to drive you crazy.
So
I ain't gonna judge a dude for living a wild life and having a bad day or two.
If he needs and/or wants help, I hope he gets it.
If he is battling demons, I hope whatever positive light exists in him wins that battle
/Jeff'sWeirdRant