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 ...

Today, we'll be breaking down eleven of the best Funkmaster Flex freestyles of the 2020's. While this freestyle show has been popular for over a decade, the past few years have been a special time for ...

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 ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Feb. 11, 1997: Legendary Hot 97 radio personality Funkmaster Flex aka Funk Flex took the mixtape game to a new level by making mixtapes a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Funkmaster Flex’s recurring freestyle series has been particularly well tailored to rappers from New York, or in the New York tradition. Lloyd Banks did very well; Don Q had a breakout performance. In ...

When it comes to rapping, it doesn’t take much to wind Action Bronson up and get him going. The bearded foodie stopped by Funkmaster Flex’s show, and once the “Hard Knock Life” beat dropped, it was on ...