Atone wrote:AGain, he wrote that, recorded it multiple times for different versions, verses, whatever,
...What's your point?
Do you think we're saying it's off the top?
We know it's written :/, that's blindingly obvious lmao.
It's a free-verse. Written as an exhibition of skill, not for a song. It's a verse.
Who said it was off the top?
It's actually a FREESTYLE.
Kool Moe Dee:
"There are two types of freestyle. There’s an old-school freestyle that’s basically rhymes that you’ve written that may not have anything to do with any subject or that goes all over the place. Then there’s freestyle where you come off the top of the head."
In old school hip-hop, Kool Moe Dee says that improvisational rapping was instead called “coming off the top of the head”, and Big Daddy Kane says, "off-the-top-of-the-head [rapping], we just called that "off the dome" — when you don’t write it and [you] say whatever comes to mind”
OFF THE DOME... means off the dome. A freestyle is a written verse not for a song, an exhibition of skill. We all know this is a freestyle VERSE. People have come to associate freestyle with off the dome, but that's actually not how it was originally used or meant. So you're wrong.
Eminem grew up in that era, so by freestyle we associate him with written verses to exhibit skill, which he has done in every album era, "Despicable" being the most recent.
