Legendary Big L & Jay-Z Freestyle Unearthed (Listen & Download)

(I know Big L's not in this pic, but Jay looks so incredibly dorky/young I had to use it

Well holy shit, look what DJ Premier found. Way back in 1995 Big L, the hardcore hip-hop head's pick for one of the top five rappers ever, and an incredibly young Jay-Z jumped on the mic for Stretch & Bobbito's radio show for what has come to be one of the greatest artifacts in hip-hop history. Until now we only had the 7 minute version, but Primo somehow managed to track down the full ten minute freestyle session. Goddamn.

Here's the full, somewhat rambling explanation from DJ Premier:

"Hip Hop has many never found stuff where 90s freaks like me are hunting on like wild animals. Like this for instance, the full Stretch & Bobbito Show with Big L & Jay-Z as guests on the 23th of February 1995. The only thing we had was the legendary freestyle that was cut out. Props to HecticEclectic to upload his recorded tape from that day that featured more shit. For me personally this is the best moment ever recorded on radio… Big L IS the best MC ever, since I first had a track of him. ‘You can put your man on too’, I wonder if he knew he would be in Forbes magazine and shit 15 years later? The most powerful hip hop artist ever was back then just Big L’s man haha. This shit is classic, no doubt. Props to Stretch & Bobbito for making everything so legendary. I tweaked it for y’all. Enjoy and reminisce:"

And in an incredibly fortuitous coincidence, they go in over "The Ghetto" beat. Craziness.

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