Slaughterhouse Battle: Joell Ortiz vs. Joe Budden’s “Stay Scheming” Freestyle (Listen & Download)

I already broke my no freestyles rule, and since Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz accidentally threw some serious fuel onto the "who's the best rapper in Slaughterhouse?" debate I just couldn't stay away. Ladies and gentlemen, it's your once-in-a-lifetime "who did 'Stay Scheming" better battle?

A slow and dark beat like this is usually Budden's comfort zone, and he undoubtedly comes with it today, but I've ultimately got to give it to Ortiz. Not only did the man lose his mind on some lyrical shit ("I'm writing choruses metamorphed into Morpheus, putting verses in coffins") but he managed to work in not one but two Kobe divorce references. And let's not forget, Ortiz has the championship belt when it comes freestyle - he did the best "Beamer, Benz or Bentley" freestyle, hands down.

Then again, Budden destroyed that "No Church in the Wild" freestyle, and he did just drop the first Jeremy Lin reference I've heard yet. I'll have to turn things over to RefinedHype Nation:




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