Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now. . . any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hard
People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.