Lil Baby Goes Off In New Funk Flex Freestyle

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Just a few days before dropping his new album "It's Only Me," Baby set the record straight on his bar game.

Lil Baby seems poised to dominate the rest of the fall. With the release of his new album It's Only Me this week, the Atlanta rap superstar has been making the rounds with promo ops, interviews, and performances. He's also made a few nods on the album to situations with Quavo, Saweetie, and DJ Akademiks. Most recently, he hopped on Hot 97 with Funk Flex for his third freestyle on the show, and the growth between these performances has been astounding to see play out.

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The "Drip Too Hard" MC is at a point where he flips through his lyrical topics with the ease of flipping through a book, weaving together personal anecdotes, states of mind, material wealth, crew loyalty, relationship drama, and a slew of different ways to tell rappers he's better than them. On this freestyle, he does exactly that while adapting smoothly to different flows, rhyme patterns, and verse rhythms. They are the skills that have garnered his album much praise, and that will likely propel the album to a #1 spot on the charts this week.

It's no surprise Lil Baby kills his freestyles; it's the namesake of one of his breakout songs. But the 27-year-old also knows that with such consistency can come a lot of tedium, so he makes his punchlines count as much as he can to provide more quality than quantity. The emphasis is on his rhymes and flows, but he includes a few cool lines in here. He raps about everyone in his circle running an M or better, there's so much going on his phone that he doesn't need to text, and asks Universal to re-route his checks.

You can check out Lil Baby's full freestyle on Funk Flex below.

Quotable Lyrics

You switched on me, that's a hard pill, I swallowed it,
You a f**kboy, so that's what I'm calling you,
Put my P's down and I flip my collar up,
You ain't even get to ride in the Rari

About The Author
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a music and pop culture news writer for HotNewHipHop. He started in 2022 as a weekend writer and, since joining the team full-time, has developed a strong knowledge in hip-hop news and releases. Whether it’s regular coverage or occasional interviews and album reviews, he continues to search for the most relevant news for his audience and find the best new releases in the genre. What excites him the most is finding pop culture stories of interest, as well as a deeper passion for the art form of hip-hop and its contemporary output. Specifically, Gabriel enjoys the fringes of rap music: the experimental, boundary-pushing, and raw alternatives to the mainstream sound. As a proud native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he also stays up-to-date with the archipelago’s local scene and its biggest musical exponents in reggaetón, salsa, indie, and beyond. Before working at HotNewHipHop, Gabriel produced multiple short documentaries, artist interviews, venue spotlights, and audio podcasts on a variety of genres and musical figures. Hardcore punk and Go-go music defined much of his coverage during his time at the George Washington University in D.C. His favorite hip-hop artists working today are Tyler, The Creator, Boldy James, JPEGMAFIA, and Earl Sweatshirt.
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