Freestyle Friday: Cassidy

I'm bringing back one of the more popular features from my old blog, Freestyle Friday, and I've decided to start things off with one of my favorite freestyles ever:

This video gets bonus points for E. Ness playing the most enthusiastic hype man ever over Cassidy's shoulder. I had the pleasure of meeting and performing with Ness back in 2008 at Fluid Nightclub. He's a really nice guy - smoked a blunt with him after my set. He "loved my energy."

Man, I was riding Cassidy's nuts so hard after seeing this for the first time that I actually tried to BECOME Cassidy. Like, blatant swagger jacker shit. (Hey, at least I can admit it.) I even tried taking some of the lines from his freestyle and flipping them into my own. Check out this rare freestyle battle video from 2007 against fellow Muhlenberg alumni Dan McGee, who would later evolve into NYC underground artist Albert Rhymestein:

Only the gulliest white rappers rock cargo sweats. Ya heard?!

In my defense (sort of), I was really, really messed up on, well... some bad stuff that night. And, to be fair, I was at least trying to actually battle by throwing disses at my opponent, who was really just going off on some stream-of-consciousness-words-that-sound-pretty-together-but-not-really-saying-anything style flow, but still, not my finest hour by any means. Just another chapter in the strange evolution of The TradeMark Experience.

(EDIT: After watching that Muhlenberg freestyle video again, I actually don't think I did that badly at all - that Brad Pitt/Elephant Man line was pretty tough, haha. I also realize now that Dan actually was throwing some good disses at me, I was probably just too fucked up that night or my ego was too bruised to remember it that way, ha. For the record though, my friend, I wasn't spitting anything written - that was all off the top, you have my word.)