Funkmaster Flex’s Five Greatest Bomb-Drop Moments

When it’s all over, surveying the carnage and devastation left in Thought’s wake, Flex throws down the gauntlet, emphasising that Thought performed this magic trick in one take. It’s a reminder that the BX kid born just before the dawn of rap is still, to his core, a lover of the artform and its most skilled practitioners. “For y’all cornball n*ggas coming up here doing 50 takes?” Flex says. “You just saw what it’s supposed to be.”

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