Tim Westwood Liberates Unreleased Jay Z Freestyle

Jay Z recently celebrated a career milestone few rappers get to relish in. The Brooklyn boy's debut album, Reasonable Doubt turned 20 years old in June, marking two decades of Jay officially in the game. Although Reasonable Doubt was his no holds-barred introduction, HOV really hit his stride in the new millennium.

The same year he dropped his third studio LP, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, the Jigga man visited famed radio personality Tim Westwood to show though he's plenty of years removed from the street corner, he could still rap circles around his competition in a freestyle. 16 years later, Tim Westwood unearthed the freestyle today (July 7).

"Now everybody wanna rhyme like HOV/Cuz I be rhyming like I'm rhyming in a robe/Climbin' in them hoes/The mind like a diamond I blind you at them shows/I don't shine, I glow/I remind you of that though, don't I?/Few niggas, won't I/My person-a/Hustler turned to rapper, smell that crack aroma/Send shots like Doma/Leave niggas in a coma when I'm bangin' that fifth/Get chicks lit off Coronas and the bamboo splits/Get the camcorder, the cam caught their hand movements/And for what?/You act like you're better than HOV/Y'all cats should open up on the Letterman show/Y'all cats is funny/All I do is get money/And your shit sounds funny to me," HOV laughs as he raps.

This throwback freestyle comes just as the hustler-turned-rapper-turned-mogul has been making a resurgence in the rap game this year. Two weeks ago, Jay appeared on DJ Khaled's forthcoming album Majoy Key alongside Future for the track "I Got The Keys." And before that, Jigga blessed Fat Joe and Remy Ma on the remix to "All The Way Up."

Feel the nostalgia as you listen to Jay's five-minute freestyle above.

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