Cipha Sounds has uploaded Video Footage of that magical night of January 12, 2001- when Jay-Z rang Funkmaster Flex and took the whole crew up for a freestyle session. This has only ever been uploaded as Audio and a lot of it was radio recordings on shit quality tapes. Anyway, when this happened it was probably around the point where Roc-A-Fella were just taking over everything and the whole world was mad in love their shit. I know I certainly was. From 2000 – 2003 or 2004 was definitely the Roc-A-Fella era of Rap music (in my opinion).

This is taken from Cipha Sounds’ Blog:

In 2001, way before people documented every single move of every single person every single day for youtube, a crazy invasion happened. The good old days when people actually broke records and artist on the radio. Jay-Z called Funkmaster Flex and told him that he wanted to bring all his new artist up and Blackout on the radio. I had a bullshit camera with me that day, but I was in the room that everyone was rappin in, so I got all the visuals but all the audio was all acapella. I finally tracked down the audio from the radio and linked it with the video. This is one of many parts I will be putting up. This shit is crazy.

Anyway, enough of the talk, time for some videos:

PART 1: ROCAFELLA FREESTYLES: “WHO SHOT YA?”










PART 2: ROCAFELLA FREESTYLES: “R.O.C FREESTYLE”










PART 3: ROCAFELLA FREESTYLES: “I SHOT YA!”