Every few years an MC comes into the rap game and is called “The Next Big Thing.” Big L, Eminem, 50 Cent…and now Papoose.
Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Papoose has been lighting up New York and the mixtape circuit with his fiery flow, complex lyrics, criminology tales, and intense charisma since heads first got wind of him via the his street track, "Alphabetical Slaughter," where he raps using all the letters of the alphabet.
In a now-legendary move, Papoose got his first big break from DJ Kay Slay by repeatedly bumrushing him at Hot 97 in New York after his Drama Hour radio show. As Slay exited the building, Pap shoved his demo in his face and asked him to take a chance on a new artist. Slay ignored him, but the determined MC persisted and eventually Slay snatched the demo and promised to listen (likely just to get the dude off his back). He did and called him up, offering a management deal. Soon Busta Rhymes got wind of the new kid on the block and signed him to his label, Flipmode/Aftermath through a joint venture with Kay Slay’s Street Sweepers Entertainment. Then Jive Records stepped up and offered Papoose $1.5 million to release his upcoming debut album, The Nacirema Dream. (That’s “America” spelled backwards, by the way.) And the rest is about to be history.
So, needless to say, when the hottest MC in the game at the moment says he’ll stop by Freestyle 101 and spit, you know we leapt at the opportunity to catch him in action. Better still, we got him before he is a household name (check his debut Jive single, “Bang It Out” featuring Snoop Dogg for proof of his imminent rise to fame). He even gives a shout-out to his favorite game, Grand Theft Auto. Nice.
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One Of The Tightest That Pretty Funny Spit His Openin Line Twice Good Freestylers Doont repeat themselves
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.........Soooooo, this guys name is essentially a diss on himself, to some folk. I wonder how long before those with beef start pointing this out in their music.
Go to youtube and type papoose and check the alphabetical slaughter, you will be blown away!
Papoose, Pa-poose, had to get on this club banger
Smack you in your mouth make you swallow your pulp razor
Pop a couple bottles laugh about it with Bus later
Bare witness I'm the young savior
I GOT STATEN ISLAND ON MY PINKY QUEENS ON MY THUMB DUDE
THE BRONX ON MY MIDDLE FINGER SCREAMIN F--K YOU
ROCK ICE IN MANHATTAN SO THERE'S THE RING FINGER
YOU KNOW I HAD TO KEEP BROOKLYN ON THE TRIGGER FINGER
(Get low Pap!) Five boroughs of death, you don't understand
I got New York City in the palm of my hand
Now I could make a tight fist and let it crumble ridiculous
Or I could smack the world with a New York Nemesis (TURN IT UP!!)
I FLIP THE MAG AND GET THE CLAPPIN IF IT HAPPENS RIP HIS JACKET
SPLIT HIS BACK AND LIFT HIS HEAD I'M GETTIN AT HIM (Ha!!)
PICK UP A DIFFERENT MAG AND THEN ATTACK HIM WHEN I GRAB HIM SHIT IS BLASTIN
WITH A PASSION GET IT CRACKIN THE ASSASSIN, YOU LET 'EM
Blunt heads
Fly ladies and prisoners
Henessey holders and old school niggaz,
Then I be dissin a
Unofficial that smoke woolie thai
I dropped out of Kooley High,
Gassed up by a cokehead cutie pie
Jungle survivor, f.uck who's the liver
My man put the battery in my back,
A difference from Energizer
Sentence begins indented; with formality
My duration's infinite, money wise or physiology.
Nas is the real shit. It's illmatic.
Qwel
Robust
Eyedea
Aesop Rock
Sole
Sage Francis
Buck 65
= actual talent
she got a fat ass, but my name is papoose. cmon man I get more butt than an ex-cuse