I used to chill with these cats when I was younger who loved to freestyle. They said that shit wayyyy too often. They were always trying to get me to battle them. I stayed way clear of that shit.
Then I met this dude shooting pool at my college one day. He told me if I ran him back to the crib he had a blunt we could blaze. Dude ended up freestyling for the 15 minute ride back to campus, didn't drop it once. I asked him about it and he said he tried not to do it for creative purposes. "I'm a lyricist, if you gotta drop 'nigga' every other line then you can't fuckin' freestyle"
That boy had crazy skills, I had a lot of respect for him after that as an artist. Fucked up part was I didn't even know he rapped. Just broke that shit out over a couple Dayton Family tracks I had playing
He moved back to Chicago right after that semester though, lost touch with him. Name was Culaine or something like that.