-♪ This is the Wheel of Freestyle ♪
-I know it's tough for you, but it's going to be fun.
Now, here's how it works.
I'm going to hit this button here.
-Okay. -And it will activate a
random word generator, okay?
It's going to land on three words.
-Okay. -And it's your job to somehow
work them all into a freestyle rap.
-Okay. -Don't have to --
doesn't have to be the exact word or something comes close
to it, or something like that. -Okay.
-But just have it in there. And then because I'm not really
known for my freestyle rap. I mean, I've tried.
[ Laughter ]
I'm actually really not known for it.
You'll be facing off against The Roots' own Tariq Trotter
right there, you guys.
[ Cheers and applause ]
All right, here we go.
Press the button right here. -Yep.
[ Beeping ]
[ Laughter ] -Okay.
All right. -All right, so you know --
Disco, Red Lobster, a very popular chain of restaurants.
-So nervous. -They have a lot of seafood
and fun things like that. -Okay.
-Vibranium, obviously, you know from "Black Panther."
-I specialize in that. -Yeah, exactly.
And disco music, Donna Summer, that type of stuff.
-All right. -All right, here we go.
-Okay. -Can we get a beat?
♪♪
-♪ Check it, me and Black Thought ♪
♪ Spin your head like a disco ball ♪
[ Ding! ] ♪ Yo, natural disaster ♪
♪ Call your pastor, let him pray for you, yo ♪
♪ Yo, let's go grab some food at Red Lobster ♪
♪ Roots, tell me how I can win an Oscar ♪
♪ I said Red Lobster ♪
♪ Better tick it off ♪ [ Ding! ]
♪ Ay, yo ♪
♪ Yo, and I spit this flow ♪
♪ So free off the dong vibranium got me ♪
[ Ding! ] ♪ Feeling oh so cold ♪
♪ Uh, with this flow♪
♪ Ay ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I love you for doing that. -Thank you.
-All right. Hey.
Tariq. She's not a professional.
And that happens. So here you go, buddy.
You ready for this? -Oh, God.
-Yeah, yeah. -It's going to be fun, man.
Tariq, you excited?
Oh, let's get some tough ones for Tariq.
Please, please, come on. [ Laughter ]
[ Beeping ]
Vibranium.
-Great.
[ Laughter ]
-Dude -- Dude, you know how many great things rhyme
with Snuffleupagus?
[ Laughter ]
Tariq, that's not hard.
We're not -- That's not that tough.
-This is such a mean game.
[ Laughter ]
-Roots, give him the beat, or not.
Here we go. Go for it, buddy.
♪♪
-♪ The Roots are 1, 2, 3, 'bout 10 in total ♪
♪ Ay yo, that kid at Coachella, that boy could yodel ♪
[ Ding! ] ♪ She clean her sneakers ♪
♪ With a toothbrush ♪ [ Ding! ]
♪ Don't ever be a poop-butt ♪
♪ Uh, no one is touchin' us ♪
♪ You know we hustlers ♪
♪ You better muscle up and get your numbers up ♪
♪ And cut the truffle up ♪
♪ Throw it on the pizza warm and fuzzy ♪
♪ Snuffleupagus ♪ [ Ding! ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Come on, now.
Come on.
All right.
-I'm going home. I'm going home.
-We have -- -Pull up my car, I'm going home.
-You're so lucky. We have time for one more.
[ Laughter ]
You're up for one more? -That was so good.
Hit me, hit me. -Come on.
[ Beeping ] -Snuffleupagus.
-Hammer. -Burrito?
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my God.
All right, this is very -- All right, it's easy, easy,
then very hard. [ Laughter ]
Okay. -The burrito one is
going to be difficult.
[ Laughter ]
Hit it!
♪♪
♪ Ay ♪
♪ Uh, look, you can't touch this ♪
♪ Word to MC Hammer ♪ [ Ding! ]
♪ Ooh, flow like a burrito ♪ [ Ding! ]
♪ If you didn't know, this my street flow ♪
♪ Uh, in and out of portals ♪
♪ like Dr. Strange A.K.A. ♪
♪ Benedict Cumberbatch ♪ [ Ding! ]
♪ Uh, coming through the hatch ♪
This is so bad! [ Ding! ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
I tried to rhyme it with... -Yeah, no.
Like, portals and Dr. Strange and Benedict, you know.
-Oh, and Dr. Who and Dr. Strange.
-Dr. Strange and the portals.
-Let me -- let me try.
-Woah, what, what? -Here we go.
-Okay.
♪♪
-♪ Oh, well did-did I stutter or did I s-stammer ♪
♪ I'm walking around with baggy pants ♪
♪ Like my name is MC Hammer ♪ [ Ding! ]
♪ I go home, I got a bag of Doritos ♪
♪ I put my hand, it's frozen ♪
♪ Oh, I guess I grabbed the burrito ♪
[ Ding! ] ♪ Uh, I have you laughin' ♪
♪ You're in stitches What's up Benedict Cumberbatch ♪
♪ You're my cumber-bitches ♪ [ Ding! ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
That's how you do it!
[ Laughter ]
-What? -I don't know, man.
-One thing. -I don't know.
-Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
One thing. -I don't know how I did that.
-You picked my bar about MC Hammer.
-I know I took your bar on that. I owe you for that one.
Give it up for Letitia Wright!