- [Radio Narrator] It's the five fingers of death.
- [Narrator] The five fingers of death is the ability
to freestyle over five unknown beats
live on air with Sway in the Morning.
If you're able to survive,
you earn your stripes and your credibility
as a lyricist in hip-hop.
Let's see how we do.
- Let me give you a little context
of what Sway in the Morning is to hip-hop.
It's like graduation, a bar mitzvah for a rapper.
He's interviewed Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar.
He's probably interviewed big foot
and the abominable snowman
and just hasn't put the footage out yet.
With me doing music,
and hip-hop being a part of my everyday life,
of course I would want to meet Sway.
Of course, I would want to rap for Heather B.,
Tracy G., DJ Wonder.
Let's go do the Five Fingers of Death.
How hard can it be, man?
Five different beats, I do that at a cookout.
I do that with five Coronas, five pounds of mac 'n cheese,
and collard greens in my system, man.
I have been trying to contact these people
to get on the show.
I tried emailing.
I tried calling up to the station.
I tried Twitter.
I tried Instagram, but then, it hit me.
My friend Yinka, works for the same station.
♪ What could be more beautiful ♪
- So, the top emcees that I've heard
come up to Sway in the Morning kill it.
Really bad ass, ripped it,
and to my surprise, Shia LaBeouf ripped it.
Sometimes, you know, when a rapper comes up,
I'm not gonna name any names,
it doesn't go as planned,
and then, I get the text from Sway and say,
"Hey, cut off so and so.
"He messed up real bad.
"I don't want to embarrass him, end his career."
- Listen, I'm no fool.
I'm very rested at this point in time,
I haven't rapped in a while.
So, before we step in the ring to rap,
and touch the almighty against the Five Fingers of Death,
I thought it'd be good to talk with a few people
that have rapped on the show already,
and they could give us some guidance
and some pointers as to what to do
and what state of mind to be in when we go up there.
- There are few platforms, when you just talkin'
'bout barrin' up where you can go.
- Yeah.
- And really shine and be known for that,
and for me to go on Sway in the Morning
and bust a freestyle was a dream come true
because that's the big time.
- What advice would you have for us preparing
and trying to get on Sway in the Morning to freestyle?
- Maybe you should record your freestyle.
If you got a verse, pick five different beats
and see if you could get that verse
to go over five different beats
'cause you never know what beat he's on.
All those bars I had pre-written,
they weren't like off the top.
So, it was such a big platform,
I didn't want to leave it to chance.
Freestyle could just be going on the beat
that you don't know or wasn't expecting to hear
and matching it with a rhyme that you had.
It's like doing it in the studio,
but you don't have a second take.
♪ Play this high ♪
♪ I got the high shit ♪
♪ My track's banging your lobby like a pop hit ♪
♪ They ain't get it ♪
♪ I was talking bout the quad shit ♪
♪ I tap your man like ♪
♪ Yo, you heard Rob shit ♪
A little slow, it's like.
- OK
I'm nervous!
This is the moment we've been waiting for, bro!
♪ Tell the truth ♪
♪ I'm the man ♪
♪ In the booth ♪
♪ Woop, woop ♪
♪ Get your change ♪
♪ I'm a, I'm a, ♪
♪ I'm the saint ♪
(upbeat music)
- I mean, we gon see.
- I think I'm ready.
- [Assistant] Hey, man, they're ready for ya.
Hey, man, they're ready for ya.
- We just had our guest come in,
young man by the name of Marvin Mack.
- [Woman] Uh-huh.
- Works over at BuzzFeed.
What brings you here today?
- I'm working on a video called,
"We Tried Surviving The Five Fingers of Death
on Sway in the Morning."
(laughter)
- [Man] Aw, Shit.
- [Radio Narrator] It's the Five Fingers of Death.
- This is it, Marv Mack.
This is the one that Papoose came, and he slaughtered.
This is the one that Logic came and he slaughtered.
This is the one for you to come
and either make do, or get slaughtered.
Sway in the Morning.
You coming off the top?
First word, hippopotamus.
- Hippopotamus?
- Let's go, hippopotamus.
♪ That's anonymous ♪
♪ I remember mama told me Tyrone ♪
♪ Down the street they got a job ♪
♪ And set the (scratch) ♪
♪ I got way too many goals to reach ♪
♪ Wait wait wait (scratch) ♪
♪ Don't need to see ♪
♪ I'ma need some (scratch) baby up on popery ♪
♪ If she gon' want me ♪
♪ I might go to see her ♪
♪ I see her when I see her wizz ♪
♪ That they said (scratch) ♪
♪ I remember AJ had the fruit loop colored bronc oaks. ♪
- Pedophile
♪ Pedophile, been a while, I know your child she know me now ♪
♪ Whoa, that was not where I meant to go ♪
♪ But you know that I flow any time ♪
♪ Aye aye ♪
♪ Let me think, let me think ♪
♪ Where they came for you the booze in the bank ♪
♪ Everybody wanna make moves but they can't ♪
♪ And a can a booze everything you do ♪
♪ In it they have fun ♪
♪ Said these (scrtch) can't beat me ♪
♪ They hackin and jackin ♪
♪ I think I'm the (scratch) who won ♪
♪ You look with your hun ♪
♪ You bought her the maz ♪
♪ She said she the one ♪
♪ You run and get married ♪
- Kylie Jenner
♪ She done sprung another lie ♪
♪ Come to find out her and your moms ♪
♪ Done had some fun a couple of times ♪
♪ Damn, then you running around ♪
♪ Like you running in town ♪
♪ What's up wit you now ♪
♪ Are you a (scraatch)shit ♪
♪ What's up with the klan ♪
♪ What's up with the click ♪
♪ Hey you show me a flick ♪
♪ What's up with my bread ♪
♪ And you aint got no bread ♪
♪ Then jump on my stick ♪
- Donald Trump
♪ Donald Trump , he's a punk ♪
♪ I don't know what's up with him ♪
♪ He be tripping, he be on that ♪
♪ What's up wid him, what's sup wid him. ♪
I gotta catch this.
- Hold up, hold up
♪ Lately I've been feeling like ♪
♪ The looters ordered me to slow down ♪
♪ Just a couple things that they've been thinking ♪
♪ Thought that michae sorta had em' ♪
♪ I'm scorchin hot , you sorta not ♪
♪ On my level step a platter ♪
♪ Lonzo couldn't cause ♪
♪ Lonzo couldn't wouldn't be a gal ♪
♪ Watch her step through the shallow ♪
♪ Feelin like a young Lauren Hill at the Apollo. ♪
♪ Yeah they threw tomatoes ♪
♪ Yeah they threw shade ♪
♪ I made a blade up by my halo ♪
♪ Made a crib up out ma cradle ♪
♪ Maple syrup on my Eggos ♪
♪ Fruits of mah labor ♪
- NFL
♪ NFL, like why you coming at the Kapernick ♪
♪ Like we don't even need that (scratch) ♪
♪ Like what Trump, Trump got to do wid it ♪
♪ That's the NFL ♪
♪ That's the show and tell ♪
- Hold on hold up hold up hold up.
- Alright no, wait wait wait.
- No no no, hold up. Roll up, roll up.
One more beat.
Just flow go.
♪ Yeah they threw tomatoes, ♪
♪ Yeah threw shade ♪
♪ I made a blade up out mah halo ♪
♪ Made a crib up out my cradle ♪
♪ Maple syrup on my Eggos ♪
♪ Fruits of my labor ♪
♪ I remember I wish I could lie to save a lot ♪
♪ To see if I could try to save a.. ♪
- Hold on hold on.
- [Female] Heather got a problem.
- You can't say the same rhyme in the five fingers of death.
Like here's what I think your idea was.
You had five writtens
but like Sway was giving you words
and you wasn't using the words
and then we threw on an extra beat
to help you and you came with another free..
The same thing you said before.
- I like the flow
- [Sway] Alright
- I'm not five fingers of death impressed.
That's another level
- [Male] That was a fail.
- Whoo hoo hoo hooo hoo.
Boy!
Damn!
I could come back from this right?
What I expected to happen was
you go in there, we rap on five beats.
But I get there and he's like imma throw some words at you.
Why you doing this now.
With my date.
I didn't expect any words
then you hit me with hippopotamus.
Only thing I could think of was anonymous.
Heather B was like a vicious pirana on my neck man.
I couldn't breath.
But listen, I got to meet Sway.
I got to meet the team the team of Sway in the morning.
I'm happy with that.
I even got Sway to tell me you know what man,
you gotta come back out here sometime.
And redeem yourself.
You haven't seen the last of Marv Mack.
Trust and believe that.