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b. Shaquan Lewis, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. This freestyle rapper spent some time working with a few of rap’s biggest brands, although he continues to be relatively unidentified outside a little band of hardcore hip-hop enthusiasts. First creating a name for himself as Mad Skillz the freestyler’s supreme rhyming abilities were …

Having a second-place complete (behind Midwest rapper Supernatural) within the freestyle competition at the country’s most prestigious MC seminar in 1995, this aptly named Detroit native turned Virginian demonstrated his limitless verbal potential. The very first salvo terminated from Mad Skillz (aka Skillz) was the solitary “The Nod Element,” an …