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Drizzy, say it ain’t so. Well, actually, he’s saying it is so. Anyone that has followed the meteoric rise of Lil Wayne protégé and Young Money recording artist Drake will remember when DJ Funkmaster Flex had him on his show a while back in April to spit a few on-air freestyles for listeners in the rotten apple.

With this being one of the first times that the young turk was given a platform like this, he retreated to pulling out his BlackBerry where he had written some preconceived rhymes for the occasion. Some die-hard hip hop purists balked at Drizzy, claiming that the only freestyling that they accept is impromptu, off the head verses. Answering the criticism to MTV, Drake basically says that freestyling is not his forte and that people should just get over it. He also defends that what people think are freestyles sometimes are anything but, whether fans know it or not.

“It was such a rookie hip-hop moment and obviously, the controversy of me pulling out my phone and rapping off my phone because I just wasn’t prepared,” he said of his visit to Flex’s show. “A lot of people don’t know the difference between freestyle or off the top and coming to a radio show knowing you got to go there. You got verses cued up in your head, whether they be off your upcoming album or verses that you just had laying around.”

The rapper also gave props to those who can and often do come off the dome with a verse, saying that it’s an admirable trait, but one that he just doesn’t have.

“I appreciate a guy like Common who goes city to city and just spits at the crowd for 10 minutes about everything he sees. I admire talent like that because that’s just not my creative process.”

Props to Drake for keeping it thorough and being real about it. He’s still one of the illest on the mic, freestyle or written. But if for some chance you missed the incident in question, check below.