00:00They bring a whole gyal and a buckly for me, you know I in the back there drink it down
00:06quite quickly.
00:07The thing about it, I telling you the fact, after I do all of that, me voice can't come
00:14back.
00:15I went and used some holly and lime, well that was only wasting me time.
00:21It's the partner in the back there who let me know, it's the Obeah they work that have
00:27in you so.
00:29With seven contestants challenging the defending champion in each category, the finals of the
00:34National Extemporent Freestyle Competitions were nothing short of spectacular, with each
00:40contestant demonstrating wit, grit and lyrical prowess.
00:44Kicking off the show in position number one was Snakey, who was tasked with delivering
00:49a message to the incoming Prime Minister.
00:52A very potent topic and that is true, they want to know my advice to the PMU, not the
01:04one we have right now but the one who's new, Mr Stuart Young I wonder if it is you.
01:14But only four would advance to the second round, with Myron B vs Black Sage on the topic
01:21who I like for Panorama.
01:51Black Sage your assumption could never be the truth, you're trying to bring the competition
01:59in disrepute, let me tell you this I will say oh lad, them judges and them does have
02:06it real hard, when you come down here I will have to stress, every one of them bands does
02:13be playing the best, so I'll tell you this, and they tell no lie, the competition go dies
02:19while all of them does tie.
02:22Meantime Brian London and Gypsy found themselves in the midst of a social media bacchanal when
02:28they had to weigh in on whether Trinidad Killer likes too much attention.
02:34This is something that I cannot understand, I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with
02:39this killer man, every time you look around you could see he in some confusion with somebody,
02:49I know that this man have a lot of talent, but I really don't know what again he want,
02:56everything he doing, he doing it wrong, he had to start to stop learning to thief people's song.
03:04Well, hear what I saying, without permission he jump on the full blown rhythm, without
03:12asking the people just so, he put out a song that called Eskimo, and when the people tell
03:20him nah, he say I am Trinidad Killer, you will hear this get on I swear, he's a man
03:30that wear female underwear.
03:34But with Gypsy's voice failing and Myron B failing to make the cut, it would be Brian
03:39London vs Black Sage for the title, and it appeared all was fair in extempo and war.
03:47This is one of the most dishonest Calypsonians living, he try to rob the grave of the black
03:53stallion, Brian London talking plenty stupidness, no apology I will say again, you dishonest,
04:02this Calypso composer he is not nice, he does sell a song once then he sell it twice, and
04:09that is why I am making sport, up the islands Brian London end up in court, because if you
04:17go Saint Vincent you'll fail, you go Saint Vincent boy you short to make.
04:23In the end it was Black Sage who walked away with $200,000 and the 2025 Extempo Monarch
04:30title, his fourth title overall.
04:34I am so glad to be Extempo Monarch, in fact I can greatly insist, you know how long I
04:43working for this, all them years without a doubt, all them years you know they leave
04:51me out, but this year I'm happy as ever, the lovely judges judged me and I am, I am pleased
05:01God bless me tonight and I'm going to give a little money to the church and I am so glad
05:06for this because it's been long in coming, 21 years, 21 years, right so I give thanks.
05:14On to the freestyle now with the 2024 Freestyle Champ getting cut in the first round,
05:20it was smooth sailing to the $50,000 win for Akeem Chance,
05:25better known as Pretty, despite a good fight by Orlando Octave.
05:29Them say Orlando Octave you have skill and in the first round Extempo you're gone,
05:35and now you come to try to win freestyle battle and you couldn't win the battle so you're gone,
05:40it's like a baby was now born.
05:42Guy is pretty and I represent in Trinidad, his side is the best that you've ever seen
05:47and you know the country going Maloney, every single round that he say,
05:52nobody understand what he say, you need a closed caption son,
05:56because nobody understand what you're saying on the stage,
06:00because you got a struggling Ras boy, you got a struggling Ras boy,
06:05and you're going to come last boy.
06:08This year's competition saw a sold out show at the Radisson Hotel.
06:12Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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