How to fix battle rap

[Stonewall Jackson]

get rid of the whole "top tier" pay scale
Everybody get a set amount
Rest is put in with clauses ie no chocking, best performance of the night and so on I don't know how it could be done but I know it can and it would bring back the hunger to the game among all battlers

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Can't "fix" battle rap. Its under too many umbrellas. Its like boxing. Way too many promoters. There's no real rules out there.

 

[Stonewall Jackson]

Can't "fix" battle rap. Its under too many umbrellas. Its like boxing. Way too many promoters. There's no real rules out there.

True but the url is the one if it is corrected others will take notice

 

[ReasonableMatic]

get rid of the whole "top tier" pay scale
Everybody get a set amount
Rest is put in with clauses ie no chocking, best performance of the night and so on I don't know how it could be done but I know it can and it would bring back the hunger to the game among all battlers

Unfortunately this will never happen..

Battlerapper A will say, I bring in more tickets than Battlerapper B so I should be paid more

And on top of that, if everybody is paid the same, won't that backfire when it comes to hunger?

Should Dot deserve the same amount as Chilla when skill wise they're on different planets? Shyt don't look right ya feel me?

Should Hitman and NuBorn be paid the same when one brings in the tickets while the other people don't even care about?

It should be up to leagues to pick opponents, cause all this duckin to protect their spot is outta hand

It amazes me there haven't been clauses for choking/mixtape verses/recycling yet

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

True but the url is the one if it is corrected others will take notice

Beasely talks like a dude with one semester of business administration from a community college.

Smack doesn't have enough sense to NOT get drunk at his own event he's supposed to be running.

Norbes is a talent scout who disrespects and alienates talent.

This is with whom you want to place your faith? They just figured out that you can set the time of release for uploads to youtube and not have to try to upload it 30 minutes before its supposed to drop.

 

[theskeep]

Battle rap will get its own Ted Turner eventually.

Ted Turner was the owner of wrestling company WCW. Also owner of Atlanta Braves and TBS. In the mid 90's, Ted spent years trying to beat Vince McMahon's WWF in the "ratings war" for the highest Neilsen TV ratings. WCW ultimately proved to be a poorly managed financial disaster and succumbed to WWF. My prediction is that, sometime in the next 5-10 years.. we'll see somebody from outside of battle rap come in and try to take ownership of the whole thing. Wrestlers, like battle rappers, are independent contractors.. and what they basically did in WCW was get paid the full amount they asked for (huge amounts) and proceed to just give a D- performance... because they already got their check. Ted Turner figured that if he was paying them enough, the effort would be there... but the wrestlers gave little effort.

What people don't get is that, the "names" in battle rap are never going to achieve the high expectations everybody places on them. Even if you give them the money. The luster of seeing them in that classic battle years ago is gone now... and catchphrases are all that remains lol. Supporting battle rap... or to "fix" battle rap.. would mean to pay attention to smaller leagues. The emerging artist needs the attention, not Dot Mob.

I'm not sure what everybody getting paid the same amount would look like lol, but it doesn't sound like a good idea. I mean, maybe if people were willing to watch battles without the battles having any "top tier" guys at all...

 

[wizworld]

For the most part, every other platform bases what they do around what URL does. We can pick at the battlers & staff all day, but those are facts. Even still I don't think URL is in a position to set standard wages, blackball people from battle rap who don't follow their rules, or spend money suing dudes who don't have a bank account or assets. So if they can't do it, no one else can possibly do it.

 

[Big Jo]

From another thread

I've been saying this for a minute now. Battle rap is trying to run right now when it can only crawl

There seriously needs to be like a player's union or something.

Get all of the league owners and like the top 50 battle rappers, in a room. Discuss a fair pay scale, something the leagues can actually afford, and an incentive bonus when good battles and cards generate real money.

I know it's a pipe dream but if this were to happen we wouldn't see all this stupid sh1t like:

- Delusional idiots like Mook wanting a million dollars for his next battle
- Leagues not paying people because they over estimated their finances
- Crappy performances from supposed top tiers phoning it in
- Promoters and investors overpaying people and losing tons of money on poor events
- Spotty cards with poor production values
- Etc etc.

If everybody can get on the same damn page the culture will grow at an amazing rate. Fans will get the battles they want to see, leagues can make real money and invest that in their product, and the battlers will get good, steady checks. It would all be sustainable too. Instead what we have right now is a hodgepodge of bad cards featuring divas who show up when they want to.

Hope you're listening smack

 

[notPsychosiz]

'Getting people in a room' is only ever productive if they have overlapping interests.
In the example of leagues (of any kind) the ownership has counter-interests to the talent because they both pull from the same finite monetary pool.
i.e. the higher the % the talent makes, the less ownership makes, but also the more individual talent A makes, the less individual talent B makes.

Therefore it is fiscally more benificial for stars to pursue their individual worths as opposed to collective barganing.

Collective barganing and equalizing paygrades results in less talented acts who would have normally quit hanging around longer and more talented acts becoming frustrated quicker and persuing other avenues sooner.

I'm not gonna go into 'quality of product' and all that because its subjective, or marketshare (industry regulation only works on monopolies) but quanitatively, this is what happens when you try and regulate in this manner.

 

[Charlie]

Get rid of norbes.
Best single move that can be made on behalf of the culture shun!

 

[MJ Freedom]

It's broken?

 

[Goat poster]

So a rapper like Charlie Clipse that has been putting in work for years and building a fan base and bringing i views would make the same as a new PG type nikka nobody gives a FUKK about?



You wouldn't want it to be that way at your job so why would you suggest it in battle rap?