Essential The Official Battle Rap Random Thoughts Thread (URL, KOTD, UW etc...)

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Let me say this: Any battle rapper battling should have a day job. Battle rap doesn't provide you a steady income unless you are CLips or Lux. URL contracts are for the new guys....not the vets or established stars. This is something new that they are implementing. The contracts are for 12-18months and you can battle on your HOME league as well as URL only.
 
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Kidd Dibiase said:
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Let me say this: Any battle rapper battling should have a day job. Battle rap doesn't provide you a steady income unless you are CLips or Lux. URL contracts are for the new guys....not the vets or established stars. This is something new that they are implementing. The contracts are for 12-18months and you can battle on your HOME league as well as URL only.
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That isn't true at all. A lot more than just Clips and Lux make enough to not need a job. Math, Verb, Hollow, DNA, Ars, etc.. all make enough money to just battle. Most top tiers make 5-8 K a battle. If you battle 5-8 times a year, you good, plus appearances. You ain't balling by any means but you make enough to live good (As long as you not in NY or Cali) plus you only have to work a few times a year. Great gig.
 
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FreshAIG said:
That isn't true at all. A lot more than just Clips and Lux make enough to not need a job. Math, Verb, Hollow, DNA, Ars, etc.. all make enough money to just battle. Most top tiers make 5-8 K a battle. If you battle 5-8 times a year, you good, plus appearances. You ain't balling by any means but you make enough to live good (As long as you not in NY or Cali) plus you only have to work a few times a year. Great gig.
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but thats the thing, a lot of URL dudes live in NY
 
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Kidd Dibiase said:
but thats the thing, a lot of URL dudes live in NY
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Well yeah there are a lot that do, but most of them are top tier so they make enough to survive even off battle rap, but yeah if they want to live "good" then they definitely gonna need another job or hustle. That's accurate.
 
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Well yeah there are a lot that do, but most of them are top tier so they make enough to survive even off battle rap, but yeah if they want to live "good" then they definitely gonna need another job or hustle. That's accurate.
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the top tiers will be fine they can get battles on URL, KOTD and that one in Chicago.

but these URL only pg dudes, there isn't gonna be PG only events. I'm sure their home league ain't paying them THAT much. If Smack can get a top tier on a NOME, Summer Madness and Anniversary, he'll put ANY PG to the side.
 
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Yo, where that's O-Red and Nitty at and Clips and Daylyt....those links were dead before I got here :to:
 
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Real deal vs chilla was pretty entertaining

But like always real deal starts off decent like he going to go lyrical but then he just fades to jokes and "you ain't real" angles. And that's pretty much every real deal battle

Chilla started off just ok ,(that boy band scheme tho, wow) but he heated up in that 2nd and 3rd

Gave it to chilla 2-1 when chilla got them bars and employing personals and jokes forget it not many who go beat him. Chilla went crazy in that 3rd

"Bars out of this world I brought extra to rest real (extraterrestrial)" gawd damn!! :krs:
 
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FreshAIG said:
That isn't true at all. A lot more than just Clips and Lux make enough to not need a job. Math, Verb, Hollow, DNA, Ars, etc.. all make enough money to just battle. Most top tiers make 5-8 K a battle. If you battle 5-8 times a year, you good, plus appearances. You ain't balling by any means but you make enough to live good (As long as you not in NY or Cali) plus you only have to work a few times a year. Great gig.
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Smack got a benefits package and a 401K :usure:? One accident or surgery will eat up that money real quick and have them in debt.

Add 5-8 battles at 5-8k to a job paying 40k and that's comfortable living. Clips will probably pull in +50k this year but I know he worked at a hospital or a medical facility. Live off your salary, save the battle money. They could only battle but how long will that last? They should have jobs.
 
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cornercommission2k12 said:
yea they gotta have jobs too

especially if they have kids
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Yea a guy like K-Shine for exmaple should definitely have a job lol. For every one one battle rapper that can make a real career out of this, there are ten that cant

Funny thing is though these battle rappers are actually getting paid which is more than most of the struggling mixtape artists who claim to be balling can say
 
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