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

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Nicki Minaj and NuNu's little lovefest is kinda funny. Nunu is way too old to be stanning another person this hard.



Tayroc said she didn't even let it get to 30 seconds before the screen shot. lmaooo


I went to her Instagram. Her posts about Nicki are really disgusting. However, she’s a social climber so it’s not surprising. She got to where she needed to go in battle rap. Now she’s looking onto the next best thing.
 

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I’ve always watched battle rap from the Smack dvd’s, fight club on mtv, freestyle Friday’s, ness/mills making the band, etc just because being nice was part of hip hop and a way to get signed.

The more interesting question for me is when did I become a hardcore fan? What I mean by that is watching interviews, blogs, etc. I’ll have to think about that. It very well may be SM2.
 

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I remember some key moments that confirmed I would watch battlerap forever.

The shock factor of Millz BODYING E Ness. The disgust in Millz bars / presence was WILD
The shyt hitting Worldstar

Conceited BODYING Illmac, shyt hitting Worldstar

Lux vs Mook part 1 was like watchin Goku vs Vegeta, Ryu vs Ken, etc

Party Arty hitting Mook with “When I was in Rykers, you was in DIAPERS!!”

Head Ice bodying 2 nikkas in one battle

Verb BODYING SB, and my first time hearing the Guardian Angel bar

Lux litteraly bodying every cypher of him I could find

I knew I’d watch battlerap forever, them nikkas were the nicest emcees outside of the legends to me

I was a fiend for bars and battlerap gave me that fix.

Shieeet using Kazaa to download rounds.
Shyt was the early days of YouTube

The Rocafella / Lox / G-Unit / Dipset mixtape era bein the soundtrack when I was moving around

What a time in hiphop :wow:
My nikka @FreshAIG was on SOHH back then too
Sean from PSA (Galvatron) was on there too
 

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I’ve always watched battle rap from the Smack dvd’s, fight club on mtv, freestyle Friday’s, ness/mills making the band, etc just because being nice was part of hip hop and a way to get signed.

The more interesting question for me is when did I become a hardcore fan? What I mean by that is watching interviews, blogs, etc. I’ll have to think about that. It very well may be SM2.
I was a hardcore fan probably since I started watching. The interviews and content was few and far between then but anything I could find, I would watch.

I wonder what happened to the older blogs. I remember when Dash Living and BlueCollarTV were the main battle rap platforms for interviews then True Radio and Doggie Diamonds but they just fell off from batttle rap and then the Angryfans and Chris Unbias seem to come out of nowhere
 

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I was a hardcore fan probably since I started watching. The interviews and content was few and far between then but anything I could find, I would watch.

I wonder what happened to the older blogs. I remember when Dash Living and BlueCollarTV were the main battle rap platforms for interviews then True Radio and Doggie Diamonds but they just fell off from batttle rap and then the Angryfans and Chris Unbias seem to come out of nowhere

That's probably what it was. I watched battles, but I just didn't seem to follow the entire landscape. It's such a niche, that I didn't bother to seek out forums (like rapmusic) or youtube channels until around SM2. That's probably when my craving for finding a battle rap community started, because my interest in new music became nonexistent.
 

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In the midst of all the shyt I knew about battle rap, I got put on to the SMACK DVDs from my homies from NY who would be in the DC/MD/VA area on the train selling bootlegs. They had every mixtape you could think of at first. Once the DVD game started picking up, I heard them mention the DVDs but I didn't know much about them but they would talk my ear off about them. But I always heard the names from wither these guys or some other way. Can't remember the DVD I had but I definitely recall Miles battling on it. And on the same one, I recall Rex just spazzin' with at least 20 nikkas backing him up.

So in the midst of knowing about Scribble Jam, I knew about the SMACK DVDs but it was far and few between. Unless you went to NY or linked with someone who knew about how to get those DVDs.
 

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I think mook/jae millz is when I got into it, i mean i guess maybe cass/freeway if you want to even count it. i was back on sohh too. used to be into both battle rap and rap in general and was more into actual like music than i am now, still listen to my old music and some new stuff but far and few between, sometimes i blame it on getting older but then again all the battlers are younger than me now yet im still into it so maybe its more so skill level, so I got way more into battle rap as far as interviews, blogs etc, I remember watching certain interviews like math back in the day, unbias prob started me watching blogs, i even hung with him one day around nome3 and used to text him and shyt up until the rape stuff happened which I was shocked, never wouldve guessed, feel mad weird about it in a way cause i usually think im a decent judge of character but i guess you truly never know. smack and lionz den style was more my liking though, never really liked the straight whole freestyle battles, only so much you can think of imo on the spot it got repetitive after a while. jin was always type trash to me or freestyle friday, i know lux and hollow were on it but still 60 second format never liked that either like with fight klub even though i watched it, grindtime was okish, some of the battles were just say as many sterotypes as you can though.
 

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I went to her Instagram. Her posts about Nicki are really disgusting. However, she’s a social climber so it’s not surprising. She got to where she needed to go in battle rap. Now she’s looking onto the next best thing.
You're just mad you can't explain what she does in detail :umaaad:
 
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I remember some key moments that confirmed I would watch battlerap forever.

The shock factor of Millz BODYING E Ness. The disgust in Millz bars / presence was WILD
The shyt hitting Worldstar

Conceited BODYING Illmac, shyt hitting Worldstar

Lux vs Mook part 1 was like watchin Goku vs Vegeta, Ryu vs Ken, etc

Party Arty hitting Mook with “When I was in Rykers, you was in DIAPERS!!”

Head Ice bodying 2 nikkas in one battle

Verb BODYING SB, and my first time hearing the Guardian Angel bar

Lux litteraly bodying every cypher of him I could find

I knew I’d watch battlerap forever, them nikkas were the nicest emcees outside of the legends to me

I was a fiend for bars and battlerap gave me that fix.

Shieeet using Kazaa to download rounds.
Shyt was the early days of YouTube

The Rocafella / Lox / G-Unit / Dipset mixtape era bein the soundtrack when I was moving around

What a time in hiphop :wow:
My nikka @FreshAIG was on SOHH back then too
Sean from PSA (Galvatron) was on there too

Damn you took it back.....the good ol sohh days....the who got the best punchlines thread Budden/Banks/Cass was damn near the main thread in the hip hop section....that was back when Budden was Joey....aka pissed off an od'in w/ punches every other verse
 

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I used to fukk with battle rap heavy back in the DVD days, then it became sporadic to where pretty much the only battle I saw from 2010 til right before Total Slaughter was Lux-Cal, and only because Lux third went viral. Can’t even front, Joe Budden brought me back to battle rap. :yeshrug:
 

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Started liking battles through Freestyle Friday and E Ness/Jae Millz. Still remember it was Jadakiss and Styles P who told them to switch it up to 2 rounds because there was a battle that was so close they didnt want to pick a winner but was obligated to.

I was always into diss tracks, for a while i didnt think it would get better than Jada/Beans.

Seen Miles/Lux and Mook/Jones in the early youtube days but i still knew nothing about actual leagues existing.

Joined the navy in 07 and didnt know anyone that was a fan of battle rap and i stopped checking for it and honestly thought it died out until i saw Lux/Calicoe on WSHH. While in Japan i had no idea how much it was growing since i wasnt checkin for it.

Sporadically checked for it after Lux/Calicoe then saw WSHH uploading more SM2 battles and was like ok i know mook, lux, iron solomon, serious jones but who the hell is the rest of these dudes?

Randomly ended up watching JC/Chilla and was :wow:

Overall didnt start really following until SM3 really and was out of the navy. One day i had off i literally watched battles all day tryna learn who was who and what made them good or popular. So i was late to the party on a lot of monumental battles.
 

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I remember some key moments that confirmed I would watch battlerap forever.

The shock factor of Millz BODYING E Ness. The disgust in Millz bars / presence was WILD
The shyt hitting Worldstar

Conceited BODYING Illmac, shyt hitting Worldstar

Lux vs Mook part 1 was like watchin Goku vs Vegeta, Ryu vs Ken, etc

Party Arty hitting Mook with “When I was in Rykers, you was in DIAPERS!!”

Head Ice bodying 2 nikkas in one battle

Verb BODYING SB, and my first time hearing the Guardian Angel bar

Lux litteraly bodying every cypher of him I could find

I knew I’d watch battlerap forever, them nikkas were the nicest emcees outside of the legends to me

I was a fiend for bars and battlerap gave me that fix.

Shieeet using Kazaa to download rounds.
Shyt was the early days of YouTube

The Rocafella / Lox / G-Unit / Dipset mixtape era bein the soundtrack when I was moving around

What a time in hiphop :wow:
My nikka @FreshAIG was on SOHH back then too
Sean from PSA (Galvatron) was on there too
The original Mook vs. Lux thread in SOHH was classic
 
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