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ARP speaks on multiple things

• Daylyt
They spoke since their fall out last year
Reason why Daylyt was taken off the card last year was because of not fulfilling contractual agreements.
Like sending in footage for the trailer at a certain deadline.
This wasn’t meet.
Communication with Daylyt was still attempted multiple times despite not fulfilling his contractual obligations, but was ignored.
ARP then made the executive decision to take Daylyt off the card, only for Daylyt all of a sudden to start sending text messages back to back beggin and pleading.

• Yung Ill
Multiple contractual agreements were made. One being certain posts on social for promo.
After ARP’s back and forth with Aye Verb communition was lost.
Post were made from Yung Ill’s side on Twitter regarding him only being paid to battle and stopped communication, despite agreements being made stating he needed to do otherwise.
Communication was done towards Yung Ill regarding other contractual agreements ARP would still honor like flying Yung Ill out for CHAMPION for promo and to give him a chance to shed that “is he serious this time” narrative.
This also had deadlines which were ignored like in the Daylyt situation.
So like that situation ARP then made the executive decision to take Yung Ill off the card and book Serius Jones instead.

• Aye Verb
He said nowhere on a phonecall, e-mail or text message was the Aye Verb vs Solomon battle canceled. There were other offers made that RBE declined, but never was their battled canceled. Money was just sent back with no communication regarding a cancel that’s why he replied “who are you talking to?” to Verb’s tweet after the trailer dropped and Verb insinuated it wasn’t goin down in his tweet.
Because Verb publically stated he ONLY cares what’s best for him, they didn’t care about returning deposits or anything he had goin on outside of RBE and wanted what they paid for and contractually agreed upon.
He said Verb’s deposit wasn’t everything that was already invested in that battle and he stands behind everything that was said on Twitter and things with Verb will be dealt with behind the scenes.
He also stated that Lux vs Verb bein on RBE isn’t anything they’re mad about and talked about them even trying to help Verb get the Lux battle on URL numerous times after they couldn’t meet the offer Lux made them by sparking the interest in the battle so Verb would have bargaining power to apply pressure on URL to actually lock the Lux battle in.

• Calicoe
Calicoe being on CHAMPION for the Ill Will battle was all RBE. RBE paid for his flight to CHAMPION for promo as stated in their contractual agreement and Calicoe upheld everything stated in their contract and they enjoyed doin business together even tho they never did business together prior to the Ill Will battle.
Said Calicoe completely understands the game now and has evolved over the last few years.

• Hollow vs Math
He doesn’t expect them to fight.
He spoke to both parties and both understood this is rap and if they felt some type of way they could’ve handled it before.
He also spoke about canceling another co-main event because both parties mentioned they want to do physical harm to eachother.

They also almost canceled Bigg K vs TODD 3 weeks prior to the battle because of things getting out of hand on a conference call , but they ended up speaking to eachother on their own and squashed it and spoke to ARP stating nothing was gonna happen so the battle ended up happening.

•Bigg K
Bigg K was on the 2nd RBE card ever.
Said Bigg K always bein solid with RBE even during his peak in 2016 is the reason he respects him a lot and will stand by him because of that.
He stated he still believes Bigg K has the talent, but lost his focus (because of his moms bein terminally ill, which adressed in the Iron Solomon battle)
They’re giving him Bigg K the Calicoe battle to give him the opportunity to tell the fans “I told you so” like they did with prior by sticking by Verb and giving him Mook when the fans felt Verb didn’t deserve Mook.


Its funny that things like a trailer and responding to the leagues communication can cause all these problems for business in battle rap to go left.
Then again, this is the story from one side. At least, ARP seems to have his business right on paper. Just some of it publicly looks bad.
 

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I feel like If Smack stages some shyt on the big stage where battler A is like “I’d battle any battler right now”. And then he brings out Born to battle somebody to open up a big show, Born would rock the crowd crazy. On some WWE shyt.
 

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I think O Red writes better punches than prime B Magic but prime Magic’s combination of punches, charisma, and god-tier flow make him clearly the way better battle rapper

This is disrespectful. In so many ways. I understand Rum Nitty. But O??? No. He a sloppy writer. His shyt be all over the place.
 
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