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

[Pop123]

All these nigs are b!tches, . Like think about it for real, all these kids do is b!tch to each other and about each other and then write 3 rounds b!tching about the nig to us. Fans b!tching with each other about these b!tches. Constant b!tch fest.

No disrespect, I just watched that Eazy vs Cassidy debacle, . Why didn’t these little punks finish the battle? Nothing even happened. Eazy was about to cook this little guy’s food…clearly. I wanted Cassidy to win too, lol, I knew he couldn’t/wouldn’t tho. If they finish it he’s gonna get embarrassed

 

[TrifeGod]

Ez left the building and Cassidy stayed so technically Cassidy won

 

[T-K-G]

Does anyone remember which battles actually came out during superbowl halftime


I remember it was a thing before the ppv era but trying to look it up i hardly saw anything i would've sworn on my life surf had that battle that came out at halftime atleast once, over a decade ago


Feels like some Mandela effect shyt now

Edit: it was Surf vs. Big Teisha i was bouta say i VIVIDLY remembered being in my homies kitchen with his brother when this dropped, google and ai suck ass, it was struggling to figure out what day this dropped




For some reason i thought the conceited battle was AFTER big t the release date has it dropping 2 months prior, iirc smack was sitting on that big t battle tho cuz surf had got arrested and couldn't make the main event, the bailed him out and got it done at that store



nikka said he was gonna pass the glock to Fox......

And then what?!

 

[T-K-G]

All these nigs are b!tches, . Like think about it for real, all these kids do is b!tch to each other and about each other and then write 3 rounds b!tching about the nig to us. Fans b!tching with each other about these b!tches. Constant b!tch fest.

No disrespect, I just watched that Eazy vs Cassidy debacle, . Why didn’t these little punks finish the battle? Nothing even happened. Eazy was about to cook this little guy’s food…clearly. I wanted Cassidy to win too, lol, I knew he couldn’t/wouldn’t tho. If they finish it he’s gonna get embarrassed

Eazy should've just kept rapping over Cass complaining, the second he stopped he gave Cass an out to be extra and avoid getting embarrassed in there


And yes, telling a rapper that writing violent poems isn't intimidating or tough at all will usually put them in a blender probably the only form of art where the artists feel disrespected when you say what their talent is out loud

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[King Harlem]

Battle rap is really on its last legs. Been watching since before SMACK DVDs, but this shyt has turned into some type of Zeus network form of entertainment if all people are going to is beef and argue on spaces and blogs and not battle.

 

[ReasonableMatic]

Battle rap is really on its last legs. Been watching since before SMACK DVDs, but this shyt has turned into some type of Zeus network form of entertainment if all people are going to is beef and argue on spaces and blogs and not battle.

The downfall of Hiphop is the same downfall of Battlerap.

The obsession and hyperfocus with rappers being “street” and believable, opposed to them being nice at the craft.

JC vs Chilla Jones >>>> Any of these new street battlers.

And I ain’t believe a COTDAMN thing JC and Chilla were spittin,
but they were NICE and that’s all that mattered to me, because I care about the craft and the integrity of the artform, more than ppl’s actual crimes in the street when they can’t rap and spit quotables.

In mainstream Hiphop nikkas can get that bullshyt excuse off that it’s the labels.

But Battlerap is a majority Black industry where its decision makers are Black as well, and nikkas still chose to move focus away from the artform, and make it about endless beefs and forced storylines to sell battles and blogs.

Instead of focusing on the integrity of the artform to sell itself.
(JayBlac showed all the right ways, and what coulda been the norm)

Again, JC vs Chilla didn’t have a beef behind it.

Even Qleen vs B Magic, which had a very serious street element behind it, didn’t have a storyline. They were just street nikkas that were good at the craft that battled with pride on the line.

Lux vs Nitty didn’t have a beef behind it either and just had a classic, because their professionalism and respect for the craft was enough to approach their battle with the respect it deserved.

And that shared professionalism carried the interest in the battle, exposing the fallacy of the need for fake beef or real beef in Battlerap to sell match ups.

The downfall of Battlerap is purely self-inflicted and coulda been avoided.