Nah. You’re getting it confused. Technician the DJ (the LOX DJ) was fire. nikka was killing the crowd with the classics. Dropping them on the one and going in and out of the songs expertly. Cutting and scratching were A1. Hit Em Up didn’t go over bad at all because he just played a few bars and bounced into a BIG joint. Tech is a beast and is not new to this. One of the best.
The music went left when the Dipset DJ took over. (I have no idea who he was) started playing random out of town joints. That nicca was terrible. He was so bad that Technician had to come back on and try to get the crowd back.
This highlights an underrated factor in this battle. The importance of the DJ. Lox old school approach vs Dipset rhyming over tracks and using and incompetent DJ that couldn’t even scratch properly. Back in the day, the DJ was just as important to rocking the crowd. You can tell the LOX and Technician have those routines down cold. Plus he knew what joints to play for them at the proper time. He was doing a lot of the rebuttaling himself and the LOX jump into action off the muscle memory.
Professionalism at its finest.