MC Battle Blog

Since completing the Battle Of The Bay 5 saga on New Years Eve, Lush One, the Don Bossalino Conglomerato El Pacino himself has been busy working on his next new GTWC mega project. Unfortunately somehow the best name they could come up with was Massacre Of The Bay, but fortunately it is shaping up to be a completely ridiculous event. With incredibly high standards for the selection process of MC’s, this is looking like it will be one of the best Grind Time events ever.

so this is according to lush: day 1 (platnum edition), day 2 mob pt.2

to be part of day 1 required credentials:
to even be considered for a battle on this day u need:

1.100,000+ views on a battle.
2.5 wins or major battle accomplishment(scribble,smack, wrc,brainstorm)
3.best record in league, or top rapper in division
4.be able to rap minumum 2 minute rounds.

^^only 10 battles day 1

this event is aiming to pull the most buzz/views from one event , thats ever happened, alot of sponsers and celebrities in the building.
to be part of day 2
-anyone is able to apply, but the best will be chozen for 15 battles.

day 1 will be 15-20 $ at the door.
day 2 will be free and a gift to the community.

day 2 is expecting to have way morrrre people and is a big event that i will also particapate in along with day 1 after i crucify aresnol,
so day 2 is gonna be a HUGE event with by far the biggest crowd we ever had there will be an estimated 700 people at moss wood park.

day 1 will be located in the traditional place where it always has!!! expectin 650 at least. -Dizaster

Yeah, that sounds pretty nuts. Thanks to Untouchubul, the following list of battlers with 100k views on any single battle has been compiled, narrowing down the matchups. Keep on reading for the good stuff!

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The 2nd edition of Grind Time Florida’s Broward Beatdown event went down last night and by all accounts the event was a huge success. For the first time ever, Grind Time streamed some of the battles live from the event. The video is shoddy, but if you’re itching for some new battles you can watch High Collide Vs. Swave Sevah and Farnum go against Roosevelt. Continue reading for breakdowns from Medium Farnum, Rugged and High Collide.

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The majority of these battles, if not all of them, have never been uploaded online as far as I know. The Scribble 2002 DVD is easily the worst one they put out so I don’t feel bad uploading their footage. I believe the final product wound up showing something like 13 minutes of footage total which is exactly what I have hear minus the final match between Dos Noun & Mac Lethal which can be located at the Top 15 Freestyle Rebuttals post.

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The long awaited full length album from Project Blowed veteran and battle scene legend NoCanDo has finally dropped. Jimmy The Lock is 12 songs straight from the creative mind of NoCanDo, one of the battle circuits most unique and original MC’s. For only $7.99, it’s hard not to purchase the CD and show support to someone who has provided you with hours of battle entertainment over the years. After the jump, a music video from the album.

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Awesome short notice battle between Dizaster & Monk McNasty. Dizaster perfectly weaves in and out of freestyle and written which is a ridiculous combo, reminiscent of old Iron Solomon battles. Monk also came very sick in this and put up a great fight against Diz who is one of the best in the Grind Time circuit.

Kid Twist (KOTD) and Fresco (GTMW) meet at BOTB5 in Oakland California for this heated battle. This was thought to be a mirror match due to their many similarities (both are incredibly buff hardcore death rappers with imposing physical traits), but I think this battle goes on to highlight just how different they are. Fresco is a much more technical and polished rapper, while Twist is much better at the setup + punch approach with more jokes thrown within.

With that said, both are incredibly talented writers and definitely top tier in each of their divisions. This was an excellent battle and both of these guys deserve tons of props for their performances.

I’m constantly amazed at how large battling is becoming again. The recent influx of new videos by Grind Time is constantly exposing new people to our culture. It hit a huge (and unfortunate) boom when 8 Mile came out, resulting in tons of idiots being shoved into the circuit, but this new explosion seems to be positive.

At work a while back I was talking about rap with a coworker when out of the blue he asked me if I’d ever heard of these two battlers ‘TheSaurus and this one kid’ who he’d seen on Comcast. I immediately knew who he was talking about and told him that they were actually friends of mine. I went on to explain about the WRC’s and where they were from, etc. and he was pretty interested to hear about it.

It’s insane the type of exposure that battling has given some people. The ‘06 battles from Jumpoff are STILL being played on Comcast and people who aren’t even into battling are seeing them and remembering 50% of the names of the battlers involved (maybe if Illmac’s name was Dictionary we’d be batting .1000 on this topic).

Each battler who wants to pursue a career in hip-hop or anything related to entertainment needs to take this growth seriously and market themselves as well as possible. People not jumping at the opportunity to establish themselves with a more permanent fixture is pretty alarming to me. Many of these guys are getting 50,000 views on YouTube per battle and they aren’t shouting out a web site in their opening credits. If they had a product like an album for sale, which many of them do, they are wasting a free promotional opportunity to receive free traffic. If only 10% of the 50,000 people went to your site, and of those 5,000, only 3% bought your album at $8 total, you’d be making $1,200 per battle. I ball parked these figures and used very low estimates to drive home the point of this rant: battle rappers are idiots and need to take advantage of the popularity that battling is giving them.

Anyways, you ever hit up a random party and have people talking about battles?

From Battle of the Bay 5 in Oakland, California.

Interesting battle. Continue reading the post to view my detailed breakdown of the match up.

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A pretty nifty little cypher video of some sick GT emcees trading verses.