Conway may be one of Shady Records’ newest signees along with his brother Westside Gunn, but that doesn’t mean he’s lost his competitive edge.
In a verse on Statik Selektah’s Showoff on Shade 45 recently, Con reached into his rhymebook and pulled out some lines from his 2015 mixtape track “The Mobb,” where he calls out some of the most feared battle MCs in the game.
“Don’t compare me to these battle rappin’ niggas we don’t rap alike / Niggas ain’t even half as nice / I’ll slap the life outta your favorite rapper twice / Murda Mook in front of T-Rex / Cut Dizaster in half with a plastic knife / The Calicoe Loaded with Clips ripping through parts of you / Gotta hollow for Hollow, but I’m saving it for Arsonal.”
Dizaster went live on Periscope to respond to the callout, first making fun of the idea of getting cut with a “plastic knife” and then giving a more serious breakdown of Conway’s skills.
“First of all, let’s get one thing straight. Ain’t nobody in the world who can beat [me],” he says. “Second of all, Conway’s dope. Super nice. He probably can beat Calicoe and Mook. I think he could beat them. As far as me, Hollow, Arsonal and Lux? Uggghhhhh maybe Lux. Me, Hollow and Arsonal? Ughhhhh I dunno Conway. I don’t know Doggie!”
He gives him some credit for staying competitive and shaking things up, but ultimately doubts they’ll ever meet in the ring.
“I don’t think we would ever battle. I’d rather do a collab with cuz but I know he’s on his own wave right now,” the L.A.-based battler says.
Con’s trash talked battle rap as a whole before on Twitter.
Still, he isn’t just purely talking trash from outside the ring. He’s actually battled in the modern format before, although the audio in this footage from 2014 is so bad that it’s tough to determine exactly how well he did.
Watch the full Showoff freestyle below.
Correction: This article originally stated that Conway’s verse was on Sway In The Morning. We regret the error.
word. duke can hold his own. nothin to do with new distribution affiliation.
This is fuckin fire, he went in, bars like those are needed
He aight but the battle rappers would eat him up and beat his azz…
THE MACHINE!
Y’all only like him because he’s signed to shady…. yeah I said it !
Wrong, you like em cause he’s signed to shady
Nah. Big Ghost definitely had these him and his brother in my music library well before they were doing anything with Shady
Actually I’ve been listening to their shit for a couple years now. I have Big Ghost to thank for that.
Conway aka the Bells Palsey emcee vs Disaster aka young remedial…gotta love battle rap its so importain’t
716 stand up and smack the life outta anyone who stands in your way!!
Another career burried. Thx Marshall :/
I been fuckin wit griselda b4 dis shady deal it would be dope af to see him on dat url stage i didnt know homie actually had sum battle footage out but like yall said cant understand the audio
lol @ he could prob beat lux
To be honest, I’ve only heard of Conway because of Eminem signing him, so I can’t really speak on how he would do against well-known battle rappers, but you can definitely tell the Shady deal is starting to give him a huge ego. Hell, if any one of us were aspiring artists who recently signed to one of the greatest rappers of all time’s record label, I’m sure we’d be a little egocentric.
I think battle rap is corny! I what to hear lyrically content and flow, Conway has exactly what the game is in desperate need of….. SKILLS!!!!!!
Dizaster is to me the worst and most overrated
GXFR didn’t need any fucking Shady to do what they do. Anyone who knows REAL hip hip knows this…PERIOD