While speaking with Vlad TV as part of a newly-released interview, Long Beach, California rapper KXNG Crooked was asked what he thought about Funk Volume taking part in a battle with Horseshoe Gang.
Crooked first credited Funk Volume co-founder Damien “Dame” Ritter for making innovative moves with the label. He later explained that he felt those in Funk Volume weren’t “prepared” for a response to their battle requests.
“I like Dame,” KXNG Crooked said. “Dame I believe is the CEO…He always makes innovative moves for his label. He’s an intellectual guy. So, I like him, man. I think all the moves that he made were dope up until that move right here…When Hopsin was speaking on trying to challenge G.O.O.D. Music, Strange Music, TDE, Slaughterhouse, Shady. It just—to me, that move was like, ‘We know that we probably won’t get any responses, so let’s just throw it out there.’ And you know our fan-base would eat it up. Me and Funk Volume’s fan-base they’ll definitely eat that challenge up. I just didn’t think they were prepared for anybody to say, ‘Well, hey man, fuck the money. Let’s go right now.’ And I think that right there kinda caught ‘em off guard.”
The West Coast lyricist gave credit to Funk Volume for issuing a decent lyrical response, but added that “they can’t out-rap my guys.”
“Bar for bar, it’s no way they can out-rap my guys,” he said. “Because we get technical. We talk about the cadence, metaphors, punchlines, rhyme schemes, flow patterns. We get technical into the whole writing of a rap song…I respect ‘em for stepping to the plate. Even though it took a while…I really wanted to see it go further. I wanted to see more bars get exchanged.”
KXNG Crooked’s interview with Vlad TV can be found below.
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They did out-rap your guys though Crooked. Both crews spit crazy bars, but FV (especially Dizzy Wright) demolished that Free Meal joint.
FV got schooled on the art of rhyming by the HSG. FV’s bars were so simple and lazy, ya’ll have such low standards these days.
Hsg fucked up trying to release that response to quick should of worked on it that beat is insane and why are they sitting like 3 feet behind you not saying anything
They seated behind Crooked cause they had their own segment of the interview already. And Crooked is their older brother, I don’t think they wanna cut em off when he’s speaking.
You smell that, that is the smell of victory
Horse shoe lost crooked. Hsg is not wack but they all sound the same
Has HSG put up 250k, yet? No? Then why is this even still a story?
Horse Shoe Gang won, Hopsin waved the white flag. Dizzy did his thing but HSG won as a crew. Both crews went hard tho
they fucked up with the 2nd response SAme Day… Free Meal was a mile better…they should;ve waited a day or two so thet could properly respond
I think it’s neat how each member of HSG and Crook have similar dicks. Demetrius has Crook’s curve, Dice has his incredible girth, Kenny has his ridiculous length, and Julius has has his technique. It’s like the penis version of Voltron. Each dick is incredible on its own but they come together and make a super dick.