It has been a longtime claim by those who make hit records that battle rappers can’t do the same thing they do. The reverse is also true and now, we may be to see if at least one of those claims becomes more false than true.
Recently sitting down with AllHipHop prior to Keith Murray and Fredro Starr’s battle at MC WAR’s “Generation X” event, Treach weighed in and claimed that hit-makers have the same wherewithal to battle as successfully as those who fight with rhymes exclusively.
“Usually they say battle emcees can’t make hit records. Now we’re gonna show how those emcees that made hit records can battle,” Treach explained. “My prediction is, who going to win this battle, whoever got the hottest lyrics.”
The Naughty By Nature emcee also compared battles in person to ones on records. He also says the event will be good for Hip Hop.
“Now it’s like it’s so much at times rappers get into battles on records and everything else if they run into each other it may be a problem,” he said. “But this type of stage when they come into do that, I think it’s opening doors.”
The forthcoming MC WAR event is slated to take place at Brooklyn’s Milk River on October 4. Those interested in purchasing tickets to the live event can find them at mcwars.com.
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For additional Fredro Starr coverage, watch the following DX Daily.
That’s fine. Battle rap is corny af. Back in the day shit was tight because the gimmicks werent as apparent, these days battle rappers some lame edgy cornballs.
It’s even sadder when well-respected veterans doing it for probably the fraction of what they used to make with a show or two. Hip-hop never treated it’s legends well financially, so I guess this is only the beginning. Hopefully ones like KRS or Kool G Rap will never have to jump into the ring out of necessity.
Rapping without a beat don’t have shit to do with Hip-Hop
Hip hop was built on battle rapping. Its always been about and will always will be about competion.
First things first battle rap is the new cool in hip hop. . Big batlles are always talked about on HHDx and thisis50.. Battle rappers are hungry and got more bars than rappers out now (clips /mook /tay roc/dna/ kshine) url and kotd really changed the game..Niw u got people like cassidy royce budden ab soul having a feel of it.. even mickey factz is more known in the BR world than hip hop.. SM2 is the biggest battle event ever and I hope SM5 breaks that mark..niggas are crazy out there..what if it isnt on a beat that doesnt mean thry cant make music. Calicoe, surf and cortez have some of the hottest music out there. They just dont get lucky enough get signed…
treach, pac, bdk, cube, icet