Nick Cannon has been in countless rap battles over the years as the host of the comedy/improv show “Wild ‘n Out,” but now it looks like he wants to raise the stakes.
The comedian issued an open challenge on Twitter recently to battle him, as long as the opponent puts up $100,000. The theoretical battle would go down during the 2016 BET Awards weekend in Los Angeles on June 25. He also mentions that it would be three two-minute rounds and that the crowd would decide the winner.
Several rappers have shown interest in the offer, but so far it doesn’t look like anything is confirmed. Cannon has also started floating the idea that there might be a full card on the horizon for the event.
Over the years “Wild ‘N Out” has grown to include some MCs from the modern era of battle rap, with Conceited, Hitman Holla and most recently Harlem battler Charlie Clips all joining the cast.
Battle rap has featured prominently at BET’s award shows before. Snoop Dogg and Murda Mook put together a full card for “Gladiator School” at the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta in 2014, and a slew of battle MCs hit the live cyphers in 2014 and 2015.
Most battle rappers seem to think they’d walk away with the win over Cannon and his crew easily, but are either unwilling or unable to pony up the stake. Here are some of the responses from around Twitter.
nick cannon taking this sht as a joke but this is peoples real lives who come from nothing..either make it a serious event or fuck off.
What are u talking about lol. He is challenging successful rappers moron
Wow,you’re one sensitive
lil bitch aint ya? It tv you moron, he’s a comedian. You have to be a girl.
Wow,you’re one sensitive
lil bitch aint ya? It tv you moron, he’s a comedian. You have to be a girl.
Why did this fool Nick Cannon censor himself earlier in his post then just straight up say “shit”? This dude is still so damn PC like always trying to appeal to kids and families. Meanwhile this whole battle thing is the dumbest idea when he should just put up his 100k and let real battle rappers come in to win it. But I think something else is happening here since he is way too confident with his terrible skills on the mic that he knows he wouldn’t be able to win against anybody, so he has something up his sleeve that he is not telling anyone.
He aint gonna get a well known mc to battle and the battle rappers no one outside the scene gives a shit bout why is this even happening nick was quiet as a churchmouse when eminem ripped apart him and mariah lol imma go listen to that diss again it was fire
he should use the $100,000 to record a few starving artists songs & help em start their careers
word man like me.
Eminem merked that ass yo . call em out lol
I gotchu
@thesaurus831 you would pick that comedian apart haha. I’d watch that battle
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R.i.P nick cannon’s hip hop career
He didn’t have one to start
He didn’t have one to start
He didn’t have one to start
Since imma be in L.A. during that time maybe i should get some rhymes together and try to crash it. Besides King Los they would be pretty easy to smash in a rap battle
Something big is gonna happen soon not sure if nick cannon will be involved but… Joe Budden, Cassidy ,Canibus all hopped in the ring was talks of Eminem ,Royce ,Drake, Los, Lupe. LETS SEE SOME SHIT
I see y’all be talking about them MCs and I gotta remind y’all of my biggest MC in the world that y’all seem to forget BITCHES I’m talking KENDRICK LAMAR…we all know he’s the best rapper alive on freestyle battles and to be honest with y’all if K.DOT put 100k in he’ll murder these niggas..that’s a FACT
nigga kendrick anit better than king los, redman,busta rhymes,lauryn hill,EMINEM,nas,Tyler the creator, and thats just a few youngster to have a opinion about best rappers yu have to listen to more than just the person yu got intrest in and MORE THAN 1 ALBUM AND KENDRICK HAS TWO STUDIO ALBUMS GOOD KIDD AND TO PIMP ANYBODY CAN TALK BOUT THEIR LIFE ON AN ALBUM SO GOOD KID DOESNT EVEN COUNT BUT TO PIMP DOES….YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO MORE THEN 10 MCs ALBUMS TO THINK ABOUT FORMING WHO IS THE BEST RAPPER…….ps dont get RAPPERS MIX WITH MCs (lil wwayne is a rapper) (Eminem is a MC) do yur homework
….HAHAHAHAHAHAHA….(hold up gotta catch my breath)….HAAAAA!HAHAHA! Is this dude serious? If he wants to publicly commit suicide there are much better options. ANY ONE of the leading dudes on KOTD or SMACK would mop the floor with him.
This idiot probably still thinks of battling as what they do on his lame ass show. Corny jokes and stuff like that…98% of Loaded Lux’s bars probably go right over his head. I’d like to see Lux, Diz, Gjonaj, Hollow, even pat stay would kill this dude
U sound dumb jack diz don’t want to battle he crying bout putting up money cannon wants to battle people with money not broke wack battle rappers diz crying bout putting up money he want somebody to sponsor him……. He not gonna battle on smack becuz he scared to go to new York he always wants everybody to battle out west he a broke battle rapper nobody wants to see him battle
A bunch of wack ass niggas. That’s why battle culture is weak. When is the last time ANY of these dudes made a dope song? These guys are bar room brawlers, they’re not even in the radar of the elite MCs. It’s beneath the illest niggas. These metaphorical mufuckas can’t write anything with any substance or feeling.
You crazy son. Making popular songs isn’t about being the illest lyricist. They’re two completely different worlds. Just about every major artist in hiphop would get their life barred away by any top tier battler, this chump included. You can not like it, that’s fine, but the sickest lyrics today are regularly coming out of the battle environment, save the occasional dope track by an extreme minority of hiphop artists, mainstream or otherwise.
You crazy son. Making popular songs isn’t about being the illest lyricist. They’re two completely different worlds. Just about every major artist in hiphop would get their life barred away by any top tier battler, this chump included. You can not like it, that’s fine, but the sickest lyrics today are regularly coming out of the battle environment, save the occasional dope track by an extreme minority of hiphop artists, mainstream or otherwise.
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Someone close to him needs to tell him to sit his corny @$$ down. I actually get embarrassed for him.
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Who in the hell was thinking about Dizaster, OR Thesaurus’ lame ass? Nick Cannon, (a clown himself), vs. one of those two clowns….? I’d rather watch insect sex for 3 hours.
no… fishy fishy…..
Shad Moss?????????????????? The one that said that he don’t like rappin???? Man this nigga lucky I’m drunk as fuck right now.it’s my birthday and I’m wasted.wtf???????? How is this nigga name even in the same article as king los????
Ass aint even half as good as Lil Wayne(trash freestyler) and if Immortal or Shady came out of their caves your ass Nick will be butter…
https://www.reddit.com/r/rapbattles/comments/4ls2wl/charron_accepts_nick_cannons_100_k_battle_offer/