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The Battle Rap Report is the Official Online Rap Battle Blog, created for fans of Grind Time Now, KOTD, URLtv, Got Beef, Dont Flop, and other MC battle leagues. The blog consists of videos and reviews of battles, interviews with popular MC’s, as well as freestyle battle discussion. The author T, is Los Angeles based hip hop blogger.
When did you get into hip-hop?
I got into hip hop really in the G-Funk era, when Warren G was doing his thing. I can remember This DJ being one of the very very first rap songs I’ve ever heard, and watching all those Snoop and Dre videos. As I got older, the older dudes when I was growing up, put me on to some of the stuff that I missed like Eric B and Rakim, EPMD, definitely Wu-Tang, and all that ’94 and before stuff that was just pure.
What makes you an expert in battles?
Nothing really, haha. It’s one of the aspects of hip-hop that I love, cause its the most raw. And there’s nothing that compares to hearing a sick line directed at someone else in particular, whether its on a diss track or in a head-to-head. There’s just a focus to a battle that I love, one topic: me being better than you – thats it. But other than that, I’ve done some work in music for a few years. Been involved with some large music management companies of successful bands – more on the rock and metal side. I’ve managed an artist and worked with a couple of pretty awesome producers from the west. So I’ve been around music quite a bit, done a real little bit of the A&R. But, I’ve always loved the battle scene, especially what it has become.
First battle that you remember?
I remember someone playing me that old Busy B Starski-Kool Moe D shit on a tape. When it was all that, “in the place to be” shit, haha. When I heard that “I admit that guy could rock a crowd, but it when it comes to having rhymes, theres no way he can fuck around” I started laughing. Then I was really all about it: Kool Moe D battling LL, Juice and Supernat, LL and Canibus, the Eyedea-Brother Ali battle, Scribble Jame stuff, those older Real 6 videos, even Freestyle Friday-whatever it is, I want to watch it.
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What’s up T?
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