The latest in a back-and-forth feud, West Coast battler Danny Myers released a video blog today (September 11) in response to T-Rex’s own trash-talking ahead of a planned battle in January. The two emcees are scheduled to face off for Milwaukee’s Black Ice Cartel league. During the video, Danny Myers also spoke about paying Rex out of his own pocket to secure the battle and why call-outs are an important part of the culture.
“Battle rap is in a state right now where you’re not allowed to call out another battler,” he said. “It’s almost blasphemy to say somebody else is wack or you’re better than somebody else. You’re not allowed to do that. That’s crazy because that is exactly what battle rap is. Battle rap came from one dude saying, ‘I’m the best,’ and this dude saying, ‘Nah nigga I’m the best.’ The only way they was gonna solve that was to get in each other’s faces and battle and see who had the better lines. That’s where this shit came from, battling. That’s why it’s called battling. We got to see who’s better. So nowadays it’s like you can’t say you better than somebody ‘cause all the new fans and the battlers and the critics is gonna be like, ‘What? You better than who? Nigga you crazy.’”
Speaking about his longtime ambitions to battle Rex, Myers said that fans and critics can’t accurately predict the winner of battle between two opponents who have never faced off before.
“Okay, so yeah, I been calling out T-Rex for years,” he said. “If y'all been keeping up with my Bars From Mars series on YouTube y'all would know I been calling this man out for years. I call out who I wanna call out, first of all. I respect the fact that he a legend but I feel like I could beat him. What y'all fans can’t do is you can’t look at one guy’s past battles and his history and look at another guy’s past battles and his history and then come up with the conclusion of who would win out of these two if they’ve never battled ‘cause honestly all of that is just conjecture, it’s just guessing. You don’t really know what’s gonna happen when these two finally meet. So everybody like, ‘Oh, Rex gonna kill you. Rex gonna beat you. You finna get 3-0’ed. Danny you crazy.’ He might beat me, so what? That’s the point of us doing it. That’s the point of me wanting to battle him, to prove to myself that I can or cannot beat him. I’m not ever gon’ know that if I don’t battle. It ain’t really about me winning. I just wanna battle the nigga. Why I can’t battle who I wanna battle? If I feel like battling Clips or Lux, whoever I call out, that’s what we here for. That’s what battling is.”
Myers went on to take issue with Rex’s claim of self-importance, calling into question the Harlem emcee’s recent performances.
“You did your thing on the Total Slaughter but you did that against a bunch of niggas who choked,” he said. “You kind of already had a jump on Cortez anyway. Niggas ain’t talking about your last two and three and four battles. You still living off your last — your history. So for Smack not to put you on Summer Madness would be ludicrous ‘cause you been doing this for a long time. You gotta face me. You gotta face a nigga that you ain’t never dealt with. Niggas ain’t dealt with this type of battler. I’ve been rapping before you. We both established that on the phone. You know. I been battling before you. You just was in the public eye longer and before me. That’s ‘cause you just so happen to be in the city where Smack started it at and where the battling scene started at. I grew up on the West Coast, in L.A., and it wasn’t no battling, it wasn’t no battle scene, it wasn’t that type of opportunity for me ... I was battling just over there but we didn’t have leagues so if I was born in Harlem I would be in the same position that you would be at.”
Addressing how he came out of pocket to make the battle happen, Myers justified the decision, saying, “y'all don’t need to worry about what I’m doing with my money.”
“People had a problem with me paying T-Rex for the battle. Okay, listen, first of all, T-Rex deserve to get paid. Anytime you talking to a top-tier legend, they not doing nothing for free and they not doing nothing for cheap. So I paid the man out of my pocket. Whoever got a problem with that, y'all don’t need to worry about what I’m doing with my money. My money good. T-Rex gave me his number, it was a large sum of money, and he got all of his money. Not some, not half, not a deposit. He got every dollar he asked for, out of my pocket, didn’t no league help me, didn’t nobody put in on it. So if y'all niggas didn’t put in on it, don’t complain about what I gave another nigga.”
Watch the full video below:
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