Talking exclusively about Battle Rap in a recently released interview with VladTV, Hip Hop group eMC spoke about the upcoming match-up of Joe Budden and Hollow Da Don and later addressed Canibus’ now-infamous loss against Dizaster.
“I wanna see it,” Wordsworth said. “I don’t wanna sleep though on what Joe gonna do. I respect that, his lyricism, what he’s done. I haven’t seen him perform in that arena, though. So I don’t know. Where I’m at is I’m on edge. I seen Hollow Da Don do what he does so I’m more accustomed to what he has.”
“I have an issue,” Masta Ace added. “I feel like the playing field is not level. Because Joe has so much that Hollow can aim at. He’s so much more known. He’s on reality TV. He’s been on Def Jam. We know his girlfriends. There’s so much ammunition that Hollow has. There’s not much that we know about Hollow other than what cats have already said in battles that Joe’s gonna regurgitate. I think dudes should need to be on the same kind of level of fame to be battling. I don’t think it was a good choice on his part. But I’m curious to see. He’s a good emcee, so he’s gonna come with lines.”
Addressing the chance that they themselves would consider battling, the three emcees largely dispelled the possibility.
“I hung my battle cleats up,” Masta Ace said. “There’s too much ammunition. The same reason that I said that Joe shouldn’t battle him is the same reason I wouldn’t do it anymore.”
“I would,” Punchline said. “If somebody disses me on a record, of course I’m gonna respond. That, to me, is still battling.”
“You know I could rhyme,” Wordsworth said. “I’m not trying to prove nothing on the stage battling you. I think for all of us for the most part, a lot of our legacy now lies on the music more so than me battling somebody on stage. Anybody out there, you could listen to any rhyme I’ve written or said and write it down and read it and it’s a hot rhyme. I think that part of, ‘Am I nice?’ is already answered.”
eMC Responds To Canibus Against Dizaster Battle
“When I see these guys battling and they go three rounds, every rhyme is like 60 bars, and it’s all real specific to the person, so I know they memorized it recently,” Masta Ace said. “Your mind gotta be ready for that. I got too much going on in my brain to memorize these 350 bars for this dude going into next week or next month.”
“I showed LL that battle,” Punchline said of Canibus' facing off against Dizaster “His response was comical. He was like, ‘Damn yo. I mean, I feel bad for the kid man. I feel bad for him.’”
“As far as the Canibus thing with it, for me, somebody asked me on Twitter,” Wordsworth said. “I just kept it real. He’s battling himself. He’s battling a younger version of himself. He spawned a lot of these dudes to come with 60-bar verses, 100-bar rhymes. A lot of these dudes are just kids that watched him do it and learned to master it...I don’t think he understood the fact that there’s about a hundred or thousands of him now that are actually more intensely drawn into thinking how he [does].”
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