Goodz Breaks Down Aye Verb Matchup Scheduled For NOME 4

With NOME 4 scheduled to take place later this week, VladTV interviewed battle rapper Goodz about his upcoming match-up against Aye Verb. Having gone back and forth over the years, Goodz detailed his thoughts on the battle.

“I am kind of excited for the me and Verb,” he said. “It was supposed to have been go down. Me and Verb always had tension for years now. It’s finally gonna happen. I don’t get happy no more, like, ‘I got this battle, I’m gonna kill this nigga.’ I don’t get like that. I’m always gon’ be prepared though. Always gon’ be prepared. With me, I get excited the day it’s about to happen. Then I’m ready...Like five days to it, I be the most anxious. I think every battle rapper be the most anxious. When it gets to like three days left, you just wanna do it and get it over with. You just sitting there waiting. I don’t really get too excited no more. It’s work. It’s just a job. It’s just like if you come to work. You don’t get excited to go to work in the morning. When you first went from that job at McDonalds to this job where you getting a salary you was exciting for maybe that whole year. After that year, it’s work. Now you want something better. That’s how I feel. I’m looking for something better. I’m trying to get a situation. I need something. I need something like that.”

Asked about his overall view of Aye Verb, Goodz shared that his opponent is often in his own Top 5 favorite battlers.

“Verb might be in my Top 5,” he said. “Verb go in and out of my Top 5 all the time. He always five, six. That’s all. I think Verb is dope.”

On the subject of Verb’s possible plan of attack, Goodz described feeling like his lack of personal issues has put his opponents’ at a disadvantage.

“The thing with me, with a lot of people is this: when you see people go against me they might not be as good as they really are,” he said. “They don’t be having too much to say about me. If you’re a dude who do a lot of personals, I don’t have a lot of personal shit to say about me. I don’t gotta bad rap sheet or bad background, really. I ain’t never run from no fights or nothing like that, somebody dissing me and I never did nothing. I don’t have a bad report. It’d be kind of hard for a lot of the dudes like that. That’s why when they battle me they don’t look as good. Then you’re not just gonna beat me with lyrics. You’re not gonna go in there and think you’re gonna bar, bar, bar. That’s not gonna work. I’m interested to see what Verb comes up with.”