With his battle against Caustic at the KOTD Vendetta 2: Redemption event released yesterday (June 10), Aye Verb spoke exclusively with BattleRap about how the match-up came about.
“The headline was supposed to be with Shotty,” Aye Verb said, referring to battler Shotty Horroh. “Shotty was the first headliner. Me and him were scheduled to battle in like January. I couldn’t cross the border for legal stuff so when they rescheduled it, he [couldn’t] cross the border for legal stuff. They called me like two weeks out and asked me could I get ready fast for somebody else? I said, ‘Yeah, we could do that.’ That’s how Caustic came into play. That wasn’t planned or nothing like that. That was two weeks kind of thing.”
Aye Verb reference his two-weeks of preparation in the first verse of his battle with Caustic.
Admitting that he wasn’t very familiar with his opponent, Aye Verb went on to label Caustic “a jokester” and explain why he himself shies away from that approach.
“I wasn’t really familiar with Caustic’s work like that,” he said. “I know that he’s more of a jokester. But I wasn’t familiar with it.
“In the room jokesters are always hard,” he added. “On the camera, nah. On the camera you breeze by them. In the room there’s more people that wanna laugh than it is who want to ‘ooh’ and ‘aah.’ So when you watch it back on film, the millions of people they listen and they get to rewind and it ain’t the same...I always play to the camera. I never play to the room. The room, you got anywhere from 500 to 3,000. When it hit the web, it’s millions. I always cater to the people that can rewind [instead of] the people that gon’ watch [in person].”
The Aye Verb vs. Caustic battle is available for streaming here.
During his interview with BattleRap, Aye Verb also compared Battle Rap fans in California to those on the East Coast.
“California’s different,” he said. “They’re like die-hard fans. They’re more pleasant to deal with. When you go on the East Coast, the fans are fans but they’re a little more aggressive. That’s the best thing about here. If I would have almost threw up on stage in New York City, I would have been crucified or stoned or something. Being out here, when they be nice to you, I don’t understand it. When I got off stage, I wasn’t feeling good and a fan brought me a 7Up. My first thing was I shook the shit up, man this guy trying to spike me or some shit. I had to straight look through it. I was like, that don’t happen to me. The California fans are way nicer. That’s just the end of that.”
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