Right after his battle with B-Magic at NOME 4 on June 7, Big T spoke with VladTV about the battle, the reaction from the crowd, the constrained Cortez and T-Rex matchup and his thoughts on whether or not NOME 4 was better than its predecessor.
Speaking generally about the battle, Big T admits that both him and B-Magic could have done better.
“I think the battle was good,” he said. “I think B-Magic just fucked up his round two and three. I say B-Magic did good on round two, if he was tight enough he could of probably got away with it, that’s in the room, but he fucked up in the room. I’m more better on camera anyway so it’s a good battle. It was cool. We both could of did better but I’m gonna take that W home with me.”
Talking about his reactions to a fiery and perhaps biased crowd, Big T admits his bars had to be crazy to gather even the slightest reaction because of the fans fondness of B-Magic.
“Yeah you know this battle shit is starting to get about who they want to win,” he said. “I call B-Magic the People’s Champ. He can’t do no wrong. He’s a humble dude, everybody likes him but at the same time, be fair with it. I would have to say lines that gotta go crazy before I even get a cheer or anything. But Magic’s lines is right there, he better for a big crowd. Me? I’m a better small crowd battler than Magic because there’s more depth with what people can think. [With] a big crowd, B-Magic is very dope.”
On the controversial battle between Cortez and T-Rex, Big T stated that time limits are rarely adhered to.
“You know what’s funny? My battle was supposed to be a two-minute timed round,” he said. “Now that’s why my rounds was probably shorter because it’s gon’ be a two-minute timed round. I don’t know if their battle was but mines was supposed to be. But this time limit shit people always say ‘this is your time limit,’ but every time they just let you go over. So I been sticking to time limits and people be rapping for four or five minutes on me. But it’s all good.”
When asked to choose between NOME 3, where Big T battled against K-Shine, and NOME 4, the Chicago native admits he believes NOME 3 was superior.
“NOME 3 was a better event,” he said. “I didn’t see all the battles though so there ain’t no telling. NOME 4 probably had better bars.”
VladTV also caught up with Big T’s opponent, B-Magic, who suffered from some much-feared chokes in the second round.When asked about what was running through his mind when the chokes occurred, B-Magic jokingly laughed it off but warned that his anger will be taken out on his next opponent.
“Shit, nothing [laughs]. That’s why I couldn’t get back on that shit,” he said. “I couldn’t even tell you, man. It was caught-in-the-moment type of shit. Wait until this next battle. Imma kill me a nigga, man. That just made me mad though. That performance right there made me mad. Everybody giving me the W, but I wanted it flawlessly, that’s all. But for the most point that’s just made me mad for my next battle.”
Moving onto the cause of the chokes, B-Magic admitted there’s no excuse.
“The crowd plays a big point,” he said. “The crowd, they’ll throw you off. But, it ain’t no excuse for that shit, man. This what I do, I should have been more prepared.”
On the subject of his opponent, B-Magic states that Big T can’t do consecutive battles.
“Big T is not a back-to-back battler.” He continues: “He can’t take battles back-to-back. He just did a battle not too long ago. When he take battles back-to-back, I guess he run out of material. I don’t know. Usually you see Big T like once or twice a year. He have a lot of time to get his material ready. But lately you just been seeing him like five battles in a row. That’s the only thing I can say.”
Similar to DNA, B-Magic feels the battle between Cortez and T-Rex shouldn’t have been timed to allow each rapper to get their bars across.
“At a battle event level, I don’t think they should have been timed,” he said. “I just think they should have got their rocks off. But due to time limit in the building, we started late, they didn’t have too much time. They had to minimize the time as far as battles so they can get every battle out and they still didn’t get the Tay Roc and [Charlie] Clips out.”
Straight after NOME 4, Conceited and B-Magic announced their highly anticipated battle with the duo set to face off at Summer Madness 4.
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