Succeeding the chaos that broke out after Dizaster punched Math Hoffa following their battle at King Of The Dot’s “BOLA 5” event in Los Angeles, California, this past Saturday (June 28), BattleRap.com spoke exclusively with the event’s co-host Lush One regarding the commotion that had just unfolded.
Speaking particularly about BOLA 5’s biggest headline, that saw Dizaster punch Math Hoffa, Lush One said he hopes the incident will help spark conversation about how the appropriate figureheads can prevent such an altercation from taking place in the future.
“This is exactly what we expected, even though it’s the last thing in the world that we actually wanted,” Lush One explains. “What we were attempting to do with this battle is show that even people that have beef, that have got issues with each other, can resolve it through Battle Rap, not as means to further perpetuate the beef. Obviously we just folded the fuckin’ Internet in half so that is what it is. I guess me being the optimist that I am, I’m just looking at it like maybe this will at least open up the discussion – because now it’s not just a one time thing, it’s not just [Math] Hoffa swinging, cause now someone threw the first punch on Hoffa – so what do we do about this? What do we do to prevent this from happening in the future?
“You don’t have to be like that,” Lush One continues. “Daylyt and [Charlie] Clips, those fools are from the hood, those fools are straight grimy with it, with their bars and shit, they have an image that lends itself to the street and that type of activity, but they kept it lyrical. They can transcend whatever it is with just their bars. People need to use that as an example and at the end of the day that’s gonna be the battle from this event that is potentially gonna be discussed as a classic. Now that punch was classic. The battle was dope up until then, that was kind of the worst part about it.”
Lush One also spoke on battlers Daylyt and Charlie Clips who faced off against one another earlier on in the event.
“I’ve been really focused on pushing Daylyt from the beginning of his career, since he first emerged,” Lush One says. “I’ve seen him come full circle. I’ve seen him shift with the game. What’s crazy about Daylyt [is] he’s literally the devil’s advocate ‘cause whatever the general consensus is, whatever the direction the stream is flowing in, he’s gonna be the opposite. Now if you look in the beginning of Daylyt’s career it was the time of fuckin’ Grind Time so it was a lot of comedy bars, people weren’t taking it as serious and [then] here comes Grape Street Daylyt from Watts spittin’ just straight fuckin’ gutter like, ‘You can get capped in America,’ just hard, gutter bars which nobody was doing at that time. And now everybody is on that hard body shit, what does he do? He comes from different angles and is extra creative and brings the antics and shit like that so that’s why Day is so interesting. [Charlie] Clips, he brings a whole new unique brand to the table. I used to listen to him on fuckin’ Dipset mixtapes back in the day so it’s just crazy to even have the opportunity to fuck with artists of this caliber and I believe they are above the majority of the pack in Battle Rap.”
Finally Lush One talks about the battle between Daylyt and Ab-Soul, a cut that appears on the TDE member’s recent retail release These Days…, saying that although he struggles to gage who won, it was a great thing to hear.
“It’s really difficult to gage who won that battle because at the end of the day the whole barometer of which it’s judged is different,” Lush One said. “I can’t really say who won. A lot of people were shocked that Ab-Soul even had that level of lyricism. We know he’s a great songwriter but battling a completely different beast and the fact that he was able to tame that as well was crazy. But the fact that Daylyt is a battle rapper on a mainstream release, he kinda won then too, right?”
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