Scheduled to battle O-Red tomorrow (July 5) at the RBE “Lift His Soul” event, Math Hoffa spoke with VladTV about his opponent and suggested that he’s not progressing in the Battle Rap scene.
“I don’t really care about O-Red,” he said. “I really don’t. That’s the problem with O-Red, you don’t really care. If you look at the people he’s battled, he doesn’t really have wars with anybody. When he gets the name that he wants that’s gonna take him to the next level, they don’t really care. I’m gonna care about you O-Red. I’m gonna give you something. I’m gonna give you a battle. I’m gonna school you. I’m gonna teach you a few things. There’s things that you don’t know. You’ve gotten to the point where you should be one of those top niggas but you’re still like in the shadows lurking. I could be gone for a year and you’re still in the same fucking spot dog. It’s crazy. But yeah, we gon’ help you out.
“I’m just tight that he got a Don Demarco for saying my name,” he added. “I’m gonna keep saying that. That don’t even make sense. Nah dog, you gotta pay for that.”
Describing why he thinks his competition’s performance is less important than his own, Math said that the audience expects a show from him.
“I feel like, after everything that I’ve been through, most of my competition is not the show,” he said. “I feel that at this point, I’m the show. It’s about what I do. It’s not even so much analyzing and studying my competition because it’s so much of an expectation on me. So much of a, ‘What is Math gonna do?’ factor to it. I think everybody thinks Dizaster is gonna do the same shit that he always do. But when you think about me, people are like, ‘What is he gonna do?’ O-Red, same thing, I think he’s gonna do the same shit. When you think about me, ‘What is he gonna do?’ At this point it’s not even about my competition it’s about how I feel about it. What do I want to do? What kind of crazy shit do I want to come up with? How far can I go creatively but still keep it reality so that my core fanbase is still tapped in with me.”
Hoffa also described his approach to battling and hoping to have a lasting effect on his opponent.
“I think if you look at a battle like me and Arsonal,” he said, “it’s no disrespect to Arsonal. I think Arsonal is one of the top battle rappers out there. I think he hasn’t gotten credit for a lot of breakthroughs that he’s caused. Arsonal is dope. But when we battled, it was exactly that, it was random whatever against me talking to him. So, it’s like what do you go with? What do you like? Do you like someone who addresses that person’s character? When I said the, ‘You don’t got bars like that,’ the first time I said it was against Arsonal. You look at his battles now, he got bars. I change people I feel like...I feel like I talk to niggas. I change ’em. All that lyrical [babble], that shit don’t affect me. It don’t change me in no way. There’s never been anything that somebody said to me in a battle that I sat back later like, ‘Hmmm, is that true?’ That’s the effect I like to have.”
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