In a barber shop interview with Forbez DVD, Murda Mook explained his next steps in battle rap following his win against Loaded Lux at Total Slaughter in July. During the interview, Mook also opened up about his place in the industry, new music, and his take on Loaded Lux’s possible recovery from the loss.
Asked about his next battle, Mook first said that his fee “is up there ... it’s in a six-figure range.”
“It’s still a bunch of worthy candidates out there,” he added. “They threw Hollow around. I definitely feel like he worthy. I want somebody big, big. He got an industry nigga, I want an industry nigga too. I’ve been saying forever I wanted Em though. I been saying forever, that’d just be crazy for me to challenge my brain. I know everybody like, ‘You bugging. You bugging.’ Well, you know, I’m just a nigga that be bugging. I’m just one of them niggas that be bugging. I feel like Em, he may not come out though, the way he so dope [is] his rhymes and the way he set his shit up. I never think of no shit like that. I would like to do something with a nigga that would challenge me to do shit ... He would have to do that shit just because he really wanted to.”
On his previous comments about battling Cassidy, a rapper several others battlers have recently called out, Mook said he’s “past that.”
“I been past that,” he said. “I been past wanting to battle him. He got a couple other niggas on his neck now.”
Mook then goes on to say that he’d be open to possibly battling Arsonal but largely disregarded another rematch against Loaded Lux.
“I guess,” he said of a battle against Arsonal. “He definitely formidable. He a boss of his own thing. That’d be something I would entertain.”
Addressing his win against Lux, Murda Mook maintained that the Total Slaughter venue was full of battle rap fans and a fair platform for the match.
“He had lines,” he said. “When I battle niggas I try to take away whatever it is that they do. I was successful at doing that ... People were trying to say, ‘Aw, it wasn’t battle rap niggas.’ It was definitely battle rap fans. It was a lot of niggas that was battle rap fans in that crowd. It wasn’t one of those crowds that ain’t know, they knew what was happening. It was definitely battle rap fans. They knew the lines. They knew the energy. They knew what was wack. It was the same battle rap crowd.”
Still, the battler did admit his dislike for the judging format.
“I don’t like it,” he said. “I never like judges. It’s so tough to judge ... That’s part of the conversation of why it shouldn’t be judges because when the battles are this close neck-and-neck, somebody gon’ leave mad.”
Detailing his take on the battle against Lux and his opponent’s next steps, Mook said they still need to have a personal conversation.
“Me and him gon’ holla at each other ‘cause that’s still my motherfucking bro,” he said. “That’s my nigga. I’ma holler at him and voice my opinion ... People say Hollow beat him. That was a debatable battle. I gave that one to Lux. Lux is not as easy as niggas might think. Every time I beat a nigga it’s like, ‘He easy though.’ Solomon was killing niggas and all of a sudden he lost and all of a sudden he easy. Now that a nigga beat Lux you got niggas out here like, ‘Yo, but he was easy.’ I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s crazy ‘cause just a few minutes ago the whole world was feeling [otherwise].’ I would hate to be the next nigga [against Lux]. I would hate to be the next nigga.”
Before the end of the interview, Mook also shared plans to release a collaboration record with two famous New York artists.
“I got this record with LL and Raekwon about to come out,” he said. “Crazy. This joint with me and Busta, that’s going out Monday ... I’m not letting this opportunity go, I’m capitalizing off this mothafucka.”
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