In an exclusive interview with Midnight Mogul TV, SMACK/URL’s Norbes discussed the highly demanded match-up between Hollow Da Don and Charlie Clips.
While addressing the possibility of SMACK/URL booking the battle before another league, Norbes simple says, “If it don’t happen here, it don’t matter.” He goes on to say that whoever goes second during the potential battle is the rapper he thinks will take the win.
“I don’t know, man,” he said. “I know Hollow is like the most fierce competitor. We was talking about him doing it before at Summer Madness and he respects Clips as an emcee and he was like, ‘Man, I wanna be at full strength before I take that battle.’ To be honest with you, I don’t know who’s gonna win, it’s a very evenly matched battle. Hollow is crazy [and] Clips is crazy with the freestyle. They both can punch. They both can perform. They’re both fan favorites. I couldn’t even tell you, man. It’s tough, man. They’re in a lot of people’s number one and number two [spots] so I definitely think when they do battle on SMACK that it’s gonna be the battle of ‘who you gonna put in front of who’ to be honest with you at that point.”
“I feel like they might be the two best doing it right now,” he continues. “If you had asked me two years ago I would have said Clips but Hollow’s special too, man. I don’t know. It depends. It might depend on who goes second. Whoever goes second, I’m gonna favor that person.”
When asked about his current Top 5 list, Norbes says that it includes the female emcee that he manages: Jaz The Rapper.
“My top five is; Hollow, Clips, [Loaded] Lux, [Aye] Verb and I’m gonna say Jaz, that’s my Top 5.”
Finally, Norbes discusses the possibility of an event where the card features just rematches from classic battles. He says it’s tough orchestrating such an event because the emcees are “battling everywhere.”
“It’s gotta be built up, man,” he said. “With all these guys battling everywhere it kind of fucks up the hype for battles and the build up and the material on there. It’s just they’re all taking so many battles so it’s pretty difficult to do these big rematches and to do these cards now. I’m not against it, it has just got to make sense and that’s really it.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Norbes addresses whether or not battle rap has been watered down in recent years.
Check out the full interview below:
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