After his dismissal as host of Total Slaughter, Jack Thriller spoke with BattleRap.com about the blurring of boundaries between industry rappers and battlers.
“Do I want to see another rapper battle a battle rapper? Yes I do,” says the comedian during the recent interview. “Who would it be… Who would I love to see? You didn’t ask me this. Can I answer that?”
He goes on to do exactly this. “WOO! King Los. And Hollow Da Don… They’re a match made in heaven. I wanna see Hollow Da Don and King Los battle it out, next Total Slaughter.” He also calls Mistah F.A.B. a “dope-ass improvisational rapper” and says he would “love to see him inside Total Slaughter.”
He then goes on to name the battlers he feels shouldn’t have been included in the "Road to Total Slaughter" reality show leading to the highly anticipated recent Slaughterhouse event. “Can I say their names? I didn’t wanna see Cortez on Total Slaughter. I didn’t wanna see Math Hoffa on Total Slaughter. Big T my man, but I didn’t wanna see him on there. You wanna know why? 'Cause I beat Big T.”
He also explains how Daylyt “dropped the ball” in his Total Slaughter battle against T-Rex. “He did great on that,” Thriller says, but goes on to explain, “Daylyt fucked up on that show. He coulda still did the antics and shit, coulda still did the skit… But you gotta do that shit at the end of your shit. You gotta do that the last 30 seconds. You gotta have bars before that, that’s the only reason you fucked up; 'cause you didn’t put them bars in line on that Total Slaughter, and that’s why you lost.”
Still, Thriller maintains that Daylyt is “the future of battle rap” and compares him to wrestlers Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. “He take chances. He’s not afraid,” he mused. “Who do I wanna see him battle? I would love to see Daylyt battle Lloyd Banks,” he says. “We haven’t seen Lloyd Banks in a minute, but one thing we do know about Lloyd Banks is he’s a marksman. He has great improvisational skills, he’s a freestyler. And I think that he could stand up in that shit.”
Jack Thriller also has a heart-to-heart with Philadelphia rapper Cassidy. “Cassidy,” he says, “You’re not doing shit in your career right now, get inside battle rap. That’s what’s going to resurrect you from the dead.” He also thinks that Lupe Fiasco would meet a similar fate to that of Canibus after approaching Dizaster on Twitter.
“It’s one thing to call somebody out but it’s a different thing to goddamn lyrically assassinate them,” he points out. “Y’know, like even Canibus. When he went at LL Cool J, that shit was… I were probably like maybe 13 or 14 when that shit happened. And I was at home like ‘That shit were wack.’ And this is me at 14. Then when it actually came to battle rap and he battled… who was… it was Dizaster? He were wack. So the 14-year-old me, and I’m 32 now, saw that this mothafucka was fresh out the bull’s ass when he did that shit. I don’t know if I wanna see Lupe Fiasco battle.”
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