Speaking with HipHopIsReal, Goodz broke down his history in battle rap, recalling early and unplanned match-ups against Jae Millz and Cassidy.
Detailing the culture he made a name for himself in, Goodz explained how the current landscape differs from the era preceding it.
“One day y’all just walking down the block and y’all just meet up and start battling right there,” he said. “Before all the three rounds, I gotta sit here and write these rounds for three months. It wasn’t none of that. It was just, you meet up and you rap. It was spontaneous. You never knew you was gonna battle when you battled. I was always into it. I was into it for a long time."
“I got footage up where I battled Jae Millz,” he added. “I just put it up. I think that was ‘04. I was doing it before that. I battled Cassidy, ain’t no footage out for it. I don’t got the footage. Me and Cass probably was my hardest battle. I think that was probably my toughest battle. We went at it though. We went like 15 rounds, 20 rounds. That’s another thing, back then you had to be nice and out-rap who you was battling.”
Opening up about the Cassidy battle, Goodz said he still thinks it was a set-up despite not being strictly scheduled.
“It was a spot in I believe in New Rochelle called the Palladium,” he said. "[Jadakiss] was doing the video shoot for ‘Put Ya Hands Up’ so my man Bill, rest in peace, that was my like my first manager, first nigga to put me in a studio. He used to take me to all of them joints... He called me one day, ‘Yo, get dressed, we going over here.’ I’m young, I’m probably like 16, 17 at most… Prior to that though somebody heard me battle some kid and I killed him. They was like, ‘Oh yeah, we gon’ put you in the pit. We got somebody for you.’ So then I went there that day, nothing about a battle. They introduce me to Cassidy: hungry, hoodie with a t-shirt over it. They introduced me, said, ‘What’s up.’ They told me to spit something. I start spitting. I feel like it probably was a set-up, they just told me to spit something. They said, ‘Y’all have a little cypher.’ People start crowding around, they going crazy when I rap. Soon as I stop, Cassidy just start spitting at me. That’s it, just starts spitting at me. Like I said, I was on it then. I had 25 raps remembered. I’m used to that. So as soon as he stopped I started spitting to him. We went like 15 rounds.”
In a recent interview with VladTV, Cassidy himself said he didn’t remember the battle given the number of matches he was taking at the time.
Goodz also took to Twitter to answer questions from fans about the battle with Cass years ago, even commenting on the Philadelphia emcee’s recent slight.
«@coldkaine @TheRealGoodz you lost to Cass or nah?»( cud go either way... we went like 15 rounds #crazy
— SLICK TALK GOD (@TheRealGoodz) September 3, 2014
«@MrRedEnvelope @TheRealGoodz Big Bro Did u hear the slick shit CASSIDY said about U On VLADTV?»( yea Dat nigga corny
— SLICK TALK GOD (@TheRealGoodz) September 2, 2014
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