With the battle rap world still reacting to the rematch between Cassidy and Dizaster and largely agreeing that Cassidy left with a strong victory, the Philly emcee has stayed plugged into the scene with a series of interviews and hinted at the possibility of his next opponent. During a new interview with PSA Radio, Cassidy also revealed that he only got to rap about a third of the bars he wrote for Dizaster, announced plans for new music, and claimed he's been offered an opportunity to battle for twice his rumored $250,000 "Ether" fee.
While recapping his view of the battle, Cass opened up to PSA Radio about the performance and his thoughts on why Dizaster fell flat.
"Most of the time when he tried to get personal, it was a bunch of fabricated shit," Cassidy said. "Bits and pieces he probably heard from blogs or heard from Larry, Mo, and Joe and tried to piece it together. He was trying to talk information that he don't know nothing about so it was sounding stupid, especially to the niggas that really know how it went down ... People think he was trying to get personal but a personal bar have to have some truth to it. It gotta strike a nerve. You gotta be saying some real shit. He didn't say none of that. I predicted that."
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On the topic of his next battle, Cassidy again returned to his "Mr. Chicken" persona to let the world know he'll be back (again) if the price is right.
"If they get some more chicken up, if they willing to pay like they play we could definitely make it happen," he said of a contractual option to pursue a second battle with FilmOn. "The same way it was with the first situation. People got it confused. I call myself Mr. Chicken, niggas hear me talking this chicken talk so they think the only reason I battled was for the money. Nah, I battled 'cause that's what I love to do. That's the cloth I'm cut from. But, at the end of the day, I feel I'm an established enough artist to get paid for what I do. Even though I like to go to the clubs and party, before I put an album out or anything I used to go to the club to party and have to pay to get into the club. Now, when I go to the club to party, people gotta pay me to come do what I love to do 'cause I'm me. I feel it's the same thing with this battle shit. Niggas gotta pay me."
Reacting to several possible names for his next opponent, Cassidy again said he'd like to face off against someone with a musical track record similar to his own.
"I look at them niggas all the same," he said in response to a list of battle rappers that included Goodz, Conceited and Arsonal. "Whoever come to the table with the right amount of chicken, we could make it happen. I know they all get cooked the same. It don't matter who it is. I'm gonna just prepare whoever I'm battling and cook the nigga the same way. It don't really matter to me.
"All jokes aside, I did that to show love to the battle rap cats and to show them that I'm not shitting on battle rap dudes or looking down on them," he added. "That's why I decided to come back and battle a battle rapper. I would much rather it not be somebody like Goodz or Arsonal or niggas that I only know from battling. I never heard them do a song before. I never heard them do nothing else musically other than battle."
Listen to the full interview here:
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