Following a hectic 2014 battling across the United States, Jersey battler Lotta Zay recently made his U.K. debut at Don’t Flop’s “6th Birthday Weekend.” On Day 1 of the event (Nov. 15), Lotta Zay faced off against relative newcomer to the scene Mr Re, in what turned out to be one of the better performances on a card that was hit with a string of last-minute cancellations.
Check out their battle here.
BattleRap.com spoke with Lotta Zay on Day 2 of the event (Nov. 16) to get his thoughts on the battle.
“Man, that battle was crazy,” Lotta Zay says. “It was definitely a sleeper – most of my battles are. But, all of my battles are classics or bodies but last night was definitely a classic battle. Mr Re reached out to me. He wanted me to come out here and do this battle with him and I accepted it, no matter who it was. I respected his craft. A lot of people bet against him [but] I really did my homework and I evaluated all of his footage and we really gave each other the opportunity in this one — me to come [and] rock internationally over here in England and for him to get a shot at somebody on my level. Our battle last night had all the makings of a classic: quotables, punchlines, multis [and] everything everybody likes over here and everything everybody likes back over in the [United] States. It was a good battle overall.”
Later in the conversation, Lotta Zay spoke on the differences between battling in America, and internationally on Don’t Flop. The Long Branch, N.J. native cited the U.K. scene as being centered on skill compared to the American scene, which he calls a “popularity contest.”
“As far as I can see it’s no politics here, man,” Lotta Zay continues. “Everybody that’s considered in the spot that they’re in, deserves to be there. Even Mr Re, he got his shot with me from another match — a tournament winner — and then he battled me last night and he definitely proved that he deserves to be on the stage with me. I feel like everybody here deserves to be where they’re at. That’s the thing that’s very different from back home where it’s a lot of politics. It’s not about skill, it’s about other things. Here it’s not about that. Everybody is just natural skill and talent. [In the United States] it’s favoritism, man. It’s like high school. It’s a popularity contest, man. It’s not really about the skills, man.”
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