While on the red carpet outside of the Belasco Theater in downtown Los Angeles before FCMG/FilmOn’s “Ether” event earlier this month, BattleRap.com spoke with Watts, Calif. battle rapper Daylyt. During the conversation, Daylyt addressed the reaction he received following his “slave” antic against Pat Stay at King Of The Dot’s “Flatline 3” event just a few weeks earlier.
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“The controversy — not even the controversy but the backlash … I seen it shift,” Daylyt says. “When it happened I seen all the comments like, ‘I hate Daylyt! He’s the worst!’ But when the pay-per-view dropped everybody was like, ‘Daylyt won.’ Exactly how I expected. Pretty much that battle itself it has a very big message inside of it. For the smart people they’ll catch it, [but] for the dumb people they won’t catch it.”
Continuing on a similar theme, Daylyt touched upon the subject of race in battle rap, calling it a “very segregated” culture.
“It’s very segregated,” Daylyt explains. “Battle rap is very segregated. In the Canadian crowd, that antic didn’t work. A lot of people was mad because the crowd was 98 percent white … If that same antic had have been [on] URL vs. Pat [Stay] it would have bodybagged him … I think Cassidy vs. Dizaster is a prime example of a segregated match. You have the more urban community that fuck with what Cassidy do and you have the more other color community that really likes the multis, the rebuttals [and] the heavy freestyling. So it’s segregated. Battle rap is segregated. But I think I break the medium. I’m like a black dude from the hood that do all the stuff that white people do.”
Moving on to his then-upcoming battle against Serius Jones at the Dec. 6 “Ether” event, Daylyt reveals that he had cancelled his tentative battle with Bizarre to end the year on a serious note with no antics.
“For those who don’t know, I had Bizarre first,” Daylyt says. “I actually chose to cancel the battle with Bizarre because I wanted to end the year with a serious battle. I just wanna be serious tonight. I wanna rap and I wanna see how far rapping gets me. I know people [are] used to me doing the fuckery and as much as they hate it they wanna see it, but today I just wanna rap.”
Responding to threats made by Dizaster during a recent interview with BattleRap.com, where the “Ether” headliner warned Daylyt not to perform any nude antics during the event, Daylyt says that he wins even if Dizaster decides to become confrontational, as it will only further propel his name into the media’s eye.
“See this is where Dizaster fails. If I twerk on stage and they decide to beat me up or do whatever, I make WorldStar. And I win, still. Every piece of attention is good for me. Every single piece. It don’t matter if it’s good [or] it don’t matter if it’s bad. It all works for me.”
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