No Jumper - The Sharp Tank Episode 14 w/ Dizaster

Episode Date: March 4, 2022

Sharp is back for an interesting conversation with legendary battle rapper Dizaster! They chop it up about his many milestones, how he expanded battle rap to the world and more! https://www.instagram.com/tha_sharp_one/ https://twitter.com/theonlysharp https://www.instagram.com/mrdizaster/ ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sharp Tank. No jumper. Sharpest, coolest podcast in the world. And today, I got my man disaster in the building, man. What's going on, man? Hey, man, love, man. I appreciate you for sliding through, man. Appreciate you for having me.

So tell me a little bit about yourself. I believe you do battle rap, right? Yeah, yeah. So just an introductory to what we do, you know, just put it for somebody who's not watching the shit. You've just seen how batter rap was back in the day on microphones and people would be in the club. And, you know, it would be like even back to Sugar Hill Gang and just rocking the party better. And then it became actual punches and music.

We took it from there to the acapella. And now we do that worldwide on a crazy level where, you know, we have people from different cities come out. It's almost like the industry. You know, we were on contracts. We got big bags to do battles, big crowds. big crowds, pay-per-view events, sold-out shows, you know what I'm saying?

Have y'all ever had anybody like from overseas come battle, y'all? That's a really good question because that's a great question, man. You got some type of intuition thing because that's, that's... So in 2007, we've done it a bunch of times,

but the main one I'm going to focus on for you is in 2017. And this might fucking blow your mind because, so we found out about in Russia, they battle rap and they get millions of views. Like, I'm talking about, like, grab you and kill you and kill you and kill you, but they're doing it in their language, you know what I'm saying?

Like, but they're fire too. Right. And like they bodying shit out there and they got this dude named Oxymiron. You know what I'm saying? And he's like the top dude out there and he's just a megastar and he wanted to come. He's like Drake out there. You know what I mean? And he decides and he battles too.

So he makes music. He decides to come out here. He comes out here and we have a groundbreaking event here. in Los Angeles, the whole sold-out show. We did 15 million views on YouTube just on that alone. We was on RT television. Yo, check this out. I never even put this out crazy,

but he could even confirm it. Oxymiron could confirm it to do that battle. Because in Russia, they got so much of a political tense thing. He was a big person out there, so they always was worried about the shit that he was going to say. So the government was watching him over there

when he came here. So Putin watched me in that. motherfucker put it that way Vladimir Putin's seen me and oxymir on battle because he big out there that's like you know and they'd be worried about the shit he'd be saying because he's like on a political

well I feel like over there like in places like that I think that's why even people go play like ball overseas and shit like that because you're more loved overseas even with battle rap and you know what I'm saying like just going the appreciation is different like I've always noticed like artists you know not even just battle rappers but artists that go across country

they be or go across the world they're kind of like, you know, shit, I'm making a bigger bag over there. It's more support. There's no hate, you know? And I was about to get to that, like, you know, in your city, ain't nobody wants you to win. And when people come up to you, it's more like, yo, man, they don't even want to give you props like that. It's almost like, yeah, man, I, you know, I, you cool, you're all right. But they really want to tell you, you're incredible, you know what I'm saying?

But they can't. Like, we got this culture here where you just can't give a props to the next man that'll make you look weaker. out there they just don't care you're the american guy are fucking incredible you know you see if i can you know they be on it like no ego type of thing so i think it worked better out like that you know you being in the you being over here in the states and uh battle rapping and shit like that why do you think that there's there's controversy like that there's hate what do you what do you think like what do you all compete and the dude like every the thing is it's like a cultural thing and it's all fused now everybody want to look like the big dog on on online on social

media and it's just like everybody won a piece of the shit and even if you a battler or a rapper the next dude that like sell jewelry now want to compete with you like now my instagram more popping than you i got more rappers and like everybody competing like it's crazy so i think that's what it is just the competition thing and the people out there they're more like fans and they just they look at it like that's a culture we're emulating and these are the real guys from it so when they come around we paid them homage and bro this is all around the world i went to the philippines i went to new So I've battled in New Zealand, Philippines, Australia, Croatia, Lebanon, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Sweden, England.

Damn. I like guns, man. Hey, no, for real, bro. Oh, man, that's funny. When you went over to them places, when you went over to them places to battle. I fucked a lot of bitches is what I did. I'm fucking sure. But when you went over there and you were about to

go, you know, meet these guys. How were you feeling in that moment before you got there? Like, what were you, what were you expecting and versus what you got? I was, I was expecting, like, it was pretty much what I was expecting. It's, it's kind of, you know, we, we created a worldwide culture and everybody influenced by this shit, you know what I mean? So when we meet people, it's kind of like our like stepbrothers type of little stepbrother, you know what I mean? Like, he's swinging and shit, but you have his hand, you put, you have your hand on. his head and he's just doing all this shit but it's cool though he got you know he got he could swing but you know he can't hit you type of shit it's always been but they they really nice but all the

people that battle all over the world they gave me something like to go home with they gave me something i was like damn he's nice as fuck he might have got me right there but you know overall you know we're the teachers of the shit so it's kind of like that the battle the one of the your biggest battles that you probably lost but felt like you win speak on it felt like you won the thing is, sharp people, it's not like the old school days, you know what I'm saying? We need this generation of OGs

to put these young motherfuckers in place. And to be real with you, the whole judging battles and all that shit, everyone's scared to judge of battles. So they promo battles. There's no judges. Everybody go home a winner. It's a participation trophy culture.

I'm telling you, see, to that. See, that saturates it with some bullshit, man. Because you know, outside opinion on this. feel this, okay? How could you ever, like, get greater at your craft or perfect your craft if you don't go through taking some losses? You know what I'm saying? You're going to have to take some losses in anything that you do. So I feel like when they say, hey, they're just handing out, oh, an E for effort fucking a trophy.

That's some bullshit, man. Like, make a motherfucker feel that loss. It's okay to feel that. Man, it's okay to feel that pain for a couple of minutes because guess what, man, it's going to tough in your skin up some and you're going to get out there and you're going to come back 10 times better than ever. You know what I'm saying? You're going to come back 10 times better than ever. man so I don't like when people try to sit there

to me that's a form of enabling 100% I mean you look at it now that feeling you know what it is have you ever had a situation where you were trying to win at something or you were about to be part of something

and you were about to you didn't know whether you're going to be accepted it's almost like an exam or an application for a job almost and you didn't know whether you're going to be accepted that feeling you get from just not the uncertainty of like not knowing if you're going to win or not is gone. So people show up like, yeah, I'm here to

rap. Right. Well, you got to walk into any room with confidence, man. I don't give a fuck if you're going to lose. That's like somebody going and saying, you know, you're about to fight this person. If you're scared, don't even fight. If you're already going to go in it saying I'm going to get my ass whoop, don't even go in it. I hear you on that. But there's still a, there's a line between having that those little butterflies that everybody gets before the battle. Yeah. And that feeling

is the feeling that you need to just, ignore, turn on block and just completely destroy shit. Now, when you just, you don't have much risk, it just loses the competition edge of it. Everyone just becomes soft after a while and sounds the same, which is what's happened. It's watered down. It is becoming like how to industry is.

If somebody hears a formula that works, they use it. You don't feel like that's a piece of the fuel. As you know, those butterflies, you know, that that nervousness? Isn't that a piece of the fuel that's about to make you go out here and really do this for real because you really care about it. It's like fighting. It's like fighting. Ask any of them fighters, bro.

MMA fighters or boxers, they get that little thing until they throw the first punch. That's how it is. You up there, you just, it's that adrenaline. But once you throw the first punch and you start honing in, it goes away,

you know what I'm saying? And that's just the whole feeling of, you know, that pressure, they took a lot of that pressure away to where you just kind of feel like you just coming to have fun because, you and your homie's going to say you won after it. You're just going to walk away like we We won like fuck you and your people

There's more of us so If I was let me say this Because I'm sure me and you We're gonna be friends after this because I like you I fuck with you I'd rather tell you the truth like hey motherfucker You ain't do too good Right you lost

That's good I tell you that as your people see that's the problem With a lot of people man They rather tell somebody what they want to hear Versus what they need to hear Right you know what I'm saying so if I'm talking motherfucker man I see right man Disassette man you lost that shit

church. You need to go back to the drawing board and revamp. You know what I'm saying? And you know what it is? A lot of battlers have created an environment where they can't take that type of criticism. You say that to them and it's like, man, fuck you talk about. Fuck you and your opinion. Like you lost. Like fuck you and your homies. There's no common ground where people want to listen to like, you know, constructive criticism. How do you become greater then? That's a really good question, man. I think that's why a lot of the greats are still around

and we haven't been replaced in battle rap and we've been here for like 15 to 20 years. Yeah. There's a lot of amazing upcoming talent and they're doing great, but we haven't been replaced like that. Yeah. Have you done any,

what battle raps have you done out of here? Like what little tournaments and shit like that you did now here? I've battled people you might be familiar with like cannabis and Cassidy, you know what I'm saying? Who are big rappers, you know what I mean? And things like that. The tournaments that we do, like I've been in crazy tournaments.

the World Rap Championships, which was in 2007, you know what I'm saying? You probably wouldn't hear about it because it was a while ago, and it was kind of more of an international thing, again, what you was talking about. You know, the Australians and the Brits and all them, they rap in too. They got punchlines, and I know you laugh. It's some good shit, man. Some of them are really nice, you know, man. So, you know.

Do you believe, just like how they did break dance, and do you believe that they can turn battle rap into a sport? Yeah, I mean. Like an actual sport. Like an actual sport. It's been talked about, you know what's the difference, though, between sports and battle rap is if you look at it, sports has a cap on the age limit. So once you get to, like, a certain age, the clubs ain't going to want to fucking sign you no more. And you kind of on your way out in your late 30s, you know what I'm saying?

Rapping is a mental, is a mental sport. And the older you get, the wiser and smarter you get. So if you stay focused, you become a lot more intelligent, you know what I'm saying? And if you look at today, and I said this before, man, the best rappers in the world right now are the older ones. The younger ones are putting out the best music maybe, but I'm talking about rapping-wise, actual bars. They're the older generation.

You're actually putting out an album, you're saying, like people who are putting out albums. Yeah, that's different because they got a machine behind them, and they're in the, you know, they look good, they're in their young, you know, they got the videos and everything's right for them. They're more of stars. But you look at the older generation. and all them, like the hip hop heads that we came from, from Wu Tang to, you know, name it, all the real heads, you know. Yeah, yeah.

Even Melly Mell still around looking like a monster. Shut on Milly Mell, man. Melly Mell like, he's like the Changsung of the rap game. You got to see him at the end. He had demolished you. And he's like, he's a monster on all fronts physically and mentally. And it shows you like the lyricist that that's the real, you know, you look at Method Man. Method Man is still sharp as far.

fucking hell, you know what I'm saying? He'll kill you in a battle and beat your ass. You know what I'm saying? One of my favorite rappers like that, you know, coming with Method, man, is Red Man. I like his style, man. I love Red Man. I like, who doesn't love Red Man? I think Red Man's the only rapper we could say on Earth that has zero, zero haters or

somebody that don't like him. Yeah, if you don't like them, you just, you're making shit up. For real. I like how the man, I like how the man will come into the fucking studio. He'll come in and do an interview. He'll have a grocery bag. And they'd be like, what's in your grocery bag? Oh, man, my joints, my earphones.

He'd be like, man, I got an extra charger in there for my phones. You know what I'm saying? He'd come in with a grocery bag. This dude, don't go buy no louie bags, no nothing. Simple man, man. I never forget. I saw him on MTV Cribs. And when they came, he had a fucking apartment.

He had like a little townhouse, right? And he invited him. He says, come on in. He's a real dude like that. He told his home boy, man, move up off the flow. When his people would sleep on the flow, he was like, man, move out the way for me. You know what I'm saying? Then he went into the room and he was like,

get this where I keep my, he had a dollar box. And pretty much it was a fucking, it was just a Nike shoebox and it's just full of ones. He's like, it's just my dollar box. When I need a few dollars, I just come in here and grab me a little handful and I go run to the store. It's some rappers, it's some rappers that really just stayed true to who they were, man. They wasn't really even getting the money. They never changed with the money. They stayed the same.

And he like, you know, I don't have like a crazy funny story like that with Red Man. But when I met him, you know, Red Man, is just really in touch with the shit. Like, he watches battles. He knows where all the real shit is. Like, he's just really from that cloth. When I met him, he was just like, hella excited. Like, yo, disaster.

And I was like, man, fucking Red Man, you know? And we smoked in that joint, you know, I ain't go blunt, by the way. I ain't going to forget that shit. That shit was a moment. You know what I'm saying? He's just a funny dude. We was laughing the whole fucking time. I don't think I stopped laughing for a second.

He's just that type of dude. Just like he is, he translates on his records. We need that in hip hop. funny raps again and shit like you know him and ludicrous had that shit on lock the the dopest shit that I saw was when the I think it was the method man versus red man right what I loved was how when red man was rocking it they're the best he rocking it fucking he had like a cape on or some shit like that and I saw method man just come up and just fan it for him yeah yeah that's just how you know like the motherfuckers is really in tune like they really fuck with each other you

know what I'm saying so it's just like I like I said man I I respect the culture. I love the, oh yeah, there we go. Speaking of Method Man and Red Man. Yeah, speaking of, see, I got to sit my ass up for this one. Yeah, I got to sit my ass up for this one. Shout out to my dog tattoo, man, for, you know, putting this together right here. Like that motherfucker up, boy.

I should have got a way bigger lighter for this. Let me use yours. Go ahead. Let me use yours. There we go. Come on. Lighten up, man. Let's get out.

I'll get to that motherfucker too in just a second. And a loop. God damn I'm gonna burn this No Jumper carpet I was a motherfucker hitting Oh yeah Like that sum of a bitch up

Oh yeah This shit crazy So yeah What was we saying How high? How high were we about to hit? Man Who was we talking how high

They did a how high too Didn't they? The one that they just did Kind of bombed Right? Yeah not I don't know if we're supposed to go in on it like that. Let's talk about it.

No, let's talk about it, man. You know, they fucked up from the casting, man. Like, you know this. Like, come on, man. We ain't tried to see that shit, man. I mean, like, maybe the younger generation, like, oh, my God, you know, little yadi's there. You know, he's fucking amazing.

Like, I got a poster of him. But, like, you know, the real motherfuckers in the culture, like, where the homie's at? Right. Do you think that, um, do you believe that when they try to do, like, they try to do like a part two or part three. And they don't get the same actors.

Do you believe it's because they didn't want to pay them enough? I don't know what the... Maybe it could be that. Like the actors get so big that they come back. Like we ain't doing the same bullshit y'all. They did do us the first time. And then they go, yeah, we are. We'll just replace you guys.

Right. Well, you know, Chris Tucker, he said he didn't want to do Friday, the last Friday of the month. That's supposed to be getting filmed. I heard something about it, but he said he didn't want to do it because, you know, he didn't got that bag with Jackie Chan, man. He got that rush hour money, man. He touching a whole different demographic of money.

So I kind of understand, but come on, Tuck. Stay true to your roots too, man. It's okay, man, to come knock out a last one, bro. Do it for the people. I hate it when they do any remakes damn near, just, you know what I'm saying, let alone a remake without the fucking original cast. But I'll be honest with you, this Bel Air shit, Bel Air is pretty hard

The new one? Yeah The new one that they got I just seen like I seen like an episode of it And I seen like a bit Bigger portion of it That shit is hard

It seems really entertaining To be honest with you I saw a little clips of it And um Just didn't give me the same feel, bro I mean let's talk about it It's not gonna be the same feel But they seem to be the only people

To ever make a remake and remake of something of that magnitude and kind of get an okay. You know what I'm saying? It's hard to get an okay in that scenario. Like, you know what I'm saying? RIP, Uncle Phil, you're replacing like really serious staples that people are not going to want to see the replacement of that,

just off GP. That shit is very hard to, you know, I've said it before, man. Some people play the role so damn good to where they can't even play another role in anything else. Like you've noticed some people get stuck in that type of shit. Yeah, because you get. get used to them in that role.

Like, ain't nobody want to see Keanu Reeves and no fucking comedy. No. Like, we're not trying to see that. We want to see you shooting shit up. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I can't see, like I said before, about Kevin Hart. Love him to death, man.

He's a funny fucking man. I think he's underrated, too. But I can't see. I just don't see him in like a serious, I'm talking about off the dribble. Kids got kidnapped. Like, it's real. Wife's fucking, they didn't took him all the way, like on some taking shit. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I can't see him playing any type of role like that. these. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you get kind of, when you're, when you're, I mean, you can jump out of it, I guess, but it takes time. Who kind of did that recently? I'm not going to be able to remember. I smoke too much weed, but somebody did that recently. I'm like, damn, he could do these roles too? I forgot who it was, but it's like rare. Yeah. Do you believe, and back to back to the battle rap, do you believe there's some people that just got to get stuck in a style and they plateau and they don't really ever, you know, get more diverse as they go on. I don't believe it. We know this for a fact. This happens on a, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a,

constant phenomenon and this shit you know what I'm saying people just I think it's lack of man this shit crazy I think it's lack of motivation you ask me

and get some of this good weed in your life it might be something I don't know what the fuck it is I don't know what it is hey man I just I look at it like this some people are going to get greater

at things and some people are going to plateau So I feel like you got to be the best judge of character of you to figure out, okay, is this working? Am I really making it? Do I have a foreseeable future? You know, decisions, decisions. But you got to start to become a master of that for yourself, you know, and be like, all right, this ain't it for it. I mean, in the battle world, people don't be thinking on a business level, like, especially with what we got right now with no jumper.

We got the partnership with no jumper. We got a podcast. I got my God tier podcast. You know what I'm saying that I'm going to be doing with my partner. And, you know, that type of stuff is really going to just put us in a different space, you know what I'm saying? And, like, people don't think about all the other things. We're locking in battles that are on a magnitude that hasn't been seen before. This next one I'm about the dudes versus Asasino, who's from Mexico, right?

Ossino gets about 50 to 60 million views on some of his battles on YouTube. Damn. It's devastating. It's absolutely devastating. What would be the time frame in that, like, 50, 60 million and what type of time frame? To be honest with you, he doesn't do it like right away, but it's like, a year or something. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Like that's still a lot. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like within the year, 60 million people on YouTube alone will see some shit. Those are fucking numbers. Catastrophic. Catastrophic numbers. I mean, fuck. So, you know what it is?

And it's this other stuff that we're doing, like even me setting up the next battle. You know, we're going to be back here. We're going to set no jumper on fire when we get this next one done because the next one, the next one is done with somebody that no jumper is familiar with. And it's going to be some serious fucking. shit and it's man I just keep trying to you know keep it together man I don't want to

let it out the cat out the bag but you know as we move along you go see we're we're out of here we go into the stars with this shit like we're not just aiming for the you know millions of YouTube views we're aiming for the millions of dollars right I mean shit at the end of the day

you know do what you love but you can make some money on it too why the fuck not right this comes from this comes from someone who's been in the shit for 20 years not making the right money. So I did this shit for free probably for the first 10. It's some work

that got put in blood, sweat, and tears that I want back. Chunks of flesh that I need return to me. Yeah, this is, and see, this is the part now. We've kicked the shit and this is the part where it gets real. See, on the Sharp Tank. And I want to know those first 10 years, give me

a rundown of what the fuck it was. Let's fucking go. But what the fuck it was like, man. People getting clapped at events. homies dying me flying to fucking other states i'll even start with all the stories you know i'm saying it was so when we first started this shit man it was so gutter and just on the street and we was just doing it just on the corner and then we started telling people you know this is some real shit we gonna throw events and it was just little holes in the wall type of shit you know i mean we had a thing called bubblers up in san fernando valley right across the street

from Northridge University. And it was a place that sells bongs. You know what I mean? It was a bong shop. Bublars was crazy. They had like $20,000 bongs in there, and they used to host battles every weekend. You know what I mean?

That's dope. It was crazy. It was fire. The winner of these tournaments, these little mini tournaments would get a crazy $10,000, $5,000 bond, depending on what, you know what I'm saying?

And it was in the beginning days of people blowing crazy glass, by the way. We're talking about 03. This was like 03. So you're seeing, all these new styles and these crazy-ass roars and, you know, these different, like, it was crazy. So we would win these bongs and we would flip them. That's how we would be making money.

Like, I'd get a bong and just flip it. And that's how I was making money off these battles and just not having the job and doing all this shit, right? Right. That night, you know, me and my boy, No Can Do were supposed to meet in the finals type of thing. We've been battling for a while through this thing. And it wasn't like, there was like semifinals, but we knew it was going to be me and him in the final. when we was up there, some little white boy comes into the parking lot, right? First, before he came into the parking lot, some essays pulled up.

You know what I'm saying? The essays pulled up and they started marking everybody out. Like, it was just on site, just telling people, you know, what's up, fool and all this shit, like just, just on fucking tent, right? Just coming to record. Yeah, yeah. Didn't want to come back. Hopped out the lowrider asking people all types of shit, like just, and they posted up, right?

So after a while, you know, people were doing their thing, and this white boy was driving He looked like Malcolm in the middle, bro. It was the craziest shit I've ever seen in my life. He had fucking listen, bro. He had four inch thick glasses, bro. He looked like the typical... Thank you for this, Lord. He looked like the most typical nerd you've ever seen, right?

And he's driving his car in, and he's trying to pull into the parking lot, the driveway of the parking lot in the plaza, and the essays are just standing in the road getting high. You know what I'm saying? And he's trying to get into the plaza because he's still halfway on the road, his car. You know what I'm saying? So there's traffic, and he's trying to get in. So he honks at them, be, beep, and they just turn around and they just look at him, right? All right.

I'll tell you why I'm setting the story up because it's a crazy-ass story. I am fucking listening. Come on, man. I'm all ears. So he tries to pull in the whip. The essays pull up on him and they're like, what's up, fool? And they like punch cuts through the window, right? And just start punching him through the window and they pull him out of the window in front of everybody.

Turn his car off. They like turned his car off. Pulled him out of the window. Beat dog shit. down this kid's leg in front of everybody. I'm talking about. They stomped him into a pancake damn near. He got up all fucked up, got in the car, backed out.

And then he just left. And then he left, right? What do? Church? Do that again? What he did? Backed out. Hey, you're the first person to get me to repeat some shit like that.

I usually say I ain't doing that again. Hey. What the fuck was the, what was the beef? What was the problem? So check this out, man. And it's just they honked at them and they, they was set tripping, bro. They was tripping on everybody, right? And they was throwing up their gang that was doing a bunch of shit.

Yeah, that's regulated. So within two minutes, the cops are in the parking lot. Like, I'm talking about two minutes they're there. And the essays bounce after they stomped them out, which was crazy. They stomped them into oblivion and they left, right? The cops were there within like two minutes. They're like, what happened to this guy and all this shit? There was blood everywhere and all the shit.

They were talking about they told us this happened. So the cops left, the essays came back. Yeah. Right? and this is where it got crazy. Well, see, before you go, I thought that you know, shit, when they had first left,

where I figured they was going to stick around for any tea and cookies. So when they left, all right, that's, I was going to say, that sounds like some G shit. Yeah, no, they came back. They came back. Like, what the,

shrew-r-r-r-r-up, and they came right back, parked their shit up and just started getting high again and smoking and drinking in the whip. And they were just posted up, playing music loud as fuck, just being gangsters.

Yeah, got to be an obnoxious thought to the- to everybody, right? Like, they pushed around a lot of people. I've seen it, too. Yeah. So, um, so I'm sitting against the wall,

and this is how it all starts. I'm sitting against the wall. And I used to smoke cigarettes, so I'm smoking a cigarette, just relaxing because I know about the battle in a little bit, right? Right, right. Call me your nerves. And then,

and then, dude pulls up, like, from underneath me because it's like an alley behind me, and I'm, like, leaned against the wall. Dude just, like, leans up from under me. Like, hat down, just braids coming down the hat, just there's nothing it's a shadow i can't see the face nothing just gloves he's like hey cah hey what the niggas that jump the white boy at i'm like oh i i'm like hey man i'm just who i'm just smoking a cigarette like you know i don't know what you talk about he's like hey cuh like to hey man you got to

me right now cuh like i was like man hey man and he starts asking a bunch of people questions like he runs down the line yeah hey where the mexicans at cuh like just tripping where the mat where they yet like they kept those saying that and everybody was just frozen and scared not saying shit to them he walks down a couple of fucking walks down a couple of more steps and he's like y'all ain't gonna tell me where they at cut he said fuck this then he jumps on like the bench that was right there and baca baca just starts dumping into the crowd of people so the people are all right there posted up and he's just licking off shots into the crowd and the crowd broke so i'm all the way in the back and I'm seeing the shit.

Now I'm just posted behind the wall watching it. The crowd breaks and it's the essay's in the car. Like, and they're right there in the car. And the crowd breaks off. There they go right there. And they just ran up, dog. It was the crazy shit. It was like, uh, like I seen it like a movie because when they all started moving that way,

I started moving like I started finding room to move a certain way. And I was moving that way and I seen it, bro. He lit up like the windshield. Look like when you see it in the movie. Yeah. You know, it went up in a straight line. Yeah. Like he hit the bottom of the windshield.

And it was like five shots, a straight line up, not like to the side. It was like, duck, knock, knock. And he hit, like, I knew the passenger seat. He was gone. The other dude got up and just started booking it. And he hit the corner, and you seen the dude follow him around the corner. You know what I'm saying? And he followed him.

And this was right in front of Cupid's hot dogs. It's right there. So he follows him around the. corner and you just see it and it was dark so you just see flashes come from the from the alley it's like you see the flashes and then everything went quiet everyone bounced my car was parked where that happened so i had to walk over there so i'm thinking like damn are they still there are they so i'm just like fucking over there slowly and then i get to where the dudes at and he's laid out on the floor and this is a crazy story man i'm glad i'm telling you this because this is the most time i've ever been traumatized by

some shit kind of like a therapist bro yeah yeah it's the most day this is the most Hey, this. They kind of do, man. They treat me like a therapist I noticed on the Sharp Tank. This is some traumatizing shit. Talk to me, brother. Let it out. So I'm trying to get this, I'm trying to get this fucking joint to stay lit with this lighter.

Man, you know this shit, man. It's all good. So look. Take your time. So I put, so I'm walking towards my shit and I'm kind of jogging, you know what I mean? Right. I see him laid out on the floor and everybody at this point is like gone and other people are running. What, the essay?

Yeah, they're all. gone. You know what I'm saying? And there's just dude home. No, I mean the essays on the floor about all the people are gone. As I'm saying, the essay got hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the other dudes in the car, like, dead for show. It was three of them that got hit, but only one of them survived, I think.

So basically... Yeah, what the fuck was he shooting with a big old phone? Bro, this dude was... It had to be in, because, you know, I'm from Lebanon. I've heard a lot of fucking bullets, man. That shit was, uh... Probably was dumbing like a 40. Bac. Sounded like a 19-11 to be honest, because I got one, and that's what

it sounded like. I mean, well, was he like this when you saw him? I don't remember. No, no, no, no,

he had a, it was a handgun. He probably had like a 40 on him or something. It was a handgun with like extended clip and all that. Yeah, for sure.

So I get to him. He's laid out on the floor and I see him on the floor. So I didn't tell you this part of the story, but in the beginning they was talking shit to me. So this was the one dude

that was saying some shit to me earlier, you know what I'm saying? And I just kind of, I didn't care at that point. I just wanted to make sure he was good, you know what I mean? Because I thought he was dead pretty much. So I've seen him laid out and there's just nothing on him.

Like, he's just no, there's just no blood or no bullets. There's no bullet wounds. There's nothing right there. And he's just laid out. And there's like, like, like beer around him or like a broken 40 or some shit like right next to him. And he's just laid, laid down. So I just start tapping his shit. Like I just start hitting him.

You know what I'm saying? Like, just, you're good? Yeah, yeah. I was like, you good? I was like, you good, bro? I was like, you good, you good. So I told him a couple times, yeah, you're right. I'm stupid for that because I'm going to tell you what happened next.

So I kept on asking if he was good and, like, he was not moving and not doing nothing. So like, here, I'm going to put this down real quick. What? So, like, I'm like, yo, the last time I kind of just hit his chin, like, I was just like, yo, you good? Like, trying to wake him up. and I moved his head, bro. And like when I moved his head, it turned out the whole back of a skull was blown out. And he was holding all the blood in with his head on the floor, bro.

So when I moved his shit, his whole brain came out like in front of me, like a puddle. It was like a, and I smelled it. I smelled it. And it was just an immediate. What it smelled like? Just I can't ever describe it to you again. I can never describe it. It was just a horrible foul sten.

And like I just, I ran so fast, fool. Like, I just, as soon as I smelled it, my stomach just went, like, I just had a whole thing where it felt like I was going to faint damn near. Like, I felt completely disgusted, utterly disgusted out of my mind. Like, I just didn't think I'd be exposed to something like that. It's like somebody making you a surgeon, like, in a split second. Like, you, shit that surgeons do not everybody can handle that. Touches you a little different than a horror film.

Yeah, it was just, what? I just, I ran so fast dog I was running, running, right? And there was still people like running up front, like trying to get the fuck out of there. There was people lost, not knowing where to go. There was these two girls I remember standing there crying and I

grabbed both of them like come with me. Oh yeah, you do a cape on real quick. You still knew how to do that or even through the bullshit through that cape smooth the fuck on. Come with me. Let me take you to safety. let me help

so I'm not letting me help no they came with me they're like please take us and like they was in the I had them in the car they were in the car crying their eyes off I'm like where do y'all want me to drive and like it was just crazy

my homie one of my boys stayed behind the place was littered with fucking cops and media and the news and fucking helicopters and it was just crazy. On this story. That was a big story in the valley, man. You'll look it up.

It was like 03 or 04. I forgot. 03, Bubblers. It was a plaza right there in front of the... Bubblers still open? No, no. Hell not. Man, that shit got shut down immediately.

But as soon as that happened, like everything out there got shut. Shit just got weird as hell. It was right in front of the Northridge University, bro. It's right across the street from it. It's a place where shit like that don't be happening. The valley's a little unpredictable, though. A lot of people will be like, oh, you're from the valley. It's not that crazy.

But hey, it should be really. randomly happening in the valley and it's nuts when it does. They're walking up on people. Happens. But motherfuckers that be, you know, might be from gangs or might be, you know, a predominant player in the game, you know, they feel like they be safe downtown shopping somewhere and a motherfucker could come down there, man, and come ride on you, broad daylight. And L.A., it's Melrose or wherever you're at, Beverly Hills, Rodeo.

Like, I mean, I don't think. But, yeah, that was a really crazy situation that we experienced in about right. Because of that, you know what I did? I stopped battling, like, randomly out here for a while, like, probably like two, three months, and then I was like, fuck this. I'm coming back to battling. But you know what? L.A. is too gang banged out. Nobody here wants to do hip-and-hop shit. Because that's what people don't know about our shit. Yeah, because motherfuck-lew is probably around here. Yeah, because the motherfuckers, probably around here. The difference why we was into New York, the New York scene when we were younger is because they understood that it was a more hip-hop thing and it was more about the art. Over here in L.A., they never had respect for it. All our house parties used to get shot up by fucking gangbangers because it was just like, you see. You see. say somebody disses somebody and somebody, boom, everything getting shot up. Like, it was never know.

It's like, we don't give a fuck about hip hop blood or cuss. Like it was always like that. Like, fuck hip hop. Like, nobody cared about that shit back then. Now you see there's more of a cross of the gang culture and a lot of people that are hip hop in the gang culture. You know what I'm saying? But back then, it was like, you were a rapper.

Like, we don't give a fuck about you. And it just was that environment for us. So I was ironically enough because Chicago wasn't even crazy like that back then. You know the story that I was talking about earlier, like when people walk up on Broad Daylight, it reminded me of a Chicago story. This man was, I guess he was on downtown. He's downtown

State Street, somewhere downtown Chicago and motherfucker walked right up on him, man, and blew his head off, man, broad daylight. On State Street, downtown Chicago, like, it's getting close. Chicago's crazy as fuck. But back then, before it became Shotrack, we're talking like 03 or something. You know, I mean, it was

it was still gutter in some places, but I found, like, I was researching on the internet and I found this crazy-ass hip-hop festival with battle rappers from all over the country coming in,

like 150 of them that have to go through a tournament to make it to the end. And I flew out there with like $60 in my pocket, not knowing where the fuck I was going to stay. You know what I'm saying?

A book bag with a fucking, you know, a notepad in it, my toothpaste and deodorant and just, just out there, you know what I'm saying? And I was just vagabonding it. I was sleeping and couch surfing,

just out there just being a homeless motherfucker so I can make it to this thing. And when I made it to this thing, I made it to the semifinals of out of all like 150 people. I made it to like the fourth place or whatever. Yeah. And it was pretty crazy. They did an article about me in the Chicago Tribune when I was a fucking 19 year old, you know what I mean?

Had it feel amazing. It was, and what's crazy about remembering the article is there was part of it that they quoted me. And in the quote, I said, I love the Chicago scene and I'm here to experience real hip hop because L.A. is full of gangbanger shit. I was like, it's too banged out and nobody wants to rap anymore. So I wanted to come here to experience the real, you know, art form. And that's like, and they put that in the fucking article. Like, they're like, he loves Chicago more than L.A. And they did a lot of that with us because, okay, here's how you know what time I did this, the time frame. It was when Ice Cube.

common we're beefing. That's when I was out there. I don't even recall the fucking time when they were beefing. I think it was 04 or something. It might have been both three-old. Common and ice cube? Yeah. What were they beefing about?

Man, it was crazy too. It almost got on some fuck the East Coast and West Coast shit. Like it was, I forgot what it started over. But they had, man, it was crazy because they brought me up on stage and they're like, we have disaster from Los Angeles. And they basically showed a picture of Ice Cube before I came on stage. and then they have me battling in the Chicago dude and they're like we have him

representing and they're half common and everyone's like wow and they was like boo fuck you and ice cube type of shit they like bunched me up with cube and like they just got me up out of there that's why I lost in the semifinals I really beat that motherfucker like he's he looked like Homer Simpson you ain't no way you beating me stupid motherfucker

I've always I've always respected the four elements and if motherfucker knows what that is you got to been in the game of the four elements man what was that breaking, rapping, DJing, DJ, tagging. You know what I'm saying?

The four elements. And it was always very, so I've always respected those, man. I can pretty much do all of them except dance. Hey, man, you got to go get you. You go take some dance classes, man. I can't be, boy, man. I'll leave it to them, man. Some of them are incredible.

We want to bring that back to be real with you. My boy, Nathaniel Gray, him and some of his, yeah, him is from L.A., you'm saying. He does a lot of screenwriting. things like they're like he knows out of right these bad ass and writing stories short short movies and shit like that but him and a few of his colleagues that's why i was talking about breakdancing they make it in a sport because they just like made it like to where it can be in the olympics right so that's why i'm like why the fuck can't if if breakdancing can make it into the olympics why the fuck can't battle rap that's pretty it makes no sense to me i mean i'm just asking i like that

i like i like how you know what it's a sport It is because, in a way it is because, bro, you physically need to be up there and you need to be in shape. It's a sport here. You will get run down too. You got to be in shape. If you don't like your breath control and just how you move in your energy, bro, you got to all be right. Trust me, you can't be all fucking like just sloppy and out of shape and just not taking care of yourself and perform at your best. You ain't going to.

You're going to battle somebody who's fucking active, energetic as fuck at the top of their shit. They're going to maw you down. Let me get that letter. I don't know where I put the one you gave me. I'm one of them dudes, man I turn lighters. It's like I put them into a vortex. I don't know where they go when they come around me.

That's that black hole. That's that yellow sushi right there. You're about to light up. It's good. Yeah. Taste that right there. It's good. Yeah, I think that like I said, man,

I really believe that they can put that as a sport. I don't see why not. And like you said, like how you just broke it down real quick. You was like, motherfuckers think that shit easy. Try it. Try it. If they want to downplay you like say, oh, he's just a fucking.

He's just a man. that just speaks words. He's just talking shit. But do you understand how hard, like, to go and figure out this man's moves, figure out his life? You spend that whole time. It's like conditioning,

like you said, like fighting. It is. You watch all the fights this motherfucker's doing. You watch where his weaknesses are, as strong points are. You know what I'm saying? And you incorporate all that when you come see about them. I think I watch a lot of that shit on like A-Hat.

Is that what that? Oh, that's good, man. You know about that, man. You know about that. I like that. You got some battle culture to you, man. Yeah, I like that. Hey, man, I like that shit.

Yeah, yeah. I ain't going to say, I like a- I've done a battle on there. Have you? Yeah, versus a guy named Cali Smooth. And it's amazing, man. You should watch it, man. I'm going to fucking good, man.

Disaster versus Callie Smooth. Yeah, we did an A hat in Los Angeles, though. They usually are up in Vegas, but we did a Los Angeles branch. And it was pretty fired, man, you know. But you write about that, man. You got a good eye for this shit because you conditioning yourself, right? It's down to the point where, If you stop, like, so you're preparing yourself, right?

You're conditioning for the battle. Once the battle's over, dog, two weeks later, you're not as strong as you were that week. Because you're like in the, once you condition yourself up to this point where your memory is like a muscle and it's holding on to all the bars. After you let them go, two, three weeks later, you just forget all of it and it starts breaking down and you don't have it no more. When you sit there and you're like, yeah, I'm about to get ready to break this motherfucker down real quick. Like, I'm going to have to really get him. and then you find out some information about them that you'd be like, damn, I don't want to say this,

but I know this was going to help me win. That has happened to me, and I fucking ranked out. For real, man. And I lost the battle because of it. Because you didn't want to, he was like, that's kind of fucked up. We went, we went, got haircuts together. Who was this with? Who was this? Pat stay.

And we went, like, it was like the, like, the days before it, probably like a day or two before the event. We got, like, hell of close. We were just hanging out. We went and got a hair. cut together type of shit. Like we were just chilling and talking. He was just such a cool dude.

And I had some serious shit in my round that's just no going back from. You should have. And I was just like, I can't do this to him. And then I even sacrificed myself so much that I tried to rewrite the shit last second. And I fucked the whole thing up. I was stuttering.

It didn't come out. But I had to learn. You went kind of soft. I went soft. I'm okay with saying that. I'm not calling you a song, man. No, but it's okay. But at that time,

Trust me, it's okay. I did. I've acknowledged you that already. You did. Yeah, most definitely. You should have hug that man after it was done. End his motherfucking ass. And then, hey, man, come here, bro.

You know it's still all love. I hated to have to say that shit to you. But, you know, it's the game, though, man. And I've watched so many people, like, with battle rap, you know, pressure bus pipes. My fuck you in the gut. I've watched something to be like, man, fuck this shit. Like, what's up on me? Like, we can get in here on the stage.

guys too. Yeah, we can get it in right here on the stage. I'm like, fuck, bro. That shit ain't getting serious. Like, damn battle rack? Unfortunately, Sharp, I've lost my control like that before. Yeah. And I fired on someone in a battle. Tell me about that time. I don't want to talk about it. No, we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about it. Hey, man, you're paying me by that. You know what I'm saying? So let's do this shit right for real. When did this happen? Are you? You know, He even got to mention the person. Fuck the name.

The name, no offense to that person, but just the name's not important. I just want to hear the situation and how that, what it built up to make you like, fuck this. I'm done with this shit. I'm about to sock him up. Like, I don't care no more. Fuck rap right now. It was kind of a situation where we already had like bad blood and we kept trying to fix it and kept on. People got in the middle of it at the end right before the battle happened because we were really tense leading up to that battle.

He was like drawing pictures of me with my tooth knocked out telling me he was going to slap the fuck out of me. Doing all types of crazy ass shit and he's hit a lot of battles. Did you kind of ignore him as it was happening to you? No, I kind of boo it or did you entertain it? No, I entertained it. I was like, I kept on saying shit to him like just rap or stop acting tough. I was just saying random shit to him that's not too crazy. That's not too crazy though.

I wasn't. That's actually kind of like accurate. And he was getting more. He was getting really more mad about that. You know what I'm saying? So then one of the homies jumped in the middle of it was like, come on, man, like this can't happen. You know, I mean, one of the hummys from Harlem, he called in.

And, like, we was just like, all right. He's like, man, y'all can't do that out there and all this shit. And I was like, nah, you're right, man, we got to do. You know, I was like, he's like, he's good, you good, just have a great battle. This is going to be amazing. So I just had all my rounds memorized and I was ready to go. I thought we was going to have a great battle. But what happened was since there was prior bad blood in the battle, there was a point where I was just like, man,

I kind of just started. like blanking you know what I mean like at the end of my round and I was just like I should punch you in your face right now I just I just said that like but it was still you couldn't tell whether it was fucking part of my round or not you know I mean but you could kind of tell because I just didn't follow up with a bar right away so I was like I should punch you in your face right now but before I could even follow up he's like oh yeah like and he kind of it just went and I think it was the fact that if we didn't have so much tension before that he would have never said anything to me and then a fight would have never happened maybe you guys you guys you guys

I should have went and got your haircuts and working out. I'm like, you get him to get up to do it. You know what's so? That's good. But look, that's good. We were friends, though. Like, it was crazy because I think, like, me and him are really similar. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I don't think he's like, do you think? I don't hate him or think like he's a sucker or anything like that. I just feel like we just were too alike. He had his opinion about the situation. Did people drive y'all to do that? Or was this something that you're genuinely. I feel like a lot of it was the people, bro.

Like, from his end, too, like people. like people okay the reason why he didn't let it go too after is because the people were like how did this happen to you like you're the you're the bully of the world and you let this arab dude punch you in your face like how you don't do that he just couldn't take that talk like he just i feel like that bothered him and made him want to just you know always like re-intertain it but i feel like him himself didn't really care after neither did i but people made me mad too they would make me bring it up because people would constantly be like you a sucker you a sucker like every day i would get that from his side. So I would come back and say shit and it just kept on coming alive. But during the

battle, he was just, when I said, like, I should punch you in your face right now, he's just like, do it. And that's what I was just like, oh, man, like, damn. And then he's just like, yeah, like, I don't know how he doesn't understand that. You felt like he was getting tested. I don't know how he, yeah, I don't know how he doesn't in front of all my people in L.A. too, like in front of all my people. He's doing it. Like, so he's just like, I'm testing you in front of everybody. I was talking shit to you or watching you. Yeah, it's like, it's like, damn, he really put me on the spot. And I even told him, hey, don't say that.

So that was the first time I said. I was like, don't say that. Because I'm going to do it if you say that. And he's like, oh, you will, then do it. And then he went to say do it again. And that's when I just. Yeah, I clipped. And then the homies jumped in, right?

And since the homies are gang affiliated, he tried to, he went online and started saying he got jumped by a certain gang in L.A., you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like saying this, this gang. this gang jumped me and he's online saying the shit and just tied it into me and made it look like I set him up and brought them there to fuck him up. And he did so much crazy shit to where it just kept on getting like weird out of control, but it should have never went there.

It was just a fucked up situation that got out of control because there's too much testosterone in the room. That's really the most simple and honest answer. Both of us are hot-headed. I didn't want to come out looking like a sucker neither than he did he when I said that to him. And we ended up fighting. It's only because we're hell of similar, I think that happened. You know what I mean?

And that was the biggest shit that's, they ended up on TMZ. Like, it's so big. That's why I don't like entertaining it again, because I don't want him to feel like I keep on rehashing this, even though I brought it up today, but it was kind of a reflex when I said that. I didn't want to go into it. I wanted to go past it, but now we like went into it. It's just, to be real with you, I feel like it helped both of us in the long run. In the beginning, it fucked us up.

You know what I mean? It ruined a lot of shit for both of them. us but in a long run he ended up like starting his own podcast and it's pretty fucking successful you know what I'm saying and he's in a better space than he's been it you know I mean but the sharp check though this the sharp tank bitch I think I think I think that situation just what was just one of those battle rap stories that just you know I think it just happened because batter rap is such a fucking volatile place and just it's up and down with the emotions and just it's crazy bro we didn't even get that we didn't say nothing crazy to each other and really

disrespect each other like that it's just kind of just ended up there on some manship but to be real with you battle rap you haven't really fucked up shit in it where people should get shot over it and sometimes it doesn't happen you know we didn't even talk to each other like that like people talk about each other's kids and shit like that like you know they we violate each other's dead family members you know just like what you see going on to chicago smoking packs of such and such like they're doing that shit in batter wrap too you know fuck you're dead homie fuck this fuck that true but i never thought that like you know once the cameras went off for motherfuckers you know got away from the microphone or motherfuckers moving around i thought that you know shit

you go home at the end of the day not once y'all walk outside the club now it's about to really start getting that now we're about to really get into it because that's how the fuck you felt that's how it's going to get took and people put their they need to put their pride to the side man when you're when you're battle rapping understand that it's a base up man it's a battle rap. That man don't really feel like that about you. He just had to say that shit. I'd be saying shit though. To be real with you, I'd be saying shit that's outrageous as fuck. Man, I violate every and any type of person on earth. I've violated everybody. You know what I'm saying? Anybody that's from anywhere should feel some type of offense to everything that I've said

throughout my career. But it's just fucking entertainment. It's like watching a movie. You ain't about to go tell, you know, Denzel or Samuel Jackson about every single person. They bitch slapped and shot in every movie. And you know what I'm saying? Like, it's just it's just entertainment. It's content, you know what I mean? You know what I always notice, man, that this might be a little off. It just came to my mind. I just, because I believe it is going to relate. You know, I've always noticed, man, like, motherfuckers, you can do good for 364 days out of year, right?

And fuck up once. Listen, you can do good for 364 days out the year. Nobody ever say shit, pat you on the back, said he proud of you, nothing. You do bad for that 365, that one day they talk about you. you for a lifetime. Oh, God, bro. They talk about that one bad day for a lifetime. So to go back to your man's that you say like, yeah, I don't, I don't mean to dwell on it. But you know what? Y'all need to come together, man, and squash that shit. Man, we've tried a bunch of times. We even tried to do like a- Fuck the people, though, because it's the

people that kind of like, because look, I'm not saying that your futures weren't fruitful, but you felt like, you felt like you kind of missed out of some opportunities. I was trying to get money with him, bro. I was trying to get money with him and do like a boxing thing, like where we just made people pay for pay-per-view and shit like that. We tried to facilitate that a couple times. And it wasn't even his fault that it didn't happen, really. It was just the people we were dealing with are idiots. You know what I mean?

And they just lied to us. We damn near started promoting. They put us on a flyer. They were going to have a whole boxing thing. We were getting bags for that shit. They were using your kind of like puppeting, y'all. That's what it was. I don't know what it was.

Using your names. Because people knew, okay, at that time. It could be, but I mean, they seemed really adamant about the shit. They talked to us a lot about it. It wasn't like some Fugazi overnight shit. It was like a whole month or two of this shit. You and I both know. People do that every day.

Yeah, you're right. And don't come fucking through. Yeah, you're right. They do that every day. They'll act like they're so fucking involved. They're so, oh yeah, we're going to do this, do that. They spend hours with you, man, chopping it up about it. And it end up being a dud.

They don't even hit you anymore. They don't even talk about it anymore when you're saying, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to get to that. We're going to get to that. It's just people entertainer. People just entertain. shit just to be entertaining shit, bro. Yeah, I really, to be real with you, like, I hate when people use me on flyers and then don't come through it money, because I feel like I got robbed

and I'm going to check you. Like, and this happened to me recently with some like other shit. They put me on a flyer for some sports shit that I was supposed to be involved in. And like, they're like, oh, it's not happening anymore. It's like, man, you don't already put me on the flyer and you haven't even sent me the bread. Like, I don't know. I don't like that. You know, that type of shit sometimes deserves an ass whipping and be real with you. But, you know, too grown for that right now, man. Plus, I'm an owner now, man. I can't be doing those stupid shit.

What are you on now? We're doing our own battle league. Let's talk about what you own. There we go. Let's talk about where we at now. We don't went through the nasty shit. LLC life, bitch. You dig.

That LLC is what's good to me. I just, yeah, man, we've been doing this shit for the long time with the middleman. We've been, you know, listening to other motherfuckers' visions and, like, being like the kind of the employee, you know what I'm sure. You know what I'm sure you learned about that. your first 10 years of your do-nose and your don't-nows. Okay, we're dealing with the wrong people in this aspect. I've seen how people are really doing it. This is the route we're supposed to be taken.

And it's literally just a little bit over 10 years now. So the timing is like right there. It's been like 12 years. Yeah. Maybe a little more. But so we decided that like the artists, the artists, we'd a catalyst of the shit. All the Artisan battle rap. You look at some of the most incredible battlers, like from Hall to Dawn that Sue served to murder

Mook and Loaded Lucks and Gitchie Gotti. Loaded Lutz. You know what I mean? These guys are, they've done big shit. They have big names out there, A-verb. There's so many guys. Shout out, Loaded Lux. Straight up.

That man brings problems. I'm glad you know of him. Yes. Loaded Lucks. Remember he came dressed for all boys' funeral. Oh, yeah. There you go. Remember part his obituary and everything.

He's definitely, uh, he's... Battling him comes with a fucking full package deal. You don't really get to, you don't really get to just battle Lux. You're battling Lux in his entire. fucking mind and like in all his like creative his creative ventures all combined in one on stage and you got to be up there you know he's one of my favorite when he shows up on his black

panther shit is like he's unbeatable type of shit but yeah he's he's one of those dudes like when you look at it he he had something back and they call lines then but then he like I feel like he should bring that back you know what I mean and everybody fucks with him I watch for real he would fucking he would get he did he come to you know saying his fucking man come to his battle raps, men, they up there like this, applaud this man. Like, they're a fan of that man.

I mean, you got to understand, too, Harlem. Like, you got to know how Harlem. They really shaking like that. You know Puffy, like Pete Ditty, you know what I'm saying? I still call him Puffy, but you know, he got to, he's, they all grew up around each other, all of them. Like, you know, move. Shout out Pete Ditty, by the way, too, man.

Respecting, business man. Real businessman right there. They all, they're part of that same, you know, they have a culture over there. It's pretty fucking crazy, to be honest with you. They're all, like, batter rap. they come from the same little mold like the same area and it's pretty fucking amazing to see like that area was just kind of like a

battle rap hub in like the in the 80s and the 90s so you know so basically my point is what I'm saying is these are the people see like you don't even know who the fucking who the owners are you don't know who the fucking business guys are and the shit you know who loaded luxes and this is my whole fucking point

that the rest of the fucking world knows who the artist is like we're the ones that are supposed to be pushing the shit forward you know what I'm saying like Lux is supposed to be at the He shouldn't be waiting for a phone call no more He's at a level where You know, we're all learning

You know what I'm saying? I ain't better than nobody It's just for me like I couldn't do it no more I stopped that shit in 2020 You know a lot of people think I've battled recently Or like in 2021 because they released a bunch of my old shit From 2020 but I haven't battled since 2020 You know what I mean? It's because of it

I'm not going to do some shit Unless I'm in control of it and I'm the boss now And now you've got to come to me to talk about the shit I'm not coming to you You know, you want some cool ideas. We could collab on them, but I'm not about to be the person taking orders. I got my own creative visions, you know what I'm saying? I'm applying all of them.

We're about to take over this shit, like for real. In a very creative way, I keep using that word because it's the most important one to focus on. You know what I mean? We're doing different shit, man. Yeah. Originality, man, just innovators and this shit. Well, I hope to be able to attend some of your shit, man, because it sounds- April 22nd, man, listen.

Talk about what's going on. Got to get you some tickets, man. April 22nd here in LA at the skate park you go on GTX battles.com right now you'll see the whole flyer. We got a sick-ass flyer. I'm battling.

So this battle that I'm doing is against this Mexican superstar named Assasino, which means assassin in Spanish. The dudes you was talking about those 50-60 a year. Yeah. So that's our main headliner and I have a co-headliner with me.

It's two headliners. It's no, nobody's bigger than the other. The other one is Gichi versus Kitchen Clean, who used to be clean paper, but he goes about kitchen. Gigi Gadi is right now. now the face of battle rap pretty much. I'm taking time off.

I haven't even put in the work that these guys have been putting in. He's put Compton on the map and he's just that guy right now, you know what I'm saying? So he's going against clean and that's going to be fucking crazy. And then you just go down the line. We got Averb versus Pass. Averb is a St. Louis legend, you know what I'm saying? And Pass is an Oakland Bay Area legend. We got people from different areas, you know what I mean?

And they're all vets. These guys are both vets. Different styles, right? Different styles from all over. You got like St. Louis is not really known for being a liberal. theatrical, combative, aggressive,

multisyllabic place. For rap? Yes. Let's say that for rap. Yes. We have to make sure we clear about that.

For rap. I meant aggressive. That's a very fucking aggressive place. Shout out St. Louis. Shout out the Louis. It's definitely murder capital, but I'm saying,

I'm saying, I'm saying raping wise, they're more of a style based culture, rapping wise. You know what I'm saying? A verb is like.

like a mutation. He's like a big L from St. Louis. Imagine if Big L grew up in St. Louis. You got Aver. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like he knows how to just carry patterns, put together syllables. He's just really intelligent, uses unique words, doesn't use the same words over and over.

Like that's what it takes to actually, you know, excel at this shit. And, you know, and it's really crazy. This event, man, I really hope you could come down. It would be great to have you, man. I'm coming, bro. We should have you. We're going to give you a fucking media pass, man. You go come in there, man.

We go have you interview people, man. We want people to talk to shark, man. I ain't got no problems with that. Come on, man. They come to talk to the side. It's good. You get your introduction with them. I really want to see where your future holds for you and what, where battle rap is going to go.

Because to me personally, I could be wrong. But you guys mark my words, I really believe, man, it will become a sport one day. I appreciate you. really do. I mean, as long as we got people like you who feel that way, it will. You know what I mean? It will become a sport. It takes just the demand, you know what I mean? But to be real with you, we got, we're on an upward trajectory, man. It's, ain't shit going to stop this, bro. Like, I took like, I took like almost two years off and I came back and overnight, it's like nothing happened. It's like

the only place, like battle rap, you put in so much work and you create so much history in it where I could just take that much time off and come back. Lux could do that. Mook could do that. are able to just take time and come back. And when you come back, it's just avalanches. It's just renewed interest and just new, fresh rapping. And it's crazy. The next phase is just, we're going to do like, we're going to cross into that industry. I'm telling you now, the music industry going to have to like start, they're going to have to

start the rappers in the game. You don't have to start stepping their shit up. Yeah. Because we, we're going to be more in the picture and people are going to see what real crazy rapping looks like, you know? And people think that we can't do the shit like on beat or whatever. Whatever, yeah, we can. And it's fucking just as crazy.

We just choose not to because the Acapel is easier to digest for everybody. And you can hear every word. Yeah. That's it. Well, I'll tell you this, man. I hope to have you back in the future disaster. Yeah, I appreciate you. I fuck with you, man.

Get me some of them tickets. Yeah. Okay? So I need to come. You got me interested, man. I want to see what the shit's about, man. You're going to love it to be real with you. Like, I think every battle on the card will interest you.

And usually that doesn't happen. Like, the whole card is amazing here. I just want to shout out the rest of the people on the card, We don't want to get up out of you, man. We don't want to leave them out. We got a couple more minutes, man. We're going to get about here. Yeah, yeah, man.

Let's just, come on. Because this shit is go from days. So basically the main one is me, Disaster versus Ossasino, Ghi Ghi Gaudi versus Kitchen Clean. We got Aver versus Pass that I just mentioned. Then we got from Shirek, again, Big T versus Mac Myron. You know what I'm saying? Hold on. We got versus MacMire.

We have Chef Trez versus Saint, which is like a crazy ass battle between the younger guys that are just, you know, they're incredible. And they, they, one of them could really freestops. crazy. The other one is just a champ right now on the west. Then we got Holmesie the God versus Fate, which is another dude that's on the come up, and Holmesie the God has already established. And we have reverse live versus Don Marino from Florida.

So we got people coming in from all the states. We got Chicago, Florida, you know what I'm saying? New York, everybody coming in, you know what I'm in? So St. Louis, the Bay from, you know, up north. I'm coming to that shit, man. I want to see, man. And I'm going to tell you this, man. It's been a... Hey, you belong there, man. I feel like you're going to fit in, man. It's been a fucking pleasure.

and an honor disaster. See, man. After seeing what you've been doing, man, in these interviews, hey, I just want to say, man, I'm a fan of this motherfucker because I just found out like how crazy he was in the last week and I've been watching this shit, man. Hey, man, you already know, man.

Your boy's sharp crazy on no jumper. Got rid of fucking Tucker the Toe Tucker. Tucker the To Tucker rhymes with no jumper. Did anyone notice that? I did. It's Tucker the Toe sucker. Oh, yeah, Toe Sucker. I said toe tucker

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