Battle rap is a culture. That’s boxing, it’s like boxing.
AB SOULI don’t even really understand that concept of someone being ‘smart’ or someone else being ‘smarter.’ I think that except for the obvious special cases, we’re all equal.
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I’ve been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he’s on my album. We did a one round battle on my album and that was just me capturing These Days.
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I feel like battle rap is as popular as it’s ever been, today. With Total Slaughter it’s getting real popular.
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No religion, I’m just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.
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I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .
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Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It’s been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.
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I think L.A. is L.A. I can go anywhere in the world and I’ll just say I’m from L.A. But when I’m there I gotta say I’m from Carson.
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I say ‘cuz’ around Bloods, and I say ‘blood’ around Crips…I’m twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that’s wifey, girlfriend and mistress.
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106 & Park, Freestyle Friday, that was real pivotal. I feel like he has the right to do that, he comes from that era so he has the right to do that.
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I think our Canadian fan base is large because it took us a while to get over here anyway, in the first place.
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Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing, it was more of a challenge to do it without paper or sidekicks. I enjoy a good challenge.
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Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.
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[Positive mental attitude] is a practice, you gotta practice. I practice being still.
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I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain’t seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain’t the one you wanna pass to
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There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.
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I treat all my projects the same. They’re all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I’m thinking about.
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