King Of The Dot is huge; battle rap is huge right now. My first battle that I went to was King Of The Dot – shout out to Lush One.
AB SOULMy main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That’s what makes me happy.
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I got plenty. You can have all my light, my shine. I got plenty. All my boys here, we working being creative.
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I’ve been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in hip-hop.
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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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[Positive mental attitude] is a practice, you gotta practice. I practice being still.
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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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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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I 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 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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I dunno, around 11th grade, 12th grade I was just like “yeah. This is something I want to do”. I was always known; I was always the rapper.
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I’m really focused on These Days and I’m trying to take it as far as I can – I feel like it’s a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.
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I like to practice being still and I feel like that promotes a lot of positivity.
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Me personally, I just wanted to do that to capture These Days.With DAY-lyt.
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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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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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People always known me for rappin’. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like “oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it.”
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