my issue is with the whole fact that some of these dudes dont even take themselves seriously as a artist, there is a really good head ice blog where he touched on it, alot of these dudes do smack battles off the strenth for 4-8 grand and then realize after footage comes out or those youtube numbers that they got the short end of the stick, back in the day with those blaze battle comp or any scribble jam, you didnt get paid a dollar unless you won, and then that was it, you might of got a contract, but that was the 90's when record lables still wanted actually lyricist. Seriously what kind of platform does it take to have recording camera, mics for clear audio and maybe a small amount of audience(judges) to put the live effect of having a battle. Smack is not doing anything new with the culture all he is doing is putting the rappers who would battle for 500 on street corners and gave them the scribble jam, rap Olympics, blaze battle format. These dudes get time to write lyrics and they " i like to say again get paid to be rap battlers". I stand by my statement for KOTD being the clear premiere league, no one complains that battles in that league, they have a clear champion, they have endorsements from the most popular artist in hip hop and they have PPV for their core audience. Url was good while it lasted but for the culture to continue, the serious battle rappers must find a better source or move with KOTD. Smack ate good for 4 years off these dudes but its a wrap, how you not capitalize off one of the most important stories in hip hop of last year(lux) shows that he is not as cool to work with as he makes it seem.
