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| T REX VS CORTEZ SMACK/ URL |
T REX VS CORTEZ SMACK/ URL
I watched this battle and was expecting something classic, because of the history both T Rex and Cortez have as battle rappers. I noticed from the start that the length of the video was not over 20 minutes. Every time Cortez was getting into his bars, Smack yelled "time". I also heard Smack say that the battle rappers agreed to 2 minute per artist per round. This battle could of been a whole lot better if they had more time, but the rules are the rules.
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SMACK/ URL The leaders of the MC Battle culture do it again with their fourth installment of their marquis event NOME. This match up is between T-REX representing Harlem, NY and CORTEZ representing BROOKLYN, NY.
SMACK/URL (Ultimate Rap League) is one of the first and original battle rap legues. Their motto is "follow the innovators not the imitators" followed by the familiar "smmmddlllaaack" which was invented by the host Smack White.
Smack originally sold dvds that were documentaries of beef that mainstream rappers had. The rap battles were added as bonus footage for the dvds.
URL battles usually do 3 to 5 rounds of around 10 minutes but it varies a lot. The battles are unjudged and they let the internet argue over who won.
Battling is generally believed to have originated in the East Coast hip hop scene in the late 1970s.One of the earliest and most famous battles was in December 1982 when Kool Moe Dee challenged Busy Bee Starski. Busy Bee Starski's defeat by the more complex raps of Kool Moe Dee meant that "no longer was an MC just a crowd-pleasing comedian with a slick tongue; he was a commentator and a storyteller", which KRS-One also credits as creating a shift in rapping in the documentary Beef.
In the 1980s, battle raps were a popular form of rapping - Big Daddy Kane in the book How to Rap says, "as an MC from the '80s, really your mentality is battle format... your focus was to have a hot rhyme in case you gotta battle someone... not really making a rhyme for a song". Battle rapping is still sometimes closely associated with old school hip-hop - talking about battle rapping, Esoteric says, "a lot of my stuff stems from old school hip-hop, braggadocio ethic".
Some of the most prominent battle raps that took place on record are listed in the book, ego trip's Book of Rap Lists, and include such battles as the Roxanne Wars (1984–1985), Juice Crew vs. Boogie Down Productions (1986–1988), Kool Moe Dee vs. LL Cool J (1987–1991), MC Serch vs. MC Hammer (1989–1994), Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg vs. Luke (1992–1993), Common vs. Ice Cube (1994–1996), MC Pervis & Brand New Habits and LL Cool J vs. Canibus (1997–1998) - all of which include memorable battle rap verses.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wftf3FKLd_c&list=UUflIAeM03JFL9ml03LwYF-g