8 mile last rap battles
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But probably its most clever feature is the fact that most battles are judged by the viewer themselves, as soon as the battle stops it goes straight to the fans on-line to vote for who they thought won. So how did it get so big, so popular,…probably down to the way the league works with the net, the dis’s-vids, calling each other out and generally slating each others style, swag and cred all on line, building the battles up like those early Ali pre-fight weigh-ins so by the time the bouts come around battle fans from around the world are on it (though not all of it is hype with altercations occurring in and outside of the ‘ring’). Tech 9 v Bill  Collector pre battle ‘mouth off’Â
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Both the league and the artist have benefited from rap-battles arrival to the net and more precisely YouTube, battle rappers that have stayed loyal with Smack/URL have in turn cultivated their own name with some going on to land that so sought after recording deal….Summer Madness 2’s big bout between Harlem’s ‘Loaded Lux’ and Detroit’s talented young-gun ‘Calicoe’ to date has already pulled in over 1.5 million hits on YouTube…and its only been on line 1 month!. To get a measure of the URL’s popularity just check the staggering amount of hits the league’s pulled in. Its YouTube page boasts more than 88,000 subscribers and a whooping 68 million channel views which is actually more than Warner Groups YouTube page for Nicki Minaj. But it wasn’t until 2009 when Smack launched the URL that it started to cultivate the on-line scene and into what it is today. Along with the other leagues out there like ‘King of the Dot’ and ‘Grind-Time’ all doing their thing and building the scene up it was the URL which really caught the imagination…and they have the hits to prove it. In 2002 Tory ‘Smack’ Mitchell started taping rappers from in and around his neighbourhood of Queens/NY and releasing the battles on DVD among the music/hip-hop video’s on there, the battles got more popular with even MTV getting in on the scene followed by battles being covered on cable for subscribers.
8 mile last rap battles series#
We take a closer look at the success of the ‘Smack/Ultimate Rap League’ as well as the scene’s biggest tournament to date…the world series of rap battling Smack’s Summer Madness 2.
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Smack’s Eric ‘B’ Beasley and co founders took the rap-battles from the barber shops, basket ball courts and street corners to the internet, now selling out the same venues major artists play with some of hip-hops biggest names like Busta Rhymes, P Diddy and Q-Tip in attendance making crazy $10,000 bets on single battles – and whats more artists coming out of the URL to major record deals and contracts. July of this year in New York’s east village the ‘Smack/URL’ (ultimate rap league) took the US rap battle scene to a whole new level, stepping out of its status as just another side attraction of the US hip-hop industry with this years ‘Summer Madness 2’ rap-battle tournament, which saw the very finest battle MC’s come together to take the roof of Manhattan’s Webster Hall - something like Eminem’s rap-battle feature length film ‘8 mile’ but with big glitzy bells on. The Real 8-Mile / the ‘Ultimate Rap League’